Lightning Striking Twice???

[PoisonSnake]

Well, as you boys remember from last year, I shot a large deer the last night of rifle season only to lose him because of a torrential rain/snowstorm. That, and being an idiot of course. But, I did find him about 1.5 weeks later 100 yards from where I last saw him.



2 weeks ago, I shot a nice 9 pointer and for the life of me didn't know where I had had hit him. Nice tall rack, guestimated in the 120s gross. Not terribly wide. Could not find that deer either. Took a lot of grief for it.



Friday morning at 8:40am, I had a nice tall racked deer sneak in behind me. I didn't even hesitate on the shot although I was caught with my pants down. The deer realized something wasn't right for sure. I drew, shot, hit a limb, and hit the deer back and into the guts. Deer went 80 yards and laid down. In fact, he stopped about 40 yards from my tree and I got a good look at his rack then. 9 points (5 on the right mainbeam), very tall, nearly as wide as his ears.



I knew the deer was in pretty bad shape but I also knew I had made a poor hit on him. So, I backed out, and waited 6 hours to track him. Finally caught up with him around 4:30pm and finished him off with my knife. Nice 9 pointer. Shot once in the guts and once high in the ribs but back. Upon necropsy, the buck was hit below the spine but external to the diaphragm. Possibly high liver hit. I didn't check that out as I was trying to clear the body cavity of guts ASAP.



You guessed it boys, same deer as 2 weeks ago. However, I really looked over the deer when he laid down and I was guessing 130s on Friday. Even when my brother and I got up on him and he was still alive at 20 yards we were like, "He is a dandy".



He lacks mass and brow tines but otherwise has a very nice rack. I didn't age him, but I guessed 2.5 years old unfortunately. My buddy that works for the MDC said 3.5. Who knows?



Truth be known; another Sammich. 120s gross.

[Duck Me Runnin]

Congrats on the buck, and on finding the answer to the mystery.

[TobyfromMO]

Congrats! Let?s see some pictures.

Good decision to back out. Those are tough decisions to make when you're "in the moment." Determination and/or practical intelligence is often confused with luck...but only by those with no results to show. Good job.

You should hang his hide over your archery target and shoot a few more holes in it for old time sake.

[PoisonSnake]

TobyfromMO said:
Good decision to back out. Those are tough decisions to make when you're "in the moment." Determination and/or practical intelligence is often confused with luck...but only by those with no results to show. Good job.

You should hang his hide over your archery target and shoot a few more holes in it for old time sake.

BTW, I went home and mowed the lawn, did some cooking, vaccuumed, and picked up some dry cleaing. Did all this chit just to keep my mind off of it. Pics are forthcoming.

[Two Tall the Neanderthal]

[Keith@AimLow]

Smitty asked me to post the picture as well so since I took the time to resize it I'm going to go ahead and do it.

[Two Tall the Neanderthal]

Oh yeah, I took the time to resize it, and adjust the levels and sharpen it.

[Triton X2]

TT, yours is better.

[seth_turner_04]

nice one....

[Great White Hunter]

His eye looks scary.

[Keith@AimLow]

I don't have good imaging software here. You need to work on getting the blood off the since Smitty didn't take the time to wipe it off for the picture.

[Rafe Hollister]

Smitty, nice deer.
TTTN, nice picture.
Keith, you suck.

[PoisonSnake]

Hey! You mother forkers should just be happy that I'm carrying a camera these days. I am still in Photography 101. I'll worry about cleaning and all next time.

[Keith@AimLow]

Rafe,



If you would start using the woods for hunting instead of deviant acts, you might kill something to take a picture of.



Smitty,



You get one chance to get nice pictures of a deer...taking a little extra time will make you happier down the road when you wanna show off nice pictures. If I was hunting with you I would insist you take good pix before you removed the deer from the woods.

[PoisonSnake]

I hear you [email]Keith@aimlow.[/email] I'm getting better about it.



Oh, BTW, you don't want me to tell you what happened over on Dan Judy's property last night. It happened in my stand where I would have had you hunting. Instead, I told my buddy to go over there and boy did he whack a good one.