Post by: shanevg on October 21, 2012, 10:31:20 PM
His main frame was a 3x3 with eyeguards but he has a gnarly third antler growing out of his forhead with 3 points on it as well. Pretty cool buck! He is getting a euro mount of him so he should look pretty cool!
(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi244.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fgg17%2Fshanevg%2Fphoto-20-2_zps4c134cdb.jpg&hash=0ba4fb20bbc222cdd46f12cd7ab952e0a07d9faa)
This morning, I headed out to a different spot that we hunt. When I left the house it was 37 degrees and overcast. The forecast called for .05 inches of rain for about an hour in the morning. Instead, it rained close to .75 inches and I was drenched and freezing cold. Early in the morning I had 2 does (I think) walk by at less than 40 yards and I had my gun on them and never could tell for sure if they were bucks or does because the rain was coming down so hard and thick I couldn't see clearly through it.
Around 8:30 I was about ready to call it quits as my hands were so cold I couldn't move them anymore. I actually started walking the logging road back to my truck when I looked up and saw something that looked "deer like" about 175 yards away. Sure enough it was a buck standing broadside looking at me. The rain had started to let up a bit and he had got up to start feeding. I was hoping to get a big 3 or 4 point this year but it was one of those times when you're so cold and miserable that when the buck stepped out it never even crossed my mind not to shoot it! I dropped my bipod and got a perfect heart shot at 175 yards and dropped him in his tracks!
He's not the biggest buck on the mountain but he is my biggest blacktail to date so I am thrilled.
(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi244.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fgg17%2Fshanevg%2FIMG_2041-28_zpsce54219e.jpg&hash=5e52a3f9200c9a98c69d5d6d5af89972317bc0e7)
(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi244.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fgg17%2Fshanevg%2FIMG_2039-27_zpsb46ef5c1.jpg&hash=60ac3dbe86898d85b3ec8b1d1142cab3576ab937)
(Yes I was wearing hunter's orange I just took it off for the pictures because I think they look better without it.)
All in all it was a pretty good weekend! I took my brother out this evening to see if we could make it a perfect 3 for 3 but we struck out.
The rut is definitely starting to kick in. My dad's buck was chasing a doe around a field and mine definitely was starting to get a swollen neck. With all this cold weather and mountain snow it shoudl be a good final week of the season!
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Post by: X-Force on October 22, 2012, 09:48:44 AM
Congrats to the wife too!!
Post by: NoBark on October 22, 2012, 10:10:54 AM
lol. :chuckle:
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:tup:
More pics would be sweeeeeet!
Post by: AKBowman on October 22, 2012, 01:46:18 PM
I want to get out so bad it's killing me. This weekend should be good, I'm hell bent on getting one with my bow during rifle season so the only thing getting me out of the tree stand during daylight this weekend will be to track my buck.
If you count last late archery and this yrs mod season I have 19 days in the field without a kill. So far this yr 18 hrs on stand without seeing a deer. I know their around I have the pics to prove it! I have my eye on the massive 4X4 with eye guards I have velvet pics of in my trail cam thread labeled "4 month soak west side"
Too bad those dufasses stole your trail cam, thanks for posting and great quality pics. Sure is a pretty deer
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