2010 Rifle Opener

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 When gun season opened on Friday I decided to sit overlooking some land that I had a good buck on my trail camera. In the pics he looked like about 130-140. I sat there for 6 hours not seeing much of anything, I thought my patience might turn out fruitless. Then right at sundown I heard some shooting on the land next to me and the buck I was waiting for finally popped out of a slough and headed my way. Buck fever kind of took over as I missed the first couple shots. As he got closer to me he stopped and I was able to get a good shot and he dropped. As I walked up to him I was shocked at how big he was, not only his rack but his body size as well. By far the biggest deer I have ever got, dressed out well over 200 pounds, 7x9 rack gross scores 170". He had a torn ear and was blind in one eye, an old warrior for sure. The taxidermist aged him at 6-1/2 years. After all the work and expense of this one I'm going back to shooting smaller deer! LOL!
 

Posted By: HUNTNFISHND , Fishing Buddy
Posted On: 11/09/2010 1:32 PM