Amazing, what a small world. Nice unusual old buck

[NYBowhunter]

Well heres the story, here iam opening morning of rifle its 10am and im dragging my 6 pointer out of my ditch to the road with the help of my cousin. As we get on the road a small car pulls up and we start to chat hunting. Shows me a 4 pointer he took that same morning (funny was stuffed in the truck of that tiny car), turns out he hunts on property that hes a care taker of at the end of my road. Now it gets interesting, he continues to tell me that hes in the DEC sportsman reg. Book for this year. Pulls out the book and there he is on page 68 i beleive check it out). Turns out that in December 8 2014 with the ML he shot a nontypical 12 pointer. Whats even more unusual i tell the guy i have a picture of his buck when it looked to be a 1 1/2 yr old back in August 2009, that would put this amazing buck at 6 1/2 years old. Why i think its the same buck, fist thing he told me was the buck had a unusual long nose (look at both pictures), also the U shape in both sides of horns. I always wondered what happed to that buck, now i can put that buck to rest.

[ApexerER]

That's pretty cool.....Did you give him a copy of the pic?

 

[NYBowhunter]

That's pretty cool.....Did you give him a copy of the pic?

No unfortunately he left and i didnt get his number, the picture was on my laptop at home.

[growalot]

Now that is a great story...Would you have thought that buck to be that old looking at the picture and not knowing the history? I wouldn't have though it's just a head shot...did he say how big the body was?

[NYBowhunter]

Grow...without the history i would have never guessed the deer to be that old. No he didnt mention body size.

[nyslowhand]

Sounds very similar and painful to hear. Past summer a guy in the local diner was talking about deer hunting, BBs, etc to someone I know. Suddenly my ears perked up when he mentions a Cty Rd that's a little off the backside of my property. I invite myself into the conversation. Mentioned a couple landmarks on that Cty Rd. As the crow flies, his property is maybe 1/3mi from mine. We talk about BBs and I jokingly mention that we've both probably seen the same ones! So I pull out my cell phone and show him a video of a super nice BB I'd gotten photos/videos of a couple years ago. He asks if I had another video.... watches it & then he says "Yea, looks exactly like the one I have mounted on my wall!" Doh! Really hate this guy now, kidding!! Was able to muster up a meager - Good for you, congrats! So I put all the cam shots on a DVD I had of that buck from the end of May thru the end of October, before he disappeared off my radar. Dropped the DVD off at the guys place of business with my cell # and casually mentioned that someday I'd love to see his wall mount. Someday maybe I'll get a close-up view of that great BB!

[NYBowhunter]

Pretty cool story nyslowhand, its bitter sweet. I was just glad to know what happened to that buck after all these years.