How many have shot mature bucks they've seen before?

GregH · 12-03-2007, 05:33 AM

How many of you have shot a buck you've seen before? Mature bucks 3 1/2 and older. This doesn't have to mean that you were specifically hunting the buck, just that you saw him before you killed him.

11 out of 17 for me. Including 1 gun buck. With a range of 3 days to 1 year between sighting and killing. This includes bucks that I was speciffically hunting. Not included were two bucks that I saw before but missed.[&:]

Tell us about them and include the time between the sighting and taking him.

Thanks

TeeJay · 12-03-2007, 05:34 AM

1 witha rifle 8 years ago. 6 with bow but they were all 2.5 yr olds.

Germ · 12-03-2007, 05:38 AM

4 I did not see before I shot them

gplant · 12-03-2007, 05:42 AM

Once[&:]Nice 8pt. He ran with a nice 10pt that my friend got. Both deer 3 1/2.Both bow killsThat was in 92 so it doesnt happen often for me.

rybohunter · 12-03-2007, 05:59 AM

I"™ve done it twice.
One I saw 2 days prior to shooting him.
The other I am about 99% sure I saw him over the summer, (late summer still in velvet) and then not again until the day I killed him.

GMMAT · 12-03-2007, 06:04 AM

Buck No. 1.

3.5 yr old buck - Harvested 12/9/06.

I saw him for the first time when Rob/PA was here.....crossing the road, near where I hunt (11/17/06). I saw him again on Thanksgiving day.....and I shot at him. My arrow deflected and I found it only this year while glassing. The arrow deflected and went into a tree.

I saw him again the very next day.....but he offered no shot opportunity.

I saw him, again 12/9/06.....and I brought him home with me with a 33yd shot.

GMMAT · 12-03-2007, 06:10 AM

Buck No. 02 was this year's buck....and the buck I called "The Bull". Here's my HNI Journal entry on him.

http://www.huntingnet.com/fieldjournal/fieldjournal_detail.aspx?nID=810

Gamecam photos......check the dates (

), temps, etc...

And my Harvest photo....

Had to be two years+ from the time I first saw him until I took him.

GMMAT · 12-03-2007, 06:14 AM

Here's a cool series of photos....(I think

)

gamecam photo is from 2006 (first time I saw the bucks I would later take).

Harvest photos are of the two deer in the photo in 2 consecutive seasons. The younger deer is 3.5 and the last one was 4.5 yrs old.

(Although they're both 3.5 in the photo)

130woodman · 12-03-2007, 06:37 AM

2 Bucks my 2005 and my 2006. I saw my 2005 a month and half before I shot him. My 2006 I saw him 3 times once in velvet and the day before I shot him. This years buck only 2 1/2 I saw him 3 times.

peakrut · 12-03-2007, 06:44 AM

Nope, did have my 168 on cam but did not know until after the kill.