Buck in the Truck!

**gadget74** · 10-19-2009, 08:21 AM

As you can see by the pic, I got lucky on this one.
I'm not sure how I missed my mark because I had a good bead on him. Not sure if he jumped or moved at the last second, but I got lucky and I'll take it.
He's not very big, but it's meat in the freezer!

**gadget74** · 10-19-2009, 08:22 AM

BTW...I also got lucky cause he dropped where he stood and I didn't have to track him!

**helomech** · 10-19-2009, 08:31 AM

Congrats, but might want to recheck your sights. Never seen one back up when startled. Could have just pulled the shot, but I would recheck just to be certain.

grnTitan04 · 10-19-2009, 08:33 AM

Nice f'ing shot man!
Go back and delete that 'accidental' crap, and let everyone believe you are robin hood.

**gadget74** · 10-19-2009, 08:33 AM

I checked them a few days ago.
I probably just pulled it.

**gadget74** · 10-19-2009, 08:36 AM

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Originally Posted by grnTitan04

Nice f'ing shot man!
Go back and delete that 'accidental' crap, and let everyone believe you are robin hood.

LOL! I thought about that, but I can't lie. Anyone that bow hunts knows it's not easy at all to make a perfect shot in the field, and this is just my second year to bowhunt.

I have jokingly told a few people that that is how you do it to keep from having to chase them down afterward.

**helomech** · 10-19-2009, 08:51 AM

I know how you feel. This doe did not go anywhere either. But I can't lie I aimed about a foot lower, she was quartering me looking straight at me I must have used the 40 yard pin instead of the 20 yard pin.

SpeedFreak · 10-19-2009, 09:02 AM

I let the big one walk past me

**gadget74** · 10-19-2009, 09:13 AM

Dam speed!
That's a nice buck!
I'll be looking for one like that next.
I saw one about that size 150 yds out on Saturday. Just wait for rifle season...
I've got one more buck tag to fill and I'll save it for a good one.
I've got 4 doe tags I can fill in the mean time.

SpeedFreak · 10-19-2009, 09:57 AM

He was a nice one for sure.
The morning was very foggy with a thick haze covering at least 3ft from the ground.
It just was getting light when I saw movement coming around my right side.
I realized it was a large bodied deer, but to be honest I couldnt tell if it was a 8pt or larger.
At my shot he turned left and only when he jumped over a dead tree did I get a good look at the spread of his antler.
He may have ran 30yrds then crashed up, but I wasnt joking when I said I let the big one walk away.
It was right after my shot that I heard movement heading away from me and I saw a deer with a much larger rack than this one moving back
into the thic stuff.

This was a nice 10pt that was taken in 2006. During that year I chose not to enter into the Georgia Outdoor news "Truck Buck" contest, andIve regretted it ever since.

The taxidermist I took the deer to was well known in that region of Georgia and any quality deer taken within a 3 county region was typically taken to him for mounting.
I was informed this was the largest deer he mounted that year from his region which would have allowed me entry into a attempt to win that years truck.

Shane06fl · 10-19-2009, 10:02 AM

Nice bucks all the way around!!

Speedfreak what part of GA are you hunting??

**helomech** · 10-19-2009, 10:03 AM

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Originally Posted by SpeedFreak

I let the big one walk past me

Great deer, congrats.

SpeedFreak · 10-19-2009, 11:11 AM

This deer came from a region about a hour south of Augusta Ga on property that belongs to my wife's family.
I live/hunt a region of S-Ga that is so close to Florida that when I sneeze a Gator fan will likly bless me.

tnbowhunter · 10-19-2009, 12:36 PM

Wow!!! That's a hell of a shot, lol.
Congrats to ya, he looks big enough to me.
BTW, I got #2 Sat. morning. I thought I was shooting another doe but turns out it was a buck. One side was broken off at the hairline and the other was just a two or three inch stub. He must of been one bad azz Mo Fo.

**gadget74** · 10-19-2009, 01:17 PM

so does that count as antlerless?