Trad Gang

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Title: Trad Gang-meet GOLIATH!!!
Post by: leatherneck on August 27, 2010, 09:05:00 PM
At least to me he is.
Pulled one of my cams today and found this fellow. I found the buck I will pursue this season. He will make a fine advisary to say the least.
He is only 10 yards from one of our stands. We have about 5 stands acrossed this ridge. I also got pics of several nice 125 to 135 inch bucks. There was about a 140 class one as well but I got this guy on my mind. Just call me "David".
Hopefully I can say"Goliath,meet Davids(Mikes actually) snuffer"!!!
Me and longbowben have been salivating all afternoon.

   (http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd312/sargeyriley/025-2.jpg)
Title: Re: Trad Gang-meet GOLIATH!!!
Post by: Bonebuster on August 27, 2010, 09:07:00 PM
Dang!!!!  :archer2:
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Post by: Doug in MN on August 27, 2010, 09:08:00 PM
Oh My !!!!

Well worth all the effort you can give him.
Title: Re: Trad Gang-meet GOLIATH!!!
Post by: JoeM on August 27, 2010, 09:08:00 PM
:eek:     :eek:    :eek:   What the...
Title: Re: Trad Gang-meet GOLIATH!!!
Post by: leatherneck on August 27, 2010, 09:09:00 PM
Jim Reynolds-This pic was taken just 50 yards from where you killed your buck. Down the road bed your buck came from.
Title: Re: Trad Gang-meet GOLIATH!!!
Post by: Horner on August 27, 2010, 09:10:00 PM
Hope you knock his lungs flat!!!!!!   :thumbsup:    :thumbsup:    :thumbsup:    :archer:
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Post by: adeeden on August 27, 2010, 09:10:00 PM
A very worthy foe! Thats a toad for sure!
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Post by: RayA on August 27, 2010, 09:26:00 PM
If that don't get you excited you have no pulse!
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Post by: MCNSC on August 27, 2010, 09:26:00 PM
Care to share the GPS cordinates with us????  :rolleyes:  
What a buck!! will make for an interesting season.
Good luck
Title: Re: Trad Gang-meet GOLIATH!!!
Post by: Looper on August 27, 2010, 09:29:00 PM
Good grief.  I don't think there a buck in my whole county that big.
Title: Re: Trad Gang-meet GOLIATH!!!
Post by: Bob Morrison on August 27, 2010, 09:30:00 PM
He will be a shooter in a couple years  :)
Title: Re: Trad Gang-meet GOLIATH!!!
Post by: leatherneck on August 27, 2010, 09:31:00 PM
Usually he would be coming from a corn field. But this year the farmer planted soy beans. Ohhhhh they love those soy beans.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Trad Gang-meet GOLIATH!!!
Post by: leatherneck on August 27, 2010, 09:32:00 PM
QuoteOriginally posted by Bowbldr:
He will be a shooter in a couple years   :)  
Bob, hopefully I'll have my Morrison singing a tune for ya.lol
Title: Re: Trad Gang-meet GOLIATH!!!
Post by: Dean Lintz on August 27, 2010, 09:34:00 PM
If he is headed north west let him walk he will eventually end up here in Mich. LOL
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Post by: wv lungbuster on August 27, 2010, 09:38:00 PM
Dandy buck for sure.
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Post by: Steve Clandinin on August 27, 2010, 09:42:00 PM
Dang Son,He sure would look good on a Biscuit! Best of luck,and keep us posted.
Title: Re: Trad Gang-meet GOLIATH!!!
Post by: leatherneck on August 27, 2010, 09:44:00 PM
Here is the pic that was taken before the one above. imagine this coming at you.

(http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd312/sargeyriley/022-3.jpg)
Title: Re: Trad Gang-meet GOLIATH!!!
Post by: leatherneck on August 27, 2010, 09:46:00 PM
A couple more different bucks from the same cam.

 (http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd312/sargeyriley/007-3.jpg)
Title: Re: Trad Gang-meet GOLIATH!!!
Post by: leatherneck on August 27, 2010, 09:46:00 PM
This a neat little guy with the extra base.

 (http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd312/sargeyriley/014-6.jpg)
Title: Re: Trad Gang-meet GOLIATH!!!
Post by: leatherneck on August 27, 2010, 09:47:00 PM
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Title: Re: Trad Gang-meet GOLIATH!!!
Post by: Overspined on August 27, 2010, 10:08:00 PM
you might want to pull the cameras that flash. the bucks will start to avoid the areas where they get flashed
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Post by: Gtownviking on August 27, 2010, 10:12:00 PM
That tree has a deer growing out of it.
Title: Re: Trad Gang-meet GOLIATH!!!
Post by: leatherneck on August 27, 2010, 10:22:00 PM
QuoteOriginally posted by Overspined:
you might want to pull the cameras that flash. the bucks will start to avoid the areas where they get flashed
I agree!!! I only keep my cams in an area for about a week.(this one was only in for 8 days) I've seen what I needed to see from this area and they got pulled today. No need to put them back. Once I get targeted on a buck I'll pull the cam in that area. I never put a cam in an area I'm actively hunting unless it's IR.
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Post by: Wannabe1 on August 27, 2010, 10:32:00 PM
:scared:   The stuff dreams are made of!
Title: Re: Trad Gang-meet GOLIATH!!!
Post by: leatherneck on August 27, 2010, 10:44:00 PM
QuoteOriginally posted by Wannabe1:
 :scared:    The stuff dreams are made of!
Exactly!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Trad Gang-meet GOLIATH!!!
Post by: gobblegrunter on August 27, 2010, 10:55:00 PM
QuoteOriginally posted by looper:
Good grief.  I don't think there a buck in my whole county that big.
Heck, we don't have a buck like that in our ENTIRE STATE!
Title: Re: Trad Gang-meet GOLIATH!!!
Post by: Ga.boy on August 27, 2010, 10:59:00 PM
Dadgum, I think I need to retire to OH. Great buck Mike. Best of luck to you!
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Post by: Big Ed on August 27, 2010, 11:19:00 PM
Good luck!!
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Post by: chopx2 on August 27, 2010, 11:34:00 PM
Can I have your seconds   :pray:  
Pretty please with snuffers on top.
Title: Re: Trad Gang-meet GOLIATH!!!
Post by: Al Natural on August 27, 2010, 11:38:00 PM
155"-160ish nice deer.
Title: Re: Trad Gang-meet GOLIATH!!!
Post by: varmint101 on August 28, 2010, 01:17:00 AM
I'd wait until he's 10 or 12.  lol Good luck!! Something tells me you're gonna need it.  :)
Title: Re: Trad Gang-meet GOLIATH!!!
Post by: Gun on August 28, 2010, 01:56:00 AM
That's a nice one. Hope you get him.
Title: Re: Trad Gang-meet GOLIATH!!!
Post by: VTer on August 28, 2010, 07:40:00 AM
QuoteOriginally posted by leatherneck:
This a neat little guy with the extra base.

  (http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd312/sargeyriley/014-6.jpg)
You guys are killing me. Your little guy is an absolute monster here. Not to mention Goliath!
Title: Re: Trad Gang-meet GOLIATH!!!
Post by: Guru on August 28, 2010, 08:00:00 AM
Mike, good luck bud...I sure hope you make it 2 yrs. on a row killing a great buck!!    :thumbsup:    :thumbsup:
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Post by: longbowben on August 28, 2010, 08:02:00 AM
There's also some other monster bucks that we hope to get on trail cams in the next few weeks.Leatherneck better keep an eye on your bows my smoker needs more wood!!!!!!!!!!  :laughing:
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Post by: Kapellmeister on August 28, 2010, 08:34:00 AM
Wow!   :thumbsup:
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Post by: John3 on August 28, 2010, 09:10:00 AM
There is no better motivator than to KNOW he exists..!!  Good luck and let us know this season.


John III
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Post by: lpcjon2 on August 28, 2010, 09:17:00 AM
What foreplay.Good luck,if you dont get him I am available to try...LOL
Title: Re: Trad Gang-meet GOLIATH!!!
Post by: Jmgcurve on August 28, 2010, 10:27:00 AM
Great deer, Mike! Good Luck   :thumbsup:  

Watch out, Ben don't need to smoke any bows-fiberglass in the sausage would hurt.
Title: Re: Trad Gang-meet GOLIATH!!!
Post by: pete p on August 28, 2010, 05:16:00 PM
good deer bro! looks to be genetic relation to Ben's big un...exceptional tine length and nice beams.  i will send you pics of the beast im chasing if i manage to kill him.  good luck, keep us posted.
Title: Re: Trad Gang-meet GOLIATH!!!
Post by: leatherneck on August 28, 2010, 09:54:00 PM
QuoteOriginally posted by Guru:
Mike, good luck bud...I sure hope you make it 2 yrs. on a row killing a great buck!!     :thumbsup:      :thumbsup:  
Thanks Curt. I believe the hunt will be exciting by itself. To harvest him would be a bonus.
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Post by: NightHawk on August 28, 2010, 10:03:00 PM
I just checked are you hunting by the nuclear plant in Bethesda?? LOL Good Luck on your quest this year
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Post by: vermonster13 on August 28, 2010, 10:10:00 PM
Did you get any daytime pics of him to give you some extra hope?
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Post by: Chris Shelton on August 28, 2010, 10:27:00 PM
QuoteOriginally posted by vermonster13:
Did you get any daytime pics of him to give you some extra hope?
thats what I was wondering???

Also you guys that can age deer . . . 3.5 years???

I am really not good at aging unless I have teeth, lol
Title: Re: Trad Gang-meet GOLIATH!!!
Post by: leatherneck on August 29, 2010, 08:06:00 AM
QuoteOriginally posted by vermonster13:
Did you get any daytime pics of him to give you some extra hope?
Never do get daytime pics this time of year in this particular area. He has been seen in the bean field  in the daytime but most of our bucks we get pics of at night during the summer months. Too hot to travel in daylight. But when the season gets closer they stay in the fields longer. Early season in this area has given me and Ben some really nice bucks. If you read through some of our kills in years past you will notice that several of them are right at daybreak. Good question David.
Title: Re: Trad Gang-meet GOLIATH!!!
Post by: leatherneck on August 29, 2010, 08:12:00 AM
QuoteOriginally posted by pete p:
good deer bro! looks to be genetic relation to Ben's big un...exceptional tine length and nice beams.  i will send you pics of the beast im chasing if i manage to kill him.  good luck, keep us posted.
He could very well be from the same gene pool. After years of management we are finally getting the class bucks like you kill up in those Minn. woods. just not near as many!!!! Good luck on your biggun Pete.
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Post by: vermonster13 on August 29, 2010, 08:18:00 AM
He's a beast. Hope you get your shot at him.
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Post by: Teacher_of_the_Arcane on August 29, 2010, 02:10:00 PM
You been sprinkling that guy with Miracle-Gro??    :D
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Post by: S.C. Hunter on August 29, 2010, 03:19:00 PM
Nice one there Leatherneck, when were you in the corps. I am USMC 82-86 on Trad bow. I was at Lejeune I went to MCRD at Parris Island.

 Semper Fi
Title: Re: Trad Gang-meet GOLIATH!!!
Post by: leatherneck on August 29, 2010, 04:21:00 PM
QuoteOriginally posted by S.C. Hunter:
Nice one there Leatherneck, when were you in the corps. I am USMC 82-86 on Trad bow. I was at Lejeune I went to MCRD at Parris Island.

 Semper Fi
I was in 87-91. I also was at Lejune and a P.I. boy. I was an infantryman with 1/6.