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An 8-point That's Special To Me
#5416646
11/13/14 12:57 AM
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Joined: Jul 2006
Posts: 6,652
Novemberyet
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My first year hunting this property (2004) was the last year before I deployed to Afghanistan. I missed the '05 season to a deployment and have been blessed to have hunted the same family land for 10 years now. As if hunting here wasn't enough, I've had the honor of sharing hunts with other veterans over the past several years as well. I scout, put up stands, blinds, fill feeders, check cameras and build pens all by myself. Hunting an 80 acre farm, it's difficult to "manage" to any capacity. But I still throw corn year-round and started protein last year. I try to give the other family members my best advice on where the deer are moving, what time they're feeding and what works. I get more excited than the other hunters when they get something because I feel like I've helped the cause. Hopefully someday, my daughter will reep the rewards to the work that goes on out here. Yesterday's hunt was uneventful for a solid 2 1/2 hours, but I kept busy on Facebook looking over pictures of the guys I was in Kuwait and Afghanistan with. Stories I went over in my head: walking up the ramp of a C-130 at 3 o'clock in the morning in Bagram headed to Kandahar, setting poles all day in a mine field (unbeknown to us at the time), seeing the thermometer pegged out at 10 o'clock in the morning, eating, showering and training with the same guys for 16-months. We even got up in the middle of the night to watch the Texas-USC national championship game. I had a man tell me once: "the hunting is always good, but the shooting is sometimes slow." I grunted and wheezed him up blind with 7 minutes of legal light left and thumped him with a 7mm mag using Core-Lokts. He piled up 50 yards from impact. I was worried because I didn't see much blood at all. I could and should have followed my nose instead of my eyes because when I found him, he was rank and heavy....good gosh he was heavy. We don't have anything special out here, but it's ours. I've seen bigger, called up and rattled bigger, have pictures of bigger and tried to put other hunters on bigger deer....but this one is mine. He's my 10-year anniversary buck out here and got him on Veteran's Day. Now I know what a real "trophy" is. My wife asked me if I was going to get him mounted....I obliged, not soley for the deer, but mainly for the memories of the past 10 years.
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Re: Special To Me
[Re: Novemberyet]
#5416661
11/13/14 01:02 AM
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dogcatcher
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Combat Infantryman, the ultimate hunter where the prey shoots back. _____________"Illegitimus non carborundum est"_______________
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Re: An 8-point That's Special To Me
[Re: Novemberyet]
#5416670
11/13/14 01:06 AM
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Western
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Not one thing wrong with that buck, everything is good You earned him and what a VD treat
If at first you dont succeed, then skydiving is not for you..
"Don't trust everything you read on the Internet"- Abraham Lincoln Dennis
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Re: Special To Me
[Re: Novemberyet]
#5416693
11/13/14 01:18 AM
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stxranchman
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Congrats on great buck with special meaning to you
Are idiots multiplying faster than normal people?
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Re: Special To Me
[Re: LuckyHunter]
#5416694
11/13/14 01:18 AM
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Wburke2010
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Thank you for your service. Great right up and buck. Congrats. Walter
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Re: Special To Me
[Re: Novemberyet]
#5416756
11/13/14 01:45 AM
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LandPirate
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Congrats on your special buck. You earned him. Thanks for your service.
Mike Buda, Tx Hunt near Freer
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Re: Special To Me
[Re: LuckyHunter]
#5416762
11/13/14 01:48 AM
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jdk1985
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Re: Special To Me
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#5416772
11/13/14 01:53 AM
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dlrz71
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Congrats and great memories.
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Re: Special To Me
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11/13/14 01:58 AM
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rattler03
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Great story and a great buck! And thank you for your service, sir.
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Re: Special To Me
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#5416840
11/13/14 02:11 AM
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wtr
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First thank you. Second awesome buck and congrats.
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Re: Special To Me
[Re: Novemberyet]
#5416844
11/13/14 02:12 AM
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Stompy
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Congrats buddy great story
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Re: Special To Me
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#5416886
11/13/14 02:31 AM
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ACKHNTR
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Attaboy Mudddd!! Some great memories were had "over there" but I'm glad you were able to create this awesome memory on Veterans Day! Congrats bud you deserve it!
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Re: Special To Me
[Re: Novemberyet]
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11/13/14 02:32 AM
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Congrats Sir. Thanks for your service.
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Re: Special To Me
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#5417035
11/13/14 03:22 AM
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B Razorback
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Very glad for you but especially, thank you for your service!
You may all go to hell and I will go to Texas! -Davy Crocket This is duck hunting...shirts and shoes are optional
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Re: Special To Me
[Re: Novemberyet]
#5417114
11/13/14 03:51 AM
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MMyrick
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Good job Shane and thanks so much for your service!
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Re: Special To Me
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11/13/14 07:13 AM
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Tye
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Congrats on your buck and thanks for your service!
If you shoot a young deer because a neighbor will shoot it, you are that neighbor.
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Re: Special To Me
[Re: stxranchman]
#5417334
11/13/14 07:19 AM
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Joined: Sep 2010
Posts: 35,894
txshntr
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Congrats on great buck with special meaning to you And thank you for your service
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Re: Special To Me
[Re: Novemberyet]
#5417345
11/13/14 08:04 AM
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cibolo
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Congrats and thanks for your service
"Error of Opinion may be tolerated where Reason is left free to combat it." - Thomas Jefferson "If we ever forget that we're one nation under GOD, then we will be a nation gone under." - Ronald Reagan
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Re: Special To Me
[Re: Novemberyet]
#5417398
11/13/14 11:54 AM
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kry226
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I missed the 05 season too while I was in Iraq. Congrats to you on a great buck.
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Re: Special To Me
[Re: txshntr]
#5417405
11/13/14 12:05 PM
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Seadog
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Congrats on great buck with special meaning to you And thank you for your service
I support Cap and Trade - Cap our spending and Trade Obama
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the Government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. - Thomas Jefferson
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Re: Special To Me
[Re: Novemberyet]
#5417420
11/13/14 12:22 PM
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Erathkid
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He's a dandy. Special for sure. Like the others have said, Thank you for what you do for us.
Life is too short, as is. Don't chance it. Don't text and drive.
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Re: Special To Me
[Re: Novemberyet]
#5417460
11/13/14 12:57 PM
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Joined: Nov 2009
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erniejs
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We get old too fast and wise too slow
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