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Here is the story and a couple of pics of the buck I got in Missouri Saturday. 
It was nice to stop being picky and break a couple year buck drought!
After hunting KS for pheasant on the rifle deer opener, this deer season for me this year had a few major time, family and the landowner constraints. Things werent looking too promising. I hadnt ever hunted the spot I ended up going to, but knew it well enough from doing a drive on it once a few years earlier. I had a hunch that if I stayed up high over the creekbottom in this one spot, played the wind right, I could get lucky and catch some early deer coming off this cut cornfield and into cover. In the darkness, into the wind, I found my way to where I wanted to be, and hunkered down in a small weed patch near the ridgetop near the edge of a horse pasture bordering the creek and cut cornfield, and waited for morning to break. Using my Nikon 8x40s I was able to pick out this buck following a doe down the next narrow finger ridge over, long before I could have seen them with my naked eyes that cloudy morning. So 13 minutes into legal shooting light, weighing all the options quickly in my head, I decided he was good enough to let Mr. Remington spit out a 180 grain Nosler Partition his way. Turned out to be a good choice as he was the only deer taken out of the five of us that hunted this little area this last weekend.
Anyway, heres a the Missouri buck I got this last Saturday a whopping 13 minutes into legal shooting light of my first day of deer hunting this year.
As he lay.
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The narrow strip of grass in the near background was where I was when I shot.
Thanks for looking and tolerating another whitey on here.
It was nice to stop being picky and break a couple year buck drought!After hunting KS for pheasant on the rifle deer opener, this deer season for me this year had a few major time, family and the landowner constraints. Things werent looking too promising. I hadnt ever hunted the spot I ended up going to, but knew it well enough from doing a drive on it once a few years earlier. I had a hunch that if I stayed up high over the creekbottom in this one spot, played the wind right, I could get lucky and catch some early deer coming off this cut cornfield and into cover. In the darkness, into the wind, I found my way to where I wanted to be, and hunkered down in a small weed patch near the ridgetop
near the edge of a horse pasture bordering the creek and cut cornfield, and waited for morning to break. Using my Nikon 8x40s I was able to pick out this buck following a doe down the next narrow finger ridge over, long before I could have seen them with my naked eyes that cloudy morning. So 13 minutes into legal shooting light, weighing all the options quickly in my head, I decided he was good enough to let Mr. Remington spit out a 180 grain Nosler Partition his way. Turned out to be a good choice as he was the only deer taken out of the five of us that hunted this little area this last weekend.Anyway, heres a the Missouri buck I got this last Saturday a whopping 13 minutes into legal shooting light of my first day of deer hunting this year.
As he lay.
The narrow strip of grass in the near background was where I was when I shot.
Thanks for looking and tolerating another whitey on here.
