3 year journey with a stud buck

JR

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This all started almost 3 years ago out coyote hunting on my turkey hunting ranch I have access to. I came around a stand of cottonwoods to set up to call and ran into the resident herd of does and a absolute stud of a boss blacktail buck, he was a 4x3 with a really nice dropper and was all rutted up with his girls. I tried like he'll to get him on camera that winter but wasn't successful unfortunately. I did see him right before he dropped his set and knew the general area he had lost his antlers..fast forward to a whole year and some change after picking him up on trail camera, and taking some pics of him through spotting scope
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I was checking cameras yesterday and decided to check some trails as I always do to look for his sheds. I was searching a newer area and found a great little 4x4 shed and was scanning the brush and ground for its match when it happened..
Up under a heavy shaded bush I spot tines and within minutes I was holding this brutes last year's set..I'm totally stoked to have recovered 2 sets off this guy and look forward to hopefully catching him once again chasing his does in Nov..
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This was his previous set
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And this is the result of a great taxi job...
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hmmmm....not possible...the "management hunt" proponents say a 4x3 will never be a 4x4.
 
All I can say JR is that if you have a B tag you better be out there the rest of the week searching for this not so elusive monster. Maybe pics tomorrow?
 
Haha, the catch is I really can't hunt this guy, never ask to deer hunt the place because it's kinda family only and they don't hunt turkeys,pigs and yotes so I get the run of the place otherwise... and to tell ya the truth I don't really want to because as long as he keeps so elusive until the rut I can play this game with a dandy buck and hunt his sheds every year for now...
 
>Haha, the catch is I really
>can't hunt this guy, never
>ask to deer hunt the
>place because it's kinda family
>only and they don't hunt
>turkeys,pigs and yotes so I
>get the run of the
>place otherwise... and to tell
>ya the truth I don't
>really want to because as
>long as he keeps so
>elusive until the rut I
>can play this game with
>a dandy buck and hunt
>his sheds every year for
>now...


Great outlook, JR. I like the way you think.
 

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