Here is the buck I shot guys. He ended up scoring 136 7/8, I couldn't be happier! Here is a quick pic of him, I will post more later!
So here is the story of this buck. On the 11th of November I finally got out of class at noon. I was headed to NW Oklahoma where I had been hunting quite a bit this year. My brother and cousin had headed up the day before and had seen good movement that morning of the 11th. When I got there they were supposed to have hung me a stand, but instead they sent me to sit in an old ladder stand on the far south end of the tree row we are hunting. The wind was not good for it, but we didn't really have a whole lot of choices. Once I got there, I seen three large scrapes not ten yards behind the stand. That night I seen a lot of does, spooked some does, and seen one decent buck and had a small buck come in dogging a doe and grunting the whole way. That was it for that night! The next morning I head to the same stand but take my muddy hang on because this ladder stand is maybe ten feet tall. So I hang it and am set up a good 30 minutes before shooting light. This stand is hung with two large limbs in front of me for cover, the scrapes are to my left. At about 7:30 I have five does come by all underneath my tree and they hung around for a while. Then it went to nothing until twenty minutes later. I looked to my left and not 15 yards away stands a big buck! He comes right to those scrapes and starts working it and the licking branch over, facing me the whole time. I knew he was a shooter and a nine point and past that I didn't know exactly how big. He finished working the scrape and turned away, so I drew, then he went right and was broadside at ten yards! I went to settle my pin and my riser hit one of the limbs that was in front of my, so I had to lean back and then there were two small limbs over his chest. At this point I'm panicking!! So I put the pin past the limbs and let it go.. Nothing but liver. At this point my heart sinks. So I wait an hour and look at my arrow and it covered in dark red blood, so I think he should be dead. But we still decided to let him lay for five hours. We return five hours later and have minimal blood and then I find a bed in the salt cedars he went into and there is dry and fresh blood, we jumped him. So we grid searched the area within about 400 yards and no deer. This was the end for a while... So I call the land owner and ask for them to watch for buzzards and that I had shoot a deer back there. (Its a 3 hour drive for me to go out there) Then on Tuesday of this past week I call them to ask about coming out there to rifle hunt and she informs me that another guy who rifle hunts the property found my deer!! I couldn't believe it, but was happy as hell! He found him in the same general area we had grid searched and all I can figure is he went in a plum thicket and it was too thick for us to see him in there and the coyotes had drug him out. The coyotes had really done a number on him, so only the head was recovered. But for my second bow buck ever I couldn't be happier!
Congrats GCLIFT, not exactly how you want it to go but you got him! Great deer, sucks you weren't able to find him during the grid search but he'll still make a great mount! As a team we're looking pretty good, need to start putting the air out of some does!
Looks like we are sitting at about 13th place. I'm hoping to get a doe pretty soon, my food plot is really starting to get a lot of action.
I had planned on going out this morning, but when my alarm went off I could hear it just pouring outside. I has been raining pretty much all do, so I didn't make it out there. I'm going out in the morning though, and the rain is supposed to stop tonight, so they should be up on their feet. I'm hoping they will make a stop at my food plot on their way to be in the morning and I can get a doe down.
Good luck Skywalker, looks like Tall Tails was holding out on us, he put a doe down in early Nov, Congrats! Keep after them 18, you'll let the air out of one! Good luck guys!
Being trying here had a lot if small bucks that will be good if they make it in a couple years and also lot of does just all have small fawns and im not going ti strand one but I have a 130ish 10 on camera but haven't decided if I wanna take him or not since he was a 115ish 8 last year and he's about 4.5 but i'll keep trying and will have a doe down for sure soon since its cold here now... it was 60 degrees yesterday and we had snow on the ground this morning gotta love north Texas Sent from my DROIDX using Tapatalk
I haven't been much help to you guys and for that I apologize. My work schedule doesn't allow me alot of time to hunt. I will be home on the 22nd of Dec. so I will be after them again. Good luck everyone!
I have not been much help at all but i will have a doe..the bucks moved out to the fields which arent on my property
I have started putting out feed where I hunt in the hopes of shooting a doe. So hopefully I will have a doe to add to the board before Christmas.
Season is long since over here. Although I didn't get a deer it was a good season. I saw a number of deer, more than I've seen in a couple of years, passed on some small bucks, and I was able to get my brother a deer during gun season. Maybe next year!
