I got drawn for a managed hunt in Kansas City this fall. We were told to mark trees with flagging tape as a way of letting other hunters know where we were going to be. I picked a cedar tree because of its proximity to a bean field and the early scrape I had found nearby. I arrived early the opening morning to find some other guys stand already in place in my tree. My flagging tape was still there. I went back to the parking lot and ran into the other hunter. He claimed that since he had hunted that spot for the last 4 years and since I had flagged several nearby trees that I hogged all the spots so he had the right to take my tree. After I reminded him that the conservation agent had told us to manage ourselves, he begrudgingly offered to take the stand down. I told him to forget it and that karma was going to even this one out.
I did some more scouting after hunting from my secondary spot for a few days. I found four scrapes in a nice pocket where two draws of timber met. It over looked a valley to the south. Perfect for a buck checking on some does. I sat up over the trail in the only decent tree I could find. A honey locust...ouch.
My first sit in the stand was on Sunday and I was rewarded with a forky at first light. After he left I used my can call and a few grunts. Around 7am I sat down only to have a doe come in seconds later. I started to stand up but a nice buck was coming through the timber casually following her. I usually like to be standing but I decided to sit tight as they were already under 20 yards. They acted like they were going to cut behind me which was going to make for a tough quartering-to shot. But just then the doe turned and the buck paused and followed. I was already at full draw and just let him walk into my shooting lane. It was a perfect 15 yard shot right behind the shoulder blade.
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Yea Buddy!! Way to go Chris, beauty of a buck! Congrats!!
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Awesome. . . great adjustment.
I didn't find a drop of blood from this deer but I had seen him drop about 70 yards from my stand. When I opened him up this is what was left of the lungs along with a about a gallon of blood.
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First heart shot ever.
All right Chris! Way to go very nice buck! Now to thin out the herd of does.Good hunting, Ben
Some of you may have noticed this bucks front right knee didn't look too good. Not sure what happened to him but it was fused stiff as a board. My friend Tom Porter took a curiosity to find out if anything was inside the knee. We never found anything but it looked pretty rough. I never even saw him limp and he was hot on a doe so he must have adapted pretty well.
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Nothin' better than KARMA! AWESOME!
Wow very cool story and pictures. Congratulations!
I had some problems with my cell phone Sunday morning so I had a decent drag by myself but it was all worth it.
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I snapped this one as I took a break from the drag. Karma at work!
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Proud of you bro! Just goes to show that good things come to those that choose the right path, and look for the brighter side of things. Congrats!
Nice buck and story. It is good when a good guy does well.
Great Buck and Karma was on your side. Hasn't been teh first time something like that has happened. What was your bow arrow set-up?
Good buck !! You guys had a heck of a week.
Great deer Kris! A fine case of what goes around comes around. You did right and shot well.
Way to go Chris!!!
From the last pic, it looks like you drug him out up by the soccer fields?
If you guys all keep killing all the big bucks there this year, I'm gonna have to find a different place to go look for sheds in the spring... The good ones will be on you walls!
Well-done!
Love It, Great story! Congrats!! :thumbsup: :clapper:
Nice buck!!! Congrats.
Good things happen to good people....congrats Bud!
He's beautiful :clapper:
Congrats on the nice buck and amen on the karma!
Fantastic buck Kris.
Ver nice! Funny how things work out sometimes, eh? ;) :thumbsup:
Congrats on a nice buck and doin the right thing!
Great deer Chris, congrats! And way to be the better person.
Congratulations! Great buck!
Awesome deer Chris. I hope you drug him right by the dude that snatched your tree.
Congrats on a fine buck!
Nice story and pics bud!! Good things come to those that resist the urge to choke the snot out of someone who desperately needs it.
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:campfire: Congratulations buddy! What did you spend a whole five hours in the park? :rolleyes:
WOW! Great Deer! CONGRATS!!!
congrats on a great buck, thanks for sharing the story and the pics, nice looken bow
Very nice!!
Congrats again Chris!! Gotta work on some does or another buck.
Yeah Boy!!!!... :jumper: :jumper: :jumper:
Thats a beauty. Congrats!
Congrats great buck. :bigsmyl:
Great scouting and a fine buck Chris!
Way to go!
Shoot straight, Shinken
that was a great story and great pictures. Thank you
"If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone." Romans 12:18.
Taking the high road-- nicely done. Great shot on a great buck!
:eek: wow awesome. Those Knees look like mine after walking the mountains with Stickhorse few years ago.
Congratulations on a great buck!
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Congrats on a beautiful buck. That's a nice looking bow you have there, too. Is that a Zipper?
:thumbsup: :clapper: :clapper: :clapper: Thats awesome Chris!!!
Awesome Chris! Love that shot with your toes up. Great for your avatar!
Awesome
Awesome buck!!!
Gotta love them sleds. I just always seem to forget mine at the house.
wonderful hunt there brother! hope he taste as good as the hunt was exciting
Congrats Chris...and what Charlie said!
Awesome story, and an awesome buck!!!
Some guys describe a buck as being "nice", when to me they are heartstoppers!!!
Great shot, thanks for posting!!! :thumbsup:
First Congrats on a great Buck! Now if you can believe it back in the 80"s I killed a Buck with the same rusty hair on top of the head [looked like a cheap wig] and a very similar knee joint. I figured he fractured it in a ground hog hole and the calcium just built up to heal it. You can't make this stuff up!
Thanks for all the kind words everyone.
Canyon, My set up is a zipper recurve with a beman arrow with 250 up front for a total arrow weight around 650 grains. I started with wensel broadheads and have come back to them for good.
Porter, For your information I have spent at least 6 and maybe 7 hours out at the park. I'd rather be lucky than good any day. :p
Chris
Nice deer, Chris, way to go! :thumbsup:
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Another fine buck! :notworthy: Just abit more mojo added to your bow.Congrats!
Bill
Awsome deer Chris :wavey:
Tracy
Awesome Buck, congrats brother!!!!!!!