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Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: gregg dudley on November 26, 2013, 01:41:00 PM
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First of all, last night I did something that I said I would never do. I passed on a piebald deer. The first deer I saw step out of the thick planted pines was a big old doe. She was immediately followed by a piebald yearling with devil spikes.. Another mature down soon followed. All three deer were in range. Even for me.
I have always said that if I had the chance to shoot a piebald deer I'm shooting it. It wouldn't matter whether it was a doe, a buck, a fawn, three legged, whatever. As I looked at the devil spike I kept thinking how much more meat there was on the doe. So just like that I passed on the first piebald deer I have ever seen in thirty years of deer hunting and sent an arrow through the lungs of the biggest doe.
She ran down the logging road for 30 yards and then zigzagged through 90 yards of the thickest nasties briers, tall grass, and thick pines you can imagine. It took me and Rob McAbee an hour to sort out the trail and claim my venison.
That piebald has been on my mind all day. He better hope he doesn't step out in front of me when he is by himself!
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Good shot.
We all have our own code, and that code changes by the minute as we receive more input and update our databases.
I feel the same as you, I see one, I want it. . but I hope if it ever happens like yours did, I have the wherewithall to do as you did.
ChuckC
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Nice doe! Would love to see a piebald in the wild! :thumbsup:
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good doe and well told story.. I too would like to see a piebald deer in the wild.
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Good deer Gregg, congrats.
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Great story congratulations. Just talking with some buddies too how some of us see piebalds and white deer all the time driving, scouting whatever and some of us have never seen these deer while actually hunting or from a tree.
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Congrats!! And great story.
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Those old does are smart. Congratulations.
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Good shootin and congrats!!
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Nice shooting Greg and a great doe.
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Great job Gregg...I'll let you tell me more about it at the TBOF shoot in March
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Good deal Greg. There are plenty more in those thickets so stay after them.
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Congrats on a beautiful doe!
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Congrats Gregg
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Congrats Gregg ! What a snoot on that heifer ! Looks like tasty vittles right there bud..... :campfire:
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Congrats on the slickhead, Gregg!
Piebalds are cool!
Bisch
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Congrats!
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Congrats Gregg. I missed a piebald on Ossabaw Island at 5 yards once. shot over her back. RC
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Nice one! Good eating right there.
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Gotta love the big mammas...CONGRATS!
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Very nice, congrats! :thumbsup:
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Congrats on a nice deer.
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Congrats again buddy!!
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Can't live a life of regrets! Beautiful doe. Great eating, and you just saved yourself a ton of money on a full body piebald mount!
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Greg Congrats on the Doe!
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Nice!! The meat hunter in me rules my shot choice also.
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Originally posted by ceme24:
You just saved yourself a ton of money on a full body piebald mount!
I thought about that!
Thanks guys!
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Originally posted by RC:
Congrats Gregg. I missed a piebald on Ossabaw Island at 5 yards once. shot over her back. RC
That would have been my luck! It was definately a smaller target!
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Congratulations, Gregg! Wow! Just a few years ago, I met you when a bunch of the TBOF members came to our TBG state shoot and won nearly all our trophies. Now you are killing our deer. Glad to hear of your success. I hope to see you again in the spring.
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Never test Gregg and his widow.
Congrats my friend that is awesome.
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Congrats on the doe!
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That's OK, Greg.
We'll find you a white hog. :)
Congratulations on your doe.
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:thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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Thanks, Irv!
And everyone else!