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Finally, after years of pursuing a buck tocall the taxidermist about, the work finally paid off. He's gonna score somewhere in the 120's, dressed at 150lbs. He's only 15 1/4" inside, but he makes up for it with the height and some decent mass.

Mikey

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Nice job!!!

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A big congrads to you, Mikey!

I'd love to get a better look at him, though; can you go to where you've got your pic hosted and enlarge it first before you link to it? That way, we'd get to see a bigger pic too...

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good deal!! congrats, Now if ya can top that to put next to him... Im still trying to top my first.

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Nice Buck!! Congrats

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Way to stay after it. Nice buck my man.

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Way to go...nice buck for sure!

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Way to go

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Nice, Congraulations!!!

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GREAT JOB MIKE ..YOU ARE DA MAN !!! DON'T WORRY ABOUT SPREAD ...MASSSSSSSSS RULES !!

ROLL TIDE
DD

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Nice buck mikeys

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Nice buck! Congrats.

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Nicely done!

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Nice job!! I'm still looking for this years buck. They keep hiding from me. Gotta love PA hunting though.

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Thanks guys, I hope the rest of have some good luck in your seasons also. I learned the hard way, persistence does pay off!

MQ1shooter, I'll have a bigger pic posted on monday, my computer at home is limping on one leg, I gotta try it at work.

This was without a doubt the hunt that caused the biggest adrenaline rush of my career. I heard him grunting LOUDLY while chasing does around in the creek bottom 100 yards away. Never saw a deer down there, to many leaves on the trees. I heard his grunt, stood up on my summit viper and grunted with my voice, and less than 10 seconds later he was on me! He came to my left at a fast pace, grunting like a pig; I drew,anchored, bent over the stand rail, and grunted again lower with my own voice and he stopped at 12 yards.............behind a dead limb. The only gap I had was in the center of the body, so I pinned him in the liver, and he took 3 leaps across the creek and started the death walk right away. I watched him for about 30 seconds and then thought to myself, "dummy, 4 holes are better than 2!" I knew he was 35 yards dead on, and I 12 ringed his airbags. I swear, it took 5 minutes for that second arrow to hit home, I could see thered and white fletchings spinning on the way there!But I knew when the release went off, it wasahome run. He trucked up the creek bank another 50 yards, stumbled over a fence, and then it was sleepy time. He expired 70 yards from my tree. It was the longest climb down a tree I ever had with my summit. I wanted to jump out! I took enough pics to fill a magazine when I got home. Now I usually don't shoot deer again unless necessary, but I know that liver shot deer can either die right away, or lay down close to you and look at you for 2 hours.I've had it go both ways for me. I just felt at that moment, with the size of he animal I was dealing with, a second arrow would make it easier on my tracking, and speed up his expiration date.
Mikey

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Great story, excellent call on the second arrow.

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Congratulations.

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Congrats!

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Congrats on a beautiful buck!

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That's awsome!! It'll look good on the wall.

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Congrats Mikey! That's an awesome pA buck!

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Here's a bigger pic for MQ1shooter...........

And for those of you who participated in my humorous post about naming your arrows from a month ago, "Batman" was the first arrow to assist me on this one! [8D]

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Way to go Mikey!

Awesome buck - G.Co. is really heating up. I went spotting out there last night - WOW.

Congrats on that bruiser.Heck of a buck for PA. Straight to the taxidermist.

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sweet. Nice job.

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WOW!! awesome buck...congrats.

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They've been hot in western Greene County since the weekend ofNov. 5th, Quik. I had 5 bucks within 50 yds. of my stand that eveing, just hounding the does, and at the same time I heard 2 bucks fighting.......and I mean fighting. It sounded like a train wreck in the woods. I killed this one right where I heard the 2 bucks fighting.I haven't seen one ounce of rutting activity in my spots in the eastern part of the county though. Just a couple small scrapes,and no activity whatsoever of bucksharrassing the does.

Check you pm's Quik

Mikey