Shot him on a farm I have permission to hunt. It is an 8pt. he has a double brow one the one side sort of hard to see in the pic.
Nice one man. Those points are perfect too, not beat up at all, doesn't look like he's been doing much fighting this year.
Nice! A guy who retired from work shot a dandy 13pt the other day on top of the mountain here (around 7 miles from my house), had symmetrical drop tines! Not the most massive rack on the planet, but symmetrical drops! Drop tine bucks are rare here, and he shot it on state game lands to boot!!
That is a sweet buck Scotty and he is shooting the right crossbow as far as I am concerned. A buddy helped me with this buck. We have him tentatively aged at 4.5. I will pull the jaw bone this morning and we will see what that tells us. He isn't the biggest deer, but he is a dandy for that farm since it gets a lot of dog hunting/ poaching pressure during general firearms season. My place doesn't see that pressure and my bucks are a year ahead on average so I wouldn't have shot him on my place. Have a bit of history with this deer, I jumped him a few weeks ago walking into the tree I was going to climb one evening. He was 10 yards from the tree I had decided to hunt.
Really bad buck/doe ratio on that farm. Not a lot of fighting. On my place with a better ratio, there is more fighting and broken points and the occasional main beam broken off. I will be working on the does over there till the end of the season. Almost dropped the hammer on a pinto/piebald doe earlier in the evening, but everything seemed right, and I held off and was rewarded.
I was hunting out of the haybale blind and they have had no clue all this season. But I was covered up with does and little bucks and there was no way I wasn't going to educate a bunch of deer. So when he showed up I waited a while since I had seen a couple other larger deer in Oct. but a bigger deer didn't show. Might as well educate them in style. Here is a pic out the front window earlier in the day. Welded it up out of cattle panel and put erosion matting on it. Works like no other ground blind. They pay zero attention to it from day one. I had turkey hens at 10 yards purring and clucking to themselves. Doubled up on those turkeys in my avatar out of it in the spring.
