Real Nice PA Buck..Pictures and Story...
 

My hunting buddy shot a really nice 9 point this past Friday morning. We had been seeing some really nice bucks (including this one) over the last 2 weeks and one of us finally scored on one of them. I couldn' t be happier for this guy.

Here is the story:

Greene County Pennsylvania
Friday morning
Temp in the low 30' s

I see this big nine point at 7:40 about forty yards from me. He presents no shot and off he goes. I talk to Bob on the walkie talkie at 9:00 to tell him that one of the big deer we had been seeing came through. He saw four doe and I also had a button buck come through, so things were looking up. I talk to him again at noon and he tells me he shot a big buck at 11:05 and it' s down.

Apparently, this buck came in from behind him and was going to walk off in a direction that was going to take him well outside of bow range. He gave his grunt call two very short hits and the buck stops, changes direction and now he is on a collision course straight to Bob. The deer comes in from behind him and to the right, passes straight behind the stand and crosses over to Bob' s other side. Bob lets the buck walk past his stand and at ten yards the deer stops and presents a fairly sharp quartering away shot. To put it in perspective, you would not have wanted the deer to be at much more of an angle or it turns into a no shot situation. Bob puts the pin well back on the deer so on the pass through he exits just behind the deers far shoulder. He makes the release and the arrow flies true. The buck runs off very slowly and rests against a tree for a minute or so. He runs another few yards and beds down. Lays there for a very short time gets up walks a few steps and beds again. He gets up again then immediately falls over dead. The deer only ran a total of about 40 yards and was dead within a few minutes of the shot. The arrow went through the liver and took out the far lung. He made the shot he had make. He picked a spot and aimed for the exit hole. The rest is history.

This is the same buck I saw earlier in the morning. If that buck had walked twenty yards closer to me then Bob is probably helping me with my deer instead of the other way around!! That' s cool!

I have some nice pics that I had to scan in, but they are too big for me to upload to the forum. Can anyone assist me?

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Jim, I see ya peekin. Better hurry before the honeydo list needs tending!:D

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nub,

I tried to send you the pics...Did you get them? Jim

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Here ya go jim.

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Thanks nub!!! My buddy was really pumped about the deer. His best to date. Thanks again.

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Glad to help. Tell your bud congrats on a fine buck.

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That' s a bute! Maybe Nub can make the picture a bit bigger so we can drool all over our keyboards.

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Thats a great looking buck

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That sure is a nice PA buck. Congrats!:)

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Another great Pa buck!!! Good work..

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That' s another dandy from PA this year. I don' t ever recall seeing so many GOOD bucks from PA being put on the forums....do AR and HR have something to do with it? You be the judge.;):D[8D]

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Something has surely changed Jason. The one you got was real nice too. My buddy' s buck isn' t the only big one in the area we hunt. I saw a buck last week that was the equal to this buck and another 8 point that wasn' t as big as this guy but really nice too. AR has something to do with it I suspect. Jim

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nice deer

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I think the ARs helped in some areas but on private property not as much. I don' t think the buck in that picture was saved by ARs. I' m sure he was a shooter last year. We have 2 giant bucks on our property this year and I' m not sure what the deal is. We usually only had about 5 or 6 sub-6 pointers shot on a 3000 acre piece of private land anyway so most of our bucks were already surviving the season. With only 1 year of ARs, I don' t know what' s going on but there is certainly in increase in the numbers of nice bucks around.

Scott Meier
White Oak Lodge

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Barnes...I agree that the buck was probably a shooter last year, but if he came running by during gun season would you have been able to put the required number of points on him? I believe that AR' s could and may have spared this buck last year. I' m sure a lot of bucks that were shooters last year walked because guys couldn' t put enough points on them. I passed up a couple bucks last year that were probably shooters but I couldn' t be certain...So no shot. My two cents.