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Buck Huntin Girl and Pat, both nice bucks.

Here's mine that I shot opening day of gun season with my bow!!!! Missed on a 8pt in the morning and went back out in the evening and downed this guy 5 pt.



kk

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Where ya at Kardkutter?

Nice buck, congrats!

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Thanks guys..and yes..my buck's neck was fat! He must have really been working rubs..and doing his share of sparring. He did have wood shavings all over the top of his head and around the base of his anters.

BHG...aren't you around Ft. Wayne...or close to it? I'm from Decatur..just south of you about 20 minutes. My buddy and I gave up on hunting Adams Co..and we go up to LaGrange. We hunt the quad-county area (LaGrange-Stueben-Noble-Dekalb). Deer are just everywhere up there.

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Yeah, I'm in Ft. Wayne, I know exactly where Decatur is, been there a few times. I wouldn't mind hunting Dekalb as there aren't many hunters in Dekalb compared to other counties. I'd LOVE to get an urban area in Allen though, there are a ton of nice sized bucks in urban zones, it's just getting the permission that sucks!

You know where Pro Bowl West is on Goshen Rd in Fort Wayne? There is a creek that runs behind that plaza there, also a nice sized area of brush and trees, last year we saw a NICE rack in that brushy area, we wanted to get permission to hunt it, but aren't sure where to go or who to talk to.

Where do you hunt in Noble County? Actually, I am originally from Dekalb county, Auburn actually, where do you hunt in Dekalb?

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Oh..sorry for the misunderstanding...but I hunt a large piece of land in LaGrange that actually boarders those counties...it's the quad-county corner. I also hunt land north of that..right by "Big Long Lake."

BTW..you're not missing anything of much importance in regards to you few visits to Decatur...pretty boring around here. And Goshen Rd...I'm not familiar with that road all to well..are you talking about somewhere close to where SR 14 intersects it?

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no, 14 intersects it way past where I was referring to, you do know where Coliseum blvd is, right? It's um... er... south east of that, about a mile or so from Coliseum Blvd. If you take exit 109a (hwy 30), it brings you right to Coliseum, you just go straight on Hwy 30 (Goshen Rd) and you would drive right past it. Actually, it's right down by WBTU's 93.3's office.... But most people don't know where that is (and the only reason I do is because I applied for a job there last year) LOL It's not far from Coliseum though.

Lagrange continually produces big ones though, my exhusband is from around that area, so I have been up there a few times, but it's mostly Amish or Hispanic population up there! LOL I don't get North very often, the furthest I go is Garrett/Auburn because that is where my family is.

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Buck Hunting Girl, I'm from Evansville, IN. South west Indiana. I hunt Vanderburgh county. The whole county is an urban deer zone. I started bow hunting Sept. 15. Lucky Me.

I took and cut off the antlers and keep the antlers in the garage. After 4 days magots started eating on the flesh. So I put it out side to let them eat. 5 days later my rack is gone!!!! Something took it. O well I guess I'll wait till next year to get another one.

KK

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That's too bad, KK. I put salt on the skull...and then boil it to get the membrane and what-not off. After a few days...good as new!

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Thanks Pat, I'll try that next time. The first buck I got I cut the antlers off and put the skull part in bleach, well it bleached the bottom part of the antlers too. So I bleached the whole antlers. It doesn't look too bad, I just prefer the as is color of the antlers. I bet boiling doesn't hurt the color.
kk

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Boiling does't affect the antlers at all. I boil them for a while...pull them out..take a pair of pliers and pull the hair and skin off...then a pocket knife to get the thin layer of membrane off the skull. For some reason, some have smelled bad for a couple days..others are oderless from the moment they come out of the water.