Jim Wackler with the 36-point buck he shot near St. Cloud.
Posted on 11/16/2016 3:46:14 AM PST by SJackson
The 78-year-old was waiting in a lawn chair when 'trophy' trotted out from cornfield.
Jim Wackler with the 36-point buck he shot near St. Cloud.
Sitting in a lawn chair just before dusk Friday with his 20-gauge Winchester shotgun, Jim Wackler heard the buck coming “like a freight train” before he saw tips from its massive 36-point rack peeking above the field.
“All that dry corn, it was just a’ rattling,” Wackler said Tuesday. “He stuck his head out, looked around a bit and started trotting.”
Wackler, a lifelong hunter who eats what he catches — from squirrel and rabbit to pheasant, goose, duck and bear — hadn’t had much luck this year until he headed out late Friday afternoon from his home in Howard Lake to the farm near Waverly where his daughter and son-in-law, Ruth and Mike Young, live.
Wackler, 78, recently gave up his annual hunting trips Up North because he uses a cane now. “My legs are in tough shape,” he said.
The lifelong hunter estimated he’s killed 150 deer. Most were bucks with typical antlers with points, or tines, balanced on each side. The unofficial 36-pointer Wackler bagged has a “nontypical” rack with points that aren’t necessarily balanced and go in multiple directions.
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I love his hat.
I was curious why they said the hunt was near St. Cloud. It was just as close as ‘near Minneapolis”.
Love that! Reminded me of Great Grandpa’s last deer. HJe was 91...shot it from the kitchen window! :)
Last years theme was, ‘Three Deer and a Steer.’
Beau hit two deer in the course of one week - was able to salvage that meat, though it ended up being mostly burger, which is fine. Then a guy he was working with hit a deer on his way to the construction site - with his FIRST EVER BRAND NEW TRUCK. The deer was tagged and in the back of the crippled truck - the guy knew Beau would take it and use it. (He gave the guy a few nice steaks so he had SOME, feeling of ‘closure’ over his wrecked NEW truck!)
Then, two weeks later, Beau hit a small steer that jumped the fence and was in the road. The farmer who owned it got $1,500.00 in insurance $ for it, and gave the steer to Beau.
That one ‘cost’ him a replacement headlight, LOL!
It was quite the year! We’re almost though that meat - but now have that 500# bear to eat, plus maybe an elk and another deer.
Beau is either a very bad driver, or has a busy Guardian Angel!
Life Is Good. :)
He eats his road kill
“...calming it with his bowie knife.”
That is such a sinister phrase, I have to remember it!
Make Venison Great Again
(Oh, wait, it never stopped being great :)
All those little bumps count as POINTS? Who knew?
I’m not sure but sometimes the wife shops in St.Cloud and sometimes she shops near Minneapolis. We just had two hockey games for the boy in St.Cloud this last weekend.
One inch, that’s all it takes to be a “point”
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