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I had one steal my gun and my hat once. Thankfully I got pictures of the little thief in the act and alerted authorities who hauled this career criminal away where she could serve her sentence behind a fence where she belongs!

Just admit it Burt.., you didn't pass him, you missed another one.

Scroll down to the headline "IMPORTANT" http://hodgdon.com/ml-warning.html

I always believed there was no such animal as a truly "BIG 6pt" until I found these on my hunting grounds. I got a little more interested in 6pts after this. Never set eyes on him before or after this find. 8" gnarly bases, and some of the deepest vein canals I've ever seen on an antler around here.

One of my FAVORITE venison dishes right there! Cream style corn and hold the carrots for me though. I like to brown the ground with a pack of taco seasoning and eat it cold the next day. YUM is right!

There still working on finding a way to stuff them down the barrel. I think this one is a prototype,lol..

Hope to see some colored pics of these antlers soon!

I know we got pounded with snow opening week of season here in 9h and I don't think ANYONE was doing much if any hunting. Guys that only had that week to hunt probably got screwed by the weather unless they took advantage of a nice opening day here or had time to spare later in the season. Talking to the local processor earlier in the week and he said #'s were almost half of what he usually see's from around 400 down to only 170 something.

How................ That wasn't a question. Just me brushing up on my native American accent,lol

Just remember, it's not what time you arrive at your final destination that matters..., only that you arrive alive! Whether that's to Grandmas house for X-mas dinner or the end of deer season... At the end of the day we all want to return home whether we spent the day at work or in the woods. The rules ARE only guidelines for us to follow. Written law is just a way to punish offenders and hold them accountable for their own actions when the limits get pushed too far.

Haha- the donations have been rolling in steady since November when I posted that ad!

Great buck Sam, and congrats on a hard earned trophy! You're in a different category than most guys, so take no offence in my saying I don't understand the whoring out of the story if you really want to get it out there without financial gain. Honestly, how much do you stand to gain from it? That's just something I don't agree deer hunting should be about, but that's what it is, and I don't always get "my way",lol With all due respect though, great buck and hunt! You know you're a sneaky dude to stay on his trail that long and finally connect the final dot.

12-9-14 Late season success on the timbered edge of a goldenrod field. I sat on my stump daydreaming about shed season and all the antlers I'd be scooping up from the field behind me in the coming months. I had a sudden snap back to reality at 3pm when all of a sudden out of nowhere movement woke me up 25yds in front of me. This guy was casually following behind a young doe fawn and she led him right by me at 15yds before the ML swept him off his feet. He piled up about 40yds away, and when I arrived at his carcass I discovered he knocked an antler off when he crashed. I grabbed a few quick picures, and with sunset fast approaching I made a quick run home to grab a sled to make the drag out a little easier and protect his antler that was still attached. At home I realized I had this bucks antlers from last season which I included in these pics, and that I killed him just over 100yds away from where I had found those antlers last spring. This was the kind of hunt that made me thankful I could appreciate some of the finer points of the hunt without the size of the antlers clouding my excitement over him!

Lol- you have no idea how much it pains me to put those sloppy pics up. I forgot my little camera remote for field photos and it was dark by the time I got home with him so I didn't get a chance to clean him up first. Just dug through the horn pile and pulled out his antlers from last year. I knew they looked familiar. I killed him about 100yds away from where this set layed. Not intentionally after him there, but pretty darn cool it worked out like that if you ask me!

You know, as much as I wanted to give it a squeeze to see if it popped off I didn't. I took extra precautions to make sure it stayed on for the drag home. I thought for sure I was gonna loose it a couple times getting hung up but it made it. You can see the skin separating from around the base of the attached antler, so he was getting ready to drop them both soon. Now I need to think of a way to display them together. I got really excited seeing that antler laying there, but then I got nervous when I filled out the tag as 3pt on the right side so I had to get it home in one piece.

Thanks guys! So glad it's finally over. I think that is a sign from the shed gods that it's going to be a good season for antlers here! At first I thought he may have been injured and that loosened up his head gear, but I didn't see anything odd about him. I found my earliest naturally shed antler on December 12 2013 so he's not too far off that date.

Filled my late season tag with the ML this afternoon! Is it the least bit ironic that that when I walk up to my buck I see this,lol I know he was wearing them both when I shot him. Guess there's a first time for everything, as this has never happened to me before. But how cool is that, I killed a buck AND got my first shed of the season! Here's what he looks like when I put him back together! That stick is holding his horn in place. I have to check, but I think I have this set of antlers in last years 2013 model! I have to take some better field photos and get the story up in the morning in the harvest thead.

You guys are starting to show signs of reverse hunter evolution,lol

Very nice! Looks like you and Joey Martin will be arm wrestling for top prize. Poor kid,lol

Sweet- I've got some green apple to flood the late season woods with in the morning. I need to get one of those Atlantis tanks for maximum scent cloud distribution! I made you a celebration post this morning, but I think everyone thought I was congratulating you on a rough break up,lol http://huntingny.com/forums/topic/25893-hey-philoshop/

I was watching it until the power went out ( the OFF button) at the beginning of the 3'rd quarter.

That's a nice anniversary gift! Congrats on both accomplishments!

LMAO- yeah, I don't think you have to worry about him coming back...., especially now that he knows the property is guarded by a rabid gazelle that runs like the wind!

I've been using the same pellets for about 6-7 years as well. I just keep them in the original box they came in stored with all my other shooting supplies at a constant room temperature. If I pre-load a few speed loaders that go back and forth through fluctuating outdoor temps in my pocket or pack, I'll chuck those by the end of the season or replace them at some point with a fresh charge just for piece of mind if I suspect there may be a need to. Never ran into a problem with powder or pellets not igniting this way unless I forgot to prime it..... but that only happened once,lol