ColemanFarrington
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This season we planned on filming a deer hunt on our ranch for the show I work for, Wildlifers. We have had it planned for months, but due to us constantly traveling on hunts, and having paying clients at the ranch, it was hard to find time to hunt for ourselves. Luckily we have a long season that runs from the beginning of October until the end of February. Early last week we finally had a little time to get it done and I was the lucky guy behind the gun.
We wanted to kill a mature management buck that was at least 6 years old for the episode. I had 2 bucks in mind that fit the bill. One was a buck with 15+ points and tons of character. The other an 11 point with great mass and a perfect typical left side and a right side with an extra and a unique inline point. I had seen them coming off a pipeline into an oat field almost every night for the last couple weeks with 6 other bucks. There was already a blind sitting at the end of the pipeline where it entered the oat field, and I knew that if we set up in the blind our chances would be high.
My self and 2 cameramen made our way to the blind around 3:30 and planned to sit until dark. Once we made it to the blind and began to get situated it quickly became apparent that it was going to be cramped. Between 3 guys, camera equipment, and my hunting gear, there was very little room to move around. I set up the rifle out the back window of the blind up the pipeline as that's where I had seen the bucks coming from every evening, and settled in for the sit.
About 5:15 a couple does fed out into the pipeline and started making their way towards the oat field. As they continued down the pipeline more does continued to join them, but I didn't see a buck. At about 6:00 the herd of does was within 20 yards of the blind and had begun to hop the fence into the field. If they got behind us, the wind would be wrong and they'd bust us. Just as they began to feed past the blind I looked back out the back window and saw a buck running towards the field. I wasn?t sure if it was one we were after, but I could tell he was a good buck. Before I could get a good look at him he had hopped into the oat field and was only 15 yards away from us.
I immediately knew he was the heavy 11 point we were after, but it would be very difficult to get a shot off with out busting all of the deer out of there. I had to move the rifle from the back window to the side window, and the cameramen had to reposition their cameras and tripods as well, all with 12 deer within 20 yards of us. We all very slowly started to try to reposition ourselves, stopping every time a deer looked in our direction. As we were almost in position a doe blew and all the deer started to run.
The buck was trotting, but didn't seem to really know what was going on. We all scrambled into position and I was able to stop the buck with a ?mehh? at 40 yards. After making sure the cameramen were on him, I took the shot and he immediately dropped, not moving again. I had originally guessed him at 135?-137?, but as I walked up to him I knew he was a little better than I originally thought. I scored him at 150 1/8? and our ranch manager scored hime at 149 4/8?. I have killed a lot of cull bucks since I moved from Utah to Texas 6 months ago, but he is by far my biggest whitetail. I'm beyond excited about him, and couldn't be happier with how it all worked out.
Follow me on Instagram to see the rest of my hunting photos: @colemanfarrington
We wanted to kill a mature management buck that was at least 6 years old for the episode. I had 2 bucks in mind that fit the bill. One was a buck with 15+ points and tons of character. The other an 11 point with great mass and a perfect typical left side and a right side with an extra and a unique inline point. I had seen them coming off a pipeline into an oat field almost every night for the last couple weeks with 6 other bucks. There was already a blind sitting at the end of the pipeline where it entered the oat field, and I knew that if we set up in the blind our chances would be high.
My self and 2 cameramen made our way to the blind around 3:30 and planned to sit until dark. Once we made it to the blind and began to get situated it quickly became apparent that it was going to be cramped. Between 3 guys, camera equipment, and my hunting gear, there was very little room to move around. I set up the rifle out the back window of the blind up the pipeline as that's where I had seen the bucks coming from every evening, and settled in for the sit.
About 5:15 a couple does fed out into the pipeline and started making their way towards the oat field. As they continued down the pipeline more does continued to join them, but I didn't see a buck. At about 6:00 the herd of does was within 20 yards of the blind and had begun to hop the fence into the field. If they got behind us, the wind would be wrong and they'd bust us. Just as they began to feed past the blind I looked back out the back window and saw a buck running towards the field. I wasn?t sure if it was one we were after, but I could tell he was a good buck. Before I could get a good look at him he had hopped into the oat field and was only 15 yards away from us.
I immediately knew he was the heavy 11 point we were after, but it would be very difficult to get a shot off with out busting all of the deer out of there. I had to move the rifle from the back window to the side window, and the cameramen had to reposition their cameras and tripods as well, all with 12 deer within 20 yards of us. We all very slowly started to try to reposition ourselves, stopping every time a deer looked in our direction. As we were almost in position a doe blew and all the deer started to run.
The buck was trotting, but didn't seem to really know what was going on. We all scrambled into position and I was able to stop the buck with a ?mehh? at 40 yards. After making sure the cameramen were on him, I took the shot and he immediately dropped, not moving again. I had originally guessed him at 135?-137?, but as I walked up to him I knew he was a little better than I originally thought. I scored him at 150 1/8? and our ranch manager scored hime at 149 4/8?. I have killed a lot of cull bucks since I moved from Utah to Texas 6 months ago, but he is by far my biggest whitetail. I'm beyond excited about him, and couldn't be happier with how it all worked out.
Follow me on Instagram to see the rest of my hunting photos: @colemanfarrington
