2016 Public Land Archery Success

[stu_padaso]

LAST EDITED ON Sep-11-16 AT 09:32PM (MST)[p]I had a successful opening morning here in Utah, I shot this buck at 55 yards out of my treestand after watching him most of the morning. I climbed into my stand at 6:00 AM and right away I had 4 small bucks come walking through, they walked right underneath me and continued traveling to the North. About 20 minutes later I heard some noise and noticed that they had joined up with 3 other bucks - this buck being one of them. I watched them feed and then bed down, then they would feed for a little while and bed back down, I wanted to climb out of my stand and try to put a stock on him since he was only 113 yards from me, but I made the decision to stay put and see if he would walk my direction. Finally a little after 10:00 AM he walked my way and gave me an opportunity. As I watched my arrow hit the mark, I was pumped! I couldn't be more happy with this buck.

 

[c3]

Nicely done !!!

Congrats,
Pete

 

[264mag]

Nice buck!

 

[Slayer]

Great job my neighbor!! Awesome buck!!

 

[Wapitiwilly]

Great buck. Congrats??

 

[TR175]

Congrats on a beautiful buck. They don't get much more symmetrical than that.

 

[mmwb]

Great buck! Patience pays. Doing a stalk with that many of them would have been a challenge. I would have probably tried and botched it up.

 

[Servehim]

Very nice buck, love to have a velvet mount like that myself.. Headed up your way next week for a muzzy hunt in 1000 lakes , are most bucks still in velvet end of Sept or rubbed off by then?

 

[stu_padaso]

Thank you! Servehim - to answer your question, most everything around here is hard horned by the end of September. Good luck on your hunt!!!

 

[cmbbulldog]

Nice job, congrats!

 

[fullthrottle]

Pretty buck

 

[happytohunt]

Good job...congratulations......hth

 

[trophyhunter]

Congrats