Buck deer come in all different shapes and sizes. It's often the 10 and 12 pointers that get all the "press". I've always had a special place in my heart for those 8 pointers. Maybe because they are usually the most common "racked" deer I see in the woods. Just thought it would be kind of cool to see all the 8 pointers that bowhunters here on TradGang have taken over the years with stick and string.
A couple weeks ago, when the rut kicked off here at home, I was fortunate enough to have an encounter with a nice 8 point. The morning was cool and calm, just what us bowhunters dream of for a November morning. I was perched about 20 feet up on a rub line that ran to a point where a hemlock grove, acres of mountain laurel, and open hard woods all came together. The perfect ambush site to catch a cruising whitetail.
Just after daybreak to my southwest in the hemlocks, about fifty yards out, I heard small sticks breaking and the soft rustle of leaves. I can't see more than 10 yards into the hemlocks so I was relying on my ears. There are lots of squirrels in the area and I couldn't decifer what was making the noise. This went on and off for about 10 minutes as I strained to identify what might be making the noise.
All of a sudden, chomp chomp chomp, and an explosion of understory breaking and leaves churning, the unmistakable sound of a buck with his nose in hot pursuit of a doe's hind end! Trouble was they were going away from me and I still could not see them. Then as quick as it happened they were out of earshot, and it was all quiet again. Darn, or something like that, I thought to myself. Why could they not have come this way? Within just a couple of minutes, the hunting gods must have heard my thoughts because here they come right back at me. The doe had circled up into the laurel and was the first to pop out right underneath my stand. I recognized her. An ancient old doe that had lived here for years, swayed back, hanging belly, bowlegged front legs, loose skin around the head and neck, and eyes that just looked plain tired. She stood beneath me looking to her back trail. The video camera rolled as I heard the buck grunting, he rototilled the leaves, moving in our direction.
When he came into view, about 40 yards out, the doe took off again back behind me. I swiveled the camera to capture him coming, a beautiful 8 point that I had never seen before. He slowed as he got to about 12 yards. I bleated with my mouth to stop him, drew back my Black Widow, hit anchor, and let fly. Clean miss, right beneath his chest. Damn, I thought, that was my chance, as he moved off on the doe's trail behind me.
They were out of sight and sound again, and now I heard a third deer coming from where I had heard all the commotion start originally. I knocked another arrow, as a young doe trotted in
beneath me, looking in the direction of where the 8 point and old doe had run off.
I don't believe a minute had passed and here comes the old doe from where I had last seen her but runs 50 yards below me back to where she had started, a full circle. Fortunately, as the 8 pointer came into view, he saw the young doe beneath me and came straight for her. Perfect. The trail he was on would put him 8 yards off my left side. As he entered my shooting lane, I drew, hit anchor, and the arrow was on its way. MISS again, right beneath his chest. The buck snapped the arrow with his back legs as he ran 10 yards into the hemlocks and stopped. I knocked a third arrow, and tried to keep from puking, he looked around searching for the little doe who had run off as he came at us. Within seconds, the buck turned, ears layed back, nose to the ground, and came right at my second arrow, laying there. Focus this time, you idiot, I thought to myself. As he came at and underneath me I finally placed the Woodsman on target.
The buck wheeled and took his first bound, a plume of crimson spray misted into the air and I knew I had him. He fell within 50 yards, and the November woods was quiet again.
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Nice, love those big 8 points! :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Both his brow tines are actually snapped off in the same direction but both are still over an inch long.
That's a nice looking deer. Love those Roman noses on mature bucks.
I'm in an 8 point (4 point western count) rut. I have taken one for each of the last 4 years. Things could be worse, I suppose.
Heres two that hold pleasant memories. I'll keep it short.
First, an old beat to hell buck I shot while I was horribly sick with Meniere's disease. That buck may have saved my life.
Scarred, thin from fighting and rutting,blood still leaking from battle wounds on his neck.
I had him mounted in a fighting pose.
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My big 8, the only whitetail I ever shot from the ground. Got him in January late muzzleloader season with my Silvertip. Huge piece of main beam busted off, he was very thin and still dressed 196#.
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Now thats an 8 pointer David!!
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Not the biggest, but my first 8 pointer.
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my biggest with a stick. (http://i1244.photobucket.com/albums/gg561/graybarkhunter/DSCF1249.jpg) (http://i1244.photobucket.com/albums/gg561/graybarkhunter/DSCF1255.jpg)
Wow Graybark, that is some mass right there!
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Got this guy last Week
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Good job Gents!
Keep them coming...
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4 yr old Illinois brute I killed with a Hill bow that I had for 2 days, after I had it shipped to where I was going to be hunting! Well, it worked. 18 yard shot, he was following a doe Nov 7 early in the morning. I watched him fall within 20 yds, but then kicked down, down, down a steep draw I was hunting the end of. You can see it behind me in the picture. Dressed 230#.
This year's deer was an eight-pointer. Until just before I met him.
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I'm hoping that the buck that tore his up is still around next year. :archer:
wow. some really nice bucks. Id be ashamed to show my little horns here. lol congrats guys.
Congrats on all the great deer guys!
Here is one from a couple weeks ago. Killed on election day. Had him come right under me then gave a 14-15 yard quartering away shot. He made it about 100 yards before piling up.
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Can,t help you Bill, seems all I can get are the odd numbers,7 9 11 13 17. I think the only even number I got was a 6
Does this one count? You can only count 8 points in the photo;^)
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Nice deer Guys!
Looks like an 8 to me Gary.
Keep them coming...
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Couple more...
(http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f218/bowzonly/DocImage11.jpg) I hunt public land in central NJ, the most densely populated corridor of the most densely populated state in the nation. Many bucks are killed by cars before they reach two years old and many others are killed as soon as they sprout an antler. I am not saying there are not loads of great bucks in NJ, I'm saying I don't have access to them. In 30 years of bowhunting I have only seen 2 deer with more than 8 pts and I have only taken 2 - 8 pointers. I got plenty of mileage out of this one though. I self filmed the hunt and the footage has been on a couple of TV shows, including a Cabela's show where it aired twice in one season because it made the cut for top ten at the end of the year. I also wrote a story about it for TBM.
4 years ago...
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3 years ago...spot and stalk...
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Last year...spot and stalk...
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This year.....
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Nice bucks, all !!
Congrats fellas..
You betcha....LOTS of memories on this one....
Solana Ranch dEC 30TH 2006
Going to my stand the afternoon of my Birthday....I see this hog....David Sheperd lets me out and I stalk and kill this hog with a Zwickey Delta 4 blade(BLUE PAINT from 80s) I'd killed 14 deer with....
(http://www.tradgang.com/upload/terry/bdayhog.jpg)
Then I climb on of my favorite trees..."The Killing Tree".....
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and take this 8 point the same afternoon.....
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Both Taken with....
Morrison Shawnee with 64# Arapaho limbs....
Zwickey Delta 4 Bladers....
Arrow Dynamics Trad Heavies....
And my GREAT friend Curt Cabrera Mounted it for me.....
Very special deer....no matter the points.... :campfire:
Awesome buck, congrats!!!
Great bucks guys!! I'll see if I have anything on digital. most are on film....what can i say, it takes me awhile to catch on!
Last year.. Killed in Shawnee National Forest with Quinn Recurve and Simmons Interceptor broadhead.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v71/Iflytrout/DEER/Quinn8pt1rs.jpg)
This year..Killed in Shawnee National Forest with Big Foot Recurve and Simmons Tree Shark.
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Killed this guy this year with a 20 yard shot, he was not the biggest on the hit list but I was more than tickle pink with him...
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Love me some big 8s. My dream buck is an 8 over 150.
God Bless,
Nathan
Awesome thread! :thumbsup:
ten years ago in SW Iowa . 12 yard shot with a trident static tip
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shortest nonspine recovery ever. Just three steps and fell over. Shot him right thru the heart
My last buck in Iowa 2008. Ran straight under me chasing a doe. It was a raging blizzard when I shot him. A difficult trail as it was snowing so hard after the shot.
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Home place buck 2008
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Last weeks home place buck
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Dang y'all northern guys have some brute deer. I outweigh most mature bucks in my area (on the hove), and I only weigh 160lb!
Littlebigman, that hanging pic is impressive!
Steve
Littlebigman, I am all about the deer you guys hunt. Man I wish the body size around here was up to that standard.
You been getting it done, keep it up I want to see more of your post of those big boys for the next 20 to 30 years.
Briars
Awesome 8 Bill! What a hoss! Lots of other great 8's too! Congrats!
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QuoteOriginally posted by LITTLEBIGMAN:
My last buck in Iowa 2008. Ran straight under me chasing a doe. It was a raging blizzard when I shot him. A difficult trail as it was snowing so hard after the shot.
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"snow "sounds "EZ"but if its powdery or coming down fast a trail can go "cold" real fast!!
These pics are great!
It's cool to see the different 8's from around the country.
It doesn't look like it in the pic but this is an 8 I got about 6 years ago. It was a good year...a bear, a spike, a 10 and this 8.
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Fantastic 8's guys. Jim and Terry, what did those score? Would be interesting to know.
Had this one come into a mock scrape at 12yds broadside...40yd recovery
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Congrats Langer, nice one. What a pile of big old 8s.
My Texas 8 from 2011. Only 8 Ive ever killed with a bow. (http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o244/2crazyboys_photos/IMAG0080-3.jpg)
Kansas 8, 2 years ago. Kinda cool story with him, I had caught him on a trail cam trailing a doe and decided to hang a stand in the area. With the way the terrain lay and where the deer were traveling from, I could only hunt this atand with a North West wind. Should be no problem in Kansas, second week of November. Well a warm front blew in and we had monster winds from the South and South West for several days in a row. I was down to the last two days of my hunt when a Northern blew in, strong North wind next morning. Hunted till noon, no luck, went back to the truck for a quick bite of lunch. While sitting in my truck eating lunch I noticed the wind had changed to the North West.
Finally could hunt that stand. Got in the stand at 1:30 shot this Buck at 4:00, he was the 5th. Buck I saw that afternoon. Sometimes things just work out. RW
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Before:
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After:
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Few others
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Wow...some GIANTS on here! Congrats to all!
Over the years I've certainly taken my share of 8's....or 4 by 4's like we call them out west.
Here's some pics.
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Here's a couple more....
This one "was" an eight...I think!
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Here's last years buck...
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2008 4yds early December
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This is getting good!
Thank you all for contributing, what a variety...
Here's one I didn't get....yet!
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Iowa......WOW
oct (http://i1189.photobucket.com/albums/z423/alvinmartindad/alvinhuntpics008.jpg) of 2011
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Nice looking bucks and pictures! Great thread.
A 6 1/2 year old I took last year. I wheezed him in for a 5 yard shot from a cedar tree. Mike
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Herdbull,
That's a stud! Nice deer!
Not only is the rack thick, look at the body on that buck! WOW !!!!!!
This one I took an the last day of a 16 day tent-camp hunt. Temps were as low as 7 degrees. I passed up many other bucks, but this 8-point I could not let go. The shot was 8 yards and I recovered him as the sunset on me in the rain!
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This buck was shot at noon, but I waited 3 hours before I took up the blood trail. It was a good thing because the low hit clipped one lung and he took me on a long track before finding him after dark.
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Those pictures were taken a few moons ago Mike ! Nice !
QuoteOriginally posted by Herdbull:
A 6 1/2 year old I took last year. I wheezed him in for a 5 yard shot from a cedar tree. Mike
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Hands down, most beautiul buck ive ever seen. Absolutley gorgeous antlers on that joker. Congrats!
Very nice guys, some real bruisers in the lot. Keep em coming!
Killed this Buck hunting with a good friend Keith Bruner. So good to take critters while hunting with good friends.Shot the deer several years ago with a Jeffery recurve I hunted with off and on for 20 years.RC
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Another 8 I walked from home and killed a near mile in the swamp. Shot at about 5 yards on a beaverdam funnel.RC
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The 8 in my Avatar I killed hunting with
keith Bruner as well. Shot it with a homemade longbow at 4 yards while it worked a scrape.RC
TJ he scored 151 but looks bigger to me.
Mitten, your buck doesnt count! thread title was for 8-pointers not deer with over 8 inch circumference all the way out the main beam.. That deer should always remain as one of the all time greats to ever receive an arrow. A truely remarkable specimen of a whitetail.
Mike,
Shakes is the type of 8 point I've always dreamed about taking with Trad bow in hand...He sure has it all from body size to the crown on his head...An incredible creature that I for one appreiciate Gods creation of this animal...
Keefer , huskyarcher, and others.... Thank you so much for comenting on Tree Shaker. He did not have the longest tines or the number of points as other bucks in the area, but he did make his presance know. I got him Nov 4 before he got too run down from the rut. His cape, hair and body were in his prime. Yes, I am happy to have had the privlege to be in the woods with him for so many years. Mike PS, Yes I was a little younger in the other pics , but had to look back a ways to find sme 8s. Ha!
Great 8's guys!! keep'em coming!! Herdbull, that 8 from last year is a real pig!
Mike,
My daughter Ande just saw Shakes pic on here and I told her to go get my copy of your book where I had a few pics of Shakes and Twister in it that I made copys of last year..All she was saying was WOW LOOK at the size of that Buck..As I type this she is actually reading the opening page with you and Paula all by herself of "One With The Wilderness"...1st grade and reads better then me....Mike she now took my book and said I ain't done reading this...I think you just created another member of your fan club Mike and she wants you to come on and get another buck so she can put another pic in "Her" Book... :thumbsup:
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I was only in my stand for about 10 minutes and I grunted and this eight-pointer walked in front of me at 12 yards. Oct. 23/10 7:45am
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Was in my tree stand for about an hour when this 8 pointer came walking behind a doe. Taken 2010 in Ohio.
Thats a big ol one. Look at the neck on that thing.
Mike,
The tent camp hunt, was that a Midwest hunt?
I saw one that was bigger than the 173" 4x4 I got in 2010. He was following a doe right to me at 35 yds. when another buck got too close to his girlfriend. He ran him off and swung wide. No shot. Also missed a 160" 4x4 on Nov. 21st. Shot right under his heart for a clean miss. No excuses. You still like me don't you? UB
That's a hog right there, Robert!
Barry...that's like tellin' us there ain't no Santa. Okay, we still like you....
My first whitetail taken a couple weeks ago.
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Keb- Yes it was in Midwest. I used to hunt a alot out of tents and from te bed of my truck. Now I feel luxury staying in the basement bed room of my 80 year old friends house. Cats and all. Ha!
Ande- Tell your dad to get it in gear and send me his address for the new whitetail book we contributed to, and I will enclose a special gift for you. Please keep reading all your books. Mike
Great bucks Guys. I'm telling you it never gets old seeing these 8 pt's in all their different shapes and sizes. Reading on how the hunt went down makes it even better.
Hey UB, let's see some of your 4+4's???
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Great thread!
It seems like I have a thing for eight pointers as I have taken many over the years with different weapons. This one from a few years back with my Titan, I saw him by my house when I was out before light checking traps. Later that day he chased that doe under my stand I was able to stop him at 25 paces for a clean shot.
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y275/420W/100_0764.jpg)
Shot this one a few years ago with my John Shultz long bow.He went 192 lbs. dressed. (http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll128/cecilm_2008/IMG_0030.jpg)
Here's one from a few years back. He was bigger the year before and getting old. Had probably lost 50 lbs body weight from the previous year but was likely a solid 250. Had a broken main beam that year so I didn't take him (http://i645.photobucket.com/albums/uu178/ryanderlago/09buck.jpg)
A buck from a year ago. Cruising at noon looking. He was only a 3 1/2 yr old but a tough season made me dump the string on him. (http://i645.photobucket.com/albums/uu178/ryanderlago/2011buck143.jpg)
Ryan, It looks like his tines are rounded off. Nice buck.
Mike...yeah, they were all rounded off and almost looked like they were filed down...wierd? Your 8's aren't bad either...ha!
Here's my 2009 Indiana 8 pt. As soon as I pulled my bow up that morning a small buck came in - palmated 3X2 or 3X4 if I remember right - probably heard me walking in, and started working a scrape in front of me. Shortly a buck came in from behind me through a brushy area that bordered a standing cornfield, could tell by the sound of him walking he was a mature buck. When he crossed a creek just behind me I got a look at him...he was pretty impressive with the wide rack and a cornstalk complete with an ear of corn wrapped up in his antlers. I shot him at 6 yards with a big Snuffer and 50 yards later it was all over. He was aged at 4 1/2 by the teeth and the inside spread was a touch over 23 inches. Around 240 lbs live wt.
Ryan
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Not the biggest 8 pt. on the planet, But my biggest:
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This Wisconsin buck was from 6 years ago. Wapiti RC, self knocked cedar arrow, STOS head.
I had seen him in late October about 1.5 miles from where I killed him.
He came in to very aggressive grunting on November 17th. He beat the snot out of a scrape 10 yards in front of me, and then got to work tearing up a tree, the whole time facing directly toward me. When he finally continued past me I shot him right through the heart at under ten yards.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v54/tlclum/P1040738sm.jpg)
Dang good bucks!
Tommy,
That's a great deer!
Owlgrowler...love the treebark camo and the Predator. Some nice bucks as well !
I thought tree shaker was the stud. HighPlains that is a monster... :notworthy:
Wow, there are some real brutes on here. This one isn't very big, but it was cool because it was the first buck I rattled up.
(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f196/jjeffer/Snapbucket/0554D3B1.jpg)
Keep em coming, great bucks!
<------I got one in my Avatar pic but have no clue how to get it from there to here :help:
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QuoteOriginally posted by Izzy:
My Texas 8 from 2011. Only 8 Ive ever killed with a bow. (http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o244/2crazyboys_photos/IMAG0080-3.jpg)
GREAT deer Izzy, :readit:
8 pointers are coooool!
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Uncle Barry had sent me a couple pictures of some nice 8 pointers that he had taken. He was having trouble getting them uploaded to this thread. This is the only one I was able to upload. Maybe there is something wrong with the files. Anyway, here's the one I was able to upload. Maybe you can tell the story Uncle Barry and I sure hope you figure out how to get those other pictures from Kansas, Montana, and Iowa, that you were telling me about.
:thumbsup:
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Those corn belt 8 pointers are unbelievable. The tine length, mass, and overall frames are impressive.
This Connecticut 8 pointer I took a few years ago is a good representative of the bucks we typically see around here. This buck came in a first light, after running some does through the area. It was a thirty yard shot. Low through the shoulder. He went about 75 yards and then dropped. It worked out perfect. It was a Saturday morning so I went back and got my wife and kids to help with the recovery. I shot him with my Black Widow, traditional only carbon shafts, and when I dressed him off the Woodsman was buried in his heart. One of my most memorable 8 pointers. I shot him the day after I got back from a 10 day hunt in Iowa where I had passed up lots of bigger bucks than him, hoping for a corn fed giant.
Thanks Bill. I have several on my computer but when I try to open the files it keeps coming back to another file. Then when I try to load the photos it says something about the file not valid or something. My computor guru (Steve-O) is in MT hunting lions right now. The buck above is the one I got in 2010. He was 7 1/2. Actually both Gene and I both passed him up (on video) in 2007 because he had a broken browtine and he looked like he was only 4.5. This is what happens when we let them grow. There's a complete story on how I got him in Don Higgins excellent new book "Real World Whitetail Icons" (www.higginsoutdoors.com). This one was named Burly. For those interested in measurements, he grossed 173 3/8" and netted 169 4/8" as a basic 4x4. The G2s were 13 3/8" and 13"; G3s about a foot each and outside spread was 24". A dandy buck in his prime and my biggest eight so far, although I almost got an even bigger one a couple weeks ago. He was walking behind a doe coming right to me. They got to 35 yds. when another buck got too close to his girlfreind. He chased him off and swung wide. Hadn't ever seen him before or since. BW
Bill,this is an AWESOME picture!Great souvenir,congrats :thumbsup:
UB maybe Rob DiStefano can help you out? :dunno:
Here are a couple Ginger and I took this year.
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Shot on Wednesday. It's great, I finally have a buck to get to post the pic on several threads at once
Hang on tight medic, with that wide rack he'll have liftoff with any sudden breeze!
I wasn't going to let him go for anything. He was a gift
Great thread!!
The one above from '84 was also a unique situation. I was set up in a huge cottonwood tree. I'm at about half-draw when a giant 10 inch diameter branch just decided to fall from my tree. No wind, no reason. It was just time for it to fall I guess. Anyway, it spooked the buck and I didn't get the shot. A week or so later he came by again only deeper in the timber. You can see from the hide gone I had to drag him a long way on bare ground. I have two or three more nice 8's but all I have is hard copy photos. Sorry. I didn't mean to hog this thread but Bill asked me to post them. Thanks. bw
Your not hogging anything UB! This is what it was intended to be. An open thread for everyone to share their 8 pts. Thanks for sharing yours!
Keep them coming Guys...
Bill
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2011 PA 8 Point
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2009 PA 8 Point
2008 PA Rifle Season SHREW Harvest
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Man the stud 8ptrs on here keep em coming guys!
Nice bucks Big ED but I would like to know whats under that cover in your first pic? :D
This one was taken this year by Hunter Rung with a longbow he made using one of my forms.
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I took this one several years back with the first St. Jude Hope bow.
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Nice bucks BigEd!
Is that a firebird or camaro????
1969 RS Z-28 Under the Cover and a 1968 SS 396.
Ed, I have a nice bow I would trade you for that Super Sport :bigsmyl:
Let me think about it......nah!
I passed this guy up for two years, then he g0t his right leg broke which caused his left antler to get all jacked up. He is still a 4x4, but the stickers come off the side and below browtine. When he came through at 10 yards and saw his huge neck, I knew it was time to shoot. After the shot, I watched him lay down at 50 yards. I was shooting a 75# Wes Wallace 64" bow. Mike
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One from last year - but the coyotes got to him before I found him. (http://i1192.photobucket.com/albums/aa328/brockman2/DSCF2040.jpg)
One I didn't get -
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Mike,
You mentioned something some here may know little about on your last pic of the jacked up antler...I've noticed on other bucks that people have got or noticed that if a buck has an injury that's pretty severe on one side then he in some case's will have a deformed antler on the other side...I once went to a outdoor show here in Maryland and I couldn't remember the fella's name but he raised some very nice bucks and that year he had a Buck in his show with a bad side but the buck looked healthy cause he raised it from a fawn and no noticeble injury..So he had his vet come out and look him over real good and found the Buck had somehow got a piece of straw from his pasture stuck in one side of his nose and it made the antler grow wild on the opposite side...I actually witnessed this buck at the show and asked the fella myself and it does effect an injured antlered animal...I think I will start a post on just that so it won't take from this post so maybe we can all see for ourselves the results so if you notice a thread please post pics there... Keefers <><
I always thought that if there was a severe injury and the antler was deformed from side to side, then it would have "memory" and always be "messed up". However, I have sinced learned that this is not always the case. Barry Wensel saw and photographed a buck with a broke leg and club foot with a messed up rack, but once all of the bones healed, it grew a normal very large set of antlers. So in this case it did not last life long. Mike
One from 2009
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One from 2010
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from 2011
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Great Bucks!
Bet there are a few more 8 pts we have not seen yet...
WOW! Those are some awesome deer. I am not ashamed to admit that I am very jealous, envious and somewhat frustrated. You guys must have access to some pretty awesome places to hunt. Deer like those just dont exist on the heavily hunted public land spots I have here in NJ. I would have to pay big bucks to travel out of state to hunt big bucks like that. I am not a trophy hunter but I would love to have just one wall hanger. Its gets very frustrating when just a few weeks into the season here in NJ you see spike bucks turning themselves inside out at the first hint of danger. I may have to start saving my pennies.