Finally Got One
12-01-2006, 05:11 PM
#11
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Springfield, OH
Posts: 364
RE: Finally Got One
Sweet,
So did your heart start pumping when you saw them heading your way?. Isn't that something that you can plan a hunt, get geared up, do everything right, spend all day in the woodsand nothing. Then on the spur of a moment head out and get one. Sounds like it was your time to harvest one. Gotta love it. Good job and enjoy.
So did your heart start pumping when you saw them heading your way?. Isn't that something that you can plan a hunt, get geared up, do everything right, spend all day in the woodsand nothing. Then on the spur of a moment head out and get one. Sounds like it was your time to harvest one. Gotta love it. Good job and enjoy.
12-02-2006, 11:14 AM
#13
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Findlay, Ohio
Posts: 3,286
RE: Finally Got One
Congrats Dan! Glad to here you score!! I like the skinning method too! I bet I have killed more of my deer on a whim last minute hunt then the ones that were well planed out. I assume it was the Phoenix?
12-02-2006, 01:06 PM
#14
Nontypical Buck
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: arkansas
Posts: 3,147
RE: Finally Got One
Thanks to all, this monster scored 61 3/8 lol, trying to eat him slooowwwly, lol.
GPea: For some reason, I have never had buck fever, however I do have the same thought that runs thru my mind each time right before I let the shot go, which is: "How you gonna screw this up, Dummy"
Hburn: Yeah the Phoenix, no wood stock to protect, most accurate of the 3, and the one I shoot best off hand w/.
My property is 12 acres on the west side of a 40 acre square that goes n-s from highway to Natl Forest. I have the run of the whole 40, and always go look for tracks when we get a snow. Found these three on the east side of 40 headed west, my way. My 12 acres is about 130 yds wide and near 3/8 mile long, have trails for 4 wheeler all the way around it and two that cut thru from side to side. This stand was about in the middle, used to bait bears there until I figured out same bears were coming from back stand on Natl Forest border, so haven't used it in a couple of years.
Even a blind hog finds an acorn once in awhile, and these deer just walked thru the wrong/right spot at the wrong/right time. Here's the pic I posted for the contest, and yes Dnk, I tucked his tongue back in and hid the wounds just for you! Still gotta go see if I can find the arrow, lol.
GPea: For some reason, I have never had buck fever, however I do have the same thought that runs thru my mind each time right before I let the shot go, which is: "How you gonna screw this up, Dummy"
Hburn: Yeah the Phoenix, no wood stock to protect, most accurate of the 3, and the one I shoot best off hand w/.
My property is 12 acres on the west side of a 40 acre square that goes n-s from highway to Natl Forest. I have the run of the whole 40, and always go look for tracks when we get a snow. Found these three on the east side of 40 headed west, my way. My 12 acres is about 130 yds wide and near 3/8 mile long, have trails for 4 wheeler all the way around it and two that cut thru from side to side. This stand was about in the middle, used to bait bears there until I figured out same bears were coming from back stand on Natl Forest border, so haven't used it in a couple of years.
Even a blind hog finds an acorn once in awhile, and these deer just walked thru the wrong/right spot at the wrong/right time. Here's the pic I posted for the contest, and yes Dnk, I tucked his tongue back in and hid the wounds just for you! Still gotta go see if I can find the arrow, lol.
