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#2025148 - 08/10/10 08:34 PM

What's YOUR "Trophy" Deer?

Camp
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102's "Trophy Buck and Recognition" thread got me thinking......

What's your best trophy and why?

For me it's pretty simple..........

A dandy little 4 pointer!

"Why"........is the main reason for this post!

I've killed MANY deer older and bigger than that. But to this day I still consider him to be my "best" trophy.

It was relatively early in my hunting career. I was hunting a stand on a bench, at the foot of Mont Eagle Mtn., that I had scouted and felt confident in. I had scouted the trails, knew the pinch points and felt that this was my best place for success.

There had been a steady rain the night before, which slacked off and stopped just in the early morning darkness. I made my way to the stand and patiently waited throughout the morning.

Around 9:30 the small 4 ptr. came on a steady gait below me on a trail just off the bench I was hunting. I grunted twice and he stopped. But stopped behind a cedar tree! No shot! He started his trot again. I grunted twice again and he stopped. But yet again it was behind a screen of cedars.

Then he began again down the trail on his way through a thicket. Opportunity lost!
BUT THEN................I realized.........

I KNEW where he was going! Due to my extensive scouting. I knew where he would eventually pass further down the bench. I ALSO KNEW in an instant of clarity that it had rained that previous night and the leaves were wet and that no sound would be made on the forest floor.

Suddenly, it all came to me! I could climb down from my stand. And RUN! I mean RUN! Along my higher bench trail to the point of intersection of his trail further out the ridge, without making a sound and MAYBE get there in time to cut him off!

So that's what I did. And a few minutes later, with lungs heeving from the quick run and barely able to hold a steady shot, I settled in behind a rock outcropping. Within seconds, the 4 ptr. again apppeared!

One shot from the 30-06 dropped him in his tracks! Success!

That was the first time (of many later) that I came to understand that I could alter the outcome of a hunt, rather than just accept what fate gave me on any given day.

Simply because I had studied ALL the data and was able to make a split second decision based on what I had prepared for!

"Trophy"............That means culmination of my efforts and overcoming given obstacles on any given hunt! And that little buck still remains as my "trophy" to this day!

What about y'all?

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#2025306 - 08/10/10 09:50 PM

Re: What's YOUR "Trophy" Deer? [Re: Camp]

mr.big
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my Oldest sons first deer

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#2025321 - 08/10/10 09:58 PM

Re: What's YOUR "Trophy" Deer? [Re: mr.big]

redblood
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131" gross 8 pt i killed on nov. 30, 1993. i was a freshmen in college. i killed him on a scrapeline i had hunted for 5 days straight and hadnt even seen a buck, but tons of does. i was sitting in a drainage ditch and shot him at 40 yards working a licking branch. biggest deer i had ever seen at the time.

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#2025630 - 08/11/10 08:00 AM

Re: What's YOUR "Trophy" Deer? [Re: redblood]

Mossy Oak
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The first deer I ever killed. It was a doe that would have probably weighed 50 pounds. I was 12 and my Dad was sitting next to me. I will never forget that day.

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#2025634 - 08/11/10 08:06 AM

Re: What's YOUR "Trophy" Deer? [Re: Mossy Oak]

bowriter
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I don't believe I have ever killed one that wasn't a trophy. Define for me, if you would "Trophy".

Certainly the first one I ever killed was a trophy. The last one I killed, (a monster 3-pt) was also a trophy. The 19 various animals I have killed that meet or exceed P&Y minimums are I guess considered trophies by most. However they don't mean any more to me than that little three point.

So define "Trophy".

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#2025917 - 08/11/10 10:54 AM

Re: What's YOUR "Trophy" Deer? [Re: bowriter]

WRbowhunter
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Every deer I kill is a trophy to me. But the most special was the 4 pt I killed when I was 12. Still remember the feeling of being so proud at the club house when the "men" were skining the deer. then when dad turned around with a hand full of blood. I tried to run but he caught me and smeared that mess in my face. Seems like yesterday but that over 30 years ago.

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#2025984 - 08/11/10 11:32 AM

Re: What's YOUR "Trophy" Deer? [Re: WRbowhunter]

ShaneHallum
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The first deer I ever killed.

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#2026067 - 08/11/10 12:23 PM

Re: What's YOUR "Trophy" Deer? [Re: ShaneHallum]

skynimrod
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Registered: 11/10/06
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My Deer Trophy (that hangs on my wall) is also my Trophy Hunt with special people in my life. It was a hunt to remember for sure. Two mature bucks killed on the same hunt, courting the same Doe, my nephew's first hunt, my hunting partner and his little brother and all of us getting into the fast a furious action.