BUCKANDAQUARTER Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 So on Saturday evening I headed out with my new summit to try it out. i went where i haven't gone in years due to the wind blowing my scent from the truck to the woods. On the walk out coming to a long hay field I met up with a neighbor who has hunted there for years, i met him 13 years ago in the exact spot. Anyway we got done talking and I took 10 steps and saw a bruiser coming out of a thicket with another hayfield to the left of it and dense pines on the other side with manicured walking roads throughout. The thicket is about the size of a football field at best. I let him pass, never seeing horns, just probably the biggest chest and neck i have ever seen on a in the wild, bigger than my monster 8 i had gotten up there. I went back and checked a day or to later and there was 4 or 5 scrapes in that thicket. i didn't place my stand there and i let it cool of until Monday morning, saw nothing. tonight i almost didn't go out because my back was killing me but made it out anyway at 3:30. the wind was perfect and i found a nice tree with several trunks and went up in my climber. an hour later i saw the biggest coyote i had ever seen 30 yards to my right in the field. i "maaah'd" him and drew back of course i hit a branch missed him. half our later i hear a distant grunt sounded like it came from towards the long field. i figured it was a hunter... fast forward an hour and i see a tail in the bushes, then i see horn, i thought he was a 6 (which where i hunt people shoot spikes and 4's any day, i personally have a 3 on one side minimum). watched him come into 35 yards then after holding back on him for 2 minutes he cleared a bush and i corked him good. 40 yards later crash, he was down. got down the tree stand and first went into the field where i shot at the coyote, no blood, hair, arrow. I looked down 200yards to the field where my buck came from and there was a brute out with 4 does walking the other way. i think he challenged that 8 pointer i got and he had no part of it and came to me instead. Anyway I got a buddy and we went and found him down 40 yards from where i shot him and to my surprise he was an 8. No monster but my first archery deer. fantastic hunt. my ramble is over. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shawnhu Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 Cool story. X-Calibur Lighting Systems http://facebook.com/XCaliburLightingSystems Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pav2704 Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 Congrats!! Pics??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cabin Fever Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 Congrats! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
First-light Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 Nice job! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phade Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 (edited) Pics? Congrats! Good to see you took advantage of the hot sign! Edited October 10, 2013 by phade Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nybuckboy Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 congrats Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hunter Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 Congrats Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deerthug Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 Congrats on your first. I'm patiently waiting for my first.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluecoupe Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 Congratulations! I agree, pics are in order. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moog5050 Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 Nice job Buck. Great to see a plan come together like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Five Seasons Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 congrats Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bow Addict Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 Congrats.Your first bow kill is just like your first woman.You never forget your first one. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StripedBuck Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 Congratulations BUCKANDAQUARTER on your first bow shot deer, an 8 pt. no less! Thanks for the play by play. Now where are the pics? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BUCKANDAQUARTER Posted October 10, 2013 Author Share Posted October 10, 2013 (edited) thanks guys! He was a small 8, guessing only a 1.5 years old, I let them go to 2.5 but, and 8 is an 8, and around here there have been guys who have hunted 20 years and haven't gotten one... because guys don't hesitate to shoot spikes (to each there own, meat is meat), I was on the fence but he fit my criteria. He could have easily fit inside the monster out in the field. Still excited for my first bow kill, would have been sweet with that coyote I missed draped across it!! Edited October 10, 2013 by BUCKANDAQUARTER 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluecoupe Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 (edited) No excuses needed or warrented. He's a legal deer and will be nice and tasty. No matter how long you cook horns, they don't get tender and horn soup sux. Congrats again. Edited October 10, 2013 by SteveC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BUCKANDAQUARTER Posted October 10, 2013 Author Share Posted October 10, 2013 sorry to anyone if the second pic is too gory, but that pic made it look bigger! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeeBugg Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 No excuses needed. Very nice buck! If he walked by tonite id take em! Congrats again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbucks27 Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 Nice buck and congrats on your first with the bow!!! John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caveman Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 Congrats, you're going to remember this experience you whole hunting career. I got my first and only with a bow two seasons ago and I can still walk you through every detail of the experience. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BUCKANDAQUARTER Posted October 10, 2013 Author Share Posted October 10, 2013 thanks fellas, just after seeing all these beautiful western NY bucks and LI monsters I just wanted to let people know it isn't like that in my neck of the woods! I am thrilled! I gotta say I am a little bummed that I have to pass up bucks on my big doe quest. of course I have gone years without seeing bucks on that land. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lever action Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 Congrats! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-150 Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 Congrats! A veteran hunter told me after I got my first bow kill any deer you take with a bow and arrow is a good one. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New York Hillbilly Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 Nice job. Congrats! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njg0621 Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 Great buck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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