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Good week at the lease
#6555941
11/23/16 07:10 PM
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Joined: Jun 2008
Posts: 7,935
bigjoe8565
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Shot my best and most mature buck to date. Not a record breaker, but he's a good representation of what's on our lease. The first day I saw him I took two shoots and missed on both. Turns out my scope was off, but thankfully I always bring a backup rifle. I guess shooting suppressed also helps because he stuck around for 10-15 minutes after both misses. I decided to hunt the same location the following day but he never showed, so I thought he had been shot or moved on. He finally showed up the next morning and I was able to put him down. That morning the bucks were chasing hard, so it made for a great show. After drooping my buck, a younger 8 and fork horn locked up under the feeder. After they separated, the young 8 approached my buck with his ears laid back and looked like he was going to engage my deer on the ground. The young 8 was easily distracted by a hot doe running through the shooting lane so he took off like a rocket. I decided to try my hand at rattling, and was able to rattle the fork horn out to the shooting lane. I decided it was time to go get my deer and exited the blind. Well the fork horn didn't budge, so I walked to within 20 yards before he snorted and ran off. After I shot my buck, I decided to hunt for some turkey and hogs as well. I shot two pigs (recovered one) and put two turkey down. It was total luck, but I shot two turkey with one shot. The turkey literally walk within 10-25 yards of my box blind everyday. I decided I would take them from my blind since I wanted a turkey breast to smoke. All in all it's been a great week. My daughter killed her first deer, hog and coyote this week too. The worst part is everyone is giving me a hard time about taking three shots to kill the deer.
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Re: Good week at the lease
[Re: bigjoe8565]
#6555952
11/23/16 07:21 PM
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Joined: Jul 2013
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Weegs
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Bird Dog
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Looks like a good time was had. Nice work!
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Re: Good week at the lease
[Re: bigjoe8565]
#6555978
11/23/16 07:46 PM
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Joined: Oct 2015
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Age N Score ?
Tracker
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Tracker
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I Feed Indian Corn. The deer love it and all the colors make them stay at the feeder longer.
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Re: Good week at the lease
[Re: Weegs]
#6556003
11/23/16 08:03 PM
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Joined: Nov 2010
Posts: 29,609
SapperTitan
Taking Requests
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Taking Requests
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Looks like a good time was had. Nice work!
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Re: Good week at the lease
[Re: bigjoe8565]
#6556008
11/23/16 08:07 PM
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Joined: Sep 2011
Posts: 28,032
Navasot
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Re: Good week at the lease
[Re: bigjoe8565]
#6556019
11/23/16 08:16 PM
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Joined: Apr 2015
Posts: 915
rdhibbs
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Shot my best and most mature buck to date. Not a record breaker, but he's a good representation of what's on our lease. The first day I saw him I took two shoots and missed on both. Turns out my scope was off, but thankfully I always bring a backup rifle. I guess shooting suppressed also helps because he stuck around for 10-15 minutes after both misses. I decided to hunt the same location the following day but he never showed, so I thought he had been shot or moved on. He finally showed up the next morning and I was able to put him down. That morning the bucks were chasing hard, so it made for a great show. After drooping my buck, a younger 8 and fork horn locked up under the feeder. After they separated, the young 8 approached my buck with his ears laid back and looked like he was going to engage my deer on the ground. The young 8 was easily distracted by a hot doe running through the shooting lane so he took off like a rocket. I decided to try my hand at rattling, and was able to rattle the fork horn out to the shooting lane. I decided it was time to go get my deer and exited the blind. Well the fork horn didn't budge, so I walked to within 20 yards before he snorted and ran off. After I shot my buck, I decided to hunt for some turkey and hogs as well. I shot two pigs (recovered one) and put two turkey down. It was total luck, but I shot two turkey with one shot. The turkey literally walk within 10-25 yards of my box blind everyday. I decided I would take them from my blind since I wanted a turkey breast to smoke. All in all it's been a great week. My daughter killed her first deer, hog and coyote this week too. The worst part is everyone is giving me a hard time about taking three shots to kill the deer. No Sir it only took one shot to kill the Buck, those other two did not do anything
Thank You Robert
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Re: Good week at the lease
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#6556020
11/23/16 08:16 PM
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heredeer
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Re: Good week at the lease
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#6556040
11/23/16 08:32 PM
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djs303
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Looks like you got a nice variety of meat for Thanksgiving.
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Re: Good week at the lease
[Re: bigjoe8565]
#6556159
11/23/16 09:37 PM
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Upland007
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Woodsman
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very nice that will be good eating!!!
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Re: Good week at the lease
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#6556247
11/23/16 10:12 PM
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Joined: Aug 2008
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Deerhunter61
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Nice story, thanks for sharing
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Re: Good week at the lease
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#6556298
11/23/16 10:48 PM
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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: Good week at the lease
[Re: bigjoe8565]
#6556486
11/24/16 12:59 AM
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billyhunt
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Nice weekend!!!!!
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Re: Good week at the lease
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#6556531
11/24/16 01:42 AM
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dlrz71
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Re: Good week at the lease
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#6556551
11/24/16 01:50 AM
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mbavo
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Wow, that is great !!! Congrats !!!
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Re: Good week at the lease
[Re: bigjoe8565]
#6556841
11/24/16 05:58 AM
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NDN98
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Re: Good week at the lease
[Re: bigjoe8565]
#6556868
11/24/16 09:17 AM
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Halfadozen
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Sounds like a great hunt. Congrats on the harvest!
Freedom is a fragile thing ...Those who have known freedom, and then lost it, have never known it again. -- Ronald Reagan
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Re: Good week at the lease
[Re: bigjoe8565]
#6556896
11/24/16 12:12 PM
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Joined: Jan 2010
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HuskerB
Bird Dog
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Bird Dog
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"The worst part is everyone is giving me a hard time about taking three shots to kill the deer."
But you made up for it with the 2 turkey's with one shot! Looks like a great week to me. Congrats!
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Re: Good week at the lease
[Re: billyhunt]
#6556898
11/24/16 12:18 PM
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Joined: Jan 2013
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Pitchfork Predator
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Nice weekend!!!!! Congrats on your buck and turkeys.
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Re: Good week at the lease
[Re: bigjoe8565]
#6556917
11/24/16 12:39 PM
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Joined: Dec 2012
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Big_Ag
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Filling up the coolers! Nice job!
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Re: Good week at the lease
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#6556976
11/24/16 01:17 PM
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Joined: Jan 2011
Posts: 65,517
SnakeWrangler
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I believe in science and I’m an insufferable [censored] Actually, BBC is pretty damn good "You Cannot Simultaneously Be Politically Correct And Intellectually Honest!"
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Re: Good week at the lease
[Re: bigjoe8565]
#6557103
11/24/16 03:24 PM
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Joined: Jan 2011
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Erathkid
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Life is too short, as is. Don't chance it. Don't text and drive.
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