First buck! Finally!
 

Met up with a buddy Monday (12/26) and headed out to his land for my first hunt of this season. It was relatively warm out (57 degrees) and with high winds (at my back), I wasn't very optimistic that I would see any deer. I was more and less just sitting out there thinking ahead to the next day's hunt.

Getting bored......


Taking a nap.....


I wake up, look around and thought I heard a bleat. I look down the road and sure enough, here comes this doe, announcing her arrival. What an idiot! Soon after, several other deer emerge from the thicket. (In typical "field of dreams" fashion). I watch them feed through the road and into the next thicket.

Can you find the deer? I almost couldn't, and I was trying to follow them...


Thought about popping 'ol girl, but decided I would wait and see if anything better came out.....


Glad I did. I was beginning to give up and turned around to check out the field behind me and I thought I saw some brown on the edge. I kept watching and slowly but surely I saw a deer. For the heck of it, I brought my gun up so I could look through my scope. I can't describe the feeling of seeing antlers through my scope. This was the first buck I had ever even seen in the wild. I was a mix of anxious, nervous, and excited! I was shaking and still trying to believe what I was seeing in front of me. Once I gain some composure and steady my rifle, I dropped him, right in his tracks.


Took a while to text my buddy (with the spotty coverage) and tell him to bring the truck. Finally got it loaded up and off to become tasty grilled backstrap.


Decided on a shoulder mount, so I'm anxiously awaiting it's arrival!!!!

That's a good looking buck and a great story too! Thanks for sharing!

Nice first buck---Congrats!

Conagratulations and War Eagle!

Congrats! Good story!

VA

Congrats Bro awesome buck!

'Find the deer pic'

Lower right quadrant, near the bottom.
Looks like a set of ears looking your way. Is that her?

Congrats on your first buck!!!! You will never, ever forget that hunt......

Nope. Dead center, about a third of the way up from the bottom. A side profile stance........

The pic is small and blurry, so I am not giving you guys a fair shot!:biggrin:

Anybody have a weight guess? I didn't have a way to measure it. I way 200lbs, and it seemed almost as heavy as me. So what do yall think?

Congrats, great buck and story! :D

(see...it pays to stay awake when you're out hunting ;))

awesome.... congrats

Congrats on a great buck! Cant wait to see pics of the shoulder mount.

GReat deer man..I'm happy for ya.
C7

That's a nice 8 pt buck. A lot like the first one I took. Not the biggest buck, but good symmetry. It's hard to beat a buck like that.

As far as weight goes, we weigh our deer field dressed. It appears to be a 120 lb or so deer if you had it field dressed.

Congrats on your first buck!

Nice work. Congrats on the first Buck !

nice first buck, congrats!

Welcome to the family. Good job.

Way to go dern fine buck #1. I say he weighs around 140lbs.

Congratulations, that's a great buck period, let alone for your first!

And Waaaaaaaar damn Eagle!

Wow, that's a great buck. I've downed several, but none matches that one. Good job and great story too. Congrats....WAR EAGLE!!!

To make it even sweeter, that buck was taken in Auburn! :D

Nice buck in anyones book.


Right place, right time !


Now you know you set the bar pretty high for next year.........................

Another view of the buck on the ground. I say he had to weight close to 180.....

180 gross weight is possible. We weigh our bigger deer field dressed back at camp. We have a pulley setup with a scale that we tie onto the buck pole.

My camp tags, guts, and then drags the deer out. We let the predators and scavengers have the guts. That, and we have less weight to drag them out with that way. It's better to work smarter, not harder, after all.

Congrats on a really nice deer. I wish I got the same feeling today I got when I shot my first buck . I'm happy but its just not the same. Good luck hope there is alot more to come for you.

Awesome man....don't see many like that here in Florida. Good Job!!

thats a great first buck congrats

Congratulations persistance pays off.

Just picked it up.....I think it will look nice on the wall....