I honestly thought it would take a hot doe to make this ole boy come out in the daylight as we’ve never gotten a daylight picture of him until today. He came down a scrape line this morning a touch after 10:00, the Covert sent me a picture and I knew soon as I got off work I was gonna go try my luck at him. I’m not a real big caller for deer. I do a little light grunting some but not much. Where this stand is and knowing this buck and few more in the area, I figured I try a little grunting and light rattling.
We’re about to bust off the rut here at the farm and the bucks are cruising around a fair bit. At 4:08 I hit the grunt call a few times and tickled the horns together a little. At about 4:15 I see this buck coming through the cutover. I got my rifle shouldered, got on him and meh’d at him. He stopped and I dropped the hammer.
He mule kicked and took off running towards a really steep bluff that leads down to a big creek. I saw him go down in his front end. I really didn’t want him going off the bluff, so I sent another at him. He stopped and was doing that death wobble on his feet, after a few seconds I went on ahead and sent one more for insurance. He buckled down and never took another step.
I’m sure the first shot would have done him in, but I sure didn’t want to bring him back up that bluff. Those 150 grain Noslers out of that ole .30-06 still do a fine job on mature bucks. Im not sure of this deers age, I figure 4.5-5.5 years old. I’m gonna jawbone age him though, his live weight was 192lbs. He’s a 9 point with a brow tine that goes straight back into his hair.
Not to bad for a farm buck, I’m certainly proud of him. I honestly think the summer plots paid off for him and his body size. May have even put a few inches on him. I don’t know what he scores and don’t much care. He’s a hoss in my book and that’s all I worry about.
East Central Alabama.
Yea Cmon!
I hear that