The Big One is Finally Down!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

Well, I' d been hunting this big buck since the season started. Had him within 20 yds of me on three consecutive hunts and got a shot at him once. Well, I got a phone call last night and the guy told me the buck I was after was dead. Car hit him about 150 yds from my treestand. The guy described him to a T. 200 lb plus 8 pointer with a 20-24 inch spread and long tines. Man my heart sunk.

Some of you guys might remember my post a month and a half ago about going after a different buck in this same area but I said that last year the big buck around here had gotten hit by a car. Just doesn' t seem fair.

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Solax, that really stinks and is very heart breaking. In one of the areas that we hunt that is in a suburb, that scenerio is played out almost every year. But ya, know what, every year a new big boy moves in.

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Been there it really sucks.

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I can relate all too well. About 10 years ago I had been hunting a large 9pt but could never get within 40 yards of him. A local farmer found him one day dead in his cornfield with both back legs broken. Looked like he was clipped by a car while crossing the street.

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Like Bobco, I live and hunt in a suburban area and have seen about one really nice buck get hit every year, usually after I had already seen him and started dreaming about getting him in my sights. I feel for ya, but another will move in. However, it does hurt the constant well spring of hope that you have while sitting in your stand knowing a big guy is out there. That' s the part I have the hardest time with.

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Happened to me, i was after an 8 , was gonna hunt it and it go smacked the night before i was gonna hunt........

how bad does that suck.?

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It sucks, I did it too. I shot a 9 point with a 20 inch spread. It went over the hill and disappeared. I just sat there and was giving it 30 minutes before I walked over the hill, confident that it had not gone far. It wasn' t long, I heard a truck door slam. I hurriedly got out of the stand and made it up the hill. As I went over the top, I could see two guys putting my deer in a truck on an old country road. I holllered and took off after them but they took off before I could get there. I never saw them or my deer again.

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this happed to me too!!! this year got a real nice 12 point located!!!![:-] he is about 150 yard from a really well used road hope i get a shot before the rut.... thats when they really start doing stupid stuff

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Thanks guys. It' s a horrible, horrible feeling. There is another nice buck that he was traveling around with so he' s probably still out there. The worst part is I had my chance and I blew it. Now he' s gone forever. We don' t get many big bucks like him around here, he definitely would have been one of the bigger ones taken this year. Oh well. Guess that' s hunting.

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It does hurt,especially when the other guy rubs it in the wound. You might remember I was hunting hard for a white deer that was around my house last year. The day after the season closed a jerk from the area stopped to show me the deer. He said hey heard you spent three months hunting this deer. Hee Hee he said I just run the mother over with my truck he said Beats standing for hours in the cold.

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Bummer.........I think we should ban together and force legislation banning automobiles within a 4 mile radius ........of MY WOODS!! HA HA!!!

Good LUck!

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I have posted this pic and the story behind it before. I will give it a quicky. I found him hit by a car laying dead in the ditch of my favorite property. I found him on my way to hunt there that morning. It was in November a couple of years ago. He is a great buck. Great mass, grosses close to 160.

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I know the feeling. I lost TWO deer the week before the season opened in two consecutive years. The first year it was a monster 10 point on public land. I had him figured out and was ready for him. The caretaker and I became great friends. He met me at the parking area at 5:00 opening morning to tell me the buck got killed crossing the road by his house on his way past my stand. He had been traveling with an 8 and a 6 point. I killed the 8 point opening morning where I expected to shoot the 10. The second year it was a monster 12 point traveling with 3 others. He died from a car crossing out of my little 25 acre patch 2 days before the bow season. Of those 4 bucks I found one shot with a gun before gun season dead in a field. 2 got whacked by cars and I killed a very nice 10 pointer... who had been the soul survivor. This is the left over one. The 12 dwarfed him and this one dress at 186. I was sick when I found out about the 12. I watched him 3 or 4 nights a week all summer.

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NICE DEER DAVIDMIL!

I haven' t had any of the deer I have seen hit by a car, but I have made the mistake of telling others where I hunted and seena nice deer. They hunted my spot while I was working and got my deer..[:@]

that is why now I only tell parts of my hunting stories.

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Nice buck David, what was that, 30 years ago, you are too young looking in that pic,:D had to be 30 years ago[:-]

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NO, I' m wearing a Duke hat. My son graduated from there in 94. He got me the hat probably in his sophomore year... so the year would probably be 92 or 93. It' s been a hard 10 years.[:' (] And to think, this one was second best. The 8 point had a rack just as big with probably longer tines. This one is 21 1/2 inside.

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Nice buck David!!!!!