Season is over in less than a week, and finally a cold front came In for the weekend. I had to work and do some chores, but made it on stand by 3:40.
I had been getting pictures in my food plots for the last week, now that the acorns are tapering off, but all after dark. Tonight I had some come in just before dark, and my Silvertip didn't let me down.
Scene of the crime.
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How I found him.
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Posed for a pic
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Nice!!!
Nice one !!! :thumbsup:
Nice pat!! Was wondering what was up with your dry spell!!
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Congrats!
Great way to end the season Pat!
Nice Buck, what a great way to end.
Great buck Pat! A great way to close out the season. Congrats!
Good job!
Nice job!
Nice Dear Pat! In the next pic try to smile :laughing:
Well done!
Congrats on a Great buck pat!! Way to finish the season now let's go stack up the javalina
Congrats Pat. Well done!
Ughhh, must of been a long drag. You look worn slap out. Congratulations on a fine buck.
Congrats Pat, Beauty of a buck. He even was nice enough to die next to the Gator lol.
Good shooting, Congrats again.
Well done, congrats !! :clapper:
Strong finish, well done! Beautiful buck, great shot... :clapper:
Congrats on the late season buck! He's a good one! :thumbsup:
Bernie
Very nice buck,congratulations! Is that the buck that was on your trail cam from another post?
Congrats great buck!
Rick, I am not sure if I have posted a pic of this buck before. I know that I have recent pics of at least 4 that are better than this one, but I will try to see if I have a pic of this on from a trail cam.
It actually was no drag at all for this one. I just have become a sissy about the cold since moving to Oklahoma, lol. That, and I rarely ever smile for pictures. Self-consious and all.
I only had around 20 minutes of shooting light left, and was thinking this was going to be like alot of my evenings this year, with the deer not getting to my plots until after dark. I was hunting in a stand that is in a split trunked tree, facing a drainage, with the foodplot behind me to the west. I can shoot between the trunks to the plot.
I heard squirrels chattering, and then heard a spike crossing into the plot through a small strip of woods to my southwest. It was around 24 degrees with 10-15 mph winds out of the NW, so I was good without getting winded. I figure this deer either came from the property a couple hundred yards to the south, or was bedded down in a a woodlot to the east of my house and crossed over into another woodlot along my south border to make it's way to the plot.
Anyway, I needed more meat for the freezer and had decided that I would shoot a young buck rather than shooting a doe that would already have been bred, so I was preparing to shoot this spike, but he looked back to the southwest and so did I. I saw another buck crossing some native grass and brush toward the drainage, so I thought I would give it a few minutes. Maybe 10 minutes later, 2 bucks made their way acrossing a smaller seasonal creek to the plot, having dipped into the drainage briefly, but still away from my wind. One was a neat forkhorn with no brown tines and the other a nine point. They slowly entered the plot, nibbling on chicory and clover around the edge, then all 3 deer started looking to the southwest again. I thought that I could hear more deer making their way to the plot from the drainage, which was now behind the direction that I faced, but I didn't have the time to take the chance that they would get there in time.
I focused on the 9 point, who was basically broadside, just barely quartering away, at a touch over 15 yards away, looking away from me. A perfect setup. I took my time drawing back so as not to make too much noise and released. The arrow hit exactly where I wanted it too, and the buck only had enough time to turn his head to the noise of the shot, qive a little jump and kickout, then tear out of there the same way that he came in. I saw him go down in the native grass, then I heard more thrashing and lost site of him.
I got down, found real good blood, but called my wife to bring the gator and dog to speed things up. He took me right to it, I loaded it up, and froze my butt off on the drive home, lol
Probably should have shot the forkhorn, and this one would have been alot nicer in a couple years, but I am still pleased with it.
That's awesome!! Nice ending. You're welcome to have our cold front if you want. Wanted to sit this last weekend but 20 below wind chills making it hard.
Couldn't find a picture of this buck, but I bet I have one. Here are some of the deer still running around. One night I had 12 different buck on camera at the same spot. I think it was december 30.
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Awesome story and pics pat looks like some dandys next year the buck you just killed kinda looks like him in the last picture!
Yeah the one I was talking about Pat was the one taken by the Wildgame innovations camera. He's pretty gnarly looking!
OK. Got recent pics of the buck I shot, along with the forkhorn, and another pic with all three of the bucks from last night.
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Very nice Pat, always like to hear the Schafer continues to serve you well. What happened to the pigs??
Very nice! Congratulations on a fine buck.
God bless,
Rodd
Bill, the pjgs have been gone for a few months now. I figure they will be back after deer season is over and people turn off there Feeders. Been a pleasant break, actually.
It seems like you have found a good way to close out the season. Congratulations!
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Congrats Pat!
Looks like you have an awesome place set up! You are going to have a couple booners (if not real close to it).
congrats
Fine buck Pat. Happy for ya. Great shooting,RC.
Good one! Congrats Brother.
Way to go, Pat! That's a nice buck!
Congrats,
Bisch
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Looks like you will have some good bucks there next year!
Nice Pat. Congrats
Thanks again everyone. I had high hopes for this year, but warm weather and a crazy acorn crop made it rough. I have to be more adaptable next year if I want to score on one of the big guys.
Nice buck, congrats! :thumbsup:
Way to go Pat!
Alright! Way to go! And during the late season too! Great buck. Oklahoma seems to be somewhat of a sleeper state for whitetails. Those are some great deer ya got on camera.
Thanks Jon. I would just as soon shoot them earlier, lol. I think Oklahoma is like alot of places, where the important thing is letting them grow up. We don't often get bucks with the mass that they get in Illinois, Iowa, Ohio, and Kansas though.
Nice buck!
Congrats on a very nice buck! And i'd be pumped for next year! :thumbsup:
Very nice
Man a late season buck is sweet indeed! Congrats!!