Posted on 10/29/2007 6:24:51 PM PDT by SJackson
Casey Heine of Beaver Dam, Wis., shot this 35-point buck. BEAVER DAM, Wis. — Locals may have heard Casey Heine hollering through the marsh early in the morning of Sept. 29.
That's when he realized the size of his first big buck — a whopping 35-pointer — he had shot with a bow and arrow just outside of Beaver Dam.
"It's sure going to be hard to beat!" Heine said.
He could barely stand the mosquitoes at 4:30 p.m. on Sept. 28 out in the field. But nearly two hours later, while he waited for a doe and fawn to come out of some brush, he heard something in the bean field. Then two deer ran along the line fence.
"I knew it was a nice buck," said Heine, 22, of Beaver Dam, about the 35-pointer. "However, I only glanced at the horns once or twice while it was running toward me."
Heine said he had no idea what the big buck, and a 4-point buck, were running from. Nonetheless, they went behind his hunting stand.
Wow! What a rack!
It's sure going to be hard to beat!
It is, but at 22 at least he's got a few years.
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I thought it was Duncan Hunter who shot the buck.
Seriously!
That’ll hold a lot of hats.
Uh,oh, who’s gonna lead Santa’s sleigh?
And isn’t counting all the tines on both sides called a “Texas count”?
I wonder what the Boone & Crockett rating is on that buck.
Yes it will!
Looks like a good tine was had by all.
Bravo.
You're not alone on that.
He should have let that one go.
Western Count!
Kinda like “catch and release”? Shoot and release!
You’ll appreciate this ping.
At least he used a bow. Which is a bit more fair. I think it would be more interesting if the deer could shoot back.
That is an expensive hunt. Too old and tough to eat, and just about mandatory to mount one like that.
That buck should be tested for steroids!
In that case, he’s got my vote.
John Kerry killed one twice that size while hunting on Cape Cod. Honest, just ask him. he was in Vietnam you know!
The do tell hunters to wear orange....
Big Buck Ping - well, ‘the 33 point buck’ of song, needs to be updated.
That’s “wear” orange - NOT “turn” orange!!
This buck is 3 points over!
He is also cute and looks like a real man. Wish I was younger or at least he would ask out my 21 year old niece.
If the deer shot back, now that would be news.
Both sides is “Eastern Count”. One side is “Western Count”.
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“Dat’s dat turdy fife point buck!!”
I don't think it will make in in the top 50. But I could be wrong pictures do lie, and it would go in the non-typical category.
Hmmmmmm, located near a nuclear power plant with an employee named Homer?
He can’t eat it anyhow, he didn’t find the buck until 12 hours after he shot it. It wasn’t gutted or bled. The meat is useless.
I believe John F. Kerry’s (served in Vietnam) buck was (merely, by his own admission) a 48 point buck.
I wonder what the record number of points is for white tail deer.
Wow, this beats my 13 and 8 I got in Idaho many years ago. And his with a bow and arrow too. Mine was with the old rifle. Nice going.
"I took my time and put the arrow right behind the front shoulder," Heine said. "I'm glad it happened as fast as it did because I would've probably been too nervous to shoot if the buck came walking up to me."Heine displays the multiple-tined buck's impressive rack.
He knew right away it was a good shot from where the arrow hit the animal.
"I watched it run for about 75 yards and he took one huge leap into the cattails," Heine said.
He found his arrow about 10 yards from where he hit the buck and, because there was a minimal amount of blood on the ground, decided to wait until morning to pursue the animal.
I'd question the decision to wait till morning over what appears to be a kill shot, and temperatures weren't favorable, but the meat isn't necessariy useless, particularly if his wait till morning judgement was correct.
"I took my time and put the arrow right behind the front shoulder," Heine said. "I'm glad it happened as fast as it did because I would've probably been too nervous to shoot if the buck came walking up to me."Heine displays the multiple-tined buck's impressive rack.
He knew right away it was a good shot from where the arrow hit the animal.
"I watched it run for about 75 yards and he took one huge leap into the cattails," Heine said.
He found his arrow about 10 yards from where he hit the buck and, because there was a minimal amount of blood on the ground, decided to wait until morning to pursue the animal.
I'd question the decision to wait till morning over what appears to be a kill shot, and temperatures weren't favorable, but the meat isn't necessariy useless, particularly if his wait till morning judgement was correct.
Global Warming George Bush’s fault.
Me too!
Sarcasm anyone?
Very sick indeed.
nice nontypical
pretty tight spread though
wonder how it scored
Then, at 6:45 a.m. the next day, Heine found the dead buck lying about five yards into the cattails.
Chances are very good that this buck took his leap in to the cattails laid down and died with in a few minutes.
That means that the buck was in full rigor mortis by 9 PM that night and by the time he found the buck I the morning the buck had exited rigor mortis (as can be seen from the pictures as the young man holds up the buck’s head)
The meat is spoiled. I wouldn’t eat it.
The Buckhorn Saloon in San Antonio has a mounted deer head with 78 points that it acquired around 1898 for $100.
It has been an attraction at the fabled saloon ever since.
It looks more asymmetrical than most, almost abnormal in its proportions and overall shape.
It’s probably still the “Brady Buck,” the 78-pointer taken in central Texas in 1892 - it scored 286 B&C.
A rack with her skank stamp....
It’s good that most skank stamps are VISIBLE...
Wise men should regard them as a giant “D” stamped on women’s foreheads —— DANGER.
Hunting used to bring a lot of joy and excitement...
The forest, the quiet, the challenge, the sudden excitement when the quarry first comes into view.....
But that all changed to unnecessary, one sided and thoughtless slaughter.
I haven’t felt the desire to hunt for about 40 years.
After having experiencing the ultimate hunt, hunting and being hunted by other armed men...
I can’t even shoot birds now, or fish with a barbed hook.
Any vets out there, experience the same change?
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