Man what a day yesterday. I was off work so my wife and I could take our 6 year old daughter to Ft. Worth to be put under anesthesia to have a tooth removed. General procedure, but still hard to see your kids like that. That went great, her appt. was at 11, we got there early and was in the car headed home by 11:30. Since she was feeling great and me giving my wife several hints on how good the hunting would be 
, she told me to get out of here.
To the hunt, I got in my popup at 4:30, didn't see anything till my feeder went off at 6:20. Then the deer started pouring in, usually in this stand I am lucky to see over 5 deer. This sit I had already seen over 20 different deer, with half of them being bucks, 8's, 9's, spikes, forkys. Most of the deer were in the volunteer wheat that has started to come up, except one mature 8 that I call meth mouth, he was a regualar last year. He is missing about 2" of his bottom jaw and has to lick the corn and look up at the sky to let the corn fall into his mouth. I was really surprised he made it last year through last year. He has a big body, but not much for horns. Anyway I had about 20 deer all around me and meth mouth kept looking into the brush, I knew it had to be a mature deer, the evening was just too good. A few minutes later I saw methy bristle up and pin his ears back and head to my left, I looked through my little peep hole and saw a good buck cross into the field. He had his ears back too and him and methy squared off and put on a good fight 30 yards from my blind in the wheat field. The new buck ran methy out into the field.
Now here was this shooter buck 25 yards to my left and I can't shoot out of that window. He was feeding away from me, I was actually not upset if I didn't get a shot because this has probably been one of the best sits I have ever had deer hunting. By this time he was probably 40-50 yars out, then for some reason he threw his head up and walked straight to the feeder. He was eating corn at 18 yards with his butt to me for what seemed like forever, my heart was about to come out of my chest and I could barely breathe. Finally he turned, slight quartering away. I drew back slowly, he never even lifted his head or knew I was there. I kept saying in my head pick a spot, pick a pin. I hit the release, rage 2 blade blew through both lungs, complete pass through. He ran off with his head down, he was hit hard. I watched him run into the thick mesquites, loosing sight at about 80 yards. I thought I heard him crash but wasn't sure. I was texting D-Martin the play by play, I told him I was going to give the deer 30 minutes to an hour just in case. So the nice guy he is, he drove out there to help me. I had about 20 minutes of daylight left, I was going to sit in my blind and walk to the truck at dark. Until the mosquito patrol changed my mind, I grabbed my arrow, saw my blood trail and backed out.
Bloody arrow pic I was texting everybody
While I was waiting, I got my dog all ready.
So D-Martin gets there and we go to the start of the trail, put Ranger down and we are off. 100 yards later he is laying in a big pile of cactus, easy track Get him gutted, stop and get ice. Time to go home for some LDP's.
Here they are, biggest buck I have ever killed. First bow buck after five years of bowhunting. Probably biggest bodied and most mature deer I've ever killed, too.
I knew what deer this was, we have pictures of him last year as well. I had actually checked my cam before I got in my blind and this deer has been coming in every morning for the last couple of days, so I had plans to hunt him Saturday morning.
We put a quick tape to him last night and came up with 138". I didn't think he was that big. I have never really scored a deer, never had too. I've killed one deer that went 118" but he was scored for me. Here are my measurements.
spread - 16.5"
MB - 22
MB - 21
mass - 5, 4, 3.5, 3 1/4 x2 same on both sides.
brows 2 and 2 1/4
Left side- G2-6, G3-9, G4-6
Right side- G2-5, G3-8, G4-7
Extras 1" and 1"
12 scoreable points
138 1/4" does that sound right?
No matter what he scores I am happy and proud of this deer.
, she told me to get out of here.To the hunt, I got in my popup at 4:30, didn't see anything till my feeder went off at 6:20. Then the deer started pouring in, usually in this stand I am lucky to see over 5 deer. This sit I had already seen over 20 different deer, with half of them being bucks, 8's, 9's, spikes, forkys. Most of the deer were in the volunteer wheat that has started to come up, except one mature 8 that I call meth mouth, he was a regualar last year. He is missing about 2" of his bottom jaw and has to lick the corn and look up at the sky to let the corn fall into his mouth. I was really surprised he made it last year through last year. He has a big body, but not much for horns. Anyway I had about 20 deer all around me and meth mouth kept looking into the brush, I knew it had to be a mature deer, the evening was just too good. A few minutes later I saw methy bristle up and pin his ears back and head to my left, I looked through my little peep hole and saw a good buck cross into the field. He had his ears back too and him and methy squared off and put on a good fight 30 yards from my blind in the wheat field. The new buck ran methy out into the field.
Now here was this shooter buck 25 yards to my left and I can't shoot out of that window. He was feeding away from me, I was actually not upset if I didn't get a shot because this has probably been one of the best sits I have ever had deer hunting. By this time he was probably 40-50 yars out, then for some reason he threw his head up and walked straight to the feeder. He was eating corn at 18 yards with his butt to me for what seemed like forever, my heart was about to come out of my chest and I could barely breathe. Finally he turned, slight quartering away. I drew back slowly, he never even lifted his head or knew I was there. I kept saying in my head pick a spot, pick a pin. I hit the release, rage 2 blade blew through both lungs, complete pass through. He ran off with his head down, he was hit hard. I watched him run into the thick mesquites, loosing sight at about 80 yards. I thought I heard him crash but wasn't sure. I was texting D-Martin the play by play, I told him I was going to give the deer 30 minutes to an hour just in case. So the nice guy he is, he drove out there to help me. I had about 20 minutes of daylight left, I was going to sit in my blind and walk to the truck at dark. Until the mosquito patrol changed my mind, I grabbed my arrow, saw my blood trail and backed out.
Bloody arrow pic I was texting everybody
While I was waiting, I got my dog all ready.
So D-Martin gets there and we go to the start of the trail, put Ranger down and we are off. 100 yards later he is laying in a big pile of cactus, easy track
Get him gutted, stop and get ice. Time to go home for some LDP's.Here they are, biggest buck I have ever killed. First bow buck after five years of bowhunting. Probably biggest bodied and most mature deer I've ever killed, too.
I knew what deer this was, we have pictures of him last year as well. I had actually checked my cam before I got in my blind and this deer has been coming in every morning for the last couple of days, so I had plans to hunt him Saturday morning.
We put a quick tape to him last night and came up with 138". I didn't think he was that big. I have never really scored a deer, never had too. I've killed one deer that went 118" but he was scored for me. Here are my measurements.
spread - 16.5"
MB - 22
MB - 21
mass - 5, 4, 3.5, 3 1/4 x2 same on both sides.
brows 2 and 2 1/4
Left side- G2-6, G3-9, G4-6
Right side- G2-5, G3-8, G4-7
Extras 1" and 1"
12 scoreable points
138 1/4" does that sound right?
No matter what he scores I am happy and proud of this deer.
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