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Went out this morning...a cold front came through yesterday and it looked to be a great morning..
Sat in my ladder stand that I call "The Kansas Stand" because the area it overlooks reminds me of the description from my buddy who hunts Kansas.
Saw a doe early...120 yards across the field.
Around 0900 I hear something in the thick stuff in front of me, about 80 yards out. Not seeing anything, I gave a few bleats with a Primos The Can. 2 minutes later I spot a big bodied deer in the field, 75 yards out, walking away from me. The field borders a swamp, so his feet and legs were black!
I let out a single grunt on the Primos Buck Roar, the deer, which I can see as a buck, turns and walks stiff legged towards me. He angles to my left, right down the trail that I have no shot on due to a large branch...he buttonhooks back around some bushes...I grunt again and he walks right at me...
I am motionless in the stand, with a tree between us...he puts his head back and 20 yards from me - lets out a snorth wheeze! VERY COOL!
He turns around and heads back into the thicker bushes...so I use the Buck Roar and snort wheeze at him. Well...He didnt like that one bit! He walks THROUGH the bushes, throwing his head back and forth through the branches...
He walks out into an opening 15 yards from me...I draw...wait for him to turn away...Mnnnt...pull hard into the Carter Evolution Plus backtension release...THWACK! He drops in his tracks! He was a few yards closer than I thought, so the Trophy Ridge Bunker Buster broadhead clipped his spine...I scoot down out of the stand, and sneak around the bushes for a follow up shot...this time with a huge 2 inch cut Rocket Hammerhead expandable. The shot goes up through his "undercarriage" and he dies instantly!
He is a huge bodied 4 point forkhorn. I know,I know...a dorky forky.... BUT...based on my evaluation from the treestand of his behavior AND his body features, I decided that this was not a young deer. Also it is very typical of my area for bucks to not have brow tines...always has been..
I brought him to the taxidermist, not because of his large rack, but for a better reason.
This deer was taken on my Wife's Grandfather's property, the first year I have ever hunted it.
I have a huge rack at home that was given to me by her grandfather that he was going to throw out...he killed it many years ago in Conneticut. I always wanted a cape to put them on...and THIS deer is perfect. Gramp's rack put on a cape taken BY ME, off of his land! It's very special to me.
The taxidermist aged the buck to be a 4 year old, so my field judging was spot on! I am having him do a european mount of the actual rack. Kind of a 2 for 1 deal!
Here are some pics.....which are a real eye opener for me...I HAVE to lose weight...My head and chinS are HUGE! :^O
Here is the Bunker Buster....through the spine and out the other side, a near pass through! NO DAMAGE!
Every happy hunter's goal!
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