OneCam
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John Deere - per your request :grin:
Nov 7 started with the alarm going off at 3am - I quickly checked the weather for wind and it wasn’t looking good with South Winds switching to NE by 8am. This was not good and I contemplated and decided to skip the morning hunt. 15 minutes later I couldn’t take it anymore and had to go regardless. I had only hunted 6 days this year and was far from burned out. I figured I could set back and move into the stand I wanted when the wind was right.
Long story short after starting to walk to two different stands as the wind kept switching I ended up deciding to sit in my desired stand – setting on the SE edge of a bedding area and pond. I was in 10 minutes before shooting light.
My hope for the morning was an old buck that I nickname ‘ole brown’ due to his noticeably brown coat and rack. This buck was easy to spot as I had seen him from a distance a few times in this area – ‘ole brown’ had a very pronounced limp. He seemed very mature, always around the action rubbing, scraping but was always bullied by other mature bucks in the area probably due to his injury. He was a big framed 10 point that I would have been very happy with.
Action was good from the start as deer were coming from the corn fields through this draw surrounded by CRP fields and switch grass. Soon does and some small bucks were all around – drinking, bedding down, light chasing or just passing through. Around 8:30 I had a group of about 3 bucks in front of me with as many does – high pitched grunts echoed as the little guys were harassing the ladies. As I watched the show in front of me I heard an unmistakable sound of a buck thrashing a tree and then I heard a snort wheeze. Within a minute ‘ole brown’ made his appearance. He hobbled in strong and the little bucks left in a hurry. There were 3 does standing in a group on the pond damn at 50 yards - ‘ole brown’ came in nose down in a quick gate gave a grunt and scattered the does. He looked around if satisfied that none of the does were in heat so he just laid down in a great spot to survey the landscape at 50 yards. This was as close as he would get … later on a mature 8 came in and pushed him further to the North.
Link to video … http://youtu.be/uWoOB8L5l1k
It was a great day, the wind was in my face and I had dear close by including ‘ole brown’ – I was prepared to stay the entire day. I was seeing movement all morning – shortly after 11:00 I jumped on to the IW app to get caught up on the latest. I pulled up the Sureshot’s Full House story and began read and enjoy (man that is a big buck). About half way through I heard a large crack to my West above the pond - I quickly dismissed to try to get to the conclusion of Full House but then I heard a buck sound … not sure what to call it - maybe “glunking” - but I heard the noise many times. It sounded like a horse trying to cough or clear it throat. So I put the phone away and soon I saw rack on the South edge of the pond. That was my first glimpse ever of Triton. No previous trail cam pics and no sighting by others …. Triton just appeared by the water’s edge.
I filmed this with my pocket camera …
k to video … http://youtu.be/4gN0TtbvFAw
I only had a chance to look at his head and rack before I made the decision to shoot as I put the camera in my pocket!
He quickly closed the distance and turned the corner on the pond edge heading North. At 30 yards I stopped him and did my best to find a shooting lane through the hedge tree tops. He was quartering away hard and at the shot I heard and saw the hit as the buck leapt forward … to be honest I was a bit surprised to miss the hedge tree branches.
The buck ran hard and stopped on the NE edge of the pond and that’s where I lost track of him. I didn’t hear him go down or leave the area so I was a bit unsure yet I was confident of the hit. Since it was such a great day I decided to wait more than an hour before getting down as I waited for a buddy to show up and help track. I knew I shot a good buck but wasn’t sure exactly how good.
The tracking was quick and easy as he went down where I last saw him – only 50 yards away. The arrow entered well behind the ribs but exited out the opposite front leg.
Triton is a main frame 6*7 with a split G-2 on his left side and one additional kicker. He scored just over 176” with long tines and lots of them! Triton looks to be only a 3.5 year old buck – I plan on sending his teeth in to know for sure and will let everyone know. Regardless he is dead now and I feel very blessed to have shot this brute!
Nov 7 started with the alarm going off at 3am - I quickly checked the weather for wind and it wasn’t looking good with South Winds switching to NE by 8am. This was not good and I contemplated and decided to skip the morning hunt. 15 minutes later I couldn’t take it anymore and had to go regardless. I had only hunted 6 days this year and was far from burned out. I figured I could set back and move into the stand I wanted when the wind was right.
Long story short after starting to walk to two different stands as the wind kept switching I ended up deciding to sit in my desired stand – setting on the SE edge of a bedding area and pond. I was in 10 minutes before shooting light.
My hope for the morning was an old buck that I nickname ‘ole brown’ due to his noticeably brown coat and rack. This buck was easy to spot as I had seen him from a distance a few times in this area – ‘ole brown’ had a very pronounced limp. He seemed very mature, always around the action rubbing, scraping but was always bullied by other mature bucks in the area probably due to his injury. He was a big framed 10 point that I would have been very happy with.
Action was good from the start as deer were coming from the corn fields through this draw surrounded by CRP fields and switch grass. Soon does and some small bucks were all around – drinking, bedding down, light chasing or just passing through. Around 8:30 I had a group of about 3 bucks in front of me with as many does – high pitched grunts echoed as the little guys were harassing the ladies. As I watched the show in front of me I heard an unmistakable sound of a buck thrashing a tree and then I heard a snort wheeze. Within a minute ‘ole brown’ made his appearance. He hobbled in strong and the little bucks left in a hurry. There were 3 does standing in a group on the pond damn at 50 yards - ‘ole brown’ came in nose down in a quick gate gave a grunt and scattered the does. He looked around if satisfied that none of the does were in heat so he just laid down in a great spot to survey the landscape at 50 yards. This was as close as he would get … later on a mature 8 came in and pushed him further to the North.
Link to video … http://youtu.be/uWoOB8L5l1k
It was a great day, the wind was in my face and I had dear close by including ‘ole brown’ – I was prepared to stay the entire day. I was seeing movement all morning – shortly after 11:00 I jumped on to the IW app to get caught up on the latest. I pulled up the Sureshot’s Full House story and began read and enjoy (man that is a big buck). About half way through I heard a large crack to my West above the pond - I quickly dismissed to try to get to the conclusion of Full House but then I heard a buck sound … not sure what to call it - maybe “glunking” - but I heard the noise many times. It sounded like a horse trying to cough or clear it throat. So I put the phone away and soon I saw rack on the South edge of the pond. That was my first glimpse ever of Triton. No previous trail cam pics and no sighting by others …. Triton just appeared by the water’s edge.
I filmed this with my pocket camera …
k to video … http://youtu.be/4gN0TtbvFAw
I only had a chance to look at his head and rack before I made the decision to shoot as I put the camera in my pocket!
He quickly closed the distance and turned the corner on the pond edge heading North. At 30 yards I stopped him and did my best to find a shooting lane through the hedge tree tops. He was quartering away hard and at the shot I heard and saw the hit as the buck leapt forward … to be honest I was a bit surprised to miss the hedge tree branches.
The buck ran hard and stopped on the NE edge of the pond and that’s where I lost track of him. I didn’t hear him go down or leave the area so I was a bit unsure yet I was confident of the hit. Since it was such a great day I decided to wait more than an hour before getting down as I waited for a buddy to show up and help track. I knew I shot a good buck but wasn’t sure exactly how good.
The tracking was quick and easy as he went down where I last saw him – only 50 yards away. The arrow entered well behind the ribs but exited out the opposite front leg.
Triton is a main frame 6*7 with a split G-2 on his left side and one additional kicker. He scored just over 176” with long tines and lots of them! Triton looks to be only a 3.5 year old buck – I plan on sending his teeth in to know for sure and will let everyone know. Regardless he is dead now and I feel very blessed to have shot this brute!
