#2081634 - 09/22/10 10:57 AM
Re: The one that got away...
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MUP
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Registered: 08/01/07
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Loc: Just North of Chatt-town
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I've been extremely lucky. All of the best bucks I've ever seen while hunting ended up going home with me.
I'm trying very hard to make sure I take the first opportunity at a good shot from now on, so that I'll be taking more dandy's home with me as well, when/if the chances comes again. 
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#2081637 - 09/22/10 10:57 AM
Re: The one that got away...
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Carnage
4 Point
Registered: 12/03/08
Posts: 473
Loc: TN, Dickson
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MZ season 2008, I was getting out of my stand and heading to the house. Out walks Bullwinkle (honestly, I've never seen a deer this large!!) 14 points I could count with the naked eye, body like a barrel, he was a monster!!!
Shouldered the MZ, squeezed the trigger, and click...NO BANG!! Some DA had removed the 209 cap prior to getting out of the stand!! I bet I sat shaking in that tree for 30 minutes afterwards 
p.s. Never saw that deer again
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#2081658 - 09/22/10 11:09 AM
Re: The one that got away...
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Bottom Hunter
16 Point
Registered: 12/29/06
Posts: 15488
Loc: Hatchie Bottoms
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Mine walked away with an arrow sticking out of it's back.....never saw him again and no one ever found him dead , that I know of.......no blood or hair that I could find. Searched for him the rest of the season......
monster......
still eats at me.....
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#2081680 - 09/22/10 11:24 AM
Re: The one that got away...
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Longhunter
10 Point
Registered: 09/03/08
Posts: 3788
Loc: Brewstertown in Morgan County...
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The biggest buck I have ever seen was here in Tn a couple of days before Christmas in 2000. He and two other bucks walked up behind me as I sat on a log in the middle of an old skid road. It was mid-afternoon and unusually warm for that time of year. I had been fooled by some squirrels playing back there several times. When I heard yet another noise in the leaves I almost dismissed it. When I turned around, there the three of them were staring at me about 15 yards away! The biggest of them was a monster! The other two were very large as well. I blew the opportunity!
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#2081710 - 09/22/10 11:52 AM
Re: The one that got away...
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lung-buster
8 Point
Registered: 09/16/08
Posts: 1838
Loc: Southern Middle Tn
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I was tagged out on bucks a couple of seasons ago and was doe hunting the last rifle season and four slick heads and a nice irregular buck was following them to the pond. I would guess him around mid to high 140s. Almost made me sick and I popped two of the does that were in the group.
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#2081713 - 09/22/10 11:55 AM
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pastorbmp
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Registered: 01/16/06
Posts: 4223
Loc: Wartburg,TN
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Too many tales to tell! This thread depresses me!!! 
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#2081764 - 09/22/10 12:27 PM
Re: The one that got away...
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A/M/G
TnDeer Old Timer
8 Point
Registered: 09/06/99
Posts: 1124
Loc: Drummonds, Tn
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Carlos, I have had that happen, the only I could stop the buck was yelling as loud as I could. He stopped for a second then gone again.
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#2081767 - 09/22/10 12:30 PM
Re: The one that got away...
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LIL JOKER
14 Point
Registered: 01/11/08
Posts: 9106
Loc: tennessee
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about 5 yrs ago had 4 bucks come in on me and the 3rd in line was a mid 130"s 10 pter i got drawed back and made a perfect heart shot from 20 yds i thought...found 2 spots of blood the size of a softball with air bubbles in it..the blood then ran out and we lkooked and looked and never found the deer..
3 yrs ago opening day of ft campbell shot got 2 shots at a 140 buck with a muzzle loader and missed both timesd...
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He actually ended up gross scoring at 169 4/8.
