"Whitetail Hollow" - 90 Acres NE Oklahoma.
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BBD baby!!!
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Wow. What a stud. Look at that mass!
Native Hunter
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Wow, great deer. That's really one to be proud of!
Story time...
I have a 2 year history with this deer. He was #2 on my home deer list last fall but we ended up hunting our lease and getting all our bucks there last fall...he made it through the season. Here is a photo of him a year ago...mass is unmistakable....
As you all know I have mentioned in the past I have several properties that border me and every one of them has someone hunting on them. 2 weeks ago was youth rifle season and I always let my grandson pick where he wants me to take him. He lived a few years with us on “Home 10” and he wanted Pa Pa to take him there. We sat in the rain and Eli was able to take this nice doe with the 30-30. We only had 1 day he could hunt so we made the best of it.
After his hunt I checked the cameras on our place here and noted this deer out in daylight the day before...
This was the last photo I got of him for nearly 2 weeks. I started to think he might not have made it through youth rifle season but a card pull a couple days ago showed he had returned! I was really happy about this because of his propensity of being a day walker...
I have been on vacation this week and the first couple days passed some nice deer because this buck and 3 others are the only ones I would even consider taking unless something new showed up. The weather has been very warm and the full moon had deer only moving the first few minutes and last moments in the evening. I was biding time between here and our deer lease depending on wind direction. Yesterday and today it was good for here at home but the rain moved in and it rained all day yesterday, all night, and all morning this morning. I sat in a stand in the rain with my muzzleloader 3 sits and saw a total of 1 spike and 1 coyote that I couldn’t get on.
I was walking back home in the rain this morning after my hunt and I heard 2 quick shots from my north fence line...muzzleloader season so wasn’t a legal weapon as is common here. I could only wonder if it was the main buck I was after...
My wife and I went to early vote today and have lunch when the rain broke. On our way home my wife said “this will be the evening you will get your buck”... I replied “I believe you are right” and we laughed. I got home, checked the wind directions, got dressed and grabbed my muzzleloader wondering if it would even go off with all the rain it had sat through the past couple days...
It was about 3:00 so I decided to check out the south plot but as I walked up on it I noticed a young buck was in it eating clover so I backed out and skirted it using our road system. I went to a stand in the center of our place in the deep woods because a trail camera showed a very nice buck there the evening before in daylight. I got settled in and was enjoying the cool but drier weather and the sun filtering through the trees. I hustled happened to look to my left at 5:00 and here he came headed toward our south plot. I saw he was walking into an opening a mere 20 yards away and the wind was perfect. I got the muzzleloader up and when he cleared the brush I squeezed the trigger and to my delight it fired! When the smoke cleared I saw him running favoring 1 front leg. He stopped at the top of a finger hollow and I started reloading. He then went into the hollow. As soon as I got reloaded I heard what I thought was him crashing...what he had done was gone down into the hollow and then climbed the other side but then he died and rolled back down to the bottom of the hollow...
I tried to drag him up but I couldn’t budge him. I believe he is my heaviest deer ever. I need to weigh him if I can find my scales. I came back home and the wife and I got on the tractor and went back to get him. We had to maneuver it through the woods to get where I needed to be to pull him up...
The wife’s premonition came true. I sleep in tomorrow
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I have a 2 year history with this deer. He was #2 on my home deer list last fall but we ended up hunting our lease and getting all our bucks there last fall...he made it through the season. Here is a photo of him a year ago...mass is unmistakable....
As you all know I have mentioned in the past I have several properties that border me and every one of them has someone hunting on them. 2 weeks ago was youth rifle season and I always let my grandson pick where he wants me to take him. He lived a few years with us on “Home 10” and he wanted Pa Pa to take him there. We sat in the rain and Eli was able to take this nice doe with the 30-30. We only had 1 day he could hunt so we made the best of it.
After his hunt I checked the cameras on our place here and noted this deer out in daylight the day before...
This was the last photo I got of him for nearly 2 weeks. I started to think he might not have made it through youth rifle season but a card pull a couple days ago showed he had returned! I was really happy about this because of his propensity of being a day walker...
I have been on vacation this week and the first couple days passed some nice deer because this buck and 3 others are the only ones I would even consider taking unless something new showed up. The weather has been very warm and the full moon had deer only moving the first few minutes and last moments in the evening. I was biding time between here and our deer lease depending on wind direction. Yesterday and today it was good for here at home but the rain moved in and it rained all day yesterday, all night, and all morning this morning. I sat in a stand in the rain with my muzzleloader 3 sits and saw a total of 1 spike and 1 coyote that I couldn’t get on.
I was walking back home in the rain this morning after my hunt and I heard 2 quick shots from my north fence line...muzzleloader season so wasn’t a legal weapon as is common here. I could only wonder if it was the main buck I was after...
My wife and I went to early vote today and have lunch when the rain broke. On our way home my wife said “this will be the evening you will get your buck”... I replied “I believe you are right” and we laughed. I got home, checked the wind directions, got dressed and grabbed my muzzleloader wondering if it would even go off with all the rain it had sat through the past couple days...
It was about 3:00 so I decided to check out the south plot but as I walked up on it I noticed a young buck was in it eating clover so I backed out and skirted it using our road system. I went to a stand in the center of our place in the deep woods because a trail camera showed a very nice buck there the evening before in daylight. I got settled in and was enjoying the cool but drier weather and the sun filtering through the trees. I hustled happened to look to my left at 5:00 and here he came headed toward our south plot. I saw he was walking into an opening a mere 20 yards away and the wind was perfect. I got the muzzleloader up and when he cleared the brush I squeezed the trigger and to my delight it fired! When the smoke cleared I saw him running favoring 1 front leg. He stopped at the top of a finger hollow and I started reloading. He then went into the hollow. As soon as I got reloaded I heard what I thought was him crashing...what he had done was gone down into the hollow and then climbed the other side but then he died and rolled back down to the bottom of the hollow...
I tried to drag him up but I couldn’t budge him. I believe he is my heaviest deer ever. I need to weigh him if I can find my scales. I came back home and the wife and I got on the tractor and went back to get him. We had to maneuver it through the woods to get where I needed to be to pull him up...
The wife’s premonition came true. I sleep in tomorrow
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I know...I like to gut them away from my hunting area to keep the coyotes from finding a prize at the end of the blood trail...Real nice deer. Congratulations. Have to make some more room on the wall. My kind of recovery too! They are lighter if you take the guts out!
After I field dressed him I let him cool out overnight since we were in the 30’s overnight and then I loaded him up and hauled him to our deer lease the next morning where we had scales. I killed him at 5 pm on Thursday and finally weighed him at 11:00 am on Friday and he still dressed 171 lbs... I figure he would have dressed 180 if I had dressed him out immediately and weighed him...big deer for an Oklahoma ridge runner with no crop land for 30 mikes in any direction...
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I am up a tree and it has been a Buck parade this morning...had a doe bring in 2 nice ones that hung around for 15 minutes or so while I videoed them...no shooters. I am bowhunting now...
Chainsaw
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Gorgeous deer Okie! Looking forward to hearing about some of those mass measurements; we have seen some mass on a couple of deer here but not like yours. Congratulations on a great deer hunt and congratulations to Eli as well. Eli looks to shoot very well. Good shooting Eli!
Largest mass measurement was 6.5”...no mass measurements under 5”...just nuts for a acorn/ hills n hollers deer...
Chainsaw
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That's great. We always use the eye as a comparison to the horn base; when it is larger than the eye diameter here we have something. Your deer has a horn diameter closer to comparable to the nose than the eye!
farmhunter
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great buck!! congratulations on a such a fine animal!
Thanks for sharing the story -
Thanks for sharing the story -
Merle Hawggard
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Okie, that is an amazing buck! Congrats!
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catscratch
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Amazing mass on that buck! Congrats Okie!
And what a great deer Eli! Good job young man.
And what a great deer Eli! Good job young man.
Chipdasqrrl
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Is there a specific buck or two on top of the list you’re holding out for now?
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I am either looking to get this 6.5 yr old buck...
Or cull this much older buck...
Or maybe something new will show up seeking the does using our place now...
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catscratch
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Holy tine length batman! That 6.5 yr old is great.
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Triple C
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Dang Johnny! Miss a few days of checking in and click to catch up on your thread and find out you've killed another beast of a big woods buck! Congrats my friend. When it comes to chasing and killing big bucks in big woods you are the MAN! If I were counting on someone providing meat for the winter without being able to buy it I'd definitely request that I be in your camp cause I know we'd eat!
Love your thread!
Love your thread!
