Posted on 11/17/2004 8:12:13 AM PST by Rakkasan1
Yeah. His mother may have done it with a moose!
I was privileged, thanks to one of the members of my church, to hunt some club land on the northern floodplain of the Roanoke River in Northampton County, NC. This is annually one of the top three deer-producing counties in the state, and the fellows in the club tell me this was the biggest buck taken there this season.
And it wasn't due to my prowess as a hunter. He walked in on me, and I saw him about 60 yards away. All I did was point the rifle straight!
This guy needs some range time!
Aside from that, nice buck!
Semper Fi
Agreed, especially since the most of the shots are described as pretty routine. I'd be afraid to even be in the woods with this "outdoorsman"
CoolBad shooting hunt'n story for you
I'm no expert, but it looks typical to me. And with that mass, I'd have to guess it's B&C.
See that wierd tine on the left side of the buck's rack (right side of the photo)?
Typical racks are supposed to be symmetrical.
Atypicals are assymetrical.
A big rack is more likely to be atypical than typical.
Yep, the deer should have been declared the winner after that many shots. Did you notice he was using a lever-action .30-30 rifle? A 30-30 is really old fashioned, I wonder if he was using open sites too. A typical hunter these days, like me, spends lots of money on the latest equipment and he gets this thing with a 30-30. I'm happy for him, good story.
At least they took the time & trouble to track the wounded buck down & finish the kill.
Non-typical buck. The drop tine alone makes it so. Do a search for scoring B&C and P&Y and they will outline scoring and identifying.
A wall hanger it still is.
I hope he doesnt eat it. I am from the iron range and they claim that some deer in that area are suffering from mad cow disease or the deer equivalent of it.
BTTT
i will not google, i will not google, i will not google, i will not google ..............
I hate to see the little bucks being run out of the Superior WI area again...
Those big WI bucks get pretty mean and cranky this time of year and run all the little guys
out of the breeding areas..and across state lines..
That an a good dose of Nor-Adrenaline
Read later.
There was an article in the San Antonio Express News stating that is some controversy in how this buck was taken. Apparently it was wounded somehow (Camp Bullis has lots of lead flying in the range area) and some of the workers out there may have used a knife to dispatch it. I am sure there will more to this story in the future.
At point-blank range no less!
E. Pluribus and Deaf Smith,
Frankly, I missed the one big drop tine the first time I looked at that deer. Plus, as I said, I'm no expert, so I'm definitely willing to defer to those who are. Most of the deer I've seen that have been atypical had a lot of gnarly stuff and were REALLY asymmetrical. I'll have to read up on where the line gets drawn as far as making a buck typical or not. Thanks for the info.
BTW, I think I got light-headed just looking at that thing. I do most of my hunting on public land in northern NJ, and we don't see too many racks like that. Best deer I ever got in Jersey was a six-pointer...and I was glad and proud to have gotten that. Tasted good, too. :)
Sounds like this marksman thinks he's such a good shot, he only takes his gun out once a year. And shooting from a stand at that.
Shooting from a stand is for pussies.
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