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Jeff in TX
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Tagged a nice 12 pt this evening
Jeff in TX
Posts: 2,641 Senior Member
Neighbor said he'd been seeing a big buck in the wheat field across the street from me. Decided to hunt my son's stand which is closest to the road and wheat field. About 5:30 three does came in from the direction of the rd and wheat field. They kept looking over their shoulder and this lad came in. Easy shot at 75 yards and he ran 50 yards. I'm tagged out for the season.
Distance is not an issue, but the wind can make it interesting!
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My LH Tikka .243 Win Fed Premium ammo 85 gr Barnes Triple shock bullet!
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Full penetration or did you catch a bullet?
Through and through shot! It's been a long time since I've recovered a bullet on a deer. My .243 just launches little 85 gr missiles!
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That's one more than I've gotten so far. We've got a few like him on our lease but they're masters of deception. That's how they got so big, so you did real good, for an Aggie,
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Seriously, that is a fine buck. Congrats and you are sucking SO BAD!!!
Son that's somebody with nothing to do with his time but keep me in trouble with mom.
Very, very nice. And a big "Your Suck", too. :jester:
Gun control laws make about as much sense as taking ex-lax to cure a cough.
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Gun control laws make about as much sense as taking ex-lax to cure a cough.
Jerry,
I put him on the scale prior to skinning out, he field dressed at 142 lbs. I'm north central Texas about 55 miles below the Red River. I deer hunted in south Texas down in Uvalade 20 some odd years ago. Wasn't successful what I remember was the body size was smaller, racks wider and never saw a basket rack like we have in our area.
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That's what I consider a big deer. I killed a mule deer in the Flat Tops of Colorado one year that was so big I could hardly drag him. He didn't have a particularly big rack, but had a long body and dwarfed the does he was with. I estimated his field dressed weight at 175, but who knows how much he really weighed.
Regardless, you got a big one.
Gun control laws make about as much sense as taking ex-lax to cure a cough.
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I usually find depending on how far and they type of terrain I have to drag one, it usually adds a 100 extra pounds to the dressed weight!:rotflmao:
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Amen to that! Hunting writers like to write about ground shrinkage, but there's also such a thing as ground expansion. :yikes:
Gun control laws make about as much sense as taking ex-lax to cure a cough.
That's nothing, I know a guy that as soon as he pulls the trigger, I mean even before the bullet hits the deer, it gains 50 pounds and 6 points almost without fail. Oh wait, I have seen it fail to happen but that was only when he was telling the story with someone that was with him when he killed it was present. It's the darndist thing, I tell ya!
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Son that's somebody with nothing to do with his time but keep me in trouble with mom.
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