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Well after 8 weeks and countless hours of searching I finally found him, with the help of my trustee Golden, Ely and his sniffer I located my buck in the middle of a 20-30 Acre cattail swamp. I downed this buck back on Nov. 20th during regular gun season with my archery gear. I had made the decision to hunt the gun season with archery gear since I had seen a monster during the bow season and wanted to get him with a bow or not at all. While this guy wasn't him, he was a shooter for sure, I lung hit him with a pass through and off he went. I gave him an hour or more tracked him, saw him got to within 10 yards he looked down for the count, he jumped up and bolted. I went from all time high to all time low, I search hard for 3 days and countless hours for the past 8 weeks whenever I could. Saturday AM I took my dogs out nad circled the swamp downwind of where I thought he might have went and low nad behold Ely caught wind and led me right to him about 80 yards in and buried deep. Yup all time high once again. he was 3/4 of a mile from where he dropped the first time. Moral of this story is don't ever give up you never know when or where you might find your trophy. This buck while not my largest will always be one of my best memories and he taught me a things or two as well.

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Glad you can rest the mind now, but why didn't you take the dog in there the next day or two after you shot? Or did the dog have to have a strong odor to smell?? Congrats anyway!!!

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The buck entered a large tract of land I didn't have permission to enter until a couple weeks after i shot him, also where I found him I thought he may have went since it is a really thick swamp area although without knowing he was in there for sure I didn't want to go in make all kinds of comotion push out all the deer to surrounding landowners and come up empty handed.

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cool, well what are you gonna do with him, find a new cape?? euro mount??

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Nice Canuck.. Congrats!

I shot this deer a couple of years ago.. It took me 14 months to find him. He died in a very large cattail swamp too. He's been home for about a year now.. and I have closure as well.[&:]

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Glad you found him man. Looks like plenty of critters had many dinners. That rack has some nice mass to it.

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thats REAL far on a lung hit[&:]

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A single lung could most definetely do that.

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Maybe if he hit one lung he might go that far, but not both... either way, let's not rain on his parade, Im sure he didn't want the deer to take it that far.....or expect it to... but no way was it a dbl lunger.

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could have been a one lung hit 125py.

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Thanks for the congrats guy's I can tell you it definetly took out a lung he blew bright red blood in quite a few blotches and lots of red mouth foam, as ant hunter know a buck that is down that gets spooked can cover ground fast adn that's what he did, the biggest problem was once off my ground he enters 50-60 acre golden rod field which is nearly impossible to track and see anythign in during late october early nov. I did all I could at the time I assure you, it was only the second deer I ever lost in 18 years of hunting bow and gun, I was bumming hard core but a happy camper now. Congrats to you Duke that buck had quite a spread, mine had awesome mass 5-6" Circum measurements all through, I did what I call a half euro on him yesterday and it looks great just have to bleach it out a bit.

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as said before at least you have are sure hes dead if i were you id euro mount him that would be cool especially if you put on a plaque

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Congrats on the recovery. It certainly eases the mind, doesn't it?

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Canuck you don't have to justify anything, you found him, I know it wasn't the best timing, but you still looked well after most would have quit, enjoy the recovery, put them antlers on display and learn from the mistake or whatever happened. Good JOB!!!

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i agree one lung.....and i am glad you found him also! Nice deer

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great story and good job on the find!!1