Hello all this is my first post here and probably not my last. I have a few picks of the buck I harvested in 2009. I have been after this one for a couple of years and he has always outsmarted me by picking up my sent and never ever coming to calls or rattles. I have seen him mating with deer, playing with the farmer’s dog in the field, the field he was always in, the one I could never hunt. This time though I outsmarted him I had gotten tired of the usual two stands I hunt out of and decided to change it up. I put this stand up and came back the next day around 3:00pm. Within an hour there he was walking through the tall grass, he was on the move and not stopping and not going in the direction I would have liked him to go. This was a onetime decision and I was pretty confident in myself and the bow, I grunted too him at 45yards and twang the arrow found its mark. Thump, thump, thump went the heart and I gave myself and the deer a half hour to ingest what happened. He is now hanging above the fireplace and my 11 turning 12 year old daughter says to me, dad if I get my license and shoot a deer can I have a deer mount too beside yours. So I told her to study hard, and now she has her eyes set on the "NEW" Vixen II Pink Crossbow.
Back to the buck: 285lbs on hoof, 10 pointer, caught Nov 11th 2009 In Pickering Ontario, through the heart and 1 lung, and my PB.
Here he is in 2008 on my trail camera.
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Where I found him lying down.
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Outside spread 22 3/4
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A new upcoming hunter.
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The Mount.
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