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First Trad Buck! Finally!

Started by HOWITZER, December 14, 2011, 12:17:00 PM

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HOWITZER

December 14, 2011, 12:17:00 PM
So it's been a pretty good year for me as far as hunting goes.  I harvested my first trad deer and now I have harvested my first trad buck and it happens to be the biggest I've ever taken.  He's not a monster but man what excitement.  A memory I won't ever forget!  

I was hunting some friend's property in Westchester County.  The deer weren't moving much, a full moon and warmer weather was keeping things pretty slow in our neck of the woods, but at about 4:00pm on Saturday things changed.  I caught a white rack moving through the woods out at about 70 yards, I got excited and waited and watched.  My knees were knocking my hands were shaking and my heart was pumping.  The buck meandered around a bit then started working away from me.  I grabbed my grunt call gave a couple quick grunts and he looked back over his shoulder but kept walking away.  He went out of sight and I quickly grabbed my bleat call and started bleating and grunting at the same time for what seemed like two minutes.  I stopped and listened and I heard the sounds of a trotting deer coming up the ridge behind my stand.  I quickly grabbed my bow of the hook and got into position just as he crested the ridge and came into view.  He took about ten steps and stopped... and looked and looked and looked and looked...finally he started to work along the ridge toward my stand one slow step at a time.  He eventually took a step behind a large tree and I was able to draw and anchor just as his front shoulders cleared the tree, he took one more step and the arrow hit its mark.  I hit him a bit high in all the excitement, I think I jerked the string, or maybe I was shaking so bad that I could barely keep the arrow on the rest, but regardless...I spined him, he went straight down.  I grabbed a second arrow and quickly put one through the boiler maker and he expired quickly.  Got him with an Assenheimer recurve, CE 250's, and I believe it's a Zwickey broad head I got on a trade from tradgang, but I don't know what model it is.

"Though I'm closer to wrong
I'm no further from right"

Altiman94

#1
December 14, 2011, 12:24:00 PM
That's a great buck.  Congrats on your first traditional buck!
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#2
December 14, 2011, 12:25:00 PM
nice!  :thumbsup:  congratts!

joe skipp

#3
December 14, 2011, 12:26:00 PM
Beautiful deer Neil...way to go.
"Neal...is this heaven?" "No Piute but we are dam close". Top of the Mtn in Medicine Bow Nat Forest.

longbowben

#4
December 14, 2011, 12:26:00 PM
Congrats on a great first buck.  :thumbsup:
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creekwood

#5
December 14, 2011, 12:26:00 PM
Nice! And those Assenheimer's are sure good shooters, but I don't have to tell you that!

Gen273

#6
December 14, 2011, 12:27:00 PM
nice buck!!! congrats
Jesus Saves (ROM 10:13)

Izzy

#7
December 14, 2011, 12:28:00 PM
Nice one pal. Ol Dan will be proud of you even though he always gets mad when we refer to you as his son in law.

swp

#8
December 14, 2011, 12:30:00 PM
Good job!!   :thumbsup:    :thumbsup:
"People say you can't go back, its like when you get to the edge of a cliff and you take one more step forward or you do a 180 degree turn and take one more step forward. Which way are you going? Which one is progress?" Doug Tompkins

Over&Under

#9
December 14, 2011, 12:30:00 PM
That's your first?? Well done!
"Elk (add hogs to the list) are not hard to hit....they're just easy to miss"          :)
TGMM

Mudd

#10
December 14, 2011, 12:31:00 PM
:archer:
Trying to make a difference
Psalm 37:4
Roy L "Mudd" Williams
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Archery isn't something I do, it's who I am!
The road to "Sherwood" makes for an awesome journey.

Shape Shifter

#11
December 14, 2011, 12:42:00 PM
Congrats on a fine deer.  :archer2:
"Effort only fully releases its rewards after a person refuses to quit"

steadman

#12
December 14, 2011, 12:45:00 PM
Congrats!! Great job!  :thumbsup:
" Just concentrate and don't freak out next time" my son Tyler(age 7) giving advise after watching me miss a big mulie.

Norminator

#13
December 14, 2011, 12:47:00 PM
Congrats on a great 1st buck, good job.
Norm from Canuckistan

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Robhood23

#14
December 14, 2011, 01:06:00 PM
:thumbsup:
The man who thinks he can and the man who thinks he can't are both right!!!

KentuckyTJ

#15
December 14, 2011, 01:18:00 PM
These are my favorite threads. Congrats brother on a great buck.
www.zipperbows.com
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KSdan

#16
December 14, 2011, 01:30:00 PM
What a great experience.  Congrats!!
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rastaman

#17
December 14, 2011, 01:35:00 PM
Awesome!  Congratulations sir!   :thumbsup:    :thumbsup:
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maineac

#18
December 14, 2011, 01:36:00 PM
A beauty!!  Congrats!!
The season gave him perfect mornings, hunter's moons and fields of freedom found only by walking them with a predator's stride.
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RM81

#19
December 14, 2011, 02:08:00 PM
Great job. Congrats!  :thumbsup:
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