Guns, Bows, Shooting Sports, and Hunting bizarre droptine

[SRath]

The kid just had to show the old man upthis season, and this one is going to cost me some serious taxidermy money.



Proving that it pays to listen to your dad, he used his Lone Wolf to go 25 to 30 feet up a huge oak overhanging a creek. The same tree at a new location that my older LoneWolf was unable to climb the day before, so I told him to try it with his since it has longer belts that might reach around the trunk. It was a nearly straight-down shot (tricky with a bow) but he drilled him right through the heart and dropped him in his tracks right in the creek with a Montec 100gr on a Gold Tip from his Mathews Outback. It's a 10-pointer and grossed 137 green. Mighty tasty, too.



It's been so long since I shot one worth mounting that the price has doubled, but I always told him I'd pay to get his first really big buck mounted and this unique rack deserves it. That drop is over 10 inches long and comes right out of the antler base all the way alongside the face.

 

[TRAMPLINEMAN]

Nice deer. I've never seen one like that in person, just pics.

 

[jclark5810]

Nice buck!!! Definitely worth the taxidermy bill.

 

[SRath]

I was up a tree 40 yards upstream and on the opposite side of the creek. Two smaller basket-rack bucks came past me, but they were headed his way so I let them go. They were looking back over their shoulder acting nervous and I thought I heard a deep guttural buck grunt right after they passed, but I never saw the source. Turns out it was most likely this buck keeping low and out of sight by trotting right down the creek with its high banks shielding him from view. I had to chuckle when I sawthe boy still had arrows in his quiver. He grinned and assured me he stuck him a second time to make sure he didn't get up and go trotting off into the darkness and heavy southern Iowa brush.

 

[B.G. Smith]

Beautiful deer. Congratulations. I shot a nice buck straight down from an oak tree years ago in Oklahoma but I used a 30/30 and the rack on mine was not spectactular. They didn't have climbers back then so i was just on a limb. By the way, that's a fine looking young man too. bg

 

[SRath]

Thanks for the kind words, guys! I need to add just what a tasty Christmas dinner this big guy provided: corn-fed Iowa venison prime rib roast with mashed potatoes, gravy, and all the fixins is hard to beat and my wife did a fine job preparing it. Hopefully, I'll fill my own bow tag here in the late season. A big buck would be nice, but chances are I'll probably take a nice fat doe instead. Then, if the pheasants would only make a comeback around here... Sky arrowed a huge tom turkey just before Thanksgiving, too, so he's doing quite well at keeping the freezer filled with lean healthy meat. When we get some snow on the ground, a mess of rabbits will be nice, too, since we eat a lot of wild game here at our place. We like bowhunting the rabbits, too, or else using . 22 pistols. We're pretty sure the burgeoning coyote population out back finally did in our old calico cat a few weeks back, and I kinda liked that mouser & mole killer, she earned her keep for 12 years, so now I plan to thin the coyotes down a bit this January & February. My neighbor called me the other day when he had a coyote messing with his dogs in his back yard in broad daylight, proving they're getting pretty bold. So we took the deer carcass after we processed all the useable meat, out back to a prime coyote spot where we can sneak within easy range of the AR-15. Romney may say there is "no sporting use" for an 'assault rifle' in Massachusets, but I'm quite sure that anti-2nd Amendment zealot has never gone coyote hunting with one, either. There's few things as fun or sporting as a combination of a coyote running full speed across a snow covered brushy field between 100 and 250 yards away and a 30-round magazine of . 223's in an open-sights AR. That's a challenging target, but my chances of hitting it are way better on my worst day than his are of ever being elected president.