Thank you Spence for posting these pictures.
If someone is fooling with the genetics around here, it's news to me. :haha:
I was lucky enough to have taken this buck in December of 2006, I believe. I can see the hunt unfold as though it were yesterday.
He was another buck that gave me the slip time and again during the archery season. He used a tiny weed patch on a creek in the wide open to bed and approaching this area without his knowing was almost impossible. One would think a covey of quail couldn't hide in such a small area!
Some late season flooding of the area pushed him into a long, very narrow wooded bluff of sorts, surrounded by an ocean of crop fields. That's where I was sitting as he approached my hide one afternoon (I was sitting on the ground at the top of the "bluff").
He was halfway up the hillside walking along its length. Seems to me mature bucks love vaudeville for traveling. I had a good opening when he was about 40-50 yards away and slightly quartered toward me.
The T/C Hawken Classic BOOMED and the 50 caliber ball hit him in the "crease" hitting both lungs and the top of his heart. He ran down and out of the timber where he met a cut cornfield and piled up a hundred yards below me. A sight I won't forget.
Thanks again Spence. I know stumbling across these old pictures "incentive-ized" me! :thumbsup:
Be it a big whitetail buck, a bull or cow elk, a bunny rabbit, grouse, or what have you, I hope you all have a great year hunting. Every animal we take is a trophy as well as a gift, that I am sure of.
Best regards, Skychief
