For over two months I have been hunting this buck, I had him on trail camera almost every night (after dark) ,he showed up just before the rut. I was after him most every day the wind was right except for xmas and Thanksgiving . Finally Last Friday here he came, at ten yards I hit full draw and as I did the floor in my blind let out a little crick and there he was ...gone ! My insides went from exploding ping pong balls to cream of wheat ,talk about disappointment, Ive shot some nice bucks but not like this buck he is huge a booner plus, what a rack . I tried a dozen times coming to full draw afterwards and could not make the floor crick again . Sunday the season ended so I ate my tag the first time since about 1971 .
Who else has run into old lucky ?
Sometimes, I think it's fate! It just wasn't your turn, so it didn't happen.
He'll be even bigger next season!!!! Better luck then!!!!!
Bisch
Lets see some trail camera pictures.
That really stinks. I guess the good thing is if he made it this late he should hopefully still be around next season. Maybe you can pattern him early before gun season(s).
King
Tim, if it makes you feel any better, I'll buy the 1st couple of drinks in Springfield at the PBS Banquet. Oberle did tell me you shot a doe during the Safari. I doubt if any of that makes you feel better.....
Mark I may need more than a couple especially if your buyin . Frank I don't know how to post pictures and I do have one that is on my phone the rest are deleted.
That's the sort of thing that keeps dedicated bow hunters coming back year after year.
That's the way my luck goes as well. You are not alone
My problem is they show up 5 minutes too late...
Here is Tims buck. Not the best image but you get the idea. Its a buck that will keep Tim up for awhile :biglaugh:[attachment=1]
Wow great buck!
Tim
I shot a nice one and can't complain but this is the one that toyed with me all season. I had him in a couple of times when it was so calm that I couldn't move enough to get a shot off. I took this pick with my phone when I was setting a couple weeks ago after I had already filled my tag.
Good job Tim. Way to stay after this beast. September is almost here!!
I may get over it in a couple of years ! That's a big buck Brad has a picture of . A couple of weeks ago I took a different route back to my truck and found a dead buck about the size and shape of Brads that had been shot in the gun season he would score in the high 150s . Thanks Bryan for posting that picture.
I had a similar experience on pretty pressured public land but he wasn't near the caliber of yours, I had found what I thought a core area a nice buck and hunted there and in the general area for serial weeks almost every day if the wind allowed it and was very careful hunting him, I finally got to watch him at 40 yards the 2nd week of Nov. he appeared to be in the mid 130,s and a nice even 10 pt. Well Dec 7th he showed back up walking into one of my few openings at 20 yards and about 10 feet before hitting the opening, he just stopped and looked around and spotted me in the tree. He seemed to check me off then continued coming , but at the shot he blew up and was gone. I knew I'd never see him again out of that tree
Nothing to get over. Go find his sheds this spring and continue the story....it's not over.
Nice deer guys.
The biggest 8 pt. that I've shot at this year has the tree limbs trained to jump in front of my arrow. Go figure. LOL
How do those deer train the trees to do that that's not luck that's down right savvy . I even had a timber wolf do it once to a tiny pine bough.
2018 was like that for me every single day
I got rained out of the Badlands in ND ,then I was 2 days in NW South Dakota, a big blizzard was coming in and I had to race home . I went back to central SD in Nov. just in time to hit below zero weather 2019 has been my worst year . My 11 year old grandson got a buck though !
Quote from: Tim Finley on January 08, 2020, 08:35:35 PM
I got rained out of the Badlands in ND ,then I was 2 days in NW South Dakota, a big blizzard was coming in and I had to race home . I went back to central SD in Nov. just in time to hit below zero weather 2019 has been my worst year . My 11 year old grandson got a buck though !
It was definitely a wet year hear. The wettest I have ever seen. I had to wear chest waders to get to some of my stands for a good part of the season.
For 3 years I waited for this buck and on Oct 26 6:15pm I had him at about 20 yds. It was raining, dark and miserable and I had to make a choice, shoot or don't shoot. I chose not to shoot and take the chance of losing him, 2 weeks later on the last day of gun season the neighbor shot him. He scored 161. Now I got to find another big one.
We have all been there. This is a buck that I chased for three years. Last year he almost caused me to lose my mind. Id sit a stand and not see him Id crawl down at dark. Id pull the card weeks later to find that he had been under my stand making a scrape ten minutes after I was gone. Id sit a stand for four days straight and start thinking I was over doing it. On the fifth day Id go sit a different stand in his area. That was the day I would get pics of him in front of the stand that i just stayed out of. I made one more sit for him before the rifle season in early November. Got in early wind was good everything seemed good. An hour and a half before dark here he came right down the pipe like he was supposed to. He had his head in the corn at 20 yards with no shot so i figured I would stand up to be ready. Unknown to me a little dink had snuck in behind me and was directly under my tree. When I stood he jumped. When he jumped the big guy turned and walked back into the cattails. No snorting no stomping just gone. He showed up after rifle season with a big wound on his front leg. That was it for 2018[attachment=1]
48 and 1, that's an amazing string of success!! However, I bet you feel it's more than a fair trade to see Kiefer get his first buck! That is an amazing buck you had there, I am sure you had many others but after seeing that on I understand your passing on them. What a monster, he better hope he is as lucky next year!