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I posted last night about a buck I thought I had made a questionable hit on. I left and came back in the morning, with good results. It is no longer a questionable hit. I got 1 lung, liver and exited the guts. He was quertering to me a little.He was dead before I climbed down my tree last night, he went 75 yards. We found him right away this morning.He has 14 scoreable points and I have him rough scored at 142 2/8"
I am going to tape him better once I have the antlers off.

I'll post more pics later too. I want to get him cooled off right now.

Full story with more pics on page 2.

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WOW!! Congrats. Great buck

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my gosh

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Nice buck congrat's .

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Congrats on a well deserved ending.

Where did you harvest that brute? Was that on public or private land. I have a lease in Kirksville that I didn't go up to this year with the new born. I usually take off the week prior to gun opening day and bow hunt alll week. I live just south of St. Louis and took an 11 pointer with the bow from Howell Island yesterday while most in MO were gun hunting. Story and pics to follow.

Congrats again. Good luck the rest of the year. Do you take up any 3-D's in the St. Louis area throughout the year.

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Way to go John. You know we are all super happy for you. What a brute. It's good to see you smile behind that big buck.

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John, John, John, That is one great looking buck my friend ;)Man you hunted hard, you deserve a buck like that, big congrats to you. Look at all them points!!

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nice looking buck. Congrats

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Sweet buck! Congrats ongetting him! Darn deductions ha!

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Congrats John on a well deserved buck.. I assume that is a Jersey county IL brute? Awesome Awesome buck my friend.

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congrats thatsan awesome buck

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SWEET!! That's a beautiful buck there. Glad you found him so soon.

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Like I said in PM John, Congratulations to you my friend, you deserve a great buck like that and I'm proud of you.

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nice job, great buck! congrats.

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Ok, now for the full story. I had been hunting in Jersey Co., IL all week. Seen a ton of deer but the only ones coming in range were little ones. Except for a big 150 class 10 point that came on the wrong side of my tree Thursday, too many branches in the way.

Yesterday I was hunting over a ditch the deer use as a travel corridor in the woods. I gotin that standabout 11:00, and the first deer I saw was a doe and young one at 4:15. They fed on acorns till about 5:00 on the other side of the ditch, then fed out of sight to my right. It is getting pretty dark in the woods by now(the trees just will not shed their leaves) so I start to get things ready to climb down. I hear something walking to my left and look across the ditch. I see a huge body with enough antlers to know he is a shooter coming my way. I start looking for a spot to stop him for the shot, he is angling toward me. I draw my bow and maa softly. He stops and starts looking around.I search for my pins in my peep. The 20 yard shot looks good so I touch off the release. This all happened so fast I could'nt tell where the shot really hit. and it is geting dark fast. The buck runs 50 yards and stops and looks back. I scramble for another arrow and he blows and bounds out of sight. I listen for a couple of minutes and hear a crash, but no thrashing. I don't know if he fell or just ran into something trying to escape. Then a deer starts to blow up on the hilside where he ran. So I got down and found my arrow. It is covered with blood, but has a strong smell to it. I decided to back out and come back in the morning. We found him right away 75 yards away. He was dead before I climbed down last night. The shot was right behind his shoulder, but he was quartering to me and the shot exited thru his guts. Here are some more pics.

The entrance hole.

These are for the wkp guys.


My buddy Bob took some good pics. This is where he fell.


And by the lake.HNI plug.

A few more.

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Nice job on the buck...and great pictures too! Just curious as to what type of broadheads you use. It appears that you had quite an opening where the arrow entered. Congrats again.

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JM, congrats on the buck. After all you've been through it's good to see some good luck come your way. I'm truly very happy for you.

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Hey JM.......

From one teammate and friend to another.........COngratulations buddy. I was actually thinking about you as I woke up this morning. I'm glad this had a great ending.

Really happy for you, right now......:) He's a BEAUTIFUL buck!

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Great buck, congratulations.

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Congrats, thats an awesome rack :D

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Wow, very nice! Looks like someone is shooting the two blade Rage. Awesome.

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Yep 2 balde rage put a hole in 1 lung, the liver and exited out the guts. He was quartering to me somewhat, only went 75 yards.

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are you serious that dude only grosses 140? i have no experience with bucks with that many points, it just looks ALOT bigger than that. Maybe its the number of points throwin me off. im usually pretty close on pretty typical racks.

GREAT BUCK MAN, CONGRATS!

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congrats awsome buck

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Congratulations!

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Congrats John...great looking buck.

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John great story and great buck!!!

Well deserved for you sir, well done

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great looking buck....congrats

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Congrats. Great buckthere.

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Nice job John, that's a heck of a buck! After all you've endured recently, you certainly deserve it. Congratulations, and I hope this guy holds a special place in your heart.

~Justin

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Yep 142 6/8, the pic really does make him look bigger. But hey, that's what pics are supposed to do, right?:)

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An amazing buck John.

However, don't be letting everyone in onour secret that Jersey Co. has big bucks too.;)Congrats on the beauty.

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All I can say is WOW !!!! I'm jealous.

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WOW nice man BTW is that teh enigma CAMO if so were r u guys findin it??

ONCE again GREAT BUCK

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Had to get that beast back on Page 1!

BTW, Bucheye140, that is Predator camo, looks like Fall brown in some picks (by water) and fall grey in the others.

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Great Buck JM, Well deserved

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Great buck John!! Congrats !!!

Tim

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No doubt a happy ending congrats on a fine buck JM.

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Sweet! Good for you man. Always a rough night when you decide tolet them lay.

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Good for you! Congrats!