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Rhino Monster Buck

Rhino

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A young friend of mine joined us for a hunt in MO last week. I've been trying for a long time to get this young man a crack at a big one with any weapon. Weather wasn't great and one afternoon with a SE wind I sat in a ground blind on a bean field and saw this shooter buck we've caught a lot on trail cams along with some younger bucks and does. The next day & a half they cut the beans the day before the rains moved in that afternoon. With few choices to get out of the rain with a SE wind again I sat in the same blind with him more or less as a spotter. This same buck came out again. So did 10 others, including a mature 10 point. Neither got within 100 yards.

After 2 1/2 days of rain and a day for the field to dry out I told him after the Saturday morning hunt we were going to hang a ladder on the E side of the field on an oak tree the 2 mature bucks paused at to feed on acorns. We hung it and that afternoon he was in the stand for his last hunt of the week with a perfect wind. The 1st deer to show up was the bigger of the 2 mature bucks. The buck came trotting in from the N along the tree line. He came to an abrupt stop and dropped his head at 10 yards. My buddy let fly hitting him a little low right behind the shoulder. The buck took off to the SW tree line & bedded down just inside the edge of the field. My buddy stayed in the stand until dark glassing the buck get up a couple of time & lay right back down.

After hearing the details I decided we'd wait a couple of hours before going to make the recovery. When we arrived there was pools of blood in 4 or 5 spots where the buck had bedded but no buck. We picked up the trail and trailed him across a creek and then ~1/2 mile through a WRP field with waist to chest high grass. Even with that, no problem following the blood trail. As we're closing in on our wood line on the west side of the WRP we bust the buck that's bedded under a 7' cedar tree. He takes off like a bolt of lightening and slams into another cedar tree ~6' high and disappears. I look at my buddy and tell him we need to back off now that I know exactly where we are. I drape some TP over the cedar we busted him out of & head back cross county to the EV.

Next morning we arrive there ~7:30. I tell my buddy to check a cedar tree on my way to the TP'd cedar tree for blood. As I get to it he says nothing here. I get my bearings & tell him...my bad...wrong cedar...check that one 10 yards to the N. He eases over there and says...I don't see any blood but my buck's laying right here! Apparently, he hit it so hard he went down there and never got up.

Here's my buddy's 11 point buck. Sometime during the past week he broke off his left brow tine cutting him down to 11 points. Some of you will recognize him from trail cam pics I've posted of him in velvet. Got more of him in hard horn since then. This is the 1st buck my buddy's ever killed bowhunting. A gross score of 157 even. Mission accomplished!

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