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Post by Buckeye on Oct 21, 2005 5:43:01 GMT 12.75
This came from down around where Paws is:
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Post by Paws on Oct 21, 2005 6:56:26 GMT 12.75
Looks like that big boy I drew down on 5 years ago! How old is that picture Buckeye?
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Post by othmar on Oct 21, 2005 11:10:55 GMT 12.75
That is some awesome buck, exactly what I have been looking for or one like him. Congratulations Buckeye. Care to tell us a bit hoe you got him?
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Post by Toby Benoit on Oct 21, 2005 13:34:13 GMT 12.75
So, did you have to clean yourself afterwards? I see one that big, I'm liable to crap myself!!!!
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Post by Paws on Oct 21, 2005 14:16:01 GMT 12.75
N2 I'll assume you were asking me. No I didn't. The story is twas the last day of gun season and around 7 AM while the wife was getting in the car I grabbed a cup of coffee and the 357 and walked to the back of the property by the neighbor's fence. Where the fence comes across the property drops at about 35 degrees into the woods. I heard him busting up the ridge and as I dropped my coffee and drew up the 357 he came huffing atop the ridge on the wrong side of the fence. 18 points and a huge monster. He was down hill and his eyeballs were still at level with mine where I was standing on top of the hill. He stopped dead cold and Dan Wesson was pointed right at his chest with him less than 35 feet away. He knew damn good and well that I didn't have a license or tag and that the only way I could tag him was if he stepped over the fence. We both stood there staring at one another until he decided to pull his antlers back through his ass hole and run back to where he had come from. You know I'd have traded that 357 even up for one of those throw away cameras. We do grow some big ones around here but I haven't seen one of them yet this year!
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Post by Buckeye on Oct 22, 2005 0:52:05 GMT 12.75
Sorry if I mislead you guys, but THAT ISN"T ME!
The hunter's name is Mike Rex, and he arrowed this buck 20 minutes into the 2005 Ohio archery season. It was taken in Athens county.
I'm sure if I saw one that big, I'd fall out of my stand, chit my pants, and all the other stuff that happens at times like that. ;D
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Post by Paws on Oct 22, 2005 3:08:02 GMT 12.75
Thanks Buckeye! That's a monster. I'll be keeping an eye out.
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Post by Buckeye on Oct 22, 2005 4:23:18 GMT 12.75
Besides...I'm much better looking than that! ;D
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Post by specialsk on Jan 2, 2006 5:11:18 GMT 12.75
Congrats, on the nice buck. I shot 3 does this year and didn't get a shot on a buck. Maybe next year....
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Post by Paws on Jan 2, 2006 6:20:53 GMT 12.75
Hey Steve you can still hunt with bow. I got eight or nine tags left I figure when I count the wife's property owner tags and our buddies "nuisance" tags!
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Post by Brikatw on Jan 2, 2006 11:03:17 GMT 12.75
I wonder how he got a good shot on that deer? His back legs musta been off the ground from the weight of that headgear.
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Post by Paws on Jan 4, 2006 4:29:16 GMT 12.75
The Rest of the story was that the buck was more or less "farmed". I guess the old boy had him fairly isolated and hand fed for a while now. Don't quote me on that though, just repeatin' hearsay! ;D
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Post by Toby Benoit on Jan 4, 2006 6:07:05 GMT 12.75
I hear that about a lot of the really big bucks. I don't know how these guys supposedly "raise" such a monster and not let anybody in on it.
They are farm bucks for sure and the guy might have been feeding it up, but my guess is it's a wild buck and he did his homework to tag it.
A least, that's the version I really want to believe.
I have a friend that killed the new world record, velvet antlered buck here in Fl. several years ago and those types of rumors spread everywhere. It's unfortunate, but it happened and he had to fight to clear his name. Fortunately it was harvested on public land that had been opened for the first time and a biologist had seen the buck a month prior to the harvest, during a night time study of the deer herd. Seems there's always somebody ready to cast a shadow over things like that.
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Post by Paws on Jun 16, 2006 23:48:56 GMT 12.75
The guy that jgot this posts over on Racks and Spurs. Look for the avatar with the guy in the tux. ;D
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Post by Buckeye on Oct 5, 2006 13:41:21 GMT 12.75
ADAMS COUNTY HUNTER BAGS TROPHY BUCK ON OPENING DAY Ohio gaining fame as a trophy buck state For the second year in a row, an Ohio hunter has killed a 200-class trophy buck on the first day of Ohio deer archery season. Once scored, the Adams County buck will easily score over 200 (non-typical). It has 33 points on its antlers and an inside spread of 24 inches. Jonathon Schmucker of Seaman, Ohio killed the buck with a crossbow on the evening of September 30. Last year on opening day, Mike Rex of Athens, killed a buck that scored 218 6/8. This is the first year deer season has started in September. “Trophy bucks on opening day are getting to be a tradition in Ohio,” said Steven A. Gray, chief of the Division of Wildlife. "The state’s deer management program is designed to manage for trophy-sized bucks while controlling the state population through hunting of deer, especially does." Ohio is gaining fame as a trophy buck state. The famous 39-point Beatty Buck was taken in Greene County in the fall of 2000. With a rack score of 304 6/8, it stands as the world's largest non-typical white-tailed deer ever taken by a bowhunter. A white-tailed deer killed in the fall of 2004 in Warren County, known as the Jerman buck, became an Ohio typical record with a score of 201 1/8. These two bucks and many other trophy bucks have focused national attention from the hunting community on the Buckeye state in the past few years.
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Post by Paws on Oct 5, 2006 14:21:55 GMT 12.75
We are going to get a rep if not careful!
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