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Successful 2022-23 deer season

Claims Rep. said:
I killed three nice bucks this past season, and I'm thankful to the good Lord for sending them my way. I got the last one back from the taxidermist a couple days ago.

Left is with a crossbow, middle is 20 gauge slug gun, right one was with a 7mm-08. The left and middle ones both came from Fort Knox, and the right one is from north Alabama. The middle one gross scored 161 2/8, which is my highest gross score buck I've killed. I've added a few extra pics of the big one, just to show all the character he has.


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Great deer,,, try fed premium nosler partition ammo in your 7-08,, in my custom 08, they group 1/2 inch, by far the best of any of the factory loads i tried work great on whitetail too!.. (trying to find factory ammo for all my rifles since they will be passing to grandsons before too long!)
 
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SaucySon said:
That's an awesome year. I'd like to hear the story of the middle one!
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I killed the buck on the left (in first pic) the day before, so I slept in while the other guys in our camp went hunting the next morning. That afternoon I went into an area I had hunted once before back in Nov. 2018. Again, I pulled up to where I wanted to go and no one was parked there (probably 50% of the time someone is already nearby). I walked in and climbed where I had planned, again based on having the right wind, as well as having studied topo maps previously. This time I was 30' up. At 4:20pm I hear a deer walking to my right. I looked over in time to see a deer walking behind a massive oak, which blocked the deers view of me. I immediately turned that way and brought my shotgun up, just in case it was a shooter buck. As you can imagine, once he cleared that big oak I quickly determined he was in fact a shooter…. This guy had points going everywhere, and it was clear by the way he was walking that these were "his" woods! He was around 65 yards from me when I shot him with a 20 gauge slug gun, and he went straight to the ground. He lifted his head once, and that was it. At this point I just stopped what I was doing, watched him through the scope for several minutes to make sure he wasn't faking it, and thanked the good Lord for his blessings. While I did do everything right from a hunter perspective, God has to orchestrate this kind of thing.

So I climbed down, get over to him, and am honestly shocked at what I find. He's got tons of mass, a split brow tine on his right side, an extra 15" main beam on his right side, a broke off main beam on his left side… just an incredible buck.


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That is phenomenal. It is stories like that that reminds us that you never know what you will see when hunting, and we are blessed to be in God's world.
 

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