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How ’bout this: Dude’s first bow buck is a 245!!!! 🤯
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What the…! How incredible is that! That’s KS’s Marc Somers with the absolute TANK he arrowed this year, nicknamed “Larri” after his friend and hunting pard. Here’s some of the story from Outdoor Life:
> “My buddy Cody Larrimore and I got permission to hunt an 80-acre farm and started putting cellular trail cameras up last summer.” The pair of bowhunters knew it was likely a prime whitetail spot because Larrimore, 34, arrowed a huge 205″ buck last year on another farm only 30 minutes south….
> On July 21, they got the first photos of an incredible buck still in velvet…were amazed that the deer’s headgear seemingly didn’t diminish in size even after rubbing off its velvet….
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> “Discipline was the hardest part of taking this buck because he was so wary, wind-smart and cautious. We stayed out of the farm right until we started hunting him because we didn’t want to rush in and bust him from his usual routine…. We didn’t know much about the property, so we were very cautious going in….”
> They set up a slightly elevated blind Sept 1, and were careful accessing the spot by walking in along a railroad track…the hunting team placed Ani-Logics deer attractant near the blind to draw and hold the buck on the farm. “He loved the Ani-Logics….”
Took ’em 4 months to get a shot at it:
> “Well after 6pm Larri finally showed. He moved directly to the Ani-Logics and started feeding. Somers drew, but just then the bucked turned its body away…had to freeze at full draw for minutes, then had to let down his bow.
> Finally the coyotes moved away, Larri returned to feeding…and offered a broadside shot for Somers at 25 yards.
> They arrived back at the blind about midnight…and found Larri dead only 70 yards away. Somers’ arrow had passed completely through the massive buck’s chest, hitting one lung, the liver, and exiting on the far side.
The buck weighed 274 lbs FIELD DRESSED!! 🤯 🤯 Estimated live weight was 340+!! It has 21 scoreable points and an estimated green-score of 245″:
> “My eyes filled with tears in the blind that evening with Larrimore after I’d shot the buck. It’s the most humbling, rewarding and meaningful thing I’ve ever experienced hunting.”
No doubt! Congrats! Amazing!
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This IA buck is a 237″ non-typ! 👀
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> Going into the morning of Oct 16…I didn’t know where our target buck “Angry” was currently calling home. Angry’s summer pattern had been full of predictable trail camera pictures while feeding in fields…but that behavior quickly stopped. The last time we had a picture of Angry was on Oct 1, the archery season opener.
> …the one thing that had changed from Oct 1 to Oct 16 was the corn and bean fields had been harvested. Angry had a small core area in 2020, and we had it littered with cameras. So, we went to the 1 spot we didn’t have any cameras that put us between food and bedding. And bedding was the key.
> We called this deer Angry for a reason. I knew if I laid eyes on him that he would earn his name once I hit some rattling antlers together.
Aaron and his camera guy (?) spotted him on a hill:
> That’s when I noticed the deer’s behavior: His ears were laid back, he was bristled out, it was Angry! Being so anxious, I was quick to snort wheeze at him and change his direction. Then all the does by us started running! I settled him down with some aggressive grunts, imitating a chasing buck. Once he calmed down, I snort wheezed again and changed his tone, following the wheezes with 2 rattling sequences. A flick of his tail told me he was heading our way.
> I made the mistake of picking up my binoculars and looking at his rack! I was amazed and so nervous that I was sick to my stomach – I think he could hear my heartbeat.
> It took Angry 45 minutes to cover 100 yards. I found a pumpkin-sized opening in the cover, and I knew it was my only shot. I stopped him with a grunt as I struggled to find the opening in my peep. There it is, I thought. I let it rip and heard a giant wack! He took off like a freight train.
Found him dead in a creek bottom. Great deer and story – glad it was a kill shot!
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“Soup is dead.” HUGE PA public land buck goes down!
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Not much info on this one yet but huge props to John Raubenstrauch, who’s been after this deer for 2 years. They nicknamed the buck “Soup” because “his drop tines looked like soup spoons.” Lol, some deets from northamericanwhitetail.com:
> On Oct 25 John was working with his friend, and he knew it was the fourth day in Soup’s pattern and the buck was scheduled to show up. John decided that he would hunt for the giant himself. That evening, John sat on the ground…not in a ground blind of any kind, he just decided to hunt sitting on the forest floor.
> After sitting for a while, John caught movement within the laurel. It was Soup. “He stuck his head out, and I thought, oh my gosh, he’s bigger than I thought.” The buck stepped from the laurel at 20 yards and stared straight at John. However, after an intense glare, Soup put his head down and looked in the opposite direction. This gave John the perfect opportunity to squeeze a shot off with his crossbow.
> Although John hasn’t officially scored the deer…Soup did tip the scales at 240 lbs after he had been field dressed.
> John said that some of the kids who helped name the buck were around after the recovery. And they all kept repeating, “Soup is dead.”
Lol love it congrats John!
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“There was no hesitation because I haven’t shot a trophy buck since 2009. I’ve been very selective….”
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> …McGarrh was confident in his shot placement. He called his wife to share the news and she came to help track the deer. That’s when the wheels began to fall off. McGarrh checked his phone and knew the weather would deteriorate soon and wash away the buck’s blood trail. “I looked at the radar and there was a storm coming.”
> …trailed the deer roughly 250 yards before the storm hit. “We’d been on that trail about 45 minutes and the bottom fell out. It was raining sideways and lightning was all around. We couldn’t have gotten more wet if we’d jumped in a lake.”
> As they continued to trail the buck, it jumped and ran.
> The storm passed and McGarrh called tracking dog handler Chad Smith…the decision was made to get on the trail that night while it was still fresh.
> The dog was able to pick up the deer’s scent, but the direction couldn’t have been worse. Watching the dog’s movements on a GPS, they saw he was on a straight track to the Mississippi River. When they caught up with the dog he was sitting at the edge of the river…”there’s blood on the rocks and the dog was looking at us like, ‘What do I do now?’ Needless to say my heart sank.”
> …returned to the river the following morning…there was no deer. Just to know he’d done all he could…continued downstream…when he passed a downed tree that had been blocking his view, there was his buck.
Amazing! The deer had a 150″ rack, 21.5″ spread and 24″ main beams. Good job Ken!
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Here’s the states with the most resident hunters – surprised?
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Got your guesses ready? All 50 were ranked based on census data but here’s the top 10, from Stacker.com:
10. ME = 11.5% of residents bought a hunting license
9. WV = 11.6%
8. WI = 11.7%
7. AK = 12.3%
6. OK = 14.2%
5. ID = 16.5%
4. ND = 17.2%
3. MT = 21.1%
2. WY = 22.7%
1. SD = 24.1%
Here’s the bottom 5:
46. MA = 0.8%
47. NJ = 0.8%
48. HI = 0.7%
49. RI = 0.7%
50. CA = 0.7%
BUT – bet a lotta big deer are walkin’ around in those states!
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1. OH: Couple absolute BRUTES!
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Gotta love regs:
> …while the season limit remains 6 total deer, hunters will be restricted to taking no more than 3 antlered or 4 antlerless deer in state deer areas 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9.
Wonder if it has anything to do with all the folks escaping to there…?
Here’s the graph – they speculate it’s due to better tech for the first 2 weapons:
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Also:
> Since a peak in the late 1960s, the number of people getting a license to hunt in NH has fallen by more than 40%, from roughly 99,000 to 55,000.
Take peeps hunting folks!
Apparently mostly because:
> …the additional precipitation and the above-average temperatures allowed mosquitoes to thrive. The windy conditions have also made for a “very unpleasant” first few weeks of bow hunting. “Due to the poor weather conditions, many hunters have little desire to sit in the woods and get rained on, especially when they have a lot of days to potentially hunt, unlike the short gun season.”
39th state to do so.
Outstanding. 👊
> A Memphis judge ordered two MS hunters to pay $10,450 in fines and restitution for illegally killing and transporting an 11-point buck from TN into their state. They also lost their hunting privileges and some of their hunting equipment used in killing the deer.
…the muley population.
To help figure out aging, growth rates, etc.
Gonna chocolate-coat ’em and put ’em in the lobby…kidding.
Love the idea. 👊
For their composite-cased .308 Win round. Anyone shoot it yet? Sound interesting:
> Composite-cased ammunition from True Velocity provides significant advantages over traditional brass rounds, including reduced heat transfer to firearms leading to longer chamber life and decreased throat erosion.
> These rounds boast sub-MOA accuracy, reduced heat, and extreme consistency in muzzle velocity….
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Came from Benchmade – congrats!
Wow!
16. 2A stuff.
17. Keep an eye on….
> The infection rate among sampled deer in 2020 was 50 times greater than infections reported among humans during the same time period.
Headline of the Day
Uh no they’re not – a few from EHD, way less than from vehicles, and the post is full of bad info. But either way NJ has way too many deer anyhow – just ask the farmers and drivers!
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Deer Disease News
> …a male mule deer was observed to be unhealthy and was euthanized in western Manitoba, near Lake of the Prairies.
> …will now make it even easier for deer and elk hunters to help fight chronic wasting disease. This new layer provides insights on CWD distribution, management zones, testing locations, carcass disposal sites and more for the entire country….
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> Using technology from other industries has allowed True Velocity to perfect composite-cased ammunition, and not since the advent of smokeless powder has new technology held the potential to change the ammunition market so drastically.
Huh! Here’s some more:
> True Velocity case construction is entirely different. The forming process begins with a steel-cased head that’s overmolded with polymer. The case neck and shoulder are molded separately and then fused to the lower portion of the case. This allows for interior case dimensions that are far more precise than what is possible with brass – 10 times as precise….
> …the True Velocity manufacturing facility looks and feels more like an aerospace lab with a full robotic operation and a fusillade of more than 600 checks and inspection points, including laser measurement sensors and AI algorithmic quality control. This level of sophistication means there’s an 80% reduction in manufacturing footprint compared to brass-cased extrusion….
> In addition to [30%] weight savings and consistency benefits, polymer has another major advantage over brass; it doesn’t hold heat. Because composite cases are insulators, they help maintain lower temperatures inside the firearm chamber than brass or other metallic cartridge cases.
> I tested the company’s .308 Win ammo loaded with Nosler 168-grain HPBT bullets from a Springfield Armory Waypoint rifle topped with a Leupold VX-5HD 4-20×52 scope. From 100 yards, 3-shot groups were consistently between 0.36″ and 0.5″. At 200 yards, the groups were all under 0.9″ with the best group at 0.75″. …Springfield Armory promises the Waypoint rifle will produce 0.75″ 3-shot groups at 100 yards with premium ammunition.
> Yes, True Velocity ammunition is more accurate than many match-grade loads with brass cases. But what’s most impressive about this ammo is the consistent velocities and standard deviations (SD).
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> The biggest mistake is underestimating a buck, especially a mature buck. He is likened to a hardened seasoned criminal on the run. One mistake on his part and he is caught. On the other hand, if you tip him off, success is almost impossible.
> Mature bucks very rarely if ever use the same crossing does use, even during the rut. He will use the wind to follow them. He might cross 50 yards from where they crossed or 5 yards from where they crossed. Sometimes they will even swim a wider area vs crossing a narrow point.
> Also, the place where a mature buck crosses the creek coming from his bed as he heads to feed or check does might be a good distance from where he’s heading, so the timing of your hunt could prove difficult. For example, if he’s heading to a green field 500 yards away, then he may be crossing that creek well before dark.
> So just finding tracks crossing a creek and hunting successfully is generally not as easy as you would think….
> …I like to make a map of my area. I will generally start with a 1- or 2-mile square area and concentrate on it.
He marks out feeding areas, feeders, bedding areas and travel routes since “90% of deer movement is at night”:
> There is a reason why the deer are crossing at a particular spot, and that is what I am trying to discover. What you want to find is the terrain change or the timber transition that is funneling them to that area and making them cross.
> It will take a lot of leg work and time to walk up and down the creeks and branches to observe and note all crossings. I am hoping to find 3 or 4 of these crossings in my area that I believe a mature buck will use….
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