My Backyard Buck (5.6 Acres)

[Crappie Rage]

Thursday November 3rd and I was running out of time. Headed Friday or Saturday to Kansas for 9 days but that is another story.

Hit the stand I have farthest from any house in the AM. Saw a doe, heard one snort but pretty slow morning. Then about 8:30 I hear something to the east. The area is choked in buckthorn and those leaves had not dropped so you cannot see very far.

I picked up my bow, stood up and got in position just in case. Then I saw antler. Then alot of antler and the deer is only 25 yards away. My brain tells me he is pope and young and for me, that is good enough in MN. He is just mooching along slowly feeding and sniffing. He looks up at me and I though it was over, but he put his head down and walked closer.

At 12 yards walking I put the pin on the shoulder and shot. He went 200 yards with a solid blood trail the whole way.

He weighed in at 230 pounds dressed and scored 142 gross. Biggest bodied deer to date.

[Crappie Rage]

Another pic.

[Jarrid Houston]

Nice story man and nice job!!!

[DonBo]

That's a great deer anywhere. Congrats!

[tracker x-2]

Congrats hes got some character too

[Bear55]

Congrats! Great deer.

[archerystud]

Awesome mature buck!!!

[sticknstring]

Congrats - beautiful buck! How many different stands do you have up on 5 acres?

[Crappie Rage]

3 stands one groud blind. Pretty sure I need a couple more!!

[slimngrizzly]

Very cool! That looks to be an OLD MATURE DEER! Way to go! Hed be a trophy no matter what!

[Musky Buck]

This 5.6 what kind of land butts up to it ? Great deer and not many reach that age in MN, great deer and your teeth will get a workout on those steaks lol.

[Shu]

Great buck, way to go!

[Crappie Rage]

Musky,

I like to think my QDM efforts on 5.6 acres that hunt like 6, is paying off and I raised this deer from a 2 or 3 year old. But I know better.

My property is half (north) surrounded by other properties of 5 or so acres and no firearm hunting is allowed. The other half (south) is only hunted by one party, they do firearm hunt, but it would be low pressure to my south. High hunting pressure to the north, but all archery.

They do have a chance to get old in my area but I doubt shooting a 4.5+ year old buck will be an every year occurance. My MN requirement is 3.5 years old.

[Musky Buck]

Same here crappie 3.5 or older, cool, gives me a better idea of your situation and nice deer, goodness Thanksgiving will be a great one, awesome deer stories, etc. Nicely Done ! Just kidding on the steaks lol, beat on em and marinade em and grill em lol. I should ask with Kansas and that MN beast, if you had to drag them far, did any of you get checked for hernia's ?

[jnorm1984]

So crappie...ur trying to tell us you killed 2 monsters in a week?

[Crappie Rage]

Actually of the 4 deer we only had to drag one of them. My buck with the messed up antler in KS had to be dragged about 125 yards, through the creek and up a hill. 3 guys so it was not that bad. The other 3 were accessible by ATV. Although into the truck is not an easy task either.

[Crappie Rage]

Jnorm, Yes. Thursday and the next Wednesday. I highly recommend it.

[Rippinlip]

Congrats on a great buck.

[bmc]

Great buck!!! Congrats!!!

Brian

[jnorm1984]

very nice!

[96trigger]

Awesome buck(s). You had a banner year.

[Bear55]

"5.6 acres in Dakota County, but it hunts like 6."

Funny Crappie Rage

[matchset]

ouwwwchi mama! thats a sweet looking one!