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Title: WV opening day buck (update)
Post by: Big_Al on October 19, 2008, 09:37:00 AM

Here's my biggest buck to date taken with traditional gear, a fat 6-point taken in Summers county.  I got him yesterday morning on opening day here in WV.  Not a record book buck by any stretch of the imagination, but a trophy in my book - and he was surprisingly big-bodied (bucks in this area of WV aren't that great genetically, this ol'boy didn't have a trace of brow times).  Taking this buck with traditional gear made this kill a thousand times more satisfying than a compound or firearm kill.

(A special thanks to my buddy, "Bloodhound" Bobby Graham of G-Strings for the help with the tracking job.  Bob can find an eyelash you dropped in the woods two years ago.)

   (http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa83/al_in_wv/PA180123.jpg)

Title: Re: WV opening day buck (update)
Post by: Hoffman on October 19, 2008, 09:39:00 AM

Nice job  :clapper:

Title: Re: WV opening day buck (update)
Post by: Huntrdfk on October 19, 2008, 09:40:00 AM

Nice deer, congrats on a job well done!  :thumbsup:  

David

Title: Re: WV opening day buck (update)
Post by: bear1336 on October 19, 2008, 09:41:00 AM

Congats nice WV deer...

Title: Re: WV opening day buck (update)
Post by: FerretWYO on October 19, 2008, 09:42:00 AM

congrats man

Title: Re: WV opening day buck (update)
Post by: longbowben on October 19, 2008, 09:42:00 AM

Congrats and you said it right.  :thumbsup:

Title: Re: WV opening day buck (update)
Post by: blueslfb on October 19, 2008, 09:43:00 AM

:bigsmyl:

Title: Re: WV opening day buck (update)
Post by: bowless on October 19, 2008, 09:46:00 AM

Nice job, that's a beauty!

Title: Re: WV opening day buck (update)
Post by: Anaconda12 on October 19, 2008, 09:53:00 AM

Dude that is a swell buck!  Good job man, I think it is a great buck !

Title: Re: WV opening day buck (update)
Post by: Big_Al on October 19, 2008, 10:02:00 AM

whoops

Title: Re: WV opening day buck (update)
Post by: jesse cales on October 19, 2008, 10:56:00 AM

nice buck Al.

Title: Re: WV opening day buck (update)
Post by: hunt it on October 19, 2008, 11:50:00 AM

:clapper:  Well done Congrats.

Title: Re: WV opening day buck (update)
Post by: Bob Macioch on October 19, 2008, 11:57:00 AM

Congrats !  :clapper:  

How bout a smile.............Hehe

Nice buck
Best
Bob

Title: Re: WV opening day buck (update)
Post by: bowhunterfrompast on October 19, 2008, 11:58:00 AM

Congrats  :thumbsup:

Title: Re: WV opening day buck (update)
Post by: Ray Hammond on October 19, 2008, 12:04:00 PM

Smile...come on...you KNOW You WANT TO! Congrats!

Title: Re: WV opening day buck (update)
Post by: Chris Surtees on October 19, 2008, 12:24:00 PM

:thumbsup:    :archer:

Title: Re: WV opening day buck (update)
Post by: Chris Surtees on October 19, 2008, 12:25:00 PM

:thumbsup:    :archer:

Title: Re: WV opening day buck (update)
Post by: Chris Surtees on October 19, 2008, 12:25:00 PM

:thumbsup:    :archer:

Title: Re: WV opening day buck (update)
Post by: Chris Surtees on October 19, 2008, 12:26:00 PM

Sorry about the triple tap!

Title: Re: WV opening day buck (update)
Post by: tradtusker on October 19, 2008, 02:47:00 PM

nice going congrats   :thumbsup:

Title: Re: WV opening day buck (update)
Post by: Tom on October 19, 2008, 05:35:00 PM

Good job Al and BTW like the smile also.

Title: Re: WV opening day buck (update)
Post by: Big_Al on October 19, 2008, 08:20:00 PM

Tom, at that point I was too darn tired to smile like a cheshire cat ;-) - that was all the smile I could muster!

Title: Re: WV opening day buck (update)
Post by: Ric O'Shay on October 19, 2008, 08:26:00 PM

Well then, that smile is OK! Congratulations on a nice deer.

  :clapper:

Title: Re: WV opening day buck (update)
Post by: Fletcher on October 19, 2008, 08:33:00 PM

:thumbsup:

Title: Re: WV opening day buck (update)
Post by: Big_Al on October 19, 2008, 09:14:00 PM

Thanks fellas!  For the record, the large branch in the lower right hand corner is there for asthetic reasons, to cover up the field dressing gash.  He looked a lot more "stout" when we found him, when he still had all his innards still in him.

Title: Re: WV opening day buck (update)
Post by: sswv on October 19, 2008, 10:06:00 PM

that's a good one Al!    :thumbsup:    :thumbsup:

Title: Re: WV opening day buck (update)
Post by: bgram on October 19, 2008, 11:48:00 PM

I helped drag him for a bit, trust me, he was heavier than he looks.  Like I told you before, congrats and he's a great deer.

Title: Re: WV opening day buck (update)
Post by: Widowbender on October 20, 2008, 12:03:00 AM

Good Job!!!

   :thumbsup:    :thumbsup:    :thumbsup:

David

Title: Re: WV opening day buck (update)
Post by: Benny Nganabbarru on October 20, 2008, 04:30:00 AM

:thumbsup:

Title: Re: WV opening day buck (update)
Post by: GrnMtnTradNut on October 20, 2008, 07:24:00 AM

Congrats on a handsome buck.

Title: Re: WV opening day buck (update)
Post by: Big_Al on October 22, 2008, 10:24:00 AM

Here's what this fine buck produced - got to fill up my kitchen floor last night vacuum sealing him up.  He'll provide many meals and lots of jerky in the coming months.  Told ya he had a lot of meat on him!  This isn't counting the 10 2# packages of hamburger, the two roasts, and what I had marinating in the fridge (the sweetmeat and two tenderloins).

 (http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa83/al_in_wv/PA210127.jpg)