November 1 buck
 

Got this guy on November 1st this year. got up late and threw my clothes on. Drove to my hunting spot and the sun was already rising. There was alot of fog so I snuck down to the closest stand I could get to. I didn' t kick anything up so I tied my bow off and climbed the tree. About halfway up I looked over and saw this buck coming straight to me at 60 yards. I use lockon stands primarily and I still had about 12 pegs to go. My stand in between a split tree so I leaned back against the tree behind me and pulled up my bow. I was about 12 feet off the ground.
I pulled up my bow and knocked an arrow. He kept coming....
I drew the bow as he lowered his head and he began to quarter. At 15 yards I put the arrow just in front of his left shoulder and it came out of his heart. He jumped about 6 feet then walked 10 steps and dropped.

My entire hunt took about 5 minutes. After the shot I had to grab the tree because I was shaking so bad :) What a morning.
He is an 11 point and dressed about 175

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Congrats on what sounds like a nice buck, dressing at 175 that is a good sized deer for Md. I hope you will have pics coming soon.

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Congrats sounds like an awesome morning as Taz said hope to see some pictures....:D

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congrats...lets have some pics

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I have to make the pics small enough for the site to take them....
I am downloading some software now......

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Here it is

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Congratulations. That is a great buck and probably the shortest hunt I have ever heard of. :)

Too bad you shot him with a Mathews....:D

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Congrats! Nice looking buck. Couldn' t ask for a better hunt! ;)

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Great buck dark...Awesome story too. A very similar thing happened to my buddy years ago. He was caught halfway up the tree and still managed to maintain his composure and eventually took the deer. Congratulations on a gret deer. Jim

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You know darkarcher I have been thinking of getting an out of state Md. license, :D let me know if you need any help thinning out those culls!!!;) That is a fine looking buck and big bodied to boot!!

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Dont do it my friend. I live in VA. If you want to come and hunt let me know. I live near Fairfax

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Funny thing is.....I saw 5 more bigger than him the weekend before and my buddy saw two huge 10' s. The largest I saw was a typical 14 with maybe 10-12 inch G2 G3 and G4' s

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Here is another angle

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Man thats a nice deer dark , good job , congrats . Looks like bar-b-que at darks place:D , and a trophy to be realy proud of , great story allso .

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Congrats on the deer, Way to go!

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great deer darkarcher, I bet that was a huge rush for you sounds like you were calm cool and collective.

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Congratulations from the European side of the world to!
Nice buck, good story behind it.
I' ve told my boss its proven that a man is more succesfull waking up later.:D

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nice deer.

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Great buck, dark, and way to go. How' s the weather been up there?

aero

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way to maintain your composer and bring home a nice one! congrats:)

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Congratulations on an awesome buck!

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Thats a beauty!! good luck on the next one!

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Great buck and story, thanks for sharing.