showstopper
PMA Member
Okay, I'll contribute to this. This topic is awesome by the way. PMA members have already heard this one but I will share anyways.(Most of these are videos by the way) This buck I had picture of last year during the rut. I am assuming this is the same buck because of the multiple brows, maybe a different one but I doubt it. Here he is in 2011......
I was rattling to another buck and turned to put up the bag when we saw each other at the same time. It was a wet morning and the leaves silenced everything. He spooked to about 25 yards and had a little shrub in between us until he finally took off trotting at 40 yards. There was a bigger buck on the farm so it didn't bother me at the time.
This summer I got a couple of pictures of a big buck on the same farm but wasn't able to ID the buck because I couldn't see the multiple brows.
I didn't get another picture of him but showed the trail cam pics to all of my friends joking about how cool it would be to see him in a treestand.
I took November 12 and 13 off from work and planned on hunting a four day weekend. Saturday, the 10th was like 80 degrees so I spent the day with my wife and kids getting one last family day before the big forecasted cold snap. I took off Saturday evening and set up a blind that night in a hedge row that I would hunt the next day. A cold front was coming in and it was supposed to be 50 degrees at 5 am and only get colder from there. I grabbed camera cards from the two farms I hunt after setting the blind and went to my in laws for the night. I checked the cameras and found that he was back on the farm and it was the same buck from the year before.
I was excited but I wanted to hunt the other farm the next day in the blind with the forecast of rain all morning with snow and sleet in the afternoon. It was an eventful day but one that I don't know that I will try again with the wet clothes and weather change that took place. The deer were definitely on their feet that evening but the anticipation was growing as the following morning approached. I knew I was going to the farm where this guy was on camera and going to sit in the stand I nearly shot him from the next morning. I took the family camcorder and my muddy camera arm to video the big hunt, knowing that there was a snowballs chance in hell that I would get the opportunity to be so lucky.
I went out the next morning and was set up about 45 minutes before it was light out so I didn't spook deer coming back out for a pre-dawn snack. I started doing some blind grunt calling acting like a buck was chasing a doe on this bottom I was hunting. My third time through the sequence I was interupted by what sounded like a 4-wheeler coming through the draw above me. I looked up and it was him. By some stroke of luck I remembered to turn the camera on and get it on him before I called him back to me........
Embarrassing enough, there is a reason why this is in this post and not another. I have a video of him leaving the draw 30 minutes after the shot and have looked almost 20 hours all around the property for his body and sheds with no luck. I hope someone is awaiting their taxidermist to get him done right now or he is alive and well as we speak. I am thankful to have a story like this but obviously bummed at the missed opportunity. Here is the parting shot he left me with after I hit him.....
Thanks for sharing and keep these stories and pictures coming. Everyone can contribute to this one!!!!
I was rattling to another buck and turned to put up the bag when we saw each other at the same time. It was a wet morning and the leaves silenced everything. He spooked to about 25 yards and had a little shrub in between us until he finally took off trotting at 40 yards. There was a bigger buck on the farm so it didn't bother me at the time.
This summer I got a couple of pictures of a big buck on the same farm but wasn't able to ID the buck because I couldn't see the multiple brows.
I didn't get another picture of him but showed the trail cam pics to all of my friends joking about how cool it would be to see him in a treestand.
I took November 12 and 13 off from work and planned on hunting a four day weekend. Saturday, the 10th was like 80 degrees so I spent the day with my wife and kids getting one last family day before the big forecasted cold snap. I took off Saturday evening and set up a blind that night in a hedge row that I would hunt the next day. A cold front was coming in and it was supposed to be 50 degrees at 5 am and only get colder from there. I grabbed camera cards from the two farms I hunt after setting the blind and went to my in laws for the night. I checked the cameras and found that he was back on the farm and it was the same buck from the year before.
I was excited but I wanted to hunt the other farm the next day in the blind with the forecast of rain all morning with snow and sleet in the afternoon. It was an eventful day but one that I don't know that I will try again with the wet clothes and weather change that took place. The deer were definitely on their feet that evening but the anticipation was growing as the following morning approached. I knew I was going to the farm where this guy was on camera and going to sit in the stand I nearly shot him from the next morning. I took the family camcorder and my muddy camera arm to video the big hunt, knowing that there was a snowballs chance in hell that I would get the opportunity to be so lucky.
I went out the next morning and was set up about 45 minutes before it was light out so I didn't spook deer coming back out for a pre-dawn snack. I started doing some blind grunt calling acting like a buck was chasing a doe on this bottom I was hunting. My third time through the sequence I was interupted by what sounded like a 4-wheeler coming through the draw above me. I looked up and it was him. By some stroke of luck I remembered to turn the camera on and get it on him before I called him back to me........
Embarrassing enough, there is a reason why this is in this post and not another. I have a video of him leaving the draw 30 minutes after the shot and have looked almost 20 hours all around the property for his body and sheds with no luck. I hope someone is awaiting their taxidermist to get him done right now or he is alive and well as we speak. I am thankful to have a story like this but obviously bummed at the missed opportunity. Here is the parting shot he left me with after I hit him.....
Thanks for sharing and keep these stories and pictures coming. Everyone can contribute to this one!!!!
