In other news. I had a super buck show up on my big timber farm. 99.99% chance he didn’t get shot the next day. He should be a whopper this fall Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
100% legal, as long as they don’t buy resident tags anywhere else. Sent from my iPhone using Bowhunting.com Forums
yeah, residency does not necessarily have anything to do with whether or not you buy a resident tag in another state. Each state has its own residency requirements. Now, about those Trident pics.....
Why does one need to edit photos? Post the photos of how the deer looks, not how the lighting and all that crap looks.
Here he is. Pretty proud of this one after the season I had up until January. By far the oldest buck I have ever killed. I’m going to send in his jaw to have it aged, but I’m fairly confident he’s 9 or 10 years old. He’s been on the home farm ever since I moved here 3 years ago. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Nice pics. That rack definitely has character! Did you find any evidence of an injury that might have caused the crazy growth of his rack?
Scored Trident. 128 6/8” with 2 broken points and a goofy side. If his left side matched his right he would be 155-156” Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
The story is kinda cool I guess. My original last hunt of the season was supposed to be the 9th, as I had to be at a meeting on the evening of the 10th. On the 9th, I saw Trident, which completely shocked me because I haven’t so much as had a trail camera picture of him since mid October. I honestly thought he was dead. I have cameras on the edge of a 1 acre corn plot where the deer typically enter the field. I hadn’t had anything but does and small bucks on camera. But the 9th was super cold and extremely high pressure so I figured the deer would be moving really well and looking for food. Trident showed at 5:00, but came from the opposite direction as all then other deer. He came from a small line of terraces way out by a road. I literally walked past where he was bedded on my way in. He was on a mission walking in. Walked straight to my corn and put his head down. But where he hit the field was 130 yards on the opposite side of the field as my blind. So I had no chance with a bow. But something about his demeanor told me he had been hitting the field consistently, he just wasn’t using the same side of the field as the rest of the deer. So on the 10th I figured why not try something crazy. What do I have to lose on the last day of the season. I put a change of clothes in my truck so I could get out of there fast and hopefully make my meeting afterwards. Instead of going to my blind, I went to the corner of the field where Trident had come in the day before, and used a hand saw to make a ground blind underneath a hedge apple tree. I had two little holes to shoot through but was otherwise completely obscured by brush. Deer started coming to the plot at 4:30. Then at 5:00 on the nose I spotted a deer walking from where Trident had come from before. I pulled up my binos...it wasn’t him. It was a yearling buck. Then two more deer came behind it. The 2nd was a 2 year old 8 point. Then Trident was last. All 3 marched towards the corn plot on a mission. You could tell the deer were hungry. Instead of coming to the corner where I was, the yearling swung wide and stepped through my shooting hole at 55 yards. Buck number 2 followed him and stopped right in the opening and looked my direction...he likely noticed the limbs I cut. He stood there staring for a minute or so. I ranged him again...55 yards. He finally decided everything was good and walked on. Trident came and wasn’t going to stop so I yelled and he froze. I split my 50 and 60 yard pin and touched it off. All the deer took off and I lost sight of which one was Trident through the brush. I knew that I had hit him Because my arrow stayed in him initially and I could see my green nock. I had to go so I got up and literally ran back to the truck. Made it to my meeting just in the nick of time. I went back at about 10:30 that night, picked up blood, then the arrow 40 yards later, and the another 40 yards and there he was. Turns out I hit him perfect through both lungs. Pretty happy with how it turned out. The home farm won’t be quite the same with both MR Clean and Trident gone now, but hopefully that means some new up and comers will move in and take over their spots. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
