FishingMinnesota 2004 Big Buck Contest

[CorynTracySellHomes]

Hey Dan,

We estimated the weight to be in the 220's We also thought it was an old deer, he was really a scrapper, both his ears are ripped to shreds, I assume he was a sparrer!

Hey Stratosman, nice buck! I grew up in Hastings, did you graduate from there?

Cory Frantzick

[Dave]

Nice bucks, guys!

[half2fish]

Here is my spiker this year. Saw a small spike 2nd morning then didnt see another deer till this one fri. morning then sat. got a doe and saw a nice buck run across the road after i got her.

[Stratosman]

CorynTracySell,

I did grow up in Hastings, class of '93, It looks like you are a couple years older than me though. Not for sure but judging by your picture. I see your last name is Frantzick, I bet your brother is Nate, whom I graduated with and hung around with once in a while back in the days. You look alot alike and not alot of Frantzicks. Thats cool, what is Nate up to these days?

[iffwalleyes]

Ya Dan it is a ND buck. I got it last Sat. Not big enough to win anything but I will take it any day of the season. Darn thing decided to take a swim in the river before it died. I had to take 3 smoke breaks just to get it from the bottom of the river bank to the top of the bank.

[Dan Wood]

Is that a ND buck iffwalleyes? Shutterfly doesn't work as a host for images on this site any longer..

[CorynTracySellHomes]

Hey Stratosman

Yep, Nate is my big little brother! He is working as a union Iron worker and still lives in Hastings. He has two of the cutest little girls ya ever did see!

I graduated in '90 just a few years a head of you.

Do you fish any bass tourneys? I assume with a name like Stratosman you are a basser?

Cory Frantzick

[Stratosman]

90 huh? I bet you know my brother in law Rob Groth then? Maybe he graduated in '91. I primarily fish bass, don't really fish too many tourny's though, usually one or two a summer. Fish lots of muskies too. I wouldn't mind fishing a few more tournaments, next summer might be tough because my wife is expecting and she is due May 16th. Our first.

Man I havn't seen Nate in a long time, I suppose two little girls tend to keep one busy. Say hi to him for me if you see him at Thanksgiving and if you ever mosey down to hastings and want to fish let me know!

[gvt]

I was lucky enough to take this buck on opening day this year. I had to pull the head and cape out of the freezer for the "FM" picture.

Location: near Cass Lake, MN

Legal Points: 17 pts.

Inside Spread: 19.75"

[wall-i-king]

Hey gvt

That is an incredible deer, congratulations. I hope that maybe one day I might get one anywhere near that. Pretty llokin' animal too. Well congratulations again, and have a good thanksgiving.

wall-i-king

[half2fish]

Nice deer. I am comming to your camp. look at the buck behind you. thats a nice one too. congrats on ur deer. wish i could shoot one like that.

[Dan Wood]

That is one very nice buck gvt!

[puffinstuff]

Some very nice bucks here. I know mine wont win, but here's a pic anyways. Maybe someday I'll get lucky enough to bag a big one.

[puffinstuff]

It's the tirdy pointer! ......Minus 20 points.

[Giant_Jackpot]

Puffinstuff,

Nice deer. You do look familiar. Did you used to post out here as CanItBeLuck?

[hanson]

Here we go with my, errr, big buck entry!

Definitely the biggest spike I've ever shot! I'm pretty proud of every deer I shoot but this was my 2nd for the season out of the same stand shot in nearly the exact same place as the deer I shot opening weekend. It was fairly low light when I shot this deer and I thought it was a nice doe. When I found it, it had spikes! I was pretty excited.

Our party of 5 only harvested 3 deer total, 2 were mine. It wasn't a very good year.

[puffinstuff]

A box with a red X.... Darn!

[please reduce the size on these images]

[Dan Wood]

I need more info. on the buck posted for lawdog to enter. # of points, inside spread, and location.

[lawdog]

OK BigLakeBass says I was being summoned, so here's the info on my buck...

He is a very symmetrical 8 pointer. Not that wide at 14" but he has very nice tine height. The brow tines are both 4 1/2". The tallest main tines are 9" and 9 1/4" respectively. The next tines are a little over 7" and 8" respectively.

I shot him at 7:05 a.m. on Tuesday (11/16) before work as BLB mentioned. He was shot in the 4B zone (Pipestone County to be exact). He was shot with a single sabot slug at about 70 yards while trailing a doe.

The film from the field is at the processors and they take forever to turn it into a CD, but that has the better pic in the field and I'll get that to BLB for posting. I even took one with a bill in it to show its current...

[ice-man/vexilar-king]

You must use url for that picture. Every picture on the net is given a url. I don't expect you to know what they are so right click your mouse on your picture and it will bring up a screen so that you can cut and paste the url in your post.

[ice-man/vexilar-king]

It will be under properties when you right click. to get that url

[Dan Wood]

Thanks lawdog, I just want to update the entries on the top of this thread.. I'd like to see more pics when you get them. I will accept it for the contest with the date stamp that you have on this pic.

[WallEYES]

Nice teers everyone!

[lawdog]

gvt...WOW!

He's a beauty!

[gvt]

Thanks for the kind words everyone! I should also mention that I've been skunked since '98, so I guess I was due! Thanks again.