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Location - Texas
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Location - Colorado
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Location - Michigan
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Location - Georgia
Will Brantley - Loves hunting in a dorag because it makes him look Ramboish. Some may call it Little Man Syndrome.
Location - Tennessee
Monday, October 27, 2008
Texas Youth Season Part 2
Here is a dandy buck taken in South Texas by Jared Dylla. Jared scored big on his birthday buck and you can see how proud he and his dad Tim are of the deer.
Here's the story on this great buck:
I got on a lease just outside of Floresville on Hwy 97 with a good friend who is also a co-worker about 3 months ago. It is 500 acres of heavy brush surrounded by open farm land on 3 sides, and yes it is low fenced! Across 97 is 1,300 acres that is high-fenced that was originally part of this place but was sold about 4 or 5 years ago.
This place has a creek that holds water so you can just imagine how many hogs are there considering all the groceries they have to eat surrounding it. But, my buddy had shown me a picture of a really nice 10 point scoring around 130 that another hunter had gotten last year. He looked to be about 4.5 so I figured there were some pretty good genes and potential here. I needed a place to take my son, the price was right, and it was 1 hour from the house so I signed up. I figured we'd get a doe for meat and a bunch of pork to boot.
I've had a camera set up for about a month and I've gotten over 4,000 pictures of which 3,900 had every color of pig imaginable, including some colors I didn't knew existed. I did get one picture of a buck at midnight 3 weeks ago but it was a long way off and pretty blurry to boot. But I could see the deer had a good G4 and pretty good beams and appeared tall and guessed if the other side matched he was a solid 130 class deer or better.
After hunting yesterday morning and seeing 4 does but no pigs, we got out and headed to my buddy's ranch in LaSalle county to visit with a hunter he had at the ranch whom I guided last year and wanted for me to come and look at his buck he killed and catch up on the year past. We headed back to Floresville about 3:30.
At 5:30 we climbed in the stand after corning the senderos up with the jeep feeder. About 6:00 we had 4 does and a fawn come out. They were acting pretty jittery so I told my boy to get ready as I believe we were not far away from delivering the pork. Time went by and nothing came out.
I've put up burlap curtains in all the windows to keep the deer from seeing us in the stand and had the right window one slid to the left so I could see through about a 3" opening. My son could not see as his side of the window was covered with the curtain. We sit so that he can watch two ways and me two ways without moving around to look out. Around sundown I looked out the window and saw a little buck come out. I told him to hand me the binos and he asked what it was and he wanted to see. I told him it was a little buck and to just hold on a second. By the time I looked back up his buck had stepped out. I knew instantly he was a shooter.
I looked at my son and asked if he was ready to shoot a buck. He asked if it was the big 8 point that my friend had a picture of from last year and that he had past up. I said yes, lying just a little as I saw he had 10 solid points with a possible 11th with a short G5. I got the video camera ready and he turned his chair to use the back of it for an arm rest. I slid the curtain over the other way and he watched the deer as there were now 10 in the sendero so that we wouldn't spook them. I set the stock of the rifle on the window and he took over. The buck fed facing us for an eternity and he held the rifle on him the entire time. Finally, after about 15 minutes all the other deer had left that sendero for another and the buck started to get anxious and I thought to myself, "Oh my Lord please don't let the hogs come out and run this great buck off."
I told him to get ready and then he turned quartering to us and I asked him if he was on him. He said I'm rock solid and on him. I told him to put the crosshairs on the front shoulder 4" from the front and squeeeeeeeeeeeeze the trigger. About 1 second later the 150 grain bullet out of the .308 slammed him to the ground and he never kicked. After high fives and congratulations I asked him if he knew what he had and he said yeah dad, a big 10 point. I couldn't stop laughing!
This morning I woke up with another bill from the taxidermist and he woke up a year older with an unbelievable trophy buck!
Happy 10th Birthday son, Love dad!
Final stats are:
18 6/8" IS
41 3/8"BEAMS
5 4/8" G1s
18 4/8" G2s
15 7/8" G3s
10 2/8" G4s
31 2/8" MASS
141 4/8"
Congratulations guys!
-Russell
Way Back, Texas
Labels: Texas
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