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Ok well I' m going to try and get the picture up first...........hang tight!

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nice buck.

go deep hunt hard.;)

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Congrats Mantis that is a wide rack. Nice looking buck:D

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nice buck

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Nice buck. Congrats! :)

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Real nice one buddy.

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Cool it' s up!

Isn' t he beautiful!!

Nov, 1st 2003 at 4:30pm he stood slightly quartered with my 20yrd pin nestled on a hair covering his boiler room. Wait a minute!!!! I gotta tell ya the events leading up to. I was pulling a stand that I only hunted one night. It' s a new farm and land is unfamilar so before I did I walked 100yds further into the ridge to scout. I found a bench! A small one but it' s a small ridge. I also found a scrape with a huge hoof print in it. All the while I' m getting happy and lookin at the trees. They all suck but I found one that had only a semi-lean to it. This stand I can hunt with a NE wind or close to it. I don' t have my hand saw with me so I mark the two saplings mentaly and off to work I go. BTW I saved all my time off and vacation for bow season. Only have to work five shifts all season! O yeah you know your envious of that! :D Anyway I forgot to tell ya about the mock scrape I made next to the real deal. Ten yards away, all I did was kick the leaves in one direction like I always see the real scrapes done and urinated in it. While kicking leaves I uncovered some deer crap and said " why not" and put it in the middle for good luck. I didn' t touch the overhanging branch or screw with anything, just hung the stand and took a leak in a scrape I kicked up with my rubber boots. The following night I have a NE wind. A little soon I figured but what the he11 I went for it. So there I am cutting my two lanes and being very careful not to leave my stink. I looked at the two scrapes and it was hard to tell if they were freshened. It' s warm, I' m not having the high hopes I usually do but It' s a very good location and you never know right! Well at 4:30 he' s walking the rim of the bench, up on the ridge just out of range coming in maybe. Just to make sure I grunted three or so times and it seemed to do the trick. He' s rubbing trees and headin in. Thank god for rubbers! No, well Yeah but No I meen rubber boots! He' s sniffing the ground right were I was trimming my lane. He raises his head and licks some branches and heads towards what I' m guessing is his scrape. He will never arrive at his scrape though. I changed all that! Double lung pass through. He went 200yds....yeah I know but it was the back end of the lungs so maybe that' s why. What an awesome hunt and great time. This $hit will never get old! Well Thanks for listening to the rambling and good luck to everyone else this year. Thanks also for spending your time on this site helping others who are less informed![:-]

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Beauty!!! Good Luck on the next one!

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excellent!!!!!!!!!!!!

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wish they grew ' em that big down south!!! nice one....i got my first bow buck this year too. only 6 though. LOVE THE LORD... JESUS THE CHRIST!!!!

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Very nice Mantis. That is going on the wall, isn' t it? Congrats.

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[:o] smoking awesome buck you got there. He will look great on the wall. He is nice and wide. Got to love it.

Brian

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Way to go Are you happy??

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nice buck and text book hunt!:)

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Ditto all other posts. Really nice buck and a cool story.

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Great buck and thanks for the story! That sure is one impressive deer.

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Thats a beast! Just curious what his dressed weight was. I guess there is something to be said for rubbers...lol

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Sweet buck and good story Mantis.

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A real beauty Congrats

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Love those Central NY bucks... hunt Tioga County myself. Nicely done.

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NC Archer, Congrats on your first! Thats awesome!

Kip, You bet he is bud! My taxi already has him.

Cardeer, This is the biggest buck to date. To say I am happy would be an understatement.:D I guess I didn' t portray that much happiness in my post. I worked very hard this year preparing for this season and a buck like this. When it all payed off I melted in my stand and it was the best high in my life.

adams, I didn' t weigh him. I' m not good at guessing weight either but would say maybe 170.lbs

Thanks for the congrats everyone!:)

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Congrats Mantis and cool story

Congrats on that wide bruiser:D

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great hunt,start to finish!!!great deer!!!

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Awesome pic, what a great buck!

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Nice buck.

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Congrats MM...Good 8 ptner.

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congrats on a great buck

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He' s a dandy. Great hunt.

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Congrats on an awesome buck. He' s a beauty!

I see you' re from Corning, right where Blodgett Calls are made. Harry' s a world class individual, I' m just wondering if he ever finished his website?!? He told he about it back in early ' 02. Do you know anything about it?

Tyler

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Nice deer, congrats.

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Great deer, even greater story!!!!

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CONGRATULATIONS!!! He' s a good lookin' buck!!

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Awsome buck, good story too, congrats.

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Congrats. Maybe you could work some shifts for some of us not so fortunate???

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PABeardBuster,

I know Harry. Don' t know about the website though. If I need one of his calls, I just drive the two minutes and get one.;)

Thankyou everyone for the congrats!:)

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Nice buck! Congrats!

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Congrats!

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Awesome buck!