Posted on 10/29/2007 6:24:51 PM PDT by SJackson
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?
This is known as an atypical rack. They have a special place for them in the Boone and Crocket and Pope and Young record books. I am not sure this one is big enough or will score enough points but he should contact the Pope and Young guys and have it measured and scored. He will go a long time before seeing such a rack again!
Interesting, I never really thought about it before. I used to look forward to it when I was a kid and a teenager, because there was a thrill to it, an experience.
I haven't gone hunting since I was in 29 Palms as a non-rate. Live next door to a lot of wild animals, deer are as prolific as giant voles, cinnamon bear, young mountain lions chased out of established territories etc...it's all over the place when you're not trying to kill it.
I did hunt down and kill the 2 mountain lions though, my sons were 2 and 4 at the time. No need to take chances.
I know what you mean though.
I'll have to disagree with that. As a person who has killed about 35 bucks in my life and seen hundreds more killed by fellow hunters over the years I can tell you that if the weather was cold enough 12 hours will not make any difference and this buck will be great eating, as for the other fellow talking about age and being tough this is BS also. BTW, bleeding a buck is an old myth that dies hard. Deer don't bleed after they are dead, whether you cut their throat or not, their hearts aren't beating so they don't bleed. This deer was shot with an arrow, therefore he bled out as he was dying, arrows kill, for the most part, by causing massive bleeding.
Me, I chase 'em down and beat 'em to death with a rock.
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I'm hoping you're a chick.
Are you sure? I though it was over 14 feet tall and was a 412 pt. buck. He was known as Stabby by the locals. Local children would shiver in their beds as their father would tell them the story of Stabby. Legend has it that bad children that skip school are “stabbed” by his blood and flesh covered antlers.
Luckily, Vietnam hero, John Kerry, dispatched Stabby with his bare hands making Cape Cod safe for badly behaved truant children!!
It *may* make Pope and Young books, just because of the tines.
What it has in tines, it really lacks in mass. It is a relatively small rack, comparatively speaking. Look at the base of the G1 tine, it is not that thick, and the majority of the tines are bumps, not so much a proper tine.
That said, you can’t eat a horn, and the backstraps will still eat well, regardless of any points it may score. After all, that is the point.:)
I fully agree.
BTTT
Well we partied all night,
never made it to our bunks.
And I was sittin in the tree stand,
on the tree day, drunk.
Wind was blowin 45,
temp 30 below.
I was freezin to death,
then it started to snow.
So I got out from the tree stand,
start headin for the truck,
and thats when I seen it there,
the turdy point buck.
TURDY POINT BUCK?!
turdy point buck.
turdy point buck.
(turdy point buck)
Well, he was 8 foot tall,
weighed 12,000 pounds,
with every step there was a shake,
sh-shakin of the ground.
He was ruthaful, so beautiful.
Strutted right out of my dreams,
he was created by God,
just for outdoor magazines.
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