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Title: Where the heck is DB Hawthorne???
Post by: Hornseeker on November 21, 2011, 02:42:52 PM: Miss his pics!!! And where's Alwine? Cmon guys, I know you are scoring some good ones right about NOW!
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Post by: DBHAWTHORNE on November 21, 2011, 04:34:00 PM: I posted these on here earlier but they were lost in the crash. I have some more but not on me at this time. This is a buck we were after last year and he has shown up again this year.

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You may remember this buck from last year:
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Post by: Holg3107 on November 21, 2011, 04:45:54 PM: DAMN!!!! thats a monster! Good luck DB
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Post by: Caseyd on November 21, 2011, 04:48:05 PM: Wheres the "As he lays pcitures" :chuckle:
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Post by: DBHAWTHORNE on November 21, 2011, 04:51:49 PM: He has eluded me thus far. He has only given me one daylight photo during an open archery season and at that time I was in a stand 300 yards south of his position.
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Post by: nwwanderer on November 21, 2011, 05:42:20 PM: This old boy seems to have some mule deer influence. Have you watched him long enough to have any history?
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Post by: HornHoarder on November 21, 2011, 07:35:45 PM: That is a giant!! Thanks for sharing the pics. Good luck.
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Post by: buck man on November 21, 2011, 09:18:58 PM: Hey DB this boy look familiar :chuckle: :chuckle:
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Post by: jnevs23 on November 21, 2011, 09:29:39 PM: Buck man he gave you a glamour shot. I like how he turned his head just a bit, very high school yearbook.
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Post by: daydreamn on November 21, 2011, 09:53:52 PM: Looks like the race is on now. I think DB next post is gonna look something like this, :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: Or mabye he will be sitting behind that buck with a big grin on his face? :tup:
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Post by: daydreamn on November 21, 2011, 09:57:52 PM: Just thinking mabye you guys should leave him alone. He'll be alot bigger next year.
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Post by: huntnnw on November 21, 2011, 09:58:07 PM: that makes 3 hunting him :chuckle:
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Post by: DBHAWTHORNE on November 21, 2011, 09:58:46 PM: Buckman...yes..I am familiar with the buck and that picture... Brian and I both have a good number of photos of this buck. Hopefully one of us gets him before he drops off the map forever. Of course I would love to be the one to kill the deer but ultimately I want to see this deer taken before he succumbs to winter, old age, a car, predators, etc.
Title: Re: Where the heck is DB Hawthorne???
Post by: DBHAWTHORNE on November 21, 2011, 09:59:12 PM: Quote from: huntnnw on November 21, 2011, 09:58:07 PM
that makes 3 hunting him :chuckle:

That's Brians photo.
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Post by: huntnnw on November 21, 2011, 10:01:41 PM: ahhh.. :chuckle:
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Post by: lokidog on November 21, 2011, 10:12:32 PM: OMG!! Are you sure you didn't set those cameras on a deer farm? I'd be there every day of the season if they were on my cameras.

Good luck!
Title: Re: Where the heck is DB Hawthorne???
Post by: DBHAWTHORNE on November 21, 2011, 10:14:47 PM: During the season he has only ever put himself in front of my camera once during legal shooting light. I was hunting a stand 300 yards away. :(
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Post by: jager on November 21, 2011, 10:17:31 PM: Quote from: lokidog on November 21, 2011, 10:12:32 PM
I'd be there every day of the season if they were on my cameras.

Good luck!
:yeah:
Title: Re: Where the heck is DB Hawthorne???
Post by: lokidog on November 21, 2011, 10:17:40 PM: Quote from: DBHAWTHORNE on November 21, 2011, 10:14:47 PM
During the season he has only ever put himself in front of my camera once during legal shooting light. I was hunting a stand 300 yards away. :(

Saw that, but he's got to be somewhere.... If he's not where your camera is during dayligh, you might need to try some new spots. Again, good luck!
Title: Re: Where the heck is DB Hawthorne???
Post by: DBHAWTHORNE on November 21, 2011, 10:20:09 PM: Over the past two years I have had cameras everywhere...I get pics of him most consistently where I have them now. He usually shows up within an hour of dark. I could push deeper into cover but I don't want to risk bumping him. I have already put in 9 days of hunting him. I have to work for 6 days and then I will be able to hunt from around Thanksgiving to season close.
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Post by: MuleySniper on November 21, 2011, 10:24:54 PM: Dang! Sound like lots of effort put in! Hope you get him. what a stud! Seems like a big percentage of the big boys are nocturnal :bash:
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Post by: DBHAWTHORNE on November 21, 2011, 10:26:23 PM: They definitely are. Right now I am most concerned about snow depths pushing him out of the area. I hope it stops snowing soon.... a little melting would even be nice.
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Post by: buck man on November 22, 2011, 12:02:45 AM: Ya got me DB. :chuckle: Just thought I would mess with your heart and :stirthepot: :stirthepot:. Hope I didn't take too many years off your life . Hope you get hin
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Post by: buck man on November 22, 2011, 12:19:06 AM: Here s a pic of my buck I am trying to get. Got a little history with him as well. He is six this year and needs to go on my wall. Just a big gnarley 4.
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Post by: DBHAWTHORNE on November 22, 2011, 08:27:13 AM: :chuckle: Now I wish I had a picture of your buck to show you. :chuckle: There aren't many bucks that I am able to hunt that others aren't pursuing. When they get that big people are going to notice. I only have one buck over 170 that nobody else is really pursuing.

That is a bruiser of a 4. Big main frame 4' are amongst my favorites.
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Post by: Griz231 on November 22, 2011, 11:06:30 AM: Nice bucks, good luck to you all.
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Post by: huntnnw on November 23, 2011, 01:18:56 AM: now thats a 4 buckman!
Title: Re: Where the heck is DB Hawthorne???
Post by: Hornseeker on December 02, 2011, 10:36:51 AM: "Just a 4"... :o He's a PIG!! Nice buck...man :tup:

Thanks for those pics DB... oh My God... that is a once in a lifetime monster buck... what a critter! You end up with anything that I missed?
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Post by: DBHAWTHORNE on December 02, 2011, 07:25:47 PM: He is definitely a once in a lifetime buck. I haven't killed anything yet. I have passed up a few mature bucks already in hopes that he would show. He actually did show up once during daylight and I was hunting 300 yards to the south. I haven't had him on any of my cameras since 15 Nov. so that has me a little concerned. I don't think he has been killed but I just don't know if he is going to show again. The second larger buck I am after has not shown up during daylight on any of my cams since well before early season when we were watching him grow. However, he is still alive and well after the rifle season and nobody is archery hunting the area so he is safe until next season if he doesn't die of natural causes.
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Post by: gjbruny on December 02, 2011, 11:04:59 PM: DB- last pic looks like the buck is blind in his left eye (no glow). had an 8 year old out at one of the farms i hunt that had survived 3 seasons like that from a major battle that i got to watch but was unfortunately wounded by a hunter during early bow season. i ended up finding him for the guy 3 days later..... the eye looked to be completely white with a ton of scar tissue on the eyelid.

great bucks!!!!
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Post by: DBHAWTHORNE on December 02, 2011, 11:07:34 PM: Yeah...we call him deadeye. He is one of the bucks I have been after for two years. I like it because I can always find him in trailcam pics even when he isn't wearing his headgear.... As of right now it looks like he will be surviving another year unless old age, winter, predators or other natural causes get him.
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Post by: gjbruny on December 02, 2011, 11:21:40 PM: pretty impressive mass too!!!!

Ernie had send me a text telling me to check these out....... i was going to be mean and say something to the effect that i didn't realize we were hunting the same buck (the first buck) and that i'd post the hero pics and story tomorrow...... then give it a few days and then ask how franticly you were checking your trail cam pics LOL!!!!! i had it typed out but didn't have the heart to post it.

good luck in getting him, he is a true giant!
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Post by: DBHAWTHORNE on December 02, 2011, 11:27:59 PM: :chuckle: Thanks gj. If he was living where he was just a few weeks ago I wouldn't be worried by such an email because even though he was on public land I had him figured out (as best one can with these mountain bucks) and I knew only one other guy was in his core area hunting him. However, now I would probably believe it because I have no idea where the buck is since I haven't seen him since the 15th (as opposed to getting daily...or rather nightly...photos before).

I haven't seen you on here much this year. How is your season going?
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Post by: gjbruny on December 02, 2011, 11:46:32 PM: don't worry too much, they are back to trolling. really really late rut this year.... at least around here. watched a 3 year old breed a 1-2 year old doe this evening out in our pasture. bucks are just starting to show back up on the cams in the last 3 or so days on my place.

haven't been on the internet much in the last year or so.

season went well...... well, as well as could be expected. didn't have a whole lot of mature bucks make it through last winter. killed one of 2, 5 year olds on our place on monday. stubby 5x6 with great mass. only scored in the upper 130s but fully mature. 41 yard shot with my recurve, he went 40 before falling. watched him browsing in the brush for 30 minutes before walking past me..... was hoping he would take the trail 15 yards from my stand but instead just browsed through the grass 41 yards out on his way to the winter wheat. spotted him several hundred yards out. cool thing is, this is the first buck i have taken off our place since we bought it..... been doing all the farming and improving bedding habitat so the buck wasn't as meaningful as the entire process itself.
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Post by: gjbruny on December 02, 2011, 11:53:09 PM: forgot to mention, a bud killed a buck in the low 140s last night that was full on bird-dogging a doe..... he had to shoot him on the walk because he couldn't get him to stop. to be honest, i really dislike the rut when focused on a specific deer..... it is a blast in the midwest, but when you set your sights on one animal, it is not so fun LOL!!! i hadn't glassed or had a pic of my buck in over 9 days before i killed him this season. normally, seems like the mature bucks start becoming patternable again around that 5th-7th of december........ right before the early dropped fawn does and does that didn't get bred in the rut come into heat. :bash:

again, good luck!
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Post by: DBHAWTHORNE on December 03, 2011, 12:02:23 AM: I know what you mean...the rut makes a predictable buck unpredictable. It does get them moving but sometimes that is a bad thing.
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Post by: buck man on December 04, 2011, 09:40:17 PM: He will probably be back DB. My big 4 showed back up after a 3 week vacation.
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Post by: DBHAWTHORNE on December 04, 2011, 10:04:05 PM: Very nice!!
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Post by: Teamroper on December 05, 2011, 11:08:05 AM: DB,
That buck in your trail cam pics was taken by a friend of a friend, I have dead pics of him I will see if I can share...
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Post by: Caseyd on December 05, 2011, 01:46:30 PM: Quote from: Teamroper on December 05, 2011, 11:08:05 AM
DB,
That buck in your trail cam pics was taken by a friend of a friend, I have dead pics of him I will see if I can share...

:fire.: marking this thread for follow up :tup:
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Post by: DBHAWTHORNE on December 05, 2011, 05:48:36 PM: Teamroper. I received word and pics from the hunter the day after harvest. I do appreciate you letting me know though. If I was hunting the buck it would suck to continue investing my time when he is already taken.
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Post by: heavy hauler on December 05, 2011, 06:28:59 PM: great pics. cant wait to see how the story ends
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Post by: stickbuck on December 05, 2011, 07:24:52 PM: DB, so was the dead buck shot by another hunter, "dead-eye"?
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Post by: BeeMan on December 05, 2011, 07:32:03 PM: Sorry you didnt get him DB!! :'( :'( Now your gonna have to convince dead-eye to come in durring the day....
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Post by: DBHAWTHORNE on December 05, 2011, 08:56:15 PM: I am hiking in to hunt him tomorrow. If he hasn't come in during daylight by next Monday then I am pulling everything and waiting until next year to locate him again.
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Post by: jnevs23 on December 05, 2011, 09:14:28 PM: DB-Bummer that big boy got picked off. Good luck finding deadeye. He will slip up sooner or later.