Rumor has it that the "Sheriff" was shot by a sniper this morning....(updated)

More pics to follow later......

Updated with pics and storyline of the hunt on page 2

Beautiful deer!!

SniperRAB killed the Sheriff?

I knew you'd break down and get your dog a hunting license!

Gotta run but will give more details later.

You where say'n about no need for a HF

Awesome 8

A really good looking Buck.

Sniper shot the Sheriff...but he did not shoot the deputy!

Man I really wanted to see that buck next year

The one he whipped won't be a slouch next year

Damn nice buck! Congrats!🔫

Great looking deer! Congrats!

I want one like that.

add myself and the other 54317 members to that list LOL

......from the law....

sweet!!

When are we gonna get some details???

STX will have to bond out 1st I guess

now where's that wabbit

One time at Band Camp...

Sorry about the delay but had to take pics, gut, skin, and quarter the buck. Then took meat to processor and cape to taxidermist.
Here a link to this buck also. http://www.texashuntingforum.com/forum/u...sheriff_in_town

When this buck made his presence known on Thursday afternoon I took a lot of pics of him before, during and after the fight he had (pics in above post). After the fight he ran/walked the other buck off the area. I immediately made a call to my cousin. My cousin is more a like brother to me. At the age of 7 his Dad was in the Air Force and killed in a head on collision coming home from San Antonio one evening. 3 months later his Mother had a stroke that left unable to speak and her whole left side of her body paralyzed. He moved in with us after that.
He has hunted off and on his whole life but never had killed anything over 110" or so. The past 2 yrs he has helped my Mother and myself out with my Dad when he was in a nursing home or hospital. He would stay during the day with my Dad when I would stay at night. After my Dad passed away in late March this year he has continued to help me with my Mother. So I wanted to get him a good deer last year and it just did not happen. Same for this year. So when I saw this buck on Thursday get in the fight, I called him and asked him if he had to work on Friday. He said no, but was coming down to hunt Friday afternoon and my place in Live Oak County. I said you need to come down tonight to hunt this big 8 I just saw in a fight. He said well he would be there late morning. I said no, this is a really big 8 and described the buck to him. He said "I will be there in an 1 1/2 hours.
Friday morning we left the house here at 5:30 and got in the blind early. Had deer on the corn and oats at daylight. Lot bucks and does but not the big 8. We hunted till 1/2 hour after the last deer left and called it quits. We got back in the blind that afternoon at 3:30. Saw quite a few does early then finally a few bucks really late before dark. Big 8 was still did not show. I was afraid now this buck was like some of them in the past, he would make 1 appearance then never see him again.
This morning I woke up to the sounds of light rain/drizzle running off the roof. I liked that and the fact it was 41 degrees. We hit the blind and got settled in by 5:45. Daylight took forever with the heavy cloud cover and intermittent drizzle. It was pretty cold with the damp air and wind gusting around. Saw a lot of doe and fawns and quite a few bucks. Just not the big 8. I was fully expecting to see the big 8 come in from the east since that is where he came from the other evening. At 7:05 he stepped out from the brush onto a road but from the west. I took a 1 second look and told my cousin that is the 8. He said are you sure and I get ready, I am going to open the window so move slowly. He was watching another buck that was looking our way so he waited. The big 8 was broadside but turned away from us eating corn on the road. He then turned quartering to us. I said can you hit him high in the shoulder on the point and go through vitals? He said yes. I said well...BOOM..squeeze the trigger when you are ready. Buck's butt folded under him and he hit the ground. I asked him did the shot feel good and he said yes. I told him chamber another round and get your rifle on him. He said, he ain't going to get up. I said no get another round ready and your rifle on him. I could see him kicking and his legs straight out. I knew he had hit higher than where he was aiming, due to his legs above the ground. He said no the shot felt good. The bucks was still kicking, I said hit him again thru the brisket into vital. He was excited at this time and the buck was kicking his front legs, so when he shot he hit the dew claw on the right leg when the buck kicked. The bullet fragmented into the calf muscle and into the brisket and into the vitals. In a few seconds he quit moving.
This pic is from the other day but this is how he was standing in the shot and he was maybe 5' to the right of the this exact spot. He dropped in his tracks.

Here are 2 pics of the buck after we got to him.


My cousin had a little bit of buck fever after the shot and still after we left to go to town 2 hours later. The buck was about what I thought for body weight and he was 5.5 on age. That is what I thought also. I did not ask him how his rifle was sighted in before we started hunting but after we headed to town, I did. He said it was about 2.5" high at 100 yards. So that is why he hit the buck a bit high and just under the spine in the excitement of seeing the buck so quickly and unexpected. Dang fun hunt and a really great buck for this area.

That is awesome!!! Congrats to your cousin and kudos to you for returning the favors in your own way. That is a fantastic 8 and sometimes it is more fun and rewarding of a hunt to watch someone else take it and have the chance to be there when they did.

Great story and great pics, congratulations to your cousin & you.

STX, heck of a story SIR, Cant think of anyone better to deserve that buck, Congrats to both of you fellas

Congrats

All I can say is that I do get excited when someone else is going to shoot. We sat from 40 minutes or so watching deer with the windows all shut on the blind. No problem with windows fogging up. I opened the window in front of my cousin and left mine closed when he got ready to shoot. The window in front of me fogged up about when he was about shoot for some reason.

Great story and hell of a buck!!

Outstanding...
Thanks again Cuz! I owe you

Little Jokey Joke

Congratulations to him Sir!
Great write up and simply an outstanding Animal

Congrats!

That's about as nice as they get! Congrats to him!

Sounds like that buck couldn't have been killed by a better more deserving guy.

Heck of a buck!

Congrats to your cousin.

Nice

Thanks guys

You are a good person Ranchman.

Very nice buck and an exceptional gesture to say the least. That's a life time trophy!

Congrats on the great buck.

Dang, that's a nice buck. Congrats on an exciting, successful hunt.

Law don't go round here law dog. Great buck and story!

Congrats, that is an amazing deer!

Congrats to your primo first off. Second to you for offering the opportunity. My cousin who is a year younger than me is more of a brother and we have been running together since we where born. His father was killed in a car accident in San Antonio when my cousin was about 5. My grandparents basically raised him and we took him hunting any chance we got. At the age of 39 he had never taken a buck so this year we decided to put him on one. Last weekend is when he got it done. This buck might break 100" but you would of thought he was B&C by the excitement in his voice on the phone hours later. This guy started college at 35 with having a wife and young daughter and a full time job he will graduate in May. So I told him on this trip that next year we are making a spot for him on the lease. So he will finally be on his own deer lease.

Southtex when I started reading your story it hit home for sure. Awesome job!!!

Awesome deer . Hunting with family is what it's all about . Thanks for sharing.

Your brother from another mother sounds so deserving. Thanks for sharing stories of a good man and the hunt. The 2014 Sheriff will be remembered.

Great story and a mighty fine buck. Congrats to you both

Great story Stx.

What a stud. I'd have shot the sheriff too!!! Hell I'll shoot the deputy of you need me to

May have missed it in the reading but any green score?

X2

Very nice

Awesome story and great buck

Congrats to you and your cousin on a magnificent buck.

Well played. A great 8. Congrats to your cousin.

So was he a sniper??

incredible buck and great story!!

Heck of a buck and great story. Congrats to both of you.

Congrats guys I will be guiding little man next week.

Awesome buck. Congrats to y'all both.

Way to go cousin and very cool of you Ranchman

Wow, great buck for sure, congrats to him.

Congrats to your cousin. It's good to see good things happen to good people.

Thanks again

Great write up and awesome buck, congrats to your cousin.

I don't have an exif reader on this laptop. The long shots had be around 300mm at f2.8 to f3.5 for that beautiful shallow depth of field.....

Worthy of framing in my considered opinion. Nice work, Sir.

Marc

The first pic was shot with 500mm at f4.0 at 190 yards or so and I cropped it to that size. ISO was 200 with exposure 1/160. I was shocked how well the pic turned out since it was so dark that day with cloud cover. Time on photo was 5:05pm. All the pics I took of him in this thread and the other one of the buck fight two days before where with the 500mm lens. Here is the link to the buck fight. Most of the fight pics are at 125-130 yards. ISO had moved to 640 so the exposure would be 1/400 on those pics with deer moving.
http://www.texashuntingforum.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/5419164/1/

Wow. I have a 500mm lens for my rebel and never tried zooming in and cropping from that far out. Will give it a shot.

Here is a pic that was taken just before the one in the first post on this thread that is not cropped for comparison.
Cropped (pic in the first post)

Not cropped (pic immediately before the one above)

This 500mm is not a zoom but fixed. I do have a 100-400mm zoom that I use a lot also.

I meant zooming in on the image after the pic.

I woulda put another round in him after he stoped kickin just in case.. An 8 like that is what Tx is about.. It don't get no better

Also this camera has about a 1.6 focal length multiplier built in it already. So the 500mm lens is taking pics at pics at 782mm in 35mm film when you download them.

Man that is one bad dude! Stud!

He really was and even badder after he got in a fight with the other 8 that day. I think in the top pic of these 2 is when the other had snort wheezed at him to tell him to back off. He immediately turned and walked towards him.

Toad 8!

And I get more excited when others shoot than I do when I shoot.

Not I. I get like a giddy child when it's time to pull the trigger.

That would have been one heck of a sight to see. Glad you got to witness it!

Here is a link to a thread with some pics of the fight. It was really a treat to so it but having my camera to take the pics made it even more special.
http://www.texashuntingforum.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/5419164/1/

ranchman... you looking to adopt?

Great job all around STX!

What a great buck and story stx! Congrats to your cousin

Awesome buck and story, congrats to him.

That's a heck of a buck, and a hell of a gesture! Great story, congrats to your cousin on a hoss!

Thanks all

Great deer! What was his inside spread?

He was 17.4" inside.

Great story!!! Congrats to your cousin! Thanks for sharing the pics and the story of your cousin. Very good read

Congrats!

Awesome buck.

Loved this story and this buck!!

I don't know how the heck I missed this. Job well done and great story

toad of a deer!!!!!!!! congrats to your cuz Steve

Thanks again everyone.

Great times-Enjoyed the story! Congrats to both of you.

HOT DOG!

Great buck, congrats to all

Awesome buck!! Congrats to you both. I'm sure you were as excited as he was. Just plain awesome!

Beautiful buck and great story. Pretty good photography to boot.. Congrats to all.

wow. awesome

You the Best Stx!

Now we need Nav to shoot his 8 with the long g2s so we can have another which scores more thread.

Heck of a deer.

STX,

You're a good man. Congratulations to you and your cousin.

What a GREAT picture and GREAT buck. Congrats on getting both

That is one beautiful deer! Ive never hunted South Texas, but hopefully when I do I will put my crosshairs on one like that!

I've come back to this thread a couple of times now. I can't help but appreciate the lensmanship! Simply owning a given tool doesn't make a person a craftsman.

Nice work indeed, Sir.