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Big Game Hunting => Deer Hunting => Topic started by: boneaddict on October 12, 2022, 05:50:13 PM

Title: Nightmare there and gone
Post by: boneaddict on October 12, 2022, 05:50:13 PM: Imagine jumping this fellow and catching a 2 second glimpse of him before he was gone. A buck of a lifetime. Would you even get your gun unshouldered? :chuckle: I about had a heart attack....

(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/v47/boneaddict/nightm_copy.jpg)
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Post by: highside74 on October 12, 2022, 05:52:12 PM: What in the world
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Post by: Caseyd on October 12, 2022, 05:52:23 PM: My heart would still be racing :drool:
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Post by: NOCK NOCK on October 12, 2022, 05:56:58 PM: WOWZERS.

IIRC, you were contemplating hunting this year, this buck making you think harder about doing so?
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Post by: Turdle on October 12, 2022, 07:11:29 PM: Thats some sticker shock right there. Wowzersss
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Post by: kellama2001 on October 12, 2022, 07:21:55 PM: What a tank! Buck of a lifetime for sure! Thanks for sharing :tup:
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Post by: grundy53 on October 12, 2022, 07:34:21 PM: That's the stuff dreams are made of

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Post by: hunt6226 on October 12, 2022, 07:35:41 PM: WOW!!! :yike: :yike:

Thank you for sharing..
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Post by: HillbillyDelux on October 12, 2022, 08:05:52 PM: Just out of curiosity..... is that recent? I mean if your gonna tease us with amazing pictures, is this beast alive?
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Post by: WapitiTalk1 on October 12, 2022, 09:11:57 PM: Holy hell……….
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Post by: Timberstalker on October 12, 2022, 09:17:43 PM: Pretty sure I remember that buck from a few years back.
Unbelievable animal.
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Post by: bigboy on October 12, 2022, 09:22:57 PM: While you have captured some amazing deer, some of your posts seem overly Dr.'d up. Why?
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Post by: Fatherof5 on October 12, 2022, 09:28:34 PM: Wow! Just Wow!
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Post by: boneaddict on October 13, 2022, 05:12:42 AM: Quote from: bigboy on October 12, 2022, 09:22:57 PM
While you have captured some amazing deer, some of your posts seem overly Dr.'d up. Why?

Compression syndrome. You take a 30mb photo that’s the size of a poster, and reduce it down to roughly a 3x5 image. It’s required to be jpeg. It distorts it all to hell. IHATE IT. That’s the only thing I can tell. Something changed awhile back between uploading to photobucket and here that made it way worse.

Saving it as a tif helps tremendously. You can upload tifs to Facebook but not here. One of several reasons I post less than I used to. Having to worry about what you saved your file as, saving two copies, sizing it right for here versus there, all kind of a pain after awhile, especially if you post the photo and there is little interest.
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Post by: trophyhunt on October 13, 2022, 05:16:29 AM: Agree, nice deer. But, a bit spindly in my opinion. Young deer? I’d take a dozen inches off for some mass. Great pic though, as usual!
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Post by: boneaddict on October 13, 2022, 05:21:52 AM: Quote from: trophyhunt on October 13, 2022, 05:16:29 AM
Agree, nice deer. But, a bit spindly in my opinion. Young deer? I’d take a dozen inches off for some mass. Great pic though, as usual!

My guess would have been on the younger end 4.5 maybe. I probably would have guessed younger, but later on I saw a photo of him from the previous year.
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Post by: C-Money on October 13, 2022, 06:06:38 AM: Wow...sure glad you got to see him, and capture a photo!
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Post by: dyhardhuntr on October 13, 2022, 06:16:22 AM: I’m not going to be picky on your photo. All I can say is that deer is a stud and I too would be breathing hard. I’m not sure I would have remembered my gun if I saw a deer like that. Great pic!
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Post by: GASoline71 on October 13, 2022, 06:41:46 AM: If he had more mass he'd be a WA version of ol' "Popeye".

Gary
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Post by: C-Money on October 13, 2022, 07:32:38 AM: :yeah: Agree! Good thought!
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Post by: KP-Skagit on October 13, 2022, 07:38:43 AM: And that's why I don't carry my gun on sling and leave the scope on mimimum power. My best buck, not even close to that one, I jumped in a similar situation and neck shot it on the run.

Beautiful animal! Thanks for sharing!
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Post by: boneaddict on October 13, 2022, 07:46:14 AM: One of the reasons I like to share my photos is that I hope it helps rekindle a memory, or makes you think of what could be. I’ve lost two bucks bigger than this guy, hunting here in Washington. One was my mistake and one was another hunters interference. I had the same pit in my gut when this happened. Like I said this one turned out better. Maybe when the snow is deep, I’ll go over those stories on here. I’m not getting any closer on that book. Lol
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Post by: buckfvr on October 13, 2022, 09:56:05 AM: Has that surreal aspect about it. Are the brow tines actually background tree tops that didnt get washed out ? Beautiful animal, wish there were more pics of him :tup: :tup: :tup:
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Post by: Gringo31 on October 13, 2022, 10:07:45 AM: gagger
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Post by: bearhunter99 on October 13, 2022, 10:29:24 AM: Quote from: boneaddict on October 12, 2022, 05:50:13 PM
Imagine jumping this fellow and catching a 2 second glimpse of him before he was gone. A buck of a lifetime. Would you even get your gun unshouldered? :chuckle: I about had a heart attack....

(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/v47/boneaddict/nightm_copy.jpg)

Great shot Bone! Sometimes all you get is a couple of seconds....
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Post by: OutHouse on October 13, 2022, 12:32:30 PM: My goodness what a beauty wish I could know his spread. Looks as wide as the two monitors I'm sitting in front of!
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Post by: Angry Perch on October 14, 2022, 07:17:29 AM: Sweet Jesus, I just about peed myself looking at the picture!