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Backyard buck on the farm

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Man what a last few days it’s been for us here Southern Pair Outdoors. Mack killed a good buck last Saturday and I killed one today. This ole buck been on camera since the summer. We planted some Iron Clay Peas and mixed some Corn with them the last two years and have really seen a big jump in deer number and size.

I honestly thought it would take a hot doe to make this ole boy come out in the daylight as we’ve never gotten a daylight picture of him until today. He came down a scrape line this morning a touch after 10:00, the Covert sent me a picture and I knew soon as I got off work I was gonna go try my luck at him. I’m not a real big caller for deer. I do a little light grunting some but not much. Where this stand is and knowing this buck and few more in the area, I figured I try a little grunting and light rattling.

We’re about to bust off the rut here at the farm and the bucks are cruising around a fair bit. At 4:08 I hit the grunt call a few times and tickled the horns together a little. At about 4:15 I see this buck coming through the cutover. I got my rifle shouldered, got on him and meh’d at him. He stopped and I dropped the hammer.

He mule kicked and took off running towards a really steep bluff that leads down to a big creek. I saw him go down in his front end. I really didn’t want him going off the bluff, so I sent another at him. He stopped and was doing that death wobble on his feet, after a few seconds I went on ahead and sent one more for insurance. He buckled down and never took another step.

I’m sure the first shot would have done him in, but I sure didn’t want to bring him back up that bluff. Those 150 grain Noslers out of that ole .30-06 still do a fine job on mature bucks. Im not sure of this deers age, I figure 4.5-5.5 years old. I’m gonna jawbone age him though, his live weight was 192lbs. He’s a 9 point with a brow tine that goes straight back into his hair.

Not to bad for a farm buck, I’m certainly proud of him. I honestly think the summer plots paid off for him and his body size. May have even put a few inches on him. I don’t know what he scores and don’t much care. He’s a hoss in my book and that’s all I worry about.
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Damn fine buck and a cool story too! Congrats DW.
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Hell yeah DW....Damn good deer...
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GOODUN Daniel! Congrats!
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Heck ya congrats

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You are the man! Congrats brother!

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Purty.

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Great deer and story. Thanks for sharing!

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Congrats on a damn good un

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Congrats. Good buck and nice UTV. That SOB looks like it would kill a dang donkey if you hit it. And just make short work of any Yotes you see.

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Real nice deer, always fun when you can call them in like that.

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just a nobody wrote:
Wed Jan 19, 2022 8:52 pm
Congrats. Good buck and nice UTV. That SOB looks like it would kill a dang donkey if you hit it. And just make short work of any Yotes you see.
Donkeys don’t stand a chance 🤣

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:rolling: I hear that

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Wow just seeing this. Good deer

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Nice one bud for sure.

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