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2020 Mount
#8222127
04/01/21 03:18 PM
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Joined: Oct 2012
Posts: 545
TX TCAT
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That's right, I already got my deer taken in December 2020. Cow Creek Taxidermy in Boerne knocked it out of the park. ![[Linked Image]](https://texashuntingforum.com/forum/pics/userpics/2021/04/full-40566-288633-dsc04411.jpg) ![[Linked Image]](https://texashuntingforum.com/forum/pics/userpics/2021/04/full-40566-288634-dsc01438_small.jpg)
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Re: 2020 Mount
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#8222139
04/01/21 03:25 PM
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Joined: Feb 2011
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landsurveyor
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Very nice! 
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Re: 2020 Mount
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#8222162
04/01/21 03:39 PM
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Joined: Dec 2014
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VMike
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Outdoorsman
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I have a deer problem on my hog lease!!!
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Re: 2020 Mount
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#8222197
04/01/21 04:02 PM
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Joined: Sep 2008
Posts: 4,467
texfork
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Extreme Tracker
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Prayer is the "ultimate" wireless connection .
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Re: 2020 Mount
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#8222215
04/01/21 04:12 PM
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Joined: Oct 2018
Posts: 467
Ringtail
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Bird Dog
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Very nice buck and mount! Congratulations!
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Re: 2020 Mount
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#8222283
04/01/21 05:02 PM
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Joined: Aug 2016
Posts: 476
ErnestTBass
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Bird Dog
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Love it. That's a great ol' bruiser of an 8.
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Re: 2020 Mount
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#8222305
04/01/21 05:18 PM
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Joined: Apr 2013
Posts: 2,868
freerange
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Veteran Tracker
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Dang that is a real bigun. My kinda deer. You know score? Any story to tell. Deer Hunting section on here has been slow so liven it up.
Keep your gratitude higher than your expectations. RWH
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Re: 2020 Mount
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#8222375
04/01/21 06:18 PM
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Joined: Oct 2012
Posts: 545
TX TCAT
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OP
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Dang that is a real bigun. My kinda deer. You know score? Any story to tell. Deer Hunting section on here has been slow so liven it up. Here's a redacted copy and paste of the story I put in my post from the Photos section back when I shot him in December: --- The story starts when this deer showed up on camera for the first time 2 weeks ago. He got there mid-day on a Saturday, ate for an hour or so, then moved on. As things typically work out, I arrived at the ranch the day after he was was caught on the camera. I hunted that blind all day, but he never made an appearance while I was there, leaving me with 2 weeks to obsess over the game camera pictures and wonder if he was still around or if he was just a buck stopping for a bite on his way to chase a hot doe in some other pasture. Either way, I wasn't going to hunt anywhere else this weekend. I got to the blind early on Saturday morning. 6:30 am, an hour before sunrise. Conditions were perfect. Temperatures in the low 30s, winds out of the NE at 3 to 5 MPH, and clouds building on the horizon for what would be an overcast day. At about 6:40 the sun started casting light on the horizon. It was one of those sunrises that, no matter how the hunt turned out, it was going to be a good day because you had been able to see it. I pulled the camera out and took some pictures. After taking the sunrise pictures, I settled into the blind, focused really hard on every shadow that looked like a deer and waited for the feeder to go off. At 7:20 I heard the sound that no hunter wants to here. "Whiirrrrr..." The feeder went off, but the sound of corn being flung by the spinner was absent. I was beside myself. How could I let the feeder go empty at this point in the season? It was the longest 2 minutes of my life until 2 does walked out of the brush looking at the feeder pen, wondering why there was no corn on the ground. I thought to myself that I would wait for them to move on, then go get the rattling horns and take a different approach. Not another 2 minutes went by before my buck came charging out of the brush, nose down, hot on the trail of these does. I took one look through the binoculars and knew it was him. As he pushed these does around the field for another minute or 2, I got the gun up and waited for the shot. He gave me one broadside at 130 yards, and I made it count. The old warrior tried to run, but only made it 10 yards or so before his shoulders gave out and he took a dive. The whole thing was done by 7:35. ---- I put the tape on him when I got him back from the taxidermist. 141 on the mark. 19 6/8 spread.
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Re: 2020 Mount
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#8222407
04/01/21 06:49 PM
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cullbuck
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Bird Dog
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Great buck, great mount, and great photo of you and the deer!
Congrat's!
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Re: 2020 Mount
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#8222426
04/01/21 06:58 PM
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Joined: Jun 2008
Posts: 7,009
bigjoe8565
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Re: 2020 Mount
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#8222662
04/01/21 09:50 PM
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Joined: Nov 2017
Posts: 7,515
Biscuit
THF Trophy Hunter
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THF Trophy Hunter
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Re: 2020 Mount
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#8222815
04/01/21 11:56 PM
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Joined: Mar 2011
Posts: 1,043
JCO
Pro Tracker
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Pro Tracker
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Heck of a deer and nice mount. Congrats.
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Re: 2020 Mount
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#8222937
04/02/21 02:04 AM
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Joined: Oct 2007
Posts: 11,264
dlrz71
THF Celebrity
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Re: 2020 Mount
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#8223208
04/02/21 01:39 PM
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Joined: Jul 2011
Posts: 6,967
Old Rabbit
THF Trophy Hunter
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THF Trophy Hunter
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Re: 2020 Mount
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#8223218
04/02/21 01:50 PM
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Joined: Nov 2013
Posts: 150
ElkOne
Woodsman
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Woodsman
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Beautiful buck, big congrats!
ElkOne
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Re: 2020 Mount
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#8223328
04/02/21 03:23 PM
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Joined: Apr 2013
Posts: 2,868
freerange
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Veteran Tracker
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141 is a big buck and for an 8 its great, but if hes 20" inside then he appears better than 141. Beautiful buck regardless of score for sure.
Keep your gratitude higher than your expectations. RWH
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Re: 2020 Mount
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#8223429
04/02/21 05:04 PM
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Joined: Sep 2004
Posts: 688
Buddy
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Tracker
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Great story and mount, congratulations!
Last edited by Buddy; 04/02/21 05:05 PM.
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Re: 2020 Mount
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#8223432
04/02/21 05:06 PM
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Joined: Jul 2006
Posts: 106,379
dogcatcher
THF Celebrity
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THF Celebrity
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Combat Infantryman, the ultimate hunter where the prey shoots back. _____________"Illegitimus non carborundum est"_______________
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Re: 2020 Mount
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#8225957
04/05/21 03:22 PM
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Joined: Oct 2012
Posts: 545
TX TCAT
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OP
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141 is a big buck and for an 8 its great, but if hes 20" inside then he appears better than 141. Beautiful buck regardless of score for sure. I fat fingered that button... 18 6/8" inside. Good catch.
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Re: 2020 Mount
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#8226784
04/06/21 10:38 AM
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Joined: Mar 2021
Posts: 20
clarke11
Light Foot
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Re: 2020 Mount
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#8227614
04/06/21 11:58 PM
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Joined: Sep 2007
Posts: 102
chehunt
Woodsman
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Woodsman
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