Machingeaneer
Lil-Rokslider
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Damn, that's a great deer and a great hunt too. Leaving him out there on public while you worked had to make for some day-long anxiety. Congrats! 146"?Nebraska Public Land Archery Whitetail
I hadnt bow hunted since 2014, only rifle/ muzzleloader. Bought a new bow in August and put in the work. It paid off in a big way. Was up to 15-20 sits this year and things were starting to turn into a grind.
Woke up last Friday and decided to sit in the stand for a short time before work (boss was probably not pumped). Around 8:15 a.m. this guy appeared at a 100 yards. I pulled him closer with several grunts and snort-wheeze eventually coming to about 35 yards with a hard quartering-toward shot. I loosed an arrow as this was going to be my only opportunity.
I got down and checked my arrow, had a little bit of everything on it - meat, light blood, dark blood, hair, and a lot of tallow. I pulled out to go to work and gave him 6ish hours to succumb to what could have been a less than ideal shot. Went back out with a few buddies and trailed a scant blood trail for a few hundred yards before finding him piled up by a spring fed creek.
My biggest whitetail to date and to have done it with a bow on public land makes this one so much more special. I haven't scored him yet, give me your guesses!! Hes a 5 x 6 with a good sized additional point by his right brow tine (12 total points).
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Great buck! I would say it’s pretty close to 160” - hope he beats it!Nebraska Public Land Archery Whitetail
I hadnt bow hunted since 2014, only rifle/ muzzleloader. Bought a new bow in August and put in the work. It paid off in a big way. Was up to 15-20 sits this year and things were starting to turn into a grind.
Woke up last Friday and decided to sit in the stand for a short time before work (boss was probably not pumped). Around 8:15 a.m. this guy appeared at a 100 yards. I pulled him closer with several grunts and snort-wheeze eventually coming to about 35 yards with a hard quartering-toward shot. I loosed an arrow as this was going to be my only opportunity.
I got down and checked my arrow, had a little bit of everything on it - meat, light blood, dark blood, hair, and a lot of tallow. I pulled out to go to work and gave him 6ish hours to succumb to what could have been a less than ideal shot. Went back out with a few buddies and trailed a scant blood trail for a few hundred yards before finding him piled up by a spring fed creek.
My biggest whitetail to date and to have done it with a bow on public land makes this one so much more special. I haven't scored him yet, give me your guesses!! Hes a 5 x 6 with a good sized additional point by his right brow tine (12 total points).
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This is a great buck! Public land and archery? I'm not even going to give you an internet score, I've already done too many this year and it's a slammer anyway..Nebraska Public Land Archery Whitetail
I hadnt bow hunted since 2014, only rifle/ muzzleloader. Bought a new bow in August and put in the work. It paid off in a big way. Was up to 15-20 sits this year and things were starting to turn into a grind.
Woke up last Friday and decided to sit in the stand for a short time before work (boss was probably not pumped). Around 8:15 a.m. this guy appeared at a 100 yards. I pulled him closer with several grunts and snort-wheeze eventually coming to about 35 yards with a hard quartering-toward shot. I loosed an arrow as this was going to be my only opportunity.
I got down and checked my arrow, had a little bit of everything on it - meat, light blood, dark blood, hair, and a lot of tallow. I pulled out to go to work and gave him 6ish hours to succumb to what could have been a less than ideal shot. Went back out with a few buddies and trailed a scant blood trail for a few hundred yards before finding him piled up by a spring fed creek.
My biggest whitetail to date and to have done it with a bow on public land makes this one so much more special. I haven't scored him yet, give me your guesses!! Hes a 5 x 6 with a good sized additional point by his right brow tine (12 total points).
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That’s a great deer, I’m guessing 171
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Been a couple of years since I shot a buck. Thankful this guy came cruising through the hardwood edge of some 2 yr old planted pines yesterday afternoon around 5:15pm. If you look closely you can see where he had a wound under his ear, I assume from fighting. He had another matching one on the other side, and one on the back of his skull just below the base of his antlers.
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Looking forward to putting some meat in my empty freezer.