Re: Dads buck-et list buck
Sweet, deer looks young for a rack like that! Wow! Congrats to dad!
Yes, I and the taxidermist aged it at 4yo. It was about 200lbs undressed.
......and grub1grub2 SO TRUE! I try and told dad not to stare at big bucks approaching, just glance at them now and then! and take deep, calming breaths. Dad was watching 2 does that had come from behind his right shoulder to almost infront, then stopped and appeared to be staring at him in a skirted ladderstand that's been in place for 4 years. The buck came from over his left shoulder, he heard it and thought it was just a squirrel, when he finally looked to his left he saw the buck ( what the does were looking at ) sneaking w his head down and hastily shot w a Winchester 30:06. "hastily" he had the butt of the stock on his bicep, not the shoulder and he suffered a terrible black and purple bruise on the front of his bicep compounded by some medicine he takes that makes him bruise easily. I have a pic of his arm and it looks very ugly. He hit the buck square in the shoulder and dropped it in it's tracks. He now is 14 for 14 after a hiatus of 30 years, retuning to hunting 4 yrs ago w the Winchester I "loaned" him.
