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Shot the bully buck yesterday morning. He'd been breaking his own and other bucks' tines and keeping good bucks away. Sure enough this morning rolls around and two bigger bucks are tending does in the woodlot and pasture. I never had a chance at this 10 last season, but the Lord graced me with him today! Been an outstanding two days of hunting.

After the bully was gone, a new scrape opened over night and still had wet spots in it this morning, that weren't frosty. Pretty sure a was just minutes behind the buck who did it.
 

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Ski said:
Shot the bully buck yesterday morning. He'd been breaking his own and other bucks' tines and keeping good bucks away. Sure enough this morning rolls around and two bigger bucks are tending does in the woodlot and pasture. I never had a chance at this 10 last season, but the Lord graced me with him today! Been an outstanding two days of hunting.

After the bully was gone, a new scrape opened over night and still had wet spots in it this morning, that weren't frosty. Pretty sure a was just minutes behind the buck who did it.
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Way to go man!!
 
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younggun308 said:
Magnificent! From this I've learned a wrinkle in the QDM approach. Kill the bully!
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Killing the bully is what I truly believe scored me this buck. He was actually about 50-75lbs heavier than the 10pt, much bigger bodied. And he knew it. He's been beating up everything. Even the 10 I shot this morning was limping like he'd been whooped, and I think it was the bully who did that. One thing is for sure, the property felt night & day different today than yesterday. Bucks had been a little skittish, slinking around the edges. Today there were three of them proud as peacocks with high heads out in the pasture, the way it is on normal years.
 
philsanchez76 said:
Congrats SKi! You kill this guy here in TN or were you back at your other place (Ohio I think?)
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Yes I killed it here in Coffee County. My Ohio buck was shot on the 12th. This is the second 10 I've been fortunate enough to take this season. First three pics are of the 10pt. Last pic is of the bully buck. You can see how much bigger he was. Thing was built like a bulldog and he acted like it. Biggest 4pt I'll probably ever kill lol.
 

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Your bully reminds me of one I killed several years ago. Rack was not impressive to look at, but he was big and acted like the boss when he came in during ml season a few years back. I don't run cameras, but it was pretty neat to watch him interact with other deer that were around when I shot him. Easily the biggest bodied deer that I've killed, and pictures don't do him justice.
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EastTNHunter said:
Your bully reminds me of one I killed several years ago. Rack was not impressive to look at, but he was big and acted like the boss when he came in during ml season a few years back. I don't run cameras, but it was pretty neat to watch him interact with other deer that were around when I shot him. Easily the biggest bodied deer that I've killed, and pictures don't do him justice.
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Very similar indeed! Something about those big bodied, small rack deer. It's like if Arnold Schwarzenegger had a tiny pecker, the attitude he'd have lol
 
Ski said:
Yes I killed it here in Coffee County. My Ohio buck was shot on the 12th. This is the second 10 I've been fortunate enough to take this season. First three pics are of the 10pt. Last pic is of the bully buck. You can see how much bigger he was. Thing was built like a bulldog and he acted like it. Biggest 4pt I'll probably ever kill lol.
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That 10 is amazing! Solid job sacrificing your second buck tag on that bully. At least you got a lot of meat from him.
 
philsanchez76 said:
That 10 is amazing! Solid job sacrificing your second buck tag on that bully. At least you got a lot of meat from him.
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Yessir I sure did! Put 6 neck roasts, a dozen or so packs of steaks, both shoulder bone-in roasts, and enough ground for a 25lb batch of sausage in the freezer last night, plus 3 quart bags of jerky pulled from dehydrator before going to bed. It was a busy day and my back hurts!

I never had idea how dramatic and sudden the change could be by taking out a bully. I've heard about it before and thought folks were over emphasizing the urgency to cull a bully. I really thought folks were using "bully" as a justification for shooting a young or small buck. To be honest, I felt really conflicted about pulling the trigger because he wasn't a buck I really wanted, and I'd liked to have seen him go another year. But I let him walk a couple weeks ago in ML and soon regretted it because he was bulldogging all the other bucks into the surrounding properties. So this time I felt ok about it, and now feel even better about it.
 

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