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#3036821 - 11/16/12 06:25 PM

East TN 8-Point

high country
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Registered: 11/24/02
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High Country on the board, finally!!! $\:D$ First deer I've seen all year, well technically the 5th deer I seen this year but all 5 were today. Saw a smaller buck chasing 2-does earlier this morning, then had a doe fawn come in about an hour later, then this big boy showed up. Shot him at 1:45 today, nose to the ground, 50-yard shot with a 50-yard recovery. 165 lbs. field dressed, shot him with a 50cal. T/C Encore Pro Hunter with 295gr powerbelt hollow point (no pass thru) but then again that's about 10 or 12 shot with powerbelts and recovered all.

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#3036830 - 11/16/12 06:30 PM

Re: East TN 8-Point [Re: high country]

htnseymour
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Registered: 09/26/11
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Congrats, good to see an east tn deer on here

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#3036859 - 11/16/12 06:49 PM

Re: East TN 8-Point [Re: htnseymour]

encore06
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Originally Posted By: htnseymour

Congrats, good to see an east tn deer on here

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#3036872 - 11/16/12 06:57 PM

Re: East TN 8-Point [Re: encore06]

leader
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Registered: 08/10/06
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Nice....

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#3036880 - 11/16/12 06:59 PM

Re: East TN 8-Point [Re: encore06]

Buckykm1
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Registered: 08/05/12
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Loc: East Tennessee

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That's a nice one. Congrats.

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#3036898 - 11/16/12 07:12 PM

Re: East TN 8-Point [Re: Buckykm1]

shopson
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Registered: 09/24/01
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Loc: Greeneville

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Nice mtn buck. Hope to see one up that general way in the morning.

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#3036902 - 11/16/12 07:16 PM

Re: East TN 8-Point [Re: shopson]

Dale817
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Registered: 07/20/12
Posts: 178
Loc: Montgomery Co.

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Nice buck,congrats!

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#3036910 - 11/16/12 07:19 PM

Re: East TN 8-Point [Re: encore06]

high country
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Funny how this year has gone for me. I hunt public land exclusively (Cherokee National Forest) and the place I usually hunt has all the sudden dried up, no deer, no pics of deer, no sigh of deer. So I moved to my old reliable stand, again on Cherokee National Forest. I've killed 5 mature bucks from this stand which I like to call 5-point, because 5 different hollers come together in a bowl. Well today made #6, I'm super excited about this one, my biggest bodied buck to date and quite possibly the largest rack, have to measure it first.

I can't stress enough how tough it is to kill very pressured bucks on public land where the deer population according to TWRA runs below 10-deer per square mile, it's probably more like 5 or less here in Unicoi County. If I could give an up and coming hunter advise for hunting bucks like this. Pick a spot, trust your scouting and stay put. I've hunted weeks on end and never lay eyes on a deer but when it finally happens more times than not it's well worth the wait. I've logged a lot of hours on the stand this year with zero deer sightings, today it all paid off. As old Phil would say, Happy... Happy... Happy... $\:D$

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