(http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd102/pdk25/buck1.jpg)
Nice! :thumbsup:
Right on! Congratulations!
Not too shabby for anywhere..Congrats man.
I would take it...what do you think is wrong with it????
Jer Bear
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Nice buck in any state :thumbsup: How about the story?
Congrats Pat Nice buck
Very nice. Congratulations. Lin
congrats on a nice buck. I'd be happy just to see one like that.
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Nice deer, congrats...
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Wat to go Patrick! Let's see if we can do tht Winter Bow!
Very nice deer! Congratulations!
Nice buck. Congrats!
QuoteOriginally posted by Jerry Wald:
I would take it...what do you think is wrong with it????
Jer Bear
Well, for such an old deer I would have liked to have some extra mass. The tine length was nice, though.
Got done working another 30 hour shift late friday morning and went in the basement for some shooting. Decided that since it is getting dark so early that I would be able to get a hunt in and still catch up on sleep. Got cleaned up and headed over to my spot. Got there around 2:30 and kicked four deer out of the thin strip of woods to my left and a couple more out of the back of the field that I was walking through. With the wind out of the NW, I knew I didn't want to go deep in the woods, so I set up on the edge of the field facing into the woods with the wind in my face. There wasn't much in the line of trees with cover, but I found one adjacent to a tree still holding some leaves and got up pretty high. Sitting by 3:00, then at 3:30 a doe comes running in and stops behind some cover about 15 yards out. Slowy she comes out from cover and gives a broadside shot. Just starting to pull the string back and I faintly hear a grunt through the wind.
He came in, head low, and the doe took off. He was coming straight at me and I figured he would turn off and chase the doe, likely giving me no shot through the cover. Instead he kept coming at me and stopped at a small scrape around 10 yards out facing me. Amazingly he cooperated and turned to just ever-so-slightly quartering toward me. I released and hit him where I wanted, in the crease and a little high due to the angle of the shot. Penetrated up to the fletching. He ran around the rim of a gully about 70 yard and wobbled a bit before he fell. He slid halfway down the gully, kicking on the way down. Saw the whole thing from my stand. Stopped kicking within 30 seconds of shot. Still had plenty of daylight to gut and drag to the car, but had to wait to get to a friends house to take a picture. Gotta say he looked bigger in person than on the photo.
:thumbsup: :clapper: good job!
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excellent! :clapper: :clapper:
Nice buck!! Did you learn storytime from Lamb or Guru? LOL
Sorry Kenny, I filled in the blanks. Not trying to drag it out, but my computer died on me.
Way 2 Go Pat... Congrats
Very Nice!!! :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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Attaboy
Pat, congrats on some meat for the freezer. The antlers are the bonus and that one looks pretty good to me. That is pretty good for a NJ deer, but don't forget, they have some real bruisers there too.
Congrats great buck :thumbsup:
Nice buck Pat. Thats about as close to the best as I've seen in Jersey. Hope to meet up with you guys for winer bow this year. Skippy
Thats a dandy!
congrats
pat good job buddy!!! ill have that euro mount done in no time!!! gonna be alot of deer soup being made this week at my house!
Congrats :thumbsup:
Very nice buck Pat! Way to go!
Nice buck Pat, congrats! :clapper:
beutiful animal.
Congrats
Awesome deer and great story Patrick!!!! What bow were you shooting? (I may have overlooked that detail in your story :) )
Proud for you and your success!!!
Nice going Pat!
Great looking animal Pat!
Hansome buck Pat !!!!!
Nice!
PAT,, Are you at it again !! Good Job,, Buddy ....
Danny, I was shooting my TD RER recurve with the limbs that are about 63 pounds at my draw length. Using 300 spine axis fmj arrows with 295 grains up front.
Very Nice!! Congrats!!
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Nice work!!
OK guys I meant to chim in before to add this but...
Well that picture does this deer no justice...what pat didn't say is he is like 7' tall and 220lbs so he drawrfs that deer haha! I did up a nice euro mount for him the past two days and holding this skull in my hands really showed its true size! A true beaut!!! I wish I could have taken a picture with myself in it to show a more "normal" size comparison lol!
Well here is the final product!
(http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f137/swankeer/EuroMount006.jpg)
(http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f137/swankeer/EuroMount005.jpg)
way to go, Pat! Couldnt have happened to a nicer fella.
Bring it with you when you come to SC in the spring so we can wrap our hands around it!
QuoteOriginally posted by Ray Hammond:
way to go, Pat! Couldnt have happened to a nicer fella.
I agree :clapper:
Very nice job on the mount Tom. Pat that is a very respectable deer for anywhere. I'm looking forward to seeing you guys for winter bow season.
Nice Job Tom. Patrick a very nice trophy! See you folks in January.
Thanks for the kind words, guys. I'm not all that big, but I think the euro mount Tom made came out great. Ought to turn that skill into a business. Not sure about the 'nice guy' thing, but I'll take it anyway.
Way to go Pat!