#2 DOWN - West Texas 9-point
 

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Last year I opted to get off a big West Texas lease (10,000 acres) for something a little closer to home. My dad and I leased a small 200 acre tract about a mile from my house. We have seen a lot of deer. My wife took a 9-point opening day and I took this one over Thanksgiving. We have not seen the 120-130 class deer that were fairly common at the other lease, but we have harvested two nice bucks. It has also been a great place to take my two boys. I caught this buck cruising for does mid-morning. He was walking with a smaller buck.I dropped him in his tracks with a Savage .223. I have set up game cams on this property and hunted it pretty hard since the end of September, but I had never seen this buck. He broke off about three inches of his left G2 and ended up grossing 108 7/8. Not a monster by any means, but I'm proud of him. My first buck was harvested in East Texas.

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Congrats! Nothing wrong with that deer.

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NICE!!

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nice un

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Nice deer.

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congrats...

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Congrats on the nice deer.

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Nice buck! Just a quick tip: He'd been pushing the 120-130 class next year

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nice deer. congrats and nice job

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congrats...

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nice!!!!

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congrats

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Nice deer congrats.

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Thanks for the tip. I've shot several bucks in the 120-130" range and bigger Crokit. I'm sure this buck would have been better as a 4.5 year old, but with only 200 hundred acres of mostly open land to access I felt like this was a deer I couldn't pass up. Everything around us is hunted pretty hard. I felt fortunate just to see him. He is, to date, the biggest buck we've seen on this place. If he had been on the home place in East Texas (900 acres) I'm sure I would have passed him up.

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Good deer, congratulations...

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Nice buck, I would have taken him too.