Here is the story I heard. Big Jim was driving down a lonely dark road and fell asleep at the wheel. His head nodded forward and his beard got tangled in the steering wheel. At that same instant this buck ran out in front of him. Because his beard was caught in the steering wheel he could not turn to avoid colliding with the deer. The truck had to be towed away and Big Jim was uninjured. He waited until the next morning to take this picture.
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Funny!
I did notice that new recurve in the pic.....
I'm betting the story is true!! HA. That's a bruiser
Nice shooting Jim, thats a big 8!
Sweet
Fantastic buck congrats Brother!
Nice!
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Good one!
That's a dandy buck no matter how he took it.
Great Buck!
Congratulation
Glenn
Wonderful harvest!!
Very nice deer Jim! :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Nice buck.
wish I could drive like that, congratts! :thumbsup:
That's a dandy buck..congrats brother!
Congrats Bigun! :thumbsup: :clapper:
Looks like the Duck Commanders have a new cast member!
:biglaugh:
great buck! congrats
congrats Jim.
Congrats on a nice buck Jim !!!
That is a Pig of a Buck. Big Jim, tell us the rest of the story.
A well deserved buck, congrats! :thumbsup:
Way to go Big Jim! Nice buck, congrats!
Nice buck Big Jim!!!!
Way to go big guy ! Looks like you used one of your recurves.. Give us the details.
Great story - Great Buck! Congrats!
Congrats on a great buck Jim!
That buck's rack, makes Jim's beard look small !
Good shooten.
That's what happens when you have your own business all the time to hunt whenever you want! :bigsmyl:
Great deer!
Biggin' shootin' a biggin'
Nice one Jim.
Sipsey has the story correct, but for the presses, we are going to use the following story because it might be more believable :
Barbara and I have some friends in Great Bend Kanssas that we visit every November...coincidence,...maybe :) . This November was slightly different in that we choose to go a week earlier than normal due to moon phase.
For weeks I had been stressing about the choice as I was concerned that any changes could make hunting a little more difficult. We might be too early and miss any rutting activity and historically it has been much warmer the week earlier than my normal trip. I don't like the heat much and a tough hunt in cold weather would be much more enjoyable than a tough hunt in the heat.
See, I live with the heat most everyday of the year and for a guy that breaks out in a sweat eating breakfast (in case you didn't know,I'm a bit bigger and hairy'er than average), just getting away to a cooler place is half of the vacation.
Well, I wasn't disappointed in any way. I was greeted with below average temps for the week and on the first day, the rutting activity was phenomenal!
My friend Jake and I spent the first day hanging some new stands and were blessed with sightings of
several quality deer in the process. It was difficult sleeping the first night as I anticipate what might happen come sun up.
Sunday Morning, I make my way to the "Big Jim" stand and everyone else went to new stands. Upon arriving at my parking spot, I realize I had forgotten a couple things and had to retrieve them. This put me a little late at the stand, but I wasn't worried as I have seldom ever seen a deer from it before 9:30.
I sat down and proceeded to nod off. When I opened my eyes, there was a very nice doe standing in front of me at 10 yds and a bit nervous... maybe I was snoring. She wouldn't allow me to make my move for a shot and she quickly left the area.
Over the next few hours, I had several deer visit most of which were young bucks except one. He was a very nice ten pt, but smaller than the last buck so even if he had given me a shot, I would have passed.
Eleven o'clock rolls around and a quiet morning was interrupted by some obvious rutting activity. I raised my bino's to notice a very nice eight pt destroying a tree fifty yards out in front of me. Oh yeah, he looked good, but still he was an eight and I guessed about 135" (I later measured him at 140"s). I was bit unsure of what I would do if he presented me with a shot as I have shot bigger there and this is still the first morning.
The buck worked over a scrape near the rub and then instead of following the trail that lead in front of my stand, he made a wide loop only to get down wind of me. I was nervous as I still hadn't decided what to do.
Normally I would have grunted to try to bring him in but I had left my grunt call behind (I felt very naked without my call). The buck kept checking the wind but never let on that there might be something wrong (I can only assume that the rising thermals kept me from being detected).
As I stood in wait of what was about to happen, he
proceeded to walk right to me stopping at eight yards to destroy a cedar tree. I examined him very closely I thought. I noticed that he had a small kicker coming off of one of the G2's and that he had considerable mass in his main beams.... He had me at the kicker!
I eased my bino's down and waited for a shot and waited, and waited...just then a smaller buck came in and I prayed he wouldn't put the screws to me. In fear, the smaller buck eased on and the larger buck moved to a scrape about 20 yards out in front of me. I slowly jockeyed for position and when he stopped to lick the overhead licking branch, I let him have it!....oh oh! what the heck just happened! I watched the arrow go through him a bit high and considerably back. I was sure I had just gut shot this beautiful deer and I became sick immediately. My buck ran to my right where it was quite open and at 30 yds, he began to do the wobbly leg and stumble as he tripped forward.
In disbelief, I reached for my binoculars normally found strapped to my chest but couldn't find them.
I had to take my eyes off the buck to find them hanging under my arm pit. I was able to retrieving the bino's in time to see the buck tipping over in plain sight not 40 yds away.
I was relieved that what I thought was a grievous error turned in to a very quick dispatch.
Upon assessing the situation, I determined that during the shot, I had snapped the bino bracket. I was lucky to make a killing shot with that kind of interference.
I stayed in my stand and waited for my friend to join me. Although I had been relatively calm to the shot, I was now shaking hard enough to make the tree I was in shake too.
An inspection of my buck not only revealed the kicker and main beam mass, but a very nice split brow tine to boot. In addition to the entrance and exit wounds, the dark pasty blood on my arrow lead me to believe that I had pierced his liver(this was later validated). I couldn't have been happier.
"BigJims" stand has been named so for good reason. From that stand I have taken three bucks and a few does. All three of the bucks have been standing in the same scrape when I shot them!
That day, everyone saw "big" bucks and they looked forward to opportunies in the near future. Unfortunately however, activity quickly slowed to a complete halt. We were able to finish the week with the harvest of a small whitey doe and one large mule deer doe.....oh yeah... and thoughts and discussions of next year :)
Thanks for the kind words guys and no, I didn't die my beard for camo, that is natural.
BigJim
By the way, I took that buck with one of my 60" Desert Bighorn recurves 55lbs at 32" (since the Rod Jenkins clinic, I now draw about 31.5"s) and a full length cx 150 tipped with a VPA Penatrator two blade weighing in at 175g.
thanks, bigjim
Well done Jim..
Congrats on a darn nice buck !
Congratulations on a very nice buck!!
Really,Sasquatch can drive a truck and shoot a bow?
I guess that question was answered if you believe the story and photo evidence...lol
:archer:
I talked to you before your trip you were working on my bow.
I remember you say how nervous you were about you choice of timing this year and I could tell your head was in Kansas well before you even left.
I'm so happy everything panned out for you congratulations on a great buck!!
Can we see some more pics?
You do realize that a man your size kneeling behind a big deer doesn't do it justice. :biglaugh: Jk.
Someone was going say it,
Way to go!!!
Tim.
Mr. Fingers, I have been told that about my size for many years. I would rather make the animals look small than take pictures giving credit to someone else! :)
I'm ready to go back...or go somewhere else!!
Bigjim as I make my way back to the bow shop
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Great deer Jim congrats. Question; do you use facemask to avoid beard contact with string?
Way to go Jim! You did it! :thumbsup: :clapper:
You gotta send me that picture.
Jeff
Great buck, congratulations... :thumbsup:
Thanks again ya'll. To answer the question about my beard...Never had a problem with the sting and the beard but when I first changed to a new anchor pt this summer. I had a bad habit of settling forward to it and thus wrapping more hair around the string. I have made a concerted effort to draw back to anchor and then expand away...didn't take long for the hair to grow back.
Jeff, I'll send you the pictures of the last 4 bucks I killed in KS. They have all been taken with one VPA or another. I just love those heads.
thanks, bigjim
WTG Big Jim! Your people at the shop told me you had scored ( I was making an order for arrow supplies) and I've been waiting for this post.
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Dandy buck! Congrats Jim......... :clapper:
Very well done Jim !
Only 55# bow ! Are you getting wise or getting old? :clapper:
Good shooting.
Great story and buck!!! :clapper:
NICE!!!
Congrats!!!
Nice one Mr. Jim!
Hybrid bow hunter,contrary to the gray in my beard, i'm not getting old or wise...i'm sticking too that. Most know that I enjoy shooting heavier bows and I will be doing that again someday (yes I know, I know but I like to shoot heavy bows...enough said).
I had Rod Jenkins here at the house for a couple of clinics this past summer and he taught me to use my back muscles to help accuracy. It works great, but will take time for me to build back up to where I want to be.
I have always said that I would shoot what it takes to be accurate and that is that.
Thanks for the hoopla, as I sit here trying to get motivated to go back to work. All I think about is hunt,hunt,hunt.
bigjim
Sweet!!!
That's a big ole buck :thumbsup:
Congrat's Jim! Nice buck.....WOW!
Cherokee Scout, Payback can be hell sometimes!....I'm sure Jim will be waiting for his chance.
That aint a deer, thats a hoss. Congrats Jim, I know your were holding out for something bigger lol.
Great buck Jim congrats
Congrats on a very nice deer BigJim! :clapper: :clapper: :clapper:
Awesome buck big Jim. Congrats
Way to go Jim, that's a nice one!
-Jay
Nice Buck Jim! :eek: :scared: :eek: :thumbsup: :archer:
That's a fine Kansas buck there Jim!
Good shooting Jim, glad you had a great hunt!
"as I sit here trying to get motivated to go back to work. All I think about is hunt,hunt,hunt. "
Big Jim, I have the same problem. All I want to do is grab my bow and shoot ( the TC that is) or go hunting. I do sneak out to put a quiver full of arrows into the target a couple of times a day.
I am waiting impatiently for february when I will hunt with True South down in FL.
:archer:
Work is highly over rated! ;)
"as I sit here trying to get motivated to go back to work. All I think about is hunt,hunt,hunt. "
Big Jim, I have the same problem. All I want to do is grab my bow and shoot ( the TC that is) or go hunting. I do sneak out to put a quiver full of arrows into the target a couple of times a day.
I am waiting impatiently for february when I will hunt with True South down in FL.
:archer:
Work is highly over rated! ;)
Congrats Big Man. Thats a fine buck.RC
That sure is a beast of a deer! Congrats.
Great buck and great story to Jim! Congratulations man!
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The antlers look just like the ones on the Rinehart you had a ETAR. Way to go!
Ron
Congrats
You know you're hunting Kansas when you have to ponder if that deer is big enough to shoot... Congrats on a sweet buck.
Congrats, and great story. Thanks for sharing.
Congrats :thumbsup:
Kansas has certainly been good to me over the years.
For one reason or another, I have not been able to harvest more than a few pigs here in GA and without my fortune in Kansas, Ya'll might be calling me little Jim or maybe THin JIm....or maybe not.
With some help from our friends in Kansas, Barbara and I have been able to fill the freezers pretty well.
That bugger is already the main ingrediant in some
Jalapeno and cheese smoked sausage.
This year Georgia had better look out as I'm in a new lease and it is covered with critters including some real BIG pigs.
thanks, bigjim
Beautiful buck, What a trophy, he will soon be in your man cave!
Congratulations!
F-Manny
Jalapeno and cheese sausage!!! Now your talking!!! Nice buck Jim.
I should read my posts before I reply. That poor me harvest report for GA has been in the last two years.
Yeah Manny, Man cave it is. I'm gaining ground on my wife as she had been putting as many on the wall as I have in the last few years. I really do hate that she didn't get a shot or even see many. Maybe we can get her to hunt a little with us when you come down for piggies.
Thanks John, and your right about that sausage. I think I eat my weight in it monthly without a complaint.
thanks, BigJim
That's a nice buck!
Congrats, Jim!
Bisch
Nice buck Jim!!!!
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Great buck, good story... Way to go Jim!
I don't have to tell ya that I had a great time, but not seeing any deer for the last three days has left me wanting more, more, more. Anybody want to come and build bows for me so I can go hunting? :0
BIgJim
Congratulations, that is a good buck for sure! Nice job.
Congrats Big Jim! That's a dandy buck! :thumbsup: