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Walking down my driveway to get to my stand after lunch (driveway is near 1/4 mile) and three doe, mamma and two young ones are grazing along the driveway. Only 30 yards but only 30 more to the road. Besides, my wife has asked that no one shoot this doe. She has raised twins for five years in a row. Taking them up close behind the house all summer. 

Need to see a buck!

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Saw the biggest buck I've ever seen on the hoof yesterday. Adirondack Giant!!! Couldn't tell ya how many points but easily 20+ inch inside spread and 12" plus tines. Tracked him in the snow for 3/4 of a mile and got within 40 yards of him before he caught me and stood up and ran up a steep ledge directly behind a pine tree never presenting a shot. 3 miles later caught up to him but was with a hot doe and was a few hundred yards ahead. Tried to gain on him until he mountain goated this mountain side like nothing of course silly me couldn't resist following him and letting mr big get away. End result I followed to far to a point of no return and snow let loose and slid off a 25 foot ledge about 4-5 miles back in the woods about 330pm...ripped my sleeve off my camo jacket landed in a snow avalanche that cushioned me. Had to figure out how to get myself out of the woods and got to my truck at 8pm only 2.5 hours or so after dark.....with no flashlight, no cell phone and no topo map. (Cleaned out back pack from being wet last hunt and forgot they didn't get back in bag.) Used matches to get bearings of compass sporadically. Luckily I know the topo of the area vividly and managed to get to a creek and followed it back down to my truck. My family was 15 minutes from calling forest rangers and reporting me. No serious injuries besides I pulled and strained nearly every muscle in my body, reinjured my torn meniscus and reinjured my torn labrum in my shoulder. What a day. So no hunting for me for awhile.....but I'm alive. Congrats everyone that punched a tag today!

Wow that is a crazy story. Glad you’re okay and knew the area a bit!


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3 hours ago, moog5050 said:

Success. We split up and I was happy to kill one at my place.    And I also successfully buried my ATV to the floorboards.   Going to need lots of recovery rope to reach a tree to winch her out.  But the buck is home.   Waiting to see pics of Phades and David’s bucks. 

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Great buck Moog!! Looks like a big 'ole neck on that brute!

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Well after finding the state land packed full of people in all my usual spots I finally found someplace without a vehicle parked. Saw 1 doe and followed a real nice buck track for awhile that was making scrapes every 50 yards or so. Also found this monster rub. This thing is taller than I am. The rack must be quite large to be reaching up this high
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I’m posted up until dark over this scrape line. Not far from the rub either. Hoping whoever is making them comes back. 4c5bbbe27532823538a48c3b26fe339d.jpg

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3 hours ago, moog5050 said:

Success. We split up and I was happy to kill one at my place.    And I also successfully buried my ATV to the floorboards.   Going to need lots of recovery rope to reach a tree to winch her out.  But the buck is home.   Waiting to see pics of Phades and David’s bucks. 

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You have had yourself quite the year!

Good job brother! Now about that quad...

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