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Anyone hear about huge 8 found

That is heavy. Is it an eight with two stickers or how do they score that?? If stickers they're deducted??
 
Yeah, I have seen one. Put an arrow through him at 6 yards with a recurve. Tracked him and found him laying flat out and thought he was dead. Yelled to my dad that I found him and he stuck his head up. 5 hours later I had stalked to with 5 yards of him and was getting ready to shoot when the wind hit my neck. That buck was up and gone like nothing had happened. I looked for 6 months and never found him. A buddy killed him two years later a couple miles away. You could see the scare tissue from the 2 blade zwickey when we skinned him out. The rack was enormous. I actually think he had gone down hill a little since I hit him. A pic of a deer like that doesn't do it justice. You just gotta hold 'em. He's on the back of the iowawhitetail shirt now. Grossed 184" and netted in the upper 170's. Still makes me sick but I am glad for my buddy.
 
It shoud make you sick you poor sapp.....honestly, I had seen pics of the deer and thought heck of a buck, but when you see the actual rack...you stare in disbelief (I'm not refering to the pic in this post but the one silvertip is refering to)
 
That is Dan holding his rack, I couldn't tell for sure from the thumbnail on the Bowsite. I know he was absolutely sick when we seen him the day after he shot it. I see he had it checked in & tagged, just glad he found it. When we talked to him he said he had just hit a potential state record 8 point that would score in the 180's & he was right. I look forward to talking to him this November to get more details. I just feel privilaged that I was hunting just across the fence from a magnificent animal like that, WOW again. The good thing is that several days later I had a 170 class 8 pointer in bow range a couple of miles from that spot that we know is still around to take this ones place. I came close to getting that one & pray for a chance to redeem myself this fall. Can hardly wait now!
 
The shot angle was pretty steep. I actually shot through the vertabrae missing the spinal cord, the arrow travelled along the inside of the far ribs and exited behind the shoulder. Missed all vitals but gave him a heck of a sore back. That is most likely the reason he was laying flat trying to ease the pain in the loin. The low exit yielded a good blood trail but it was only muscle tissue damage.
 
Am I reading this correctly.... Did the guy who originally shot this buck end up actually finding it or did someone else find it later on??????? What would you do if you found it later and knew who shot it. Would you hand it over to them?????? I think I pry would if I was sure of who shot it. finding something like that would be nice but I think I would get more pleasure from giving it to the shooter.. especially if it was a state record. Either way you look at it that buck is plain HUGE!!!
 
I read on another site that Dan Perez was the guy that shot it. Supposedly it was only 70 yards from the last blood. Sounded like the buck was down in a deep ravine that Perez had walked several times. That info was on another site and I can't confirm it's accuracy, but Perez is no stranger to big bucks.

Sorry if my story made this post a little confusing. Critr had asked if anyone had ever seen an 8 of this caliber and I posted my experience with one. As for giving it to the person who shot it...As long as I was positive of the shooter and they were legally hunting I would definately give the rack to them. That kind of thing can always come around full circle. I found a 145" 8 point one spring that still had the arrow in it. Word got around and a guy approached me with an arrow that matched the one in the carcass (I didn't tell anyone about the arrow). I handed him the rack and ended up with a new hunting spot.
 
FELLAS,

I am new here to this site... I hunt Pike and Mcdonough Counties in Illinois. I believe I can shed some light on this story because I know Dan personally and we are good friends and have done business together. Dan works for PSE archery and Agriland Real Estate Company. I recently bought a hunting farm from Dan and his company in Illinois. I have cut and pasted the email he sent me the day he recovered the deer. Dan is one hell of a good guy not to mention a top end, first class hunter. This is not the first or biggest hammer Dan has nailed over the years and it wont be his last! But it is an 8 point beyond comprehension!! Hope this lays to rest any questions you might have cause this is the way it went down. Thanks.

Hello Mali,

Back in November I ran an arrow through the left lung of a buck I've been trying to kill for 3-years, trailed him for 400 yards and lost blood. I've since searched for him at least once every week. Believe it or not, I found him less than 60-yds from where I'd lost blood. I found him in a rip ( a drainage 60-yds long, 3-ft wide and 7-ft deep.) When fell in the rip he fell through quite a bit of brush that sprung back into place and obscured his presence. In fact we probably jumped over him at least 25 times searching for blood.

Last week when I found him, first I broke the whisper of wilderness with a long shrilling owl hoot, thanked God, called my son, called my wife and then called the conservation officer. The conservation officer met me in the woods the next morning and since my arrow was still imbedded in his ribs he gave me a regular season tag to put around his antler. He said that was a special tag that would allow me to enter this animal in the record books if chose. He said the critter has your arrow in him, he is still on your property and by the looks of the carcass you shot him during the season. Open and shut case.

Never stop looking
Dan
 
That's one awsome buck, hats off and congrats to the shooter.
 
That is truly a BOAL there and the hunter should feel very satisfied after such a long search. I do think there is a stipulation though that the animal has to be recovered within a certain time period after being hit to be eligible for P & Y. ( At least I remember reading a story to that effect about 5 years ago in NAW Magazine regarding a huge Canadian buck.)

Nevertheless, it is a true trophy whether or not it it eligible for any book. Congrats to the hunter!
 
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