Guys...
This buck will haunt me til I pass....on Nov 3rd, 2010 I rattled in a large....I estimated him in the id 170s with a LARGE L-shaped drop on his right beam...the drop would have been somewhere in the center of his beam.......
Anyway...I rattled him in...all the while he was walking right at me...I kept saying to myself..."Dude yur F'd, you don't know what yur coming to"...(I wasn't nervous...I guess I went into a focus of what I had to do and when to do it...anyway..he came right at me and I "WAS hoping he was going to travel right on the worn path he was on which ran approx 15ft to my right giving me a easy perfect broadside shot!
Well...he and his senses had other plans...he started cutting up the hill to my right while I was at full draw on him.....I kept telling myself to shoot...SHOOT!, but his front shoulder was very large and I thought or hoped he would give me a better shot at slipping the arrow pass his front right shoulder....He was probably at a 45deg angle and was walking a good pace approx 20ft in font of me angling to my right...I started BAAAING...BAAAINGG....LIKE crazy trying to stop him, but he was focused on something else....I finally yelled HEY!...and he stopped fully broadside to me....only problem was his full torso was hidden, except his rack and his rear quarter ..he had stopped behind a cedar that had grown at say a 45deg from the root up to the right...blocking any chance of arrowing this buck...I watched in horror and disbelief as he then started to walk straight away and up under the cedar patch above me.....I heard another set of hooves take off and he started after them...I can only assume another buck had slipped in on my rattling up under the cedars and I didn't know he was there.
To this day that buck haunts me...a very large part of me is very glad that I left him walk and didn't injure this great animal, while the other part of me keeps reminding me that my X Force and Wackem's would have smoked easily thru his shoulder! ...either way he walked that day a free buck...I hunted another 2 weeks all around the same area but never seen or heard of him again.
I was hunting near a gas station/min mart called LapLanders Junction on HWY2....not far from it...I've kept tabs on Troublesome Creek Trophy wall photos to seee if anyone had gotten him...to this day...NOTHING!
ANY CHANCE OF ANYONE...near Cantril or Keosauqua out there ever seen or heard of this magnificent buck???...easily identifed by the large L droptine...I keep tellin me myself the L meant "LOSER"...for me letting him walk that day.
Thanks everyone...sorry for long winded
This buck will haunt me til I pass....on Nov 3rd, 2010 I rattled in a large....I estimated him in the id 170s with a LARGE L-shaped drop on his right beam...the drop would have been somewhere in the center of his beam.......
Anyway...I rattled him in...all the while he was walking right at me...I kept saying to myself..."Dude yur F'd, you don't know what yur coming to"...(I wasn't nervous...I guess I went into a focus of what I had to do and when to do it...anyway..he came right at me and I "WAS hoping he was going to travel right on the worn path he was on which ran approx 15ft to my right giving me a easy perfect broadside shot!
Well...he and his senses had other plans...he started cutting up the hill to my right while I was at full draw on him.....I kept telling myself to shoot...SHOOT!, but his front shoulder was very large and I thought or hoped he would give me a better shot at slipping the arrow pass his front right shoulder....He was probably at a 45deg angle and was walking a good pace approx 20ft in font of me angling to my right...I started BAAAING...BAAAINGG....LIKE crazy trying to stop him, but he was focused on something else....I finally yelled HEY!...and he stopped fully broadside to me....only problem was his full torso was hidden, except his rack and his rear quarter ..he had stopped behind a cedar that had grown at say a 45deg from the root up to the right...blocking any chance of arrowing this buck...I watched in horror and disbelief as he then started to walk straight away and up under the cedar patch above me.....I heard another set of hooves take off and he started after them...I can only assume another buck had slipped in on my rattling up under the cedars and I didn't know he was there.
To this day that buck haunts me...a very large part of me is very glad that I left him walk and didn't injure this great animal, while the other part of me keeps reminding me that my X Force and Wackem's would have smoked easily thru his shoulder! ...either way he walked that day a free buck...I hunted another 2 weeks all around the same area but never seen or heard of him again.
I was hunting near a gas station/min mart called LapLanders Junction on HWY2....not far from it...I've kept tabs on Troublesome Creek Trophy wall photos to seee if anyone had gotten him...to this day...NOTHING!
ANY CHANCE OF ANYONE...near Cantril or Keosauqua out there ever seen or heard of this magnificent buck???...easily identifed by the large L droptine...I keep tellin me myself the L meant "LOSER"...for me letting him walk that day.
Thanks everyone...sorry for long winded
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