164 net 170 gross Il Buck
12-11-2005, 06:41 PM
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RE: 164 net 170 gross Il Buck
Thanks for the support. The story is. I was supposed to be scouting some standing crops in Pope Co Il but my wife was holding up the scouting trip so my Cousin and I decided to try and hunt not far from my house as he did not arrive untill about 2:30. The wind was out of the soutwest and we had about 3.5 inches of snow or so on the ground. I decided if we could not hunt standing crops we would hunt some honysuckle patches on a 10 acre thicket surrounded by a cut bean field on the north and a sage grass field on the left and hardwoods on the west side. My cousin took the N sorth side and I took the east side.
Approx 4:08 I took a pic with my phone and sent it to my budddy saying I must be crazy, cuz I was froze! Ten minutes later a small deer approached from the North ( Scentlok) and It gave me a 10yd quartering away shot. Good I am done and I can get warm. I radioed the cousin, no reply. He forgot to turn on the radio. Later that turned out to be a good thing. Assuming he had deer near him I stayed put and another doe was coming from the same directions as the first. I am thinking I am getting a double. She stops looks my way and then I hear,crunch, crunch. This bad boy was coming from the East (Scentlok) headed west behind me at 30 yard. One quick spin move around the stand and a baahhh. He stopped in a perfect spot as the kill zone was all that was open between the branches. I let the 100 grain Muzzy fly and smack. He went about 60 yard and fell over backwards.
I was beside myself as this is the biggest deer I have ever taken and to take with a Bow make it even sweeter for me also.
Approx 4:08 I took a pic with my phone and sent it to my budddy saying I must be crazy, cuz I was froze! Ten minutes later a small deer approached from the North ( Scentlok) and It gave me a 10yd quartering away shot. Good I am done and I can get warm. I radioed the cousin, no reply. He forgot to turn on the radio. Later that turned out to be a good thing. Assuming he had deer near him I stayed put and another doe was coming from the same directions as the first. I am thinking I am getting a double. She stops looks my way and then I hear,crunch, crunch. This bad boy was coming from the East (Scentlok) headed west behind me at 30 yard. One quick spin move around the stand and a baahhh. He stopped in a perfect spot as the kill zone was all that was open between the branches. I let the 100 grain Muzzy fly and smack. He went about 60 yard and fell over backwards.
I was beside myself as this is the biggest deer I have ever taken and to take with a Bow make it even sweeter for me also.
