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OK’s biggest bow buck so far?
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What a gnarly-lookin’ stud! (Talkin’ about the deer…😁) Johnny Maxwell took this 211″ buck 🤯 estimated to be 6-7 years old – The Oklahoman with the deets:
> “I have killed a couple of 170s but nothing like this. The buck just showed up about 3 days before I shot him. We didn’t even know we had a buck like this.”
> The buck was trailing some does and “literally walked right under our tree. He’s an unbelievable buck.”
> Hunting buddy Paul Powers: “We hunted 7 or 8 years with no Booners (B&C bucks). Now we’ve killed 3 in the last 4 years, and had 2 others on camera.”
> Paul said they reached their goal by simply passing on young bucks over the years…. “You just got to have the discipline to let them go.”
Very cool – here’s more cool:
> Maxwell hunts with a crossbow because of health issues, and hunts with friends who help him set up and get into the deer stand.
> Maxwell and [Paul] Powers are all also pro staffers for Final Descent Outdoors, which produces a faith-based outdoors television show.
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This shaggy KS buck taped out at 202!!
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> It was 93 degrees the afternoon of Sept 27 when Burkhardt hunted his stand for the 3rd time. Not much was moving during that hot evening, but finally a few does showed feeding in a CRP field where the buck had been spotted on camera. Suddenly the does got jittery and moved off, and Burkhardt figured something was up.
> Sure enough the non-typical buck he wanted moved out of the CRP, but was facing Burkhardt…. A few minutes passed, and Burkhardt drew his bow. “He was only 20 yards, and I was going to take him facing me, aiming for the soft throat area and sending the broadhead deep into his chest. But then he turned a bit, giving me a quartering-toward-me shot.”
> …saw it hit the buck tight behind the shoulder and penetrate to the fletchings. The buck spun and raced directly back into the jungle of CRP cover. Knowing that trailing the deer in the tangle of CRP would be tough, and the shot angle to the buck was a bit marginal, Burkhardt decided to leave the area and get help tracking the deer.
> He returned with his father Bob and brother-in-law Kyle Smith, but they found no blood…. It was full dark, and Burkhardt noticed a faint glow in the cover. He moved closer and saw it was his lighted arrow nock, still attacked to his arrow that was buried in the buck that lay dead in the tangled CRP.
Good reason for lighted nocks! Rack deets:
> The non-typical buck has points and stickers going everywhere…green-scored at 202 2/8″…estimated weight was 225 lbs, aged at 5.5 years….
And get this:
> “There are 3 or 4 other bucks I know about in the area that are each over 200 inches.”
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OK hunter dug a 100-yard ditch to sneak up on this huge typ! 🤯
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> There’s a spot on the property…2 ponds that have a narrow piece of land between them…determined that the strip between the ponds was the kill spot. So he did his best to increase the odds of the buck being there.
> “I laid over some trees and made some brushpiles to really pinch his movements down to this spot. I even went as far as digging a ditch to help me sneak into my stand without being spotted”…he dug the 100-yard and roughly 4′-deep ditch to conceal him, since his treestand was tight to the buck’s bedding area.
> His wife was pregnant with their family’s 3rd child, and she was due shortly after the season opener. “I knew I only had 5 or 6 hunting days before our baby would arrive.”
> Clay used his ditch to sneak into his treestand…saw 3 different mature bucks during the sit, and his target typical was the last one to come out of the bedding area. After a perfectly placed arrow hit the buck from 20 yards away, the buck ran 50 yards before falling over.
Estimated score is 185 with a 22.5″ spread.
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After a rough treestand fall, GA hunter gets a real nice buck.
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Man that’s good to hear! A year after falling out of his treestand – breaking his neck in 3 places and his back in 1 – Willie Ware was lucky to be alive let alone back in his stand. Georgia Outdoor News talked with him about the x-bow stud buck he took this month:
> …reached his stand about 18′ up in a tree an hour before shooting hours began. The stand overlooks a food plot. Two pine trees stand between his stand and the food plot.
> At about 8am…a large deer stepped out of the brush at the far end of the shooting lane. The big buck cautiously took several steps and stopped periodically to look around and sniff the air. Ware needed the deer to get within 50 yards to take a shot with his scoped TenPoint crossbow.
> “Once he was about 75 yards away, I could see how symmetrical his rack was. I was thinking he might be the big 10-pointer we’ve been seeing on the cameras. When I saw how big he was, I started praying, ‘Lord just please let him come.’
> “It was magical. He just kept that pattern of walking about 4′, stopping, looking around and smelling. Once he got through that lane and entered the food plot, I knew it was that 10-pointer we had seen on camera last year.
> “I was a whole lot calmer than I thought I’d be when he walked almost to the middle of the food plot. I couldn’t have asked for anything better, especially since it was all downwind. When he stopped between those two trees, I put the scope of my crossbow on him and made a noise. He stopped, checked up and looked at me. That’s when I shot. He folded like a wet rag and went straight down in the food plot.”
Love it when they go down hard! The buck weighed nearly 200 lbs 👀 and grossed 142 3/8.
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What happens when the dogs get to your deer first.
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Happy for this young man but dang:
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216-incher is one of Mark’s biggest, which is sayin’ something:
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> The new law prohibits a bowhunter on someone else’s property from discharging an arrow within 100 yards of a building, or residential dwelling on that land, without the permission….
> The law further makes it illegal to allow an arrow shot from a bow and arrow to pass across the land of another person, and within 100 yards of a building or dwelling on that land, without permission….
> …hunters can kill up to 10 deer without antlers and 2 with antlers.
> Developed primarily for those hunters who are looking to acquire their permanent AZ Education Bonus Point without having to compete for limited seating in the classroom-style structure of the traditional AZ Hunter Education course.
> State and federal wildlife agencies opposed added restrictions on non-rural hunters. That’s because data shows the deer population appears healthy.
> “I think what these proposals are doing is creating conflict between user groups.”
It will now accept record book entries that use trained tracking dogs as long as dogs are legal, licensed, used for dead deer only, and recovered within 48 hours.
Floated by OL:
> For the 2021 season, the state saw a 27% increase in non-resident deer hunting applications. For only the 3rd time ever, the state issued all of its non-resident deer permits in the draw. This means that there were no available leftover permits in any unit.
> Most notably, there were almost 7,900 unsuccessful applicants this year. That means about 8,000 hopeful hunters wanted to hunt KS this season, but they’ll have to wait until next year.
Good!
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In 1934, Finnish immigrants to MN gave their mother country a few whitetails, and today that country harvests about 60,000/year.
> …sentenced to 2 months’ imprisonment, 2 months of home detention and fined $5,000. Fritzler must also serve a 1-year term of supervised release after the prison term. There is no parole in the federal system.
Post says it was gut-shot with a “blunt-tipped arrow.” 😡
…who is blind in one eye. #strong 👊
> …the new facility will employ over 100 people in the Rusk County area within 3 years.
…when they sue about endangered species – wow, not surprising but still bad:
> Citing the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA)…environmental groups filed requests to be reimbursed for “reasonable” attorney fees up to $460 an hour. A few of those groups include the Alliance for Wild Rockies, Center for Biological Diversity, Humane Society of the United States, Sierra Club and WildEarth Guardians. The total combined ask amounted to more than $1.4 million in taxpayer money [in one case].
> The new antibiotic may not only work to cure Lyme disease but may also help eradicate its occurrence from the environment.
> Patty Jean Willis was checking the chicken coop outside her Au Gres house last month when, out of the corner of her eye, she saw a deer with an orange collar charging at her.
> “I thought I was going to die. It was moving fast, so I turned and I braced myself. And he just knocked me straight down, I went back about 10 feet. You know, I just tried to stay alive. I somehow got a hold of his antlers and I just screamed and screamed.”
> Willis was able to stay alive by holding the deer by its antlers and using her legs as a shield to protect her organs.
> “It was very traumatic. I can’t even go by my chicken coop…I used to love hiking in my woods. I’m so scared right now until I know that something’s been done about this deer.”
Yikes! Shouldn’t be too hard to find that deer?
20. 2A stuff.
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Deer Disease News
> The bill authorizes $70 mil annually from fiscal year 2022 through fiscal year 2028 for research and management of CWD, with the money to be split evenly between research and management. The US Dept of Agriculture will administer the funds through cooperative agreements.
Ag?? Why wouldn’t the US Fish and Wildlife Service handle it?
> “This webinar is going to be a great opportunity for anyone looking to learn more about the issue, find out how they can help or just get a better understanding of the situation.”
> Along the Missouri River, especially to the north and south of Bismarck….
No word on how many but:
> …the disease is prevalent in the northeast “along the Milk River near Saco” as well as “along the Milk and Missouri rivers to ND.”
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> Weighting in at just 5.9 lbs, the Ridgeline Scout is available in 4 calibers [.300 Blk, .223 Rem, 6.5 Creed, .308 Win] all with a 16″ muzzle-threaded barrel creating an ideal suppressor host.
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> SYKD Hunt offers a ready-to-hunt package that ships sighted-in for a retail price of $679.
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> …high-performance optics, best-in-class total elevation travel [abd] highly repeatable, precise and tactile turrets as part of a compact and heavy-duty riflescope – with a daytime visible illuminated reticle.
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Haven’t been able to customize ’em before, here’s 1 version we did:
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> It has a heavy-duty powder-coated steel frame built with SteelTough Construction and SilentHunt Design to keep it quiet. Also, it boasts a heavy-duty water-resistant exterior shell, and a 7′ interior height.
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> The Wicked Ridge Blackhawk 360 is lightweight, incredibly accurate, and made in the USA. Despite shooting a speedy 360 fps, at $399, it won’t break the bank.
> At just $299, the PSE Coalition Frontier is affordable for just about anyone. This crossbow fires an arrow at 380 fps and delivers plenty of power for even the toughest of game.
> Here’s a narrow speedburner topping out at 420 fps. The HyperTac 420 is just 9.2″ axle-to-axle when cocked and includes a speed-compensating scope. $799.
> The list price is slightly over $1,000, but there’s a good chance you’ll find the BearX Impact at your favorite retailer priced at $999. It’s super-compact, shoots 420 fps and comes with a cocking crank in the box.
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> During the pre-rut you’ll see many little scrapes open up, generally in what I call a triangle format. When all 3 are being hit, this is when you’ll see more consistent buck movement.
> Remember once breeding begins, the scraping stops. However, a [triangle] area like the one I mentioned…still puts you in a great transition area to intercept a buck.
> Using some doe pee in a scrape hurts nothing. I believe scent helps many hunters get the shot of their dreams. But don’t hunt a poor wind direction. Wind is everything during the timeframe when scrape hunting is most productive.
> Create mock scrapes at strategic locations to help improve situations. I have seen them work really well. The beauty of mock scrapes is that they can be placed to give you more control over the location as far as your setup in relation to prevailing wind.
> I generally create mock scrapes near a natural scrape, or scrape line, close to my stand. I believe this is an excellent way to get nocturnal bucks to visit during daylight. I also like to create a scent trail from the scrape to a main trail. This often grabs the attention of passing bucks and leads them right to my mock scrape and shooting lane.
> …I have tried using a decoy this time of the year also. I like to exploit their desire and instincts to fight. When bucks stroll through to check scrapes, they can smell the new scent I’ve dispersed, plus they can see my decoy. Mix in a little grunting or rattling and they’ll rarely ignore the “new buck” in the neighborhood.
> …I like to put a trail camera on [scrapes] first. This tells me when bucks are coming, the direction from which they’re approaching and when the scrapes are most active the previous year.
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“People like to talk and brag about trophy deer – these criminals will talk.”
> Deputies said 2 large deer were shot early in the morning on Oct 13 with what investigators believe is a crossbow. Their heads and tails were cut off, and the remainder of the bodies were left in a field near Park Road. A third deer’s body, also missing its head and tail, was discovered several days later….
😠
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PWC is supposed to mean Personal WaterCraft, but in this case maybe it’s Powered Whitetail Carrier?? 🤪 Unusual pic posted by @bowhuntordie:
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