THE WINNERS (Team 13)
12-04-2007, 09:27 PM
#361
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Northwest suburbs, Illinois
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RE: 13-Official Team 13 Thread
Nice buck Quick.. tell your buddy congrats. Now you can rub it in his face that he shot it from your stand.
I know I would... in a funny, sarcastic way of course...
I know I would... in a funny, sarcastic way of course...
12-05-2007, 11:14 AM
#365
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Posts: 5,716
RE: 13-Official Team 13 Thread
Speaking of deer... Question for u guys:
I found this shed last year in an area that I just gained access to. Not sure if this guys is still on the hoof or not (didn't get to hunt there much), but I wonder what he looked like this year. 19" main beam forkie (just a lump for a brow tine).
Here it is in reference to a nicer shed and a hockey skate.
I'm guessing he's likely a long-beamed 4x4, with weak G3's and small brows this year?
Just weird to see a fork that big around here. Rare. Most anything you see around here with 19" beams has at least 2 scorable points coming off of it.
I found this shed last year in an area that I just gained access to. Not sure if this guys is still on the hoof or not (didn't get to hunt there much), but I wonder what he looked like this year. 19" main beam forkie (just a lump for a brow tine).
Here it is in reference to a nicer shed and a hockey skate.
I'm guessing he's likely a long-beamed 4x4, with weak G3's and small brows this year?
Just weird to see a fork that big around here. Rare. Most anything you see around here with 19" beams has at least 2 scorable points coming off of it.
12-05-2007, 06:02 PM
#367
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Northwest suburbs, Illinois
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RE: 13-Official Team 13 Thread
That is a unique one Quick. I have a big fork who is actually a 2 yr. old this year who I see pretty often. He doesn't have 19 Mainbeams.. more like 15 or 16 at most. But he's got some real good mass. They're rare bucks.. but they're still out there. In nature anything can happen.
Last year while hunting sheds I found a fork antler.. nothing missing.. with at least 6 or 7 inch bases! Definately an older deer.. never seen him on the hoof or even know if he's still alive. His Mainbeams were only about 14 inches. He was just pure mass.
Last year while hunting sheds I found a fork antler.. nothing missing.. with at least 6 or 7 inch bases! Definately an older deer.. never seen him on the hoof or even know if he's still alive. His Mainbeams were only about 14 inches. He was just pure mass.
12-06-2007, 05:44 PM
#369
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2006
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RE: 13-Official Team 13 Thread
Interesting shed Quick... On opening weekend this year I saw a similar deer. Weird becuase I could tell that he was an older deer ( I guess at least 3 1/2 - but not super old) and he was only a fork.... The deer I saw I would have liked to have culled - but never got a shot opportunity...
Would have also been a drag burning my tag on a cull buck...
Would have also been a drag burning my tag on a cull buck...
12-10-2007, 09:08 AM
#370
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Posts: 5,716
RE: 13-Official Team 13 Thread
Well.... Are going to have to invite Mr. Holtz for another Pep Talk?
Anyone been hunting at all? Our gun season closed Saturday. I took my cousin out and he blasted a fawn. My buddy missed a big shooter buck. They had fun shooting at all the deer I was moving...I had fun finally getting tospend a day out in the snow,and invade a few of those bedding areas that I'd never normally get to investigate. I've definitely got the drop on agood rack buck for next fall. This March, I'll make a gallant effort at finding his sheds.
Funny story:My cousinshoots this button fawn (heck of a shot, by the way - 175 across a steep gorge and through a thick mess), and he's all excited - you know how it is when you're a kid and you get something. Smiling like a butcher's dog. So we get up to it, and I said "Okay, get it gutted out and I'll help you drag it up to the car."
He looks down at the deer.[&o]Looks back at me.
... ... ...
He looks back down at the deer again. [&o] Looks back up at me.
Things started to come together for meat that point... "You don't know how to gut it, do you?"
"Dad always does it."
[>:]
"Well... Dad isn't here."
Let me tell you, if you've never tried to coach a kid through field dressing a deer - it's stressful. What normally takes me 2-3 minutes... He turned into an hour-long bloodbath. I have no patience. I just wanted to say "MOVE and LET ME DO IT." But I restrained myself.
Anyone been hunting at all? Our gun season closed Saturday. I took my cousin out and he blasted a fawn. My buddy missed a big shooter buck. They had fun shooting at all the deer I was moving...I had fun finally getting tospend a day out in the snow,and invade a few of those bedding areas that I'd never normally get to investigate. I've definitely got the drop on agood rack buck for next fall. This March, I'll make a gallant effort at finding his sheds.
Funny story:My cousinshoots this button fawn (heck of a shot, by the way - 175 across a steep gorge and through a thick mess), and he's all excited - you know how it is when you're a kid and you get something. Smiling like a butcher's dog. So we get up to it, and I said "Okay, get it gutted out and I'll help you drag it up to the car."
He looks down at the deer.[&o]Looks back at me.
... ... ...
He looks back down at the deer again. [&o] Looks back up at me.
Things started to come together for meat that point... "You don't know how to gut it, do you?"
"Dad always does it."
[>:]
"Well... Dad isn't here."
Let me tell you, if you've never tried to coach a kid through field dressing a deer - it's stressful. What normally takes me 2-3 minutes... He turned into an hour-long bloodbath. I have no patience. I just wanted to say "MOVE and LET ME DO IT." But I restrained myself.