1st buck of the year down

[cooperjd]

Whats happenin' folks. i know i'm a stranger on here last couple years, but i'm still around. still up near DC. not really fishing much cept the rare occasions i get back down to huntsville and hit up tritoncarl or bprice, but i'm still hunting a lot.
got this deer here on 7oct on fort belvoir army base. its public land hunting, very heavily hunted, with very smart deer. this young buck messed up though, and got broadside 15 yards away from me perched up in my lone wolf. not the biggest buck in the woods, but makes me happy with my bow. he and a spike came out together, they finally both looked away and let me draw, sent an atom tipped easton a/c/c through him so fast he never knew what hit him. saw him go down about 50 yards away. he died in the very bottom of the biggest ravine i've ever hunted in, so i had lots of work to do afterwards. even with a deer cart, took me over 20 minutes and 2 pulled back muscles to get him out. these are well earned backstraps!
good luck to y'all out there in the woods, and be safe. i'll be heading to nebraska on a deer hunt in a few weeks, hopefully i'll have a good trip report when i get back.

 

[churly]

Attababy! I am looking forward to seeing whatever elk, deer, or antelope you lucky butt gets!

 

[NITRO7]

Congrats great looking deer

 

[SpurHunter]

Big footed joker! Congrats, stop being a stranger and post up some more stuff round here.

 

[cooperjd]

thanks fellas. churls i got permission to hunt some private dirt right in the middle of nebraska. ive never seen the place, so hopefully they have some deer running around. my buddy from colorado i mulie hunted with last year is meeting me out there to hopefully get his first nice whitetail. there is supposed to be whitetails and a few mulies on the place in NE, we'll see. rifle season opens nov 12th, and i'll be out there chasing them around for 5 days before crankin' the truck and heading down to west TN to hunt with pops over thanksgiving week. gotta love a job with lots of time off!

 

[snakester50]

Congrats on a nice buck !

 

[floatingjig]

good one emoThumbsup