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Trad Gang Highlights => HIGHLIGHTS 2018 => Topic started by: H1tman7 on November 14, 2018, 04:54:25 PM
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Well, every time I try to make a long story for y’all I never get it finished it seems. So how about just a picture instead!
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WOW!
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Impressive!!!
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WOW...how big is he?! :notworthy:
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That. Is. A. GIANT!! Good for you. Magnificent Buck!!!
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Well, that is worth a thousand words.
Way to go!
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Holy Shniekies!!!
Those pics and that smile are worth thousand words. But would love to hear the tale in a another thousand words.
Congrats!!!
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what a Stud! congrats man!
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Wow what a studdddddd congratulations sir! :thumbsup:
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Wow, Incredible buck and dandy shot.
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Well Done!! :clapper:
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A most excellent buck and fabulous harvest...
Congrats in a big way...
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Story very well told!!
Holy Smokes!!
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who needs words like said above the pic's say it all !!! congrates :thumbsup:
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Beastly! Well done sir!
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Give us the Story. Buck of a lifetime. Had you ever seen this buck before?....
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Awesome animal.....
,,Sam,,
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Truly a magnificent buck!! There gotta be a great story with that one :campfire:
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My oh my what a dandy. Congratulations :clapper: :clapper: :clapper:
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Wow! Congratulations!
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:thumbsup: :clapper:
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Congrats on the awesome buck! :clapper:
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Attaboy - a big Louie for sure
Tim B
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OMG..
Congrats.
:thumbsup:
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holy smokes! that's great. congratts! :thumbsup:
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I've seen that buck before, in my dreams! Congrats on a fine buck. :thumbsup:
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Congrats!
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Holy smokes happy for Ya. What a stud...
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Yowzers, well done on a truly magnificent buck :clapper:
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Wow!! That is a once in a lifetime deer. At least it would be for me. Congrats!
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lordy why oh why can't it be me!! :notworthy: :notworthy: congrats just don't seem enough
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Tremendous buck! Congrats! :thumbsup:
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Wow! Congratulations! That is a stud!
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NICE buck, CONGRATS!
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Congrats awesome buck!
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Wow, congrats!
Tell us about your bow?
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Congrats
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YAHOO......... :clapper:
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Incredible... Well done & Congrats :clapper:
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Really nice. But ever since I was a kid I always needed to know about equipment people used to make hunts successful. Can you tell us about your setup? :archer:
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Freak of a deer! Love to at least hear about your gear
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Yowza! What a beast! That's a buck of 20 lifetimes. But we can't be satisfied with just the picture - we absolutely need the full story on it! Congratulations!
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Well done!
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Congrats on an awesome deer! :thumbsup:
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Holy moly that’s a Huge Buck!
Congrats to you man!
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Ok Ok, since y'all asked here's the story and gear list
The bow is a Blacktail Columbian Take Down 64" 65 Lbs at my 30.5" draw length.
Blacktail built it for me last year, and it's maiden voyage was a sitka blacktail hunt on kodiak. I absolutely love this bow, even I can shoot it fairly well.
For arrows I use Gold Tip Traditional Classics in 340 Spine, with their steel insert and aluminum collar. Fantastic arrows, and this post reminds me I need to buy another couple dozen incase they ever decide to discontinue them.
Up front is a Zwickey delta glue on with a 125 grain steel insert, and this particular Zwicky has taken 4 deer now: a doe and 3 bucks. It spent about 6 months lost in the woods after the doe, I just happened to find it during turkey season. On this particular buck I thought it was destined to be lost as he broke my arrow off on the exit side in a standing corn field, but once again that zwickey found it's way home.
Now for the story: The farm where this deer lived is brand new to my family. and despite not having been managed with deer habitat in mind in the past, we already have some very good bucks showing up on the property. This particular deer was hunted by the previous owner for three years with any legal means: compounds, crossbows, and rifle. Yet he managed to survive. I think that was more a result to the methods by which he had been hunted, than by being a particularly elusive buck. Fred once said something to the extent of: "You can learn more about hunting deer with a bow and arrow in a week than a gun hunter will learn in his entire life". I think that quote rings true.
The plans laid for this farm started this summer. On the west side of the farm there's a large, NE sloping timer block with access to a number of small fields ideal for food plots. Early on we identified this hillside as a prime bedding area, and scouting confirmed it.
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Awesome buck!!!!!
Congrats!
Bisch
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Early season provided no time for hunting between family and work commitments. In fact I didn't get a chance to hunt until the last week of October. My eldest son is now 7, and loves to hunt with me so he has been coming along on almost all my hunts this fall. We have had several good sits together, and we are working on getting him a doe. We haven't closed the deal yet but have gotten mighty close!
On our second sit together we found ourselves parked in a ground blind along the S edge of a standing corn field which is on the south side of the aforementioned prime bedding area. nearing sunset I looked up to see a very large buck enter the field on the NE corner, but he promptly disappeared into the standing corn before I could get a good look at him. I knew he must have been heading south west to a prime creek crossing, and that we would likely not see him again that evening. Despite never getting a good look at him I had my suspicions as to which deer we had seen. The evening ended with Landen (my son) missing a doe, and no further mature buck sightings. The weather forecast for the following weekend was again predicting a South west wind, ideal for the blind and poor for most of my other hunting spots.
The week seemed to crawl by at work, but I had highlights of people texting me from the tree with live updates... on Wednesday I got a text from my father... "I'm looking at a monster" only to have a text message moments later "shot over his back... Kong". I was shocked, he is absolutely ice water on big deer. And "kong" was the name he had given a particular deer with very identifiable stickers on his right G2 tine, the same deer I felt we had seen only days before but nearly a 1/2 mile further west.
Saturday finally came, and it seemed Landen and I couldn't get out the door fast enough for our evening sit. The forecast had held and we had steady south west wind. We parked the truck at a gate, and slipped down a fence row bordering a soy bean field to a well worn crossing at 10 mile creek. Quietly as we could we transversed the creek and scattered limestone scrabble. Up the other side and a few hundred yards to the west we settled into the blind once again. Almost immediately we had some button bucks and turkey playing around in front of us. I figured any minute "mom" would show up and Landen would have another opportunity at a doe. She never did, and the evening progressed with plenty of deer seen, but nothing within range. Around 5:00 pm Landen said he could see a buck in the corn to our north west, I could not see him from where I sat in the blind, and didn't want to move about and make unnecessary noise. I asked how big, and he said "I can't tell, I only saw him for a second. about 15 minutes later landen said: b b bi big big buck. we were both frozen as kong stepped out of the standing corn at 20 yards.
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And I'm Finally back to finish this up!
He stood there cautiously, yet confident as a mature buck does. Our blind was well brushed in, but he appeared to be absolutely locked on us. With his hard quartering to angle there was no hope for a shot. Moments later there were a few crunches behind us, and I knew he was looking at some does that had been working around us all afternoon. They must have stepped in to his view because he committed and began to walk perfectly in front of our set. I was calm, shockingly calm really, as I drew. I anchored and my mind was focused on a crease tight to his front shoulder as he was still slightly quartering to. It seemed in slow motion as the shot broke, with the arrow arriving exactly where I hoped it would. Immediately he spun 180 degrees and I could see the shaft well out the far side with solid placement. Chaos ensued, and with the does around us running through standing corn in all directions I never heard a crash. Doubt crept in for a moment, but the replay in my head of the entry and exit points kept me confident.
Landen and I waited about 30 minutes to take up the trail as light faded. Landen found the first blood and got us started, but we had to stop when my flashlight batteries died unexpectedly. With three boys it seems my flashlight batteries are ALWAYS dead. :biglaugh:
We headed back to the truck, and texted both my father and our family friend bret who were hunting near by. Bret had actually shot a deer as big or bigger, but did not feel confident on the shot due to poor penetration. This really threw a wrench in to our plans because the ONLY way to get to my deer with a truck meant driving precisely by where Brett had last seen his deer.
It was well after dark by the time everyone got rounded up, and we decided to walk in from the north and cross 10 mile creek to resume trailing my deer so as not to disturb Brett's. We started in on the trail again, and the blood was solid, all over the corn stalks. We made it maybe 50 yards when I saw white belly up ahead. I paused for a moment giving thanks before approaching, and finally laying my hands on him. I think it's important as hunters, that we revere our quarry.
We field dressed him in the corn, and drug him into the blind for the night. It was cool, in the 30's, and there was no way we were going to get him across the vertical banks of 10 mile creek. The next day we resumed the trail for Brett's deer with no success, and retrieved my deer from the blind.
The weather in Kansas this fall has been surprisingly cool, which allowed me nearly 2 weeks of aging without having to use our walk in cooler. I find aging really helps with mature deer flavor, and tenderness.
Thanks for tagging along!
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That is a whopper. Thanks for the details. :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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Couldn't have said it better myself. Helluva buck.
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NICE!!! beautiful buck, and, getting it done with a 7 year-old...wow
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Wowsa. Congrats
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Great buck and story. Congrats
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Good grief! I didn't know they come that big! Well done! :clapper:
-Jeremy :coffee:
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Stud buck! Congrats!
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AN outstanding harvest...
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Very nice deer! Congrats!
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There is no words to describe that buck except “WOW”.
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WOW is the best description I can come up with.
You done good......really…really…Really...GOOD!
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WOW WOW WOW, what a nice buck and a good story to go with it. A Big Congrats on such a fine animal.
Tony