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My Dad took this deer opening morning. He's 92 years old!  Pretty proud of my old man.  

MJ1657
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After 6 years of trying to get a buck my best hunting buddy got one this morning. He was hot after a doe and she dropped him in his tracks. It was awesome.

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Before and after pics of my gun kill this season.

It was a pretty cool hunt. I was sitting all morning, and hadn't seen a single deer. Just busy watching squirrels. The wind was really howling into my face, and the leaf litter was soaked from rain the evening before. I decided to walk into the wind to see if I could catch a bedded deer on my way in for lunch. I was walking for maybe 100 yards when I had to cross a small gully. It took a little scramble, but I finally emerged on the upper lip on the opposite side. As soon as I stood up straight, I heard a deer crashing through the brush up the hill to the right. I looked up toward the sound and noticed it was a large doe, who stopped and looked back. I quickly scanned the area to see if any bucks were around her, being it was prime rut time. As I came back to focus on her, antlers wavered into my vision, I quickly bring my attention to close up, and here this buck stands up and looks up the hill at the doe, then does a long stretch to loosen up before following his love interest, completely oblivious to me standing 10 feet behind him! I quickly raised my gun and fired, whereupon he fell straight over backward, landing nearly at my feet with his antlers stuck into the steep hillside. What a rush! The slug entered just back of the foreleg, passed through both lungs, and was stopped just under the hide on the other side, after shattering the opposite shoulder. Of course all of the above transpired within about 3 seconds of me emerging from the gully. Close inspection revealed the two deer had been bedded within 5 feet of one another, but apparently the buck either was asleep or didn't see me from how he was positioned, while the doe reacted immediatly, storming up the hill.

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Congrats on a great buck! And maybe I'm way off base, but I don't think the trailcam pic is the same deer. Deer you killed looks waaaaay bigger. Maybe it's just the angle???

Before and after pics of my gun kill this season.

It was a pretty cool hunt. I was sitting all morning, and hadn't seen a single deer. Just busy watching squirrels. The wind was really howling into my face, and the leaf litter was soaked from rain the evening before. I decided to walk into the wind to see if I could catch a bedded deer on my way in for lunch. I was walking for maybe 100 yards when I had to cross a small gully. It took a little scramble, but I finally emerged on the upper lip on the opposite side. As soon as I stood up straight, I heard a deer crashing through the brush up the hill to the right. I looked up toward the sound and noticed it was a large doe, who stopped and looked back. I quickly scanned the area to see if any bucks were around her, being it was prime rut time. As I came back to focus on her, antlers wavered into my vision, I quickly bring my attention to close up, and here this buck stands up and looks up the hill at the doe, then does a long stretch to loosen up before following his love interest, completely oblivious to me standing 10 feet behind him! I quickly raised my gun and fired, whereupon he fell straight over backward, landing nearly at my feet with his antlers stuck into the steep hillside. What a rush! The slug entered just back of the foreleg, passed through both lungs, and was stopped just under the hide on the other side, after shattering the opposite shoulder. Of course all of the above transpired within about 3 seconds of me emerging from the gully. Close inspection revealed the two deer had been bedded within 5 feet of one another, but apparently the buck either was asleep or didn't see me from how he was positioned, while the doe reacted immediatly, storming up the hill.

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yup, definetly same deer. Hard to see in that cam pic, but the pure white tip on the opposite beam,along with the bent right antler main beam tip, plus the brows are exact match as well. I had lots of trail cam pics to verify from. He walked the same logging road and did the same scrape over and over. He looks big the way his rack shoots up so high, but the main beams were only 21.5 inches so he settled somewhere between 130-135 inches.

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I see where you guys are undoubtedly right, but I thought the same thing as NW Buck that it looked a lot bigger dead then it did on the trail cam pic. I guess posing them makes a difference...

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