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Took you long enough there bud. JK of course, you done good for an old man. ;). Scrarch the grey chin and the gay pose though. And you talked about my feet:D.
Congratulations in a big way. Are you done?

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wow greg another great year for you congrats bro i always said your the man!

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WOW.. Thats about all there is to say. Sad not to see Treebark to go with the pose but that can be overlooked for a slug like that.

Pose notwithstanding, YOU are the man!!I would put on a thong for a chance to pose next to that beast or even the deer..

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Awesome buck Greg, that thing looks OLD. Congrats.

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That's an awesome buck Greg. Congrats!

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Nice buck Greg!!!! Congrats to you.

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WowGreg, you really had me going. Not to mention the fact that we now have the "Greg Pose" on HNI now ;). Maybe the best thread of the year :).

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Nice buck.

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Congrats Greg on another life timer. *drop tine*

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Super buck Greg, my hat's off to you. Congrats.

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You sure are consistent aren't ya!? Great buck again Greg! BTW, the first picture is my favorite.

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As always, Great Buck. Love the drop. Congrats!

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Congrats on a GREAT buck Greg! You are definitely the real deal and prove it by getting it done year after year.

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Persistance, Patience, Experence, Calm nurves, and a passion and love for the outdoors and the respect for the animal`s that you hunt.

(imo) Having gain the "resect" of other hunters around the nationby taking game in an ethical way it does not take long before
we realize we have (Truely a living bowhunter legend in the works!) GregH.

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Another great buck for you...congrats Greg!

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Wow, another beast, congrats!....story?;)

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Holy droptines. Great buck Greg!

I'm sure the weather played a key factor, but it sure seems like things all across America's breadbasket really picked up over the last couple days.

I'd chew my nuts off to be out there all day tomorrow with a virgin buck tag in my pocket.

Kudos to you on another slammer.

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AWESOME BUCK GREG. I can't wait to see what he scores cuz take away the longer droptine and he's the spitting image of the one I saw last Tuesday!

Nice choice of Camo too.... but the pose is a little fruity ;):D

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Greg, that is a sweet buck! Great job, figured there would be a post about you scoring any day now:D. Nice work

Shane

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Congradulations Greg, what a cool buck.

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Great buck Greg....congrats! :D

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Man! Awesome buck! Great job once again!!

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Greg that is another amazing animal. Congrats.
I know after being to Illinois that all I want to do now is hunt big mature whitetails. They are awesome to behold. Even if the closest one was 128yds away. That bucktriggered something inside me like I have never felt before.

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Guy's, Thanks for all the kind words!

Here's the story.

My season started out with quite a bit of activity. I saw a couple of nice bucks from Oct. 30th through Nov. 3rd. By that time I had seen and passed on three different bucks ranging from 126" to 138". As stated earlier this year it was my goal to shoot something in the 145"+ range or a clean 10 pointer. I know this area holds the bucks I'm after.After Nov. 3rd my sightings went way down. My mature buck sightings were down from previous years by 50%. A few days later, during a morning hunt, I had a 10 pointer pass me at 14 yards. He would have been great and been about 134" had he not broken off a g-2. This caused him to be about 126". I decided to pass. I went about 6 days without a mature buck sighting. I was having problems seeing any deer at all!

I ran into a streak of days where the wind wasn't right to hunt the stands where I figured the action would be. One day I decided to take a risk and hunt a stand with a cross wind. I figured the deer movement would be from my right to left during an evening hunt. Well guess what? Them stupid deer didn't do what they were supposed to! [:@]Just before dark I had a doe approaching from my left. Moments later I heard a grunt, then another. At first I thought I was hearing things but then I heard it again and saw the buck. By now the doe was in front of me at 30 yards and the buck was following. It was the same buck I saw breed the doe in front of me over a week before. Once that buck hit my scent stream he locked up. He didn't like it one bit and turned to go back where he came from. He was about 50 yards out. The doe squatted and took a leak then moved off to my left. The buck wanted to get to that doe in the worst way. He came back around, stopped and checked for my scent again. He decided to circle around wide and then get back to the doe. He did so cautiously and finally got back on her trail. He did give me an iffy shot and again I passed. After he got over by the doe I heard him snort wheeze and it appeared that he was coming back toward me! As it turned out it was a different buck! One of the 138"s I had passed on. He too gave me an iffy shot as it was getting dark and he was at 28 yards. After the deer has all passed, I got down in the dark and snuck out of there. As cool as that was, I don't think I'll be that risky anymore. None of them alarmed and bolted out of there, but still...... that was close.

I left the area cool down for 2 days and hunted elsewhere. I didn't see a thing. Finally, Sun afternoon I had a window of time where the wind was right for that stand. It's a great stand, my favorite, where I got last years buck from. The pattern for the last week had deer movement coming just about quitting time. At the end of the night I had a 1 1/2 year old 5 pointer go by. Well, I had about 5 minutes of shooting light left. The last 5 minutes of my deer hunting vacation! I started to slowly pack up, put my grunt call in my pack and removed my face mask and was putting it in my pocket when I looked down....... Holy smokes! There's a buck walking toward me on my entry trail! I took a look and spotted a big sticker or drop tine and well.......... I shot that bad boy!!

I got down found my arrow. It looked good but it getting too dark to follow a blood trail (no flashlight! [:@]). I waited until this morning and found him right away.

Incidentally, I called the GF right from my stand. She had been out of the country on business last week and called me one morning to tell me that she dreamed I had shot a non-typical with a drop tine at 11 yards! When she answered I said, "Honey guess what?, I shot a buck with a drop tine butit was at 12 yards!" How about that!!?? [:-]

Thanks for all of your comments!

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He just popped out and you shot him, man must have been a hell of a rush!

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Great buck Greg! Way to stick to your plan and pass on those other P&Y bucks and get a deer you had set your goals on.

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Greg----

Do you have any space left on your wall?

Congrats on another awesome deer sir.

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Man, toward the end there, words can't describe the inner conflict I was having trying to continually convince myself that holding off was the thing to do!

Thanks

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Great story!!

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5 minutes left on the clock....I love it.

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Great story and a great deer! Congrats!

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Great buck and story, congrats on another dandy!

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What did you do, text yourself? What an awesome buck Greg! Congratulations big guy, great job!!!!

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Greg

Great buck and great drops to top off a season worth the wait huh! Looks like he was on his last goodyear as a great buck too,you can tell he was old by his nose being so square.Cudo's to ya man, hope I can fill my buck tag as good as that. That's what most hunters dreams are made of. Congrats again.[8D]
Rocky

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Great buck Greg!!

Congrats!!

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Didn't see the answer to this, Greg. Illinois buck?

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:DOk you had me :Dawesome buck Greg'o ;)I say we ban texting all together [8D]

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I didn't even see that............ yes. I actually saw this buck last year in Oct. Only time I ever saw him until now! [:-]

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mornin sunshine :D

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LOL thats crazy! I bet you were like WHAT?

My wife had a dreamed once she told me that i was going to take a nice buck on a day that i was taking off of work to hunt.
She sead that she dreamed that i picked up my hunting cloths and crap thati had left laying aroundect.
Then the next morning i would shoot a big buck!
So ipicked up and cleanedup.
Next moring i hunted didn`t even see a squirll?
So when i got back i ask i thought you sead i would take a nice buck in your dream?
She told me THAT PART SHE MADE UP!:(