davetucker Posted October 26, 2008 Report Share Posted October 26, 2008 What a day!!!:)Youth day opened this morning at 6:33!!I have been watching both the properties i hunt really hard!!My son likes to eat the meat so believe it or not he wanted me to find him a doe!!Well on one of the properties i had been seeing a few nice small bucks,a doe and two yearlings!!The other property i have been seeing a monster(and only at night)!!:confused:So for an sure thing i took him to the farm were we had been seeing the doe!! Yesterday i went to the farm were we'd been seeing the doe and built a little blind!!We were up at 4:45(i don't think he even went to sleep)!!We headed out for the farm at 5:30!!We got all set up by 5:45!!I could see a couple deer down in the far corner!!We watched for quit a while and the deer weren't coming any closer!At about 6:15 It was getting lighter and I proceded to glass the field!! I couldn't believe what i was seeing!!About 125yrds away a deer was making his way towards us to the left!!We watched the deer make his way closer and closer!!I was probably just as excited as he was!!I kept looking at my watch and it seemed like the next 18 min.were never going to come!!It got 6:30 and we had 3 more minutes to wait!!Thats when i noticed the deer was making his way towards the upper corner where we had no shot!!:(He got out of sight for about 3 minutes(just the length of time we had to wait)!!At 6:35 i was going to try and move up the woods line to try to get a shot!!As i was contimplating a plan my son said he thought the deer was coming back!!I looked over and sure enough there he was!!He came right back and straight in front of us!Gary got set up in his sticks!!We waited till he pulled his head up and gary let some led fly!!BOOM!!!He went down!!Took him right in the back bone(not were he was aiming)!!The buck layed right there and suffered!!I told gary to go finish him off behind the ears!!As he walked up alls he could think of is me last yr telling him not to get to close because he could get cut from the hooves!!So he was nervous!!He shot and as he did the deer flip flopped and he took one side of the rack off and half his brain!!Man was i upset!!I laughed it off and let him have his moment of glory!!It turned out to be a 7 point 156lb buck(dressed out)!!Live weight it probably went 180lbs!! If you remember my posts about my rifle(270)it wasn't grouping all that great!!I tried and tried to get it lined up but was having problems!!It was hitting but not like i'd like it to!!Then this morning when he hit the backstraps,man was i ticked off!!Anyways i have spent since 5this afternoon downloading pics to photobucket and now they won't work!!I' going to try it anyways!!If it doesn't work i'll try again tomorrow!!It's been a long night and i got to teach sunday school in the morning!!Ya see the red x!!I'm going to bed!!I got lots of pics so if someone knows what i'm doing wrong let me know and i'd love to share them!!:confused: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davetucker Posted October 27, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 27, 2008 Well gary your dads got lots of congrats for ya bud!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted October 27, 2008 Report Share Posted October 27, 2008 Congratulations to your son. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rookieee Posted October 27, 2008 Report Share Posted October 27, 2008 congrats to your son Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddyboman Posted October 27, 2008 Report Share Posted October 27, 2008 Congrats to you boy!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davetucker Posted October 28, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 28, 2008 Hers some pics!!!May be a little graphic the young feller got scared putting the deer down and had to go up and give it a kill shot!!It did a flop as he shot and he took one antler off and half his skull!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevebeilgard Posted October 28, 2008 Report Share Posted October 28, 2008 a big congrats to your son Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beagleboy Posted October 28, 2008 Report Share Posted October 28, 2008 Congrats to your son Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohiobuckhunter Posted October 28, 2008 Report Share Posted October 28, 2008 congrats. but why didn't you have him give it a heart or lung shot for a follow up instead of the head? no you can't mount it. oh well nice deer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davetucker Posted October 28, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 28, 2008 congrats. but why didn't you have him give it a heart or lung shot for a follow up instead of the head? no you can't mount it. oh well nice deer I told him to take it right behind the ears!!Like i said it did a flip flop as gary pulled the trigger!!!He got his first deer last yr mounted!!It was a bigger deer!!Had less points but bigger mass and heavier bodied!!I thought this deer was actually bigger then last yrs but it wasn't!We're going to make a plaque with the horns anyways!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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