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Topic: 2016 Buck
Posted By: RifleDude
Subject: 2016 Buck
Date Posted: November/29/2016 at 14:14
I just returned from my annual mid-November deer hunting sabbatical, and killed this buck at 5:00 p.m. Thanksgiving evening.






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Ted


Money can't buy happiness... but it's much more comfortable to cry in a Porsche than on a bicycle.



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Posted By: Skylar McMahon
Date Posted: November/29/2016 at 14:30
Dang nice harvest there brother.



Posted By: RifleDude
Date Posted: November/29/2016 at 14:32
Thanks, buddy! Normally, I would've made some nicer pics of him, but I was by myself and didn't have my "good" camera gear, tripod, etc. with me. I was also in a hurry to get him field dressed and taken to a meat processor. So, the ole cell phone had to suffice!

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Ted


Money can't buy happiness... but it's much more comfortable to cry in a Porsche than on a bicycle.


Posted By: SVT_Tactical
Date Posted: November/29/2016 at 14:53

sweet deer!



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Posted By: cheaptrick
Date Posted: November/29/2016 at 15:52
Killer

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Posted By: Peddler
Date Posted: November/29/2016 at 15:54
Ted, that is a beauty.Congratulations!

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Posted By: mike650
Date Posted: November/30/2016 at 00:34
Excellent    Cheers


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Posted By: Kickboxer
Date Posted: November/30/2016 at 05:04
Very nice looking deer, Ted.  Congratulations...

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Posted By: coyote95
Date Posted: November/30/2016 at 06:54
Congrats, Ted ! That a very nice buck.

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Posted By: Bigdaddy0381
Date Posted: November/30/2016 at 07:12
Very nice...


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Posted By: BeltFed
Date Posted: November/30/2016 at 07:15
Nice buck Ted.
What's the story on the hunt?


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Posted By: Marine24
Date Posted: November/30/2016 at 08:10
Very interesting rack.  See the two main beams but looks like it has a third one growing.


Posted By: RifleDude
Date Posted: November/30/2016 at 09:38
Originally posted by BeltFed BeltFed wrote:

Nice buck Ted.
What's the story on the hunt?

It's not a real intriguing hunting story. I was on my 1266 ac hunting land in Hunt County, TX along the headwaters of the Sabine River that I've leased for the past 14 years. The place is typical river bottom land with mostly hardwoods (oak, pecan, honey locust, elm, osage orange), lots of clay mud and periodic flooding when it's been raining. 

I had pics of this buck on one of my game cameras, and I had just scanned through the SD card from the camera and saw the pics from 2 weeks prior right before heading over to the blind. There was one other buck my camera captured in this area that was much larger that I was hoping to score, but I never encountered him after several weeks of hunting. 

The location was an elevated box blind situated in a pipeline cut through the woods where I can see about 500 yards to the north and 300 to the south. This was last Thursday afternoon, Thanksgiving day, a beautiful Texas fall day, with no wind and temps in the mid 40's. Ilya will remember the setting, as he hog hunted in this same blind with me when he visited a year ago. This was also about 600 yards from a spot where Mark (Cheaptrick) made "the shot" on a hog during his visit at the first OT hog hunt.

At exactly 5:00 p.m., just as it was starting to get dark, this buck crossed the pipeline about 100 yards south of my blind. As he was about to reach the tree line out of sight, I grunted to make him stop walking long enough to take the shot with my Sako 85 CarbonLight 7mm-08/ 139 gr Hornady GMX / Zeiss Victory HT 2.5-10X50. He traveled about 15 yards after the shot.

I didn't weigh him or measure his antlers. I estimate he will score around 125" or so, which is a really good buck for unmanaged land in the area I'm hunting. He's 4-1/2 years old.




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Ted


Money can't buy happiness... but it's much more comfortable to cry in a Porsche than on a bicycle.


Posted By: RifleDude
Date Posted: November/30/2016 at 09:50
The following evening, one of our hunting lease members killed this buck on our lease, about 3/4 mile away from where I was hunting. This one scored 138".






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Ted


Money can't buy happiness... but it's much more comfortable to cry in a Porsche than on a bicycle.


Posted By: BeltFed
Date Posted: November/30/2016 at 10:03
Originally posted by RifleDude RifleDude wrote:

Originally posted by BeltFed BeltFed wrote:

Nice buck Ted.
What's the story on the hunt?

It's not a real intriguing hunting story. I was on my 1266 ac hunting land in Hunt County, TX along the headwaters of the Sabine River that I've leased for the past 14 years. The place is typical river bottom land with mostly hardwoods (oak, pecan, honey locust, elm, osage orange), lots of clay mud and periodic flooding when it's been raining. 

I had pics of this buck on one of my game cameras, and I had just scanned through the SD card from the camera and saw the pics from 2 weeks prior right before heading over to the blind. There was one other buck my camera captured in this area that was much larger that I was hoping to score, but I never encountered him after several weeks of hunting. 

The location was an elevated box blind situated in a pipeline cut through the woods where I can see about 500 yards to the north and 300 to the south. This was last Thursday afternoon, Thanksgiving day, a beautiful Texas fall day, with no wind and temps in the mid 40's. Ilya will remember the setting, as he hog hunted in this same blind with me when he visited a year ago. This was also about 600 yards from a spot where Mark (Cheaptrick) made "the shot" on a hog during his visit at the first OT hog hunt.

At exactly 5:00 p.m., just as it was starting to get dark, this buck crossed the pipeline about 100 yards south of my blind. As he was about to reach the tree line out of sight, I grunted to make him stop walking long enough to take the shot with my Sako 85 CarbonLight 7mm-08/ 139 gr Hornady GMX / Zeiss Victory HT 2.5-10X50. He traveled about 15 yards after the shot.

I didn't weigh him or measure his antlers. I estimate he will score around 125" or so, which is a really good buck for unmanaged land in the area I'm hunting. He's 4-1/2 years old.



Now this is what I want to know. You've painted a picture of the hunt. What power was the scope on?




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Life's concerns should be about the 120lb pack your trying to get to the top of the mountain, and not the rock in your boot.


Posted By: RifleDude
Date Posted: November/30/2016 at 10:06
Originally posted by BeltFed BeltFed wrote:

What power was the scope on?

6X.


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Ted


Money can't buy happiness... but it's much more comfortable to cry in a Porsche than on a bicycle.


Posted By: koshkin
Date Posted: November/30/2016 at 10:34
I remember that blind. Since it was off season, deer were all over the place.

Nice buck!

Ilya

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Posted By: mike650
Date Posted: November/30/2016 at 12:20
Nice 4x4  Wink


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Posted By: bugsNbows
Date Posted: November/30/2016 at 14:17
Great buck Ted. The Winkle strikes again. 

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Posted By: tahqua
Date Posted: November/30/2016 at 15:51
Great deer Ted

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Posted By: jonoMT
Date Posted: November/30/2016 at 17:18
That's a really nice one and sounds like an enjoyable hunt too.

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Posted By: sucker76
Date Posted: November/30/2016 at 20:07
Nice buck.  How did you tell the age?  With the jaw bone and teeth?


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Posted By: RifleDude
Date Posted: December/01/2016 at 05:52
We can tell age by tooth wear and body conformation clues. Since deer have a pretty short lifespan, and their bodies go through some noticeable changes each year, with practice, it's not that difficult to determine their age with a fair degree of accuracy. The guy at the meat processor we use also gives us the age of deer we bring in to confirm.

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Ted


Money can't buy happiness... but it's much more comfortable to cry in a Porsche than on a bicycle.


Posted By: sucker76
Date Posted: December/01/2016 at 06:09
Thanks for the info.  I knew about the teeth but not much else to age the deer.  The lease I have hunted on is managed by a biologist and we save the lower right jaw bone for him and he ages them among other things. 


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Posted By: 8shots
Date Posted: December/01/2016 at 09:16
Very nice buck and cool hunting story to go with it Excellent


Posted By: RifleDude
Date Posted: December/01/2016 at 11:27
Originally posted by sucker76 sucker76 wrote:

Thanks for the info.  I knew about the teeth but not much else to age the deer.  The lease I have hunted on is managed by a biologist and we save the lower right jaw bone for him and he ages them among other things. 

Here is a pretty good explanation of how to age bucks "on the hoof." 
https://www.qdma.com/aging-bucks-on-the-hoof/ - https://www.qdma.com/aging-bucks-on-the-hoof/

More good info:

http://www.slideshare.net/tonypugh1/aging-on-hoof-3 - http://www.slideshare.net/tonypugh1/aging-on-hoof-3
http://www.agingdeer.com/ - http://www.agingdeer.com/

I've become pretty good at aging bucks over the years. Mainly, you look at proportions of body features -- the apparent length of their legs relative to torso ratio, whether there is a perceptible transition between the chest and neck, sway in the back, presence of a "Roman nose," thickness of body throughout, tight or loose skin, amount of staining on tarsal glands, and antler development. It's very easy to see the difference between a 1 - 3 year old deer, a little more difficult to see the difference between a 4 - 6 year old, and very easy to detect a deer over 6, which is pretty rare. Most "mature" bucks taken will be between 3 - 5 years old. The physical characteristics of deer will vary by region, and in general the further north you go, the larger the average body size will be due to the need to survive colder winters. So, a 3 year old buck in Saskatchewan may look a lot like a 5 year old buck in Texas.


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Ted


Money can't buy happiness... but it's much more comfortable to cry in a Porsche than on a bicycle.


Posted By: sucker76
Date Posted: December/01/2016 at 13:01
Excellent write up.


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