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Clayfish
November 12, 2005, 09:30 PM
This is Lucky Buck. I shot him Friday morning. "Why?," you ask is his name Lucky Buck. Well, here's the story. I arived late to my stand friday morning. I work at a bank so thank God for federal holidays (Veterans day). Well I hadn't seen anything for a while so I decided to walk an access road to a cotton field where I have shot deer before and seen one the week before. I had walked about half way to the field when I saw a small doe in the road. She had no idea i was there so I droped to one knee and watched her for a while. I remembered someone at work had asked me if I would kill them a deer so they could get the meat and I agreed so I decided to take her. Well the perfect shot presented itself when she put her head down and turned broadside. I put the crosshairs on her at about 75 yards and squeezed the trigger I followed through on the shot and she ran away. I MISSED!!!! I couldn't belive it. How could I have missed? When I turned the corner there she went blowing and huffing and healthy. Well to make a long story short I started to walk back to the truck and passed my stand. On a whim I decided to walk the firebreak The runs by my climber and to another pecan orchard. I got about 20 yards into the firebreak when I saw a tail hopping off. I got my gun ready and eased around the corner and there he was. I only saw antlers. I quickly raised me rifle and aimed for the neck and squeezed. I knew I didn't miss when he didn't even step. He just folded. I shot him at only 15 yards and the old a bolt .308 with winchester super X did the trick. The first place I took him was to the taxidermist. The pics are a little dark and One is GRAPHIC but hey we're all hunters right. I couldn't get the pics to uplaod directly to the site. So this is the best I can do.

http://geopond.com/Index/Matt.htm

siotwo
November 12, 2005, 11:14 PM
Great buck and a fine example of why hunting should begin as soon as you walk away from the truck and end only when you get back to it. Nice work.

Cowled_Wolfe
November 13, 2005, 02:39 AM
Great buck! I like the way the antlers curve.

I might be able to fix the pics with a little effort, if you're intersted.

Wolfe.

Clayfish
November 13, 2005, 07:19 AM
Sure that would be great. Thanks Wolfe. I fixed them on my computer but couldn't get them to upload. The website belongs to a buddy of mine who tok the pics.

kirbymagnum
November 13, 2005, 07:10 PM
thats a nice buck :)

Cowled_Wolfe
November 14, 2005, 03:22 AM
Alrighty... I did my best to brighten 'em up without making the background blinding/losing quality... The first two came out alright, but the two with the deer hung were contrasted beyond my photoshopping abilities.

Where do you want 'em sent? :)

Wolfe.

Clayfish
November 15, 2005, 09:48 AM
Can you try to post them to the site. I couldn't get it to work.

Cowled_Wolfe
November 15, 2005, 06:50 PM
http://pic19.picturetrail.com/VOL1092/3998207/8715362/118931712.jpg
http://pic19.picturetrail.com/VOL1092/3998207/8715362/118931701.jpg

:)

Clayfish
November 15, 2005, 09:41 PM
:) Thanks wolfe.

Iowa Cornfed
November 19, 2005, 02:16 AM
That's a really nice handsome buck, congrats!

Where was he killed? I mean which state. I just like to see what deer from other states look like.

What were you using to bring him down?

Clayfish
November 19, 2005, 11:22 AM
This is south GA so we don't have alot of deer this big. I shot him with a Browning A-bolt.

Iowa Cornfed
November 19, 2005, 06:30 PM
Well he's really a nice one.

My boy won some money at a casino playing poker (didn't get that mentality from his old man, those places worry me!) and he wants to commemorate his "once in a lifetime" winnings by buying a new rifle. One of his top 3 is an A-Bolt.

Clayfish
November 20, 2005, 09:32 PM
I love my A-bolt. Great trigger and super smooth action. Very accurate too. They are great rifles.

FrontSight
November 21, 2005, 05:53 PM
Very, very nice!