Starvin Hillbilly Ain't Starvin!

[DaveShooter]

Congrats to ya and now ya can have a feast -Enjoy !!!

[frisky]

Congrats . I can't see one and he has two?

[xcaliber]

My part of the story goes like this. Last Sunday, Ken and I were texting back & forth pre dawn between Arkansas, and Indiana. I had passed on a small 8 pointer Saturday 3 times, so Ken was ribbing me a bit. I had two bucks hanging around pre dawn Sunday, but could not get a shot due to low light, and thick cover that I was hunting in. Well, was not long after the bucks left, Ken texted me a picture of his, and his Dad's Bucks. I'll let Ken tell the story from down yonder though. It was a great morning for me, even though I did not close a deal, my buddy did!

[georgiaboy]

A double CONGRATS!!!!

[Cool Curves]

Nice, congrats!

[amythntr]

..... Yee Haa!...great job there Ken.... Some nice vitles will be cookin up soon!

Ya'll know how to be shootin up them there Arkansas woods!

Anthony

[j.krug]

Very nice! A couple good looking bucks there. Congrats.

[Starvin' Hillbilly]

Sorry it took so long to post these pictures!
Ken can tell the story when he gets time. I'm hanging around the ranch today, getting my gear ready for next week, so i had time to post this for S.H.

Congrats Buddy!

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Hi all!,
As Ya'll can see I've been a little busy so forgive me if I've been elusive. Muzzleloader started here in Arkansas on the 17th. the Monday prior had to re-scope my dads accura v2 and re-zero it. i shot mine which egg'd the same hole so we set off and set up the climbers and blinds.
Wednesday I got a call from dad saying that derrick, the owner of the farm we hunt on was moving his cattle where we were to hunt and he didn't want them tearing up our blinds. dad took out and gathered up our equipment and he called me back telling me. all is good though we were going on further back on his property and when the 16th rolled around we went to the back of the property and scouted. we found several scrapes even though the ground was dry as gunpowder.

just like everyone else, excited about that first morning, we got up way too early getting on stand way too early. we sat there in the dark for 2 hours till it got light enough to shoot. opening day Saturday all I saw was a big spike and a pick up load a squirrels, dad had 2 nursing doe's and fawns come up on him w/ other deer working a little deeper in the timber. Saturday evening dad seen nothing but tree rats and I spotted 2 deer some 3-400 yards away, couldn't tell what they were w/ the naked eye.

Sunday, the 18th we adjusted our wake up time and I got on stand at 630 am; gets light enough to shoot at 710. but while sitting there in the dark i heard some rocks a popping and something like "pushing". I couldn't quite put it together cause it was about 300 yards down the hill from me, but dad on the other hand had it in his pocket. At 730 the quiet peacefulness was shattered by 100 grains of triple 7 pellets. I dam near jumped out of the tree. w/ the sound still echoing through the hills dad gets on the radio "I can see a white belly, just sit still".

I sat there scanning back and forth looking not seeing a thing till i saw jus 2 inches of antler tips tripping through the high grass on the downhill side of the field some 150 yards away, moving right to left, then all of a sudden he started quartering across the field then cut back coming straight toward me. at 80 yards he stopped almost face on and started to act as if he was going to cut and run. so I leveled the X hairs on the white spot on his neck and squeezed the trigger. at the touch of the trigger i saw him "WHARP" the ground and tense up and as I pulled my eye out of the scope and looked at him, he gave one final kick.

Dad got the atv and brought the trailer and we loaded mine first (the one on the bottom of the pic Dan posted). we then went down to load his and the first thing i thought was "where was the saddle?" I have never seen a buck w/ that big of a body in Arkansas. (buck laying on top in pic) We toasted our success w/ a thermos of coffee and back to the house for work.

Monday morning, the 19th i killed a doe and on Tuesday I seen another buck that wouldn't measure I stared at him long and hard in the scope but couldn't make an eye guard grow to save my life so he got a pass. the rest of this past week was like someone threw a switch not a thing showed during the daylight and what I briefly read in the forum and the pic vixenmaster posted of his buck that holds true, they be moving at night.

. . .and yes i am guilty of hacking on Dan for passing on a buck 3 times, but i do respect him or anyone w/ that much restraint!

-ken

[wildcatter]

Fine work SH,,,congrats on a pair of good buck's to the both of yuu's!!

[ccamp200]

Handsome bucks man - huge congrats!