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The Big Man has one heck of a story to tell.  This one will have you all falling out of your chair!  :campfire:

Come on Ed!

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Uh-oh

Thanks Tim!!!
My Delaware hunt actually started last night at the Philadelphia Eagles game. I got the tickets for my nephew for a early Christmas present. The kid loves the Patriots. I am not a big fan of the Eagles for the record. I'll be back in a bit, I've got to do some skinning.Man it is way to warm for late November...

cmon now   :wavey:

:campfire:    :coffee:

Edddddddd!  Can't wait to read this one.......  :bigsmyl:  


David

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Tap-Tap-Tap

You guys need some patience(HA-HA)
Any last night we are packed like sardines in Lincoln Financial Field watching the Patriots hand it to the Eagles. I have a Langer Traditional t-shirt on and the fellow sitting beside me ask if I was a Bow Hunter. I said, yes that I enjoyed the Outdoors and Archery. He asked where I lived and says I live in Delaware and have to many deer on his property. I stated that I hunted with archery equipment only and it was getting tougher to find quality hunting spots. He tells me that if I ever wanted to hunt Delaware give him a shout. We went on to exchange phone numbers.He also gave me his address.
Throughout the game we conversed about a lot of things life , family and sports. About the two minute waring at the end of the game he brings up the deer again on his property and really wanted me to try to get down there and help him out with the deer problem.
I tell him how about I come down tomorrow and check it out . He says that would be great, he then goes on to tell me to be sure to get my license and to bring my bow.....
Dinner time , sorry fellas

Give me little time,gotta run my daughter to dance and quarter the critter up!!!

Come on Ed...

Martin

Ed, please dont be long I cannot sit at the computer too long! Shawn

Family first, we can wait  :thumbsup:

Ed, this is great news,  Take all the time you want. Perfection cannot be rushed   :smileystooges:    Family first!!!!!

You'd better get typing my friend or I'll spill the beans!     :dunno:    :dunno:    :dunno:

Is the crowd cheering for the Eagles?... the Pats???...

NO- They're chanting Ed... Ed... Ed... Ed....

Can't wait to hear the story, Buddy!

Daryl

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Ed, lived and hunted in Delaware for 40 years!  I'm on the edge of my seat!

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Ed....Where o where are you tonight, why did you leave me here all alone..... HEE HAW !!   :campfire:  

Lanier

Quarter the critter??????
This is gonna be good.

Oh Ed, where art thou?????   We're waiting!!!

Ed, those tickets were the best deal going...

LOL...

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I'm back!!
I forgot to mention I stopped down to my little Buddy Tim's house Sunday morning to have him watch me shoot.(Lesson's) I completely confused Tim with my shooting issue's.
Anyway back to the story. This guy must have some deer issues on his property if he is wanting me to bring my bow. Now I'm getting pumped up. At the end of the Game he hands me his card with a code to the gate on his driveway and a hand drawn lay out of his property.He said to enjoy and call him if I had any questions. I am blown away .
After the game my nephew is wound tight after the Pats spanked the Beagles. I am flying sky high with the new opportunities that came about.
It was a tough night of sleep to say the least. I was up at about 2:30 am thanks to the stadium foods. Well I am up might as well make the most of it. I shower up and head to Walmart in Delaware get my license.Eat a quick bagel and coffee at the local quick mart and it is off to my new find.
So many things are running through my mind with what if's and maybes.
Mrs. Garmin takes me right to the driveway or shall we say gateway. I pull up, punch in the codes, lights come on lighting the driveway. I am thinking Holy Moly. I pull in and park to the side of the garage as the owner had informed me to. This is more of an Estate than a home.
I check the wind and make my approach to the wood line. I figure I'll look for a trail of some sort to enter the woods and look for a tree to climb. I am really going at this blindly. Finally find an inlet to a seriously thick patch of honey suckle. I find a nice little red oak and proceed to elevate the old Lone Wolf climber. At about ten foot I hit a limb and figure I am good enough to at least wait for daylight.
I no sooner got settled and I have a deer walking out in front of my perch. Can't see anything but hear a couple fait grunts. I am all jacked up ,heart pounding ,shaking all the goodies. Daylight seemed to take forever.
Day light comes and I am in some tight quarters. I caught glimpses of deer moving through the burrows of thickness. I let out a few grunts and about thirty yard upwind of me I see a sapling getting the sap knocked out of it .Can't see much but I give him another grunt and he let out a snort wheeze that made the hair on my neck stand on edge.
I look and he is coming and finally notice his headgear. I am not sure if that was a good or bad.
I will be right back I need to tuck my daughter in and read a bit for her. Sorry guys

QuoteOriginally posted by Big Ed:
At the end of the Game he hands me his card with a code to the gate on his driveway and a hand drawn lay out of his property.He said to enjoy and call him if I had any questions. I am blown away  

Perfect example of how good things happen to good people!!!! Good for you Ed, couldn't happen to a nicer guy!  :clapper:  

David

OH Ed, you had me at I'm Back.!

We are patient, sorta!  :thumbsup:    :coffee:    :coffee:    :coffee:

It's gettin close to my bed time  :campfire:

I'm guessing Ed laid down with his daughter and went to sleep. I used to do that too.

Waiting until tomorrow...  :)

He's coming stiff legged pumped up ready to kick some butt. I am standing waiting shaking, man I love this stuff. At about 20 yards he decides he want to do some more intimidating and proceeds to punish a about a six inch cedar and throw some dirt. Then backs up urinating on his hocks and lets out another snort wheeze. By now I can hardly swallow. At about eighteen yards out he decides to circle down wind, I am frantically looking for a shooting lane. As I try to turn with him dirt or something fell from my stand making the slightest noise. He stops and I think I am busted... He turns and is coming in I find a hole at about twelve yards and let out a quiet mouth bleat. He stops dead in his tracks and I am at full draw and the arrow is gone. The arrow impacts at what looks like a liver shot or worse. I am sickened by what had just happened. How could I have screwed this up , perfectly broadside . He never jumped or ran just walked away with his tail flickering and moving slowly.
 I stayed in the stand for about forty five minutes just beating myself up. I got down and got to the impact point and instantly found blood. My spirits raised and I followed the trail for a bit and was not impressed with the amount of blood. The blood was dark without a whole lot of bubbles in it. I backed out and walked out to my truck. While on the way out I called Tim to go over the scenario with him and he agreed I should back out and get some lunch a give the deer some time to bed up.
I decided to head home grab some lunch and kind of regroup. My mind was going in circles. What if I didn't mortally wound this deer, did it run on the neighboring property. So many what ifs.
After regrouping and giving the deer about three and a half hours I decided it was time. When arriving back at the property I took a deep breath and said a quick Prayer.

Sorry bathroom break!
I found my arrow that I stuck in the ground at the last blood. The next ten yards were tuff to follow ,then the flood gates opened and within twenty yards I could see the white from his rump. I examined every inch of the buck through my bino's just to see if he was breathing, moving or anything. I didn't see any movement but still proceeded with the utmost of caution. His antlers did not have any ground shrinkage. I was overcome with emotions and gave thanks for the opportunity. He is a four year old nine point and the finest animal that I have harvested with a longbow.
I had a short drag to the truck and I called the landowner to let him know that I had harvest a deer. He was extremely happy and proceeded to ask when I would be back.I said I would try to get back down by the weeks end.He said that would be great because his wife would be home on Sunday and she didn't allow hunting.
I just smiled and looked to the sky shaking my head. He did say his wife travels quite often.I told him to call me anytime and smiled the whole way home.
I shot the buck with a 56" Shrew Classic Hunter that is about 51 pounds at my draw with full length Axis 500's with a 150 grain Magnus Stinger.
I'll post some pictures tomorrow.Thanks for tagging along!!

Big Ed
Here is one fro the cell phone-
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Great story Ed, sounds like you really found a sweet little niche there. Hope that property yields more deer for you in the future.

Congrats Ed. After the year you have had it's great to see it has all worked out for you.

I can't wait to see the pictures!

Ed, that sounds like a sweet piece of property it is to bad the wife has issues with hunting I guess you will have to hunt around her schedule.

Great success, Ed. I am really happy for you. Your setup sounds a lot like what I often shoot, as you know. You have done well, my friend, especially considering all you have gone through.

Allan

You have just got to take those opportunities and make something happen. Congrats Ed sounds like a real Cracker!
Glad the hand is strong again and you'r back out there getting into them.
looking forward to the pics.

Amazing,congrats.

Congrats again brother... again, one your texts made my day!

Yes, good things do happen to good people    :pray:

Outstanding Ed!  If this buck is bigger than the one in your avatar, he must be a horse!!
Can't wait to see the pics  :thumbsup:

Ed, great story. Congratulatons on your success!

Martin

congrats, great story.

Its tomarrow  :biglaugh:    :biglaugh:  
Congrats
Terry

Great story but where are some pictures?   :dunno:    :dunno:  Congrats on the deer and the new friend!!

Ed,
  Congrats on taking a nice Buck.! Thanks for sharing the story.

  Now how's about those pictures.??...   :readit:

Great story. Congrats on the new spot and the buck !!

Great story,congrats to you!

Great News Ed! Cant wait for pictures.

Congradulations!

Well, Tiny, you done did it in spades now! You're married to the Shrew! I told you I'd never see it!   :biglaugh:  

Excellent... but guys, did you notice, he's gotten cavailier now... when he got his hand working and shot that buck when he didnt think he'd draw a bow this year..it spilled out all in one fell swoop! Now? It was potty break, dance calls, etc!   :D    :rolleyes:  

Good to see your priorities are right with the kids coming first! Bathroom breaks are acceptable too!  :)

Good job! I bet everyone wishes they'd find a "benefactor" like that!

You bury the gut-pile so's the Mrs. doesn't find it?  :)  Never thought of that, didja?

Congratulations! Can't wait to see pics...that first PA buck made me stutter!

Congrats Ed!! Lookin forward to the pics  :thumbsup:

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Sounds like Big Ed found a honey hole. Way to pack the freezer. Can't wait for pics.

Congrats Ed....is there a pic?

Congrats Ed...I bet you are glad you wore that t-shirt to the game.

Way to go Ed!!  :clapper:

Good on you Ed!!Congrats on a fine buck and a great story!   :clapper:    :clapper:    :clapper:

SWEET, enjoyed are talk the other day bud! Glad ya found a new spot and close to home!  Ohio who needs Ohio?  Now where are the pics.? Conrats my friend! Shawn

congrats and great story!! look foward to pics!

Hmmmmm....
1) Fall of 2011 on Tradgang
2) Big, antlered animal down
3) Super Shrew Classic Hunter responsible

.....sounds vaguely familiar,where've I seen this story before??

Congratulations Ed!   :readit:    ;)

Congrats Big Ed, can't wait to see the pics!!!

Pics?    :readit:    :campfire:

Way to go!!

That's striking while the iron is hot!

Let's see some pictures of this beast..

Great story. Thanks for taking us on the adventure.

Hey if your new found friend has any neighbors that need help too...lol

Can't wait to see the buck!

Nice story congrats on the buck.

Bring on the pic's!  

Great story up until the part about the wife. You got one great hunt, but future hunts many not be the best idea. Not a good deal having to sneak around her back. Could cause a big marriage problems if she finds out, or worse yet, he could chicken out if caught and deny everything leaving you holding the bag.   You may have just been recruited to kill her favorite pet as part of some twisted marital fight.   :biglaugh:   Sooner or later the neighbor, one of her family, passing friend, or early to return wife will bust you hunting and rat the two of you out.  Then she will be wating for you both and   :mad:    :laughing:

Congrats Big Ed! Now how about those pics. TD.

Congrats Ed : Great story    :clapper:

Ed, come on with the Pics. Cool story

Ed,its almost my bed time again.  :coffee:

Am I the only one that noticed all of the "New Friends"    :readit:  A lot of these post start with Friend, Old Buddy, Pal ect....   Well Old friend Big Ed you know how Pal you and Me have been Buddies for a long time and I was just thinking the other day how nice it would be to get together for old time sakes and maybe shoot some.........ya da ya da ya da.....

Ed really is a friend of mine, could be a better friend I suppose!  :bigsmyl:  Where are the pics. Can't wait to see this deer! Shawn

Back off John, he was my friend first   :coffee:

Ya know I think I met Ed some where, guess I'll have to give him a call.

LOL

doug77

I'll bet he had to run out and shoot another deer before the lady of the house got back! Congrats Ed, great story, with or without pics!  :thumbsup:    :notworthy:

You don't suppose he's taking a crash course in Photoshop, d'ye?   :knothead:    :biglaugh:

Killdeer~ marooned in Bridgeville once.

Here's a teaser:
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This one is from my cell,  I will get some hero shots up tomorrow. I feel the deer is what made the story complete!
Killy, PhotoBucket is a breeze I just look big and dumb.    :knothead:     :biglaugh:

Way to go Ed! So happy for you!

What Jamie said!!!!!!


David

Big Ed, that's an incredible story with a great ending.  Congrats and thanks for sharing.

Way to adapt, and to overcome, Ed!  I'm thrilled for you!!    :thumbsup:

Nice Ed. go get some more!

bigjim

Great hunt story and even greater deer.  :thumbsup:    :clapper:

Nice Ed!

Very Nice and congrats again!

Nice job Ed ,congratulations on a great deer.

Good for you big fella. He would have ridden home in the front seat with me and I would probably wreck from looking over at him so much.   :notworthy:

Beautiful deer Ed.

Martin

Great story Ed !!!  :thumbsup:  


Bill

Ed –congratulations that was a great story. I liked the ending the best good luck on the next one.

Congrats on a great buck!!! Great story, as well!

Wow, that's a dandy!!! Congratulations again.  :thumbsup:

Great story, congrats Ed!!

Congrats Big Ed that was a great hunt.  :thumbsup:

Ed, Very good looking buck. Congrats, good read. Awesome place too hunt. Good luck in the future.

Awesome buck Ed!!

Any friend of Tim's is a friend of mine!     :bigsmyl:

Allen, I'll tell you flat out Tim is by far one of the finest humans to be put on Earth. I am truly blessed to call him my friend.    :thumbsup:

Nice buck!  Looks like you've found the land of milk and honey.  Great story, thanks for having us along.   :)

Beautiful buck. Great story.


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And the lesson is... get me one of those Tee shirts! Advertise, advertise, advertise.

Very nice big guy!!! Good story as well!! Shawn

Man oh man Ed that is just too cool, like several have already said, "good things happen to good people". Really tickled for you big brother!   :thumbsup:    :thumbsup:

Great story Ed. Looking forward to the pictures.

:eek:     :bigsmyl:

Hero shot! Hero shot! Hero shot! I keep checking this thread to see a pic. Looking forward to it and congrats again.

QuoteOriginally posted by Big Ed:
Allen, I'll you flat out Tim is by far one of the finest humans to be put on Earth. I am truly blessed to call him my friend.    :thumbsup:  

I agree whole heartedly! Tim has helped me though some pretty dark times this year. He's a pretty fair shot also!!   :archer:

Congrats again on a fine buck!

Ed, a great story and man what a nice buck.. Congrats!

I dont know Ed but when I saw all the posts on this thread I just had to read it.After doing so I couldnt help but smile.Great story and great buck.Congrats Ed.

Thanks to all for all the kind replies.I am still smiling!!!!

Alright Ed and Allen....What do you guys want for Christmas!   :rolleyes:  

Thanks for the kind words!

Wow!Nice shooting,Congrt's.Good story.

That was a fun read Ed, congrats on a great buck!!

Bill, I owe you a thank you for the T-shirt I was wearing!

Pretty cool with all the bad luck u had with the hand and then this comes along.  Ed you were due!   :thumbsup:

Think I will pick up a few of Bill's t-shirts and wear around, who knows maybe they are lucky.  Nice deer Ed, congrats.

I had a RELATIVE named Ed once! So There!

Congrats again Ed ! Well done!  :thumbsup:    :thumbsup:

Thats Awesome Ed, I have to get my computer back up so I can get on these stories earlier!!

Ed,
I want the "HERO PICS" you promised two days ago for Christmas PLEASE kind gentleman....  :thumbsup:  

Lanier

Lanier, Hero shot by lunch time. Doctors appointment this morning.

Yeah right, i've heard that one before  :rolleyes:    ;)  

Ed, hope all is well at the Doc. Its obvious your hand is coming along well.

Looking forward to teh pictures bud.

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That is one beautiful buck!!   :clapper:    :clapper:    :clapper:

Amazing story. You're either VERY good or VERY lucky... maybe both?

Congrats!

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Hero shot as promised, sorry  for the quality it is from my buddies cell phone. My camera card will not transfer the pics to my computer.Don't know what is wrong.

Nice work Ed... you're description of the "Estate" is priceless.  My imagination runs wild.   :)

Nice deer Ed.  :readit:

Great pic Ed, congrats to you. If you get lonely on that big ole spread.....call me, I'll be your huckleberry to keep you company     :campfire:    

Lanier

Holy Moly!  What a story!  Congratulations on RPRT luck and a fine animal!

Congrats Ed!!!

Awesome hunt & buck!   :thumbsup:

QuoteOriginally posted by wtpops:
Congrats Ed...I bet you are glad you wore that t-shirt to the game.

X2

Well that is great. Now just to keep his wife from finding out. So you make it back there yet.

a # 1 biged  :thumbsup:    :clapper:

Nice deer no frog ponds around is there  :)

I didn't see any frog ponds, I'll keep looking for them!

awesome!!! ed, wow 2 bucks w the bow and trophy's at that

good things happen to good people!

i know you helped me

great story