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Offline DBHAWTHORNE

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My Wife's late season whitetail
« on: December 10, 2011, 09:57:26 PM »
My wife killed this buck yesterday evening. The shot appeared to be a little far back and the blood was dark so I suspected a liver shot. We gave it a couple hours and I followed the blood trail 200 yards before deciding to back off and wait until today. After getting all the waypoints loaded into Google Maps we learned that this buck traveled nearly 700 yards and 400 meters of it was up a steep hill!!  :yike: A good friend came out to help me track this morning. There were several points where confidence was at an all time low but we stuck with it. The last 20 yards of blood trail was very heavy...see pic below...it would have been nice to have that kind of blood trail the entire way! This is her fourth buck in four years of hunting. It is good to have some venison in the freezer.  :IBCOOL:


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Re: My Wife's late season whitetail
« Reply #1 on: December 10, 2011, 10:00:27 PM »
Congrats on a nice buck.  Way to stick with it.
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Re: My Wife's late season whitetail
« Reply #2 on: December 10, 2011, 10:26:30 PM »
Nice work!
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Re: My Wife's late season whitetail
« Reply #3 on: December 10, 2011, 10:29:43 PM »
wow! beauty! good job  :tup:
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Re: My Wife's late season whitetail
« Reply #4 on: December 10, 2011, 10:39:06 PM »
Nice buck :tup:
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Re: My Wife's late season whitetail
« Reply #5 on: December 10, 2011, 11:13:50 PM »
Wahoooo!!!!!  Nice buck!!!!  Way to stick with the tracking.  Been there on my hands and knees looking for a drop of blood more than once.  Good job!!!!   :tup:
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Re: My Wife's late season whitetail
« Reply #6 on: December 10, 2011, 11:17:14 PM »
Well done, you have to love the snow when it comes to those type of hits. ;)
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Re: My Wife's late season whitetail
« Reply #7 on: December 10, 2011, 11:19:52 PM »
Very nice buck, congrats.  What bow is she shooting?  My wife wants a bow this year.
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Re: My Wife's late season whitetail
« Reply #8 on: December 10, 2011, 11:21:15 PM »
Congrats to the wife, nice buck!   :tup:
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Re: My Wife's late season whitetail
« Reply #9 on: December 10, 2011, 11:54:09 PM »
Congrats to her!!!!  If only we could all be that lucky to have a wife that would think about hunting.
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Re: My Wife's late season whitetail
« Reply #10 on: December 11, 2011, 12:06:28 AM »
Congratulations!
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Re: My Wife's late season whitetail
« Reply #11 on: December 11, 2011, 12:39:36 AM »
 :tup: :yike:i like it good job.
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Re: My Wife's late season whitetail
« Reply #12 on: December 11, 2011, 02:33:32 AM »
congrats!
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Re: My Wife's late season whitetail
« Reply #13 on: December 11, 2011, 02:42:45 AM »
Congrats to her! A great looking buck :tup:
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Re: My Wife's late season whitetail
« Reply #14 on: December 11, 2011, 07:31:52 AM »
Very nice buck again this year! and good thing you had snow to aid in the search  ;)  :tup:
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