09 Bama Buck

[PolarBear]

Howdy
I struck out for the first time in 25 or so years here in Wa but still wound up with an okay buck elsewhere.  To save you form a looong, boring story I will give you the shorter version.  I wound up having to make an emergency flight back to Alabama for family reasons on the second of this month.  I wound up getting sick on the way there and had very little ambition to do anything outdoors when I got there.  A bunch of cousins came over and convinced me to buy a deer tag and hunt for a buck that they had been seeing on 40 acres that I still own back there.  They set me up with everything from camo, treestand, shotgun, the works.  There is no baiting deer in Alabama and spot and stalk is damn near impossible due to all the leaves on the ground and long visibility.  I am in my stand for several hours when his buck shows up.  I watch him come to me in a dead line where I nailed him at 30 yards with a 12 gauge.  I'll save you the rest of the details but bottom line, I had to go to the hospital a couple of hours later and my wonderful cousins took care of my buck for me and had the head skinned and wrapped for me to haul it home the next day.  I gave them the meat and hide as a thanks.  They want me to come back next season to hut deer with a spear.  I'm going to try and make that happen.
I have been incapacitated for the last week and a half so I pulled it out of the soap today and snapped a couple of pics.

[huntnphool]

 

[boneaddict]

Thats a dang nice buck for those woods!

[boneaddict]

and....sorry you aren't feeling well.   I hope that improves drastically.

[PolarBear]

Thanks man, I'm working on it.  I was surprised to see that buck, I was expecting something tiny compared to our bucks.  He was a little bodied deer like you would expect.  You should see some of the bucks my cousins get with a spear.  There is a lot of CRP, private farms and tons of oak trees to keep them well fed.

[bow4elk]

Congrats - got to agree with Bone too.  Great southern deer!  Good thing they don't shed on the same schedule as our deer.

Hope your feeling better soon.  Sounds like a trip full of highs and lows.

[corktex]

Great buck,often wished I'd used my shotgun,when my tree was rocking in the wind! What did you decide to do on your lay over in Dallas?

[GoldTip]

Good looking buck, congrats, and get well soon!

[C-Money]

Nice Buck! Glad you were able to get out! Get well.

[PolarBear]

Great buck,often wished I'd used my shotgun,when my tree was rocking in the wind! What did you decide to do on your lay over in Dallas?

I lucked out in Dallas.  I ran to the other end of the airport and found an earlier flight.  My flight from Seattle landed at 1:15 or so, by 2:00 I was at the other ticket counter and on stand-by and by 3:00 we were taking off for B-Ham.  Pretty sweet cuz I was feeling like crap.  The pics make him look bigger than he is.  He is 15 3/4" at the outside widest.

[Kowsrule30]

Nice WT!!! Hope you get well and recover in full...

[carpsniperg2]

congrats is a fine deer

[bowhunterforever]

Nice looking buck! How do you spear deer from a treestand, just drop/throw it onto the neck or back?

[Ridinshotgun]

Congrats its a beauty

[bucklucky]

Nice job Erik!! I missed this post earlier.