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This guy showed up (or showed back up) for a couple weeks earlier this month. Hard to tell in these pics, but he is a mainframe 6x5 with 6 points on the right antler and 5 on the left. The thoughts on his age and score, and the age of the buck he is sparring?











think he might be this guy from last year?




Here's a pic to show the points on the right beam:
 

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4.5 and no I dont think hes that buck from last year. Good deer though definitely shoot him if you get the chance cause he won't give you another chance
 
Got him!!!

Hunted a stand by this location....got there at 3:10 this afternoon. This part of VA is earn a buck and I needed to shoot a doe after mistaking a spike for a doe during bow season. Luckily one stepped out at 3:50 at the end of an 80 yard shooting lane.

45 min later the 6 point (no brow tines) that the 12 point is fighting with above stepped out to check out the dead doe. He gave me about 30 seconds to make the call and he got a pass.

At 5:20 light is fading here in the east and I catch a deer coming in on the narrow clover strip below me. I can see through the brush that it is a mature deer. He stepped out at 15 yards and I let him have it through the front shoulder with my ML. He jumped about 35 yards out of sight and kicked for 7-8 minutes. He landed on a fence trying to jump it and brought the whole fence down. I was relieved to see him dead when I climbed down after not hearing anything for 5 minutes. Dark at that time.

I will post pics of the jawbone and rough score him in the next couple days. Huge body, maybe my biggest yet. Very happy with this one!
 
Wow, I totally missed the score :)... I knew he was narrow, but I though he had enough number of tines and length of tines to just scratch 130". Looking back at the pics, I do think the first 2 make him tend to favor 3.5 y/o, but the last 2 pics still look 4.5 despite the jawbone pics you posted (especially the one of him fighting). Congrats again on killing your target buck!
 
Thanks.....I wish I did keep records on deer weights, but I am not set up to weigh. This one has to be one of the top two I've killed as far as weight. We had a lot of acorns last fall and a wet spring. He had more fat than I've ever seen in the abdominal cavity above the intestines. Not sure if that means anything or not.

Also it is the most sore I have been after dragging, loading a deer etc....but that might just be because I'm out of shape :)
 

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