got my first VA buck!
11-09-2005, 06:27 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Paoli PA
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got my first VA buck!
Last week, I got permission to hunt a small piece of property that is loaded with deer. I posted about hunting along streams topic and picked the perfect place for a stand. The weatherwas pretty warm....about 75 degrees or so but its a little cooler down by the stream. i leave work early, get showered and descented and head for my stand at 3:00pm. Around 4 or so, some does started to feed directly behind me on the hill but i couldn't get a shot at any of them. Finally around 5 or so, i look across the field and i see this guy headed up and away from me at 180 yards. He walked out of my sight so i decided to hit the rattling horns. I could not see that i had turned him and he was headed directly across the field toward my stand. When he was about thirty yards out, i finally saw him and knew he was a shooter. i took aim and let her fly. I smoked this deer! it ran about 50 yards, crashing and falling around the way. He did the geunine jump and kick for the double lung. He is a brute.....8 point with a little point so i called him a 9. When i took him to get butchered, the guy skinned it right there and there were holes in his neck from fighting. His tenderlions were huge too and made a perfect dinner
11-09-2005, 09:54 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Paoli PA
Posts: 898
RE: got my first VA buck!
thanks guys, his rack looked like he was trying to be a 10 point but the front two points just never grew out....he had an 18 inch spread and his left brow tine was busted from fighting....butcher opened his mouth and said he was prob a 3 year old cause his teeth were pretty worn down
