Are his front legs really light color or is that just the way the pic came out?  Loving this thread.  Keep it up.

Yeah I prolly would've been slinging carbon and steel his way.  Especially as windy and cold as it was up here in NW Missouri today.

Honestly can't say about his legs, but I guess they are grey...


This afternoon's hunt >>>------------>

I got in stand on south lease (I hunt the lease  during gun because bro has other folks there for gun) at 1:00 pm , after about 20 minutes a buck comes thru north of me , wind is SW so I waited to see, and all good!  He was young and moved on ...

Next up a doe and fawn come from NE and all still good.  Actually didn't get busted at all and had deer on all sides before I was done.

Then a doe comes from NW and a grunter behind her. Nice 10 I think, dark rack, looks good, gonna shoot...

She circles behind me and he cuts across in front, but now coming straight on as she moves away. I'm at full draw for awhile and he springs forward and I give him the ol TV mehh. Stops just before getting behind the brush(more on that in a minute) and I drop the string. The arrow looks real good, midway up behind shoulder , 8 yards out, I'm thinkin dead deer!!

He takes off and runs about 50 yards, and stops, I wait for him to topple, but he snorts twice and walks over the edge of a low spot. Never had one snort on a kill shot but what the hey, all good...

Now there is grunting in the low spot where he went??  Now a buck coming in behind my left shoulder, no blood on this side, he turns and passes on my left side showing his right side, no blood on that side either. It's a different buck and a heck of a lot bigger!  I have an arrow on but I'm not shootin with one already dead down there. He goes across in front , then turns and comes back across, 12 - 15 yards , clean lanes. That will test ya!! 


Finally the buck and the half dozen does leave and I get down to look at my arrow stuck in the dirt. It's clean?? It looked like a textbook shot!!

Then I see the itty bitty dead cedar limb about 1/8" thick that it hit, and turned it down into the dirt. Amazing what my mind was sure it saw but wasn't...

On to the next! Those two were both too lucky I reckon...

Yes Gerald, it was cold all day!!  Wore the windproof stuff and it wasn't quite enough this morning! 

OH MAN! that sucks. maybe a bigger one tomorrow,

No hunt today, but will in morning. Then shop mid day or so, then maybe back out tomorrow eve.

Man the gun guys (and me )  get all the good buck movement. 

Congrats John.  Keep after him kenny

Congratulations Kenny. Very nice buck!

View this morning...

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Saw a half dozen does , five bucks , and a couple squirrels .

Had a doe grunting , maybe she identifies as a buck ... 

Well the big guy got gunned...  At least it was a young lady who had never gotten a whitetail...

This one on back of my place may be his younger bro , about a mirror image ...

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Bummer.

That's quite the chunk taken outa that fellers ear. 

Should be easy to tell if you have pics of him...past or present.

Brad I bet that hurt!

Here's one of this mornings bucks, no pic of the other one ...

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Looks like you are in a small cedar tree on the South farm.

Yep it ain't all that comfy but the deer numbers on there make it bearable ... 

Different stand tonite on a big sycamore , saw 5 bucks, a bunch of does and 21 turkeys . Only one deer close nuff , think he almost had me while I was taking the pic .

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Good stuff Kenny - the cold front you have should be here in the morning - NW winds and they should be moving
Tim B

Yep, it will be pretty cool in the morning,30 with an 8 mph wind, they are calling WNW here, and I hung a new stand a couple days back for that wind. The biggest buck I saw tonite came from somewhere over that way...

Oh, there was some kinda chasing on one doe tonite...

Do tell.......