colorado 3rd season buck

treedagain · Nov 9, 2008

LAST EDITED ON Nov-09-08 AT 07:53PM (MST)[p]Here is the buck that my brother Jeff killed on the 3rd season in colorado this year.

treedagain · Nov 9, 2008

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here is the buck my brother Jeff killed on nov 6. the weather did not cooperate, but after looking over and passing on several good bucks he decided this one would do just fine. thanks to some good info from a few generous members of this site we were able to find the deer when most guys had not seen .

much of anything. warm days with lows in the 40's and highs into the 70's made deer movement almost non-existant

elkdreamer · Nov 9, 2008

congrads on a great buck.....

casper31 · Nov 9, 2008

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Hey Jeff nice buck, I also found one the day after I talked to you and your brothers in the snow storm.glad you got er done. That was a pretty tough hunt.Great job Dan in AZ

slider · Nov 9, 2008

Very Nice Buck!!! Congrats

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treedagain · Nov 9, 2008

congrads Dan on a great buck....you definatly earned it.....

treedagain · Nov 10, 2008

Dan, check your e-mail

elkdreamer · Nov 10, 2008

what unit did you hunt...

treedagain · Nov 11, 2008

treedagain · Nov 11, 2008

Well after building 8 points my brother decided to cash them in. we had hunted the unit for both deer and elk in the past with mixed results. after a summer of research and contacting a bunch of people who had hunted the unit in the past we planned on camping in the middle of the part unit we wanted to concentrate and scour every nook and cranny to find the deer. on the second day of the season my brother shot at a 30' buck and thought he had killed it. while waiting for help looking for it he saw an even bigger buck that he let walk thinking he had already had one down. well after scouring the area for over two hours he came to the conclusion he missed. that evening we went to the other end of the unit to an area that bordered some hay fields and saw 14 different 4 point bucks, but none were big enough to shoot. so for the next 3 days he tried to get back on those two 30' bucks that he saw on sunday, but just missed them by minutes. while my brother put the moves on those bucks I kept scouting the surrounding areas looking for a buck worthy of his tag. on wedsday evening I convinced Jeff to look at some of the bucks that I had found, we arrived around 4p.m and immediately started seeing deer, in the next 2 hours he passed on a 25' 4pt and a solid 27' 4pt. around 6p.m our other brother called on the radio and said that the two 30' bucks were out feeding and if he had time come and put a stalk on them, well after a ride that would make most race car drivers proud he make it in time to get into the herd of deer and passed on a 26' buck but never did see one of the big ones. I had warned Jeff that with his luck a shooter buck would show up after he made his mad dash, well not more than 5 minutes after he left a GOOD buck showed up and stayed out until dark. that night Jeff had to make his choice for the next morning on where he would hunt, after a little debate he decided to sit on the knob where we had spotted the bucks the night before. the next morning we arrived at the spot right at 1st light, parked the bikes. Jeff walked all of maybe 30 yards to look over the edge of the hill and bumped a 25' 4pt that he passed up the nite before. this buck jumped a few steps and went back to feeding. one look and Jeff decided he was a shooter and made the 40 yard shot. after talking to most of the hunters in the area we felt lucky to have seen as many bucks as we did (we talked to more than one hunter that had yet to see a BUCK) let alone take a deer of this quality.

KAMX7 · Nov 11, 2008

LAST EDITED ON Nov-11-08 AT 09:50PM (MST)[p]We had some pretty good luck considering we had never been in the unit and arrived a few days early to scout it out. We had done a little research finding some land owner tags in Colorado and decided to go for it. Dan Townsend, Cliff Uptain and I went on the hunt. We arrived 2 days early to scout the unit and got lined up in an area within the unit to hunt. We were seeing numerous bucks everyday and eventually Dan could not hold back any longer. He decided after two days of seeing so many bucks his finger could not hold back any longer and took this nice 24? 4X4 at 120 yards. Cliff and I decided to hold off yet since we had seen a nice 4x4 that was close to 30? and we also knew a storm was coming in. After the 5th day and on Cliff?s birthday Kristopher glassed him up a nice 27? wide great 4x4 buck @ 380 yards and after some shooting Cliff dropped this buck. His horns had some cool characteristics on them. We then went out for the evening hunt after getting Cliff?s buck back to camp. Right at dusk Cliff and Dan glassed up a nice bedded buck and called me over to take a look. The buck would not turn his head but his width was 2 inches beyond his ears. I decided to take the buck knowing he was massive and wide. Kristopher ranged him @ 463 yards. I turned up my turret system to 470 yards and dumped him. He ended up being a 4x2 with tons of mass and really wide. It was a great hunt and I hope you all enjoy the pictures.

Kent