Indiana Buck Pic & Story
11-26-2002, 07:55 PM
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Indiana Buck Pic & Story
I don't post a lot on here, but I read the board regulary and I know how much everyone likes the pic and the stories so here is mine...
I hunted around a corn stubble field for my evening hunt on 11/21. At about 5:15 and a couple of hours of not seeing anything I decided to move to a "bottom" hay field for the last few minutes of shooting light. As I was easing around the point I was sitting in I noticed this buck along with a doe feeding in the corn field. They were above me due to fact that the field is very rolling. I immediately dropped to my knees and glassed the buck and decided he was a shooter. At this point the deer has fed out of my line of sight. I crawled through the corn stubble to get on the same plane as the deer. I ranged him at 108 yds. He dropped in his tracks. I use a Remington 11-87 12 Gauge, outfitted with a Leopold Scope, fully rifled barrel, and Remington Copper Solid slugs.
9 pts/160 lbs
Although he was not the trophy I was looking for it is a trophy nonetheless. His right main beam had about 6 inches broken off compared to the left one.
This is the 5th buck taken off the 350 acres that I hunt (Morton Area-Western Putnam County-Indiana) with the biggest weighing 248 lbs. Next year we (future bro-in law) hope to institute a management program but it will take some cooperation from the future in-laws regarding the hutning pressure that these deer have faced this season. We also intend to plant food plots (Whitetail Institute Imperial Clover).
Sorry to ramble, I thought some might enjoy the picture and the story.
Edited by - PutnamCountyIndianaHunter on 11/26/2002 21:00:19
I hunted around a corn stubble field for my evening hunt on 11/21. At about 5:15 and a couple of hours of not seeing anything I decided to move to a "bottom" hay field for the last few minutes of shooting light. As I was easing around the point I was sitting in I noticed this buck along with a doe feeding in the corn field. They were above me due to fact that the field is very rolling. I immediately dropped to my knees and glassed the buck and decided he was a shooter. At this point the deer has fed out of my line of sight. I crawled through the corn stubble to get on the same plane as the deer. I ranged him at 108 yds. He dropped in his tracks. I use a Remington 11-87 12 Gauge, outfitted with a Leopold Scope, fully rifled barrel, and Remington Copper Solid slugs.
9 pts/160 lbs
Although he was not the trophy I was looking for it is a trophy nonetheless. His right main beam had about 6 inches broken off compared to the left one.
This is the 5th buck taken off the 350 acres that I hunt (Morton Area-Western Putnam County-Indiana) with the biggest weighing 248 lbs. Next year we (future bro-in law) hope to institute a management program but it will take some cooperation from the future in-laws regarding the hutning pressure that these deer have faced this season. We also intend to plant food plots (Whitetail Institute Imperial Clover).
Sorry to ramble, I thought some might enjoy the picture and the story.
Edited by - PutnamCountyIndianaHunter on 11/26/2002 21:00:19
11-26-2002, 09:31 PM
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RE: Indiana Buck Pic & Story
With deer like that and the 248 pounder you were talking about, a QDM plan would go along way. Geat Buck and good luck!
"We do not inherit our wildlife from our fathers, we only borrow it from our children."
"We do not inherit our wildlife from our fathers, we only borrow it from our children."
11-26-2002, 10:03 PM
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