Kerry & Kathy
Member #007
At 10:50 Sunday morning I heard a deer snort behind my stand at what sounded like about a hundred yards. But it was back in the timber where I couldn’t see anything moving. I listened and heard more snorts and grunts and wheezing. I finally realized that I was hearing two bucks fighting…!
I set up to watch two trails that I knew came out of the knoll where the racket was coming from. In about a minute a nice buck came running out of the tree line and across the open field I was watching. About 50 yds behind …was this buck…chasing him. I aimed for the leading edge of his chest and fired one round hitting him about two inches behind his right shoulder. The Pro Hunter went through both lungs and exited the other side leaving a quarter sized hole. The buck arched his back and kicked one time as he tucked his tail…so I knew he was hit well. He ran another 60 yds and dropped into a dry creek bed.
When I looked him over he had several scrapes on his neck and back where it was obvious he had been fighting. Under his right eye was a swollen area the size of a golf ball from a previous antler injury that you can see in the pictures. This deer was definitely a bruiser…and had the scars to show.
From 6:15 Saturday morning until 10:50 Sunday morning I saw 12 deer. What was unusual was that 8 of the 12 were bucks. But most were forked horn or six point immature bucks so I let them all walk.
This deer does not have a lot of points but it is a big wide rack that is symmetrical and well worth mounting.
This particular stand has now accounted for six large bucks of 8 pts or more.
This also makes the sixth large buck of 8 to 11 points that I have killed with the 6.8 in the last eight years.
Compared to the other 8, 10 and 11 point bucks I've killed on our farm.... the similarities between racks is obvious. We seem to have a very good gene pool working for us….
I set up to watch two trails that I knew came out of the knoll where the racket was coming from. In about a minute a nice buck came running out of the tree line and across the open field I was watching. About 50 yds behind …was this buck…chasing him. I aimed for the leading edge of his chest and fired one round hitting him about two inches behind his right shoulder. The Pro Hunter went through both lungs and exited the other side leaving a quarter sized hole. The buck arched his back and kicked one time as he tucked his tail…so I knew he was hit well. He ran another 60 yds and dropped into a dry creek bed.
When I looked him over he had several scrapes on his neck and back where it was obvious he had been fighting. Under his right eye was a swollen area the size of a golf ball from a previous antler injury that you can see in the pictures. This deer was definitely a bruiser…and had the scars to show.
From 6:15 Saturday morning until 10:50 Sunday morning I saw 12 deer. What was unusual was that 8 of the 12 were bucks. But most were forked horn or six point immature bucks so I let them all walk.
This deer does not have a lot of points but it is a big wide rack that is symmetrical and well worth mounting.
This particular stand has now accounted for six large bucks of 8 pts or more.
This also makes the sixth large buck of 8 to 11 points that I have killed with the 6.8 in the last eight years.
Compared to the other 8, 10 and 11 point bucks I've killed on our farm.... the similarities between racks is obvious. We seem to have a very good gene pool working for us….
