- Apr 17, 2017
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So this past Sunday morning I finally got the buck I have been after for 2 years, thank you Lord!
Was with my buddy, who has never shot a deer, and I was trying to get him set up to get a buck. I tried staying back and sent him ahead to sit closer to a mock scrape we had made with a scent dripper. What ended up happening was the big old smart buck tried circling around and sneaking out the back along the creek, right where I was waiting, I couldn't believe it. I didn't have a great shot because he was in some brush and about to go over a berm down into the creek bottom, but the old 30-06 got him down.
Yee-haw, the dragging him back across the creek and beaver dam was quite a chore.
I didn't have him weighed, but an online chart for figuring weight by measurements on the buck said: with a 43 inch chest he is in the neighborhood of a 228 pound live weight, 182 field dressed, for 103 pounds of edible meat.
Having trouble with the pc, will post more pics.
Was with my buddy, who has never shot a deer, and I was trying to get him set up to get a buck. I tried staying back and sent him ahead to sit closer to a mock scrape we had made with a scent dripper. What ended up happening was the big old smart buck tried circling around and sneaking out the back along the creek, right where I was waiting, I couldn't believe it. I didn't have a great shot because he was in some brush and about to go over a berm down into the creek bottom, but the old 30-06 got him down.
Yee-haw, the dragging him back across the creek and beaver dam was quite a chore.
I didn't have him weighed, but an online chart for figuring weight by measurements on the buck said: with a 43 inch chest he is in the neighborhood of a 228 pound live weight, 182 field dressed, for 103 pounds of edible meat.
Having trouble with the pc, will post more pics.