Froze to death, 10 point

[fairchaser]

Three shots at a 5.5 year old buck from the ground in the woods. That's an amazing story. Congratulations

 

['borohunter]

Great buck and story. Congrats

 

[Chickenrig]

Great buck for sure Bud!!!
Your not out of the game till you otta bullets
Way to stay em

 

[Sniper]

Nice one!

 

[ronbarrett423]

Well done. Nice deer and I bet that drag was not fun.

 

[godores]

Awesome story. I've never had such a dramatic ending to such a tough hunt!

 

[Dirtcop]

Well I went to Prentice Cooper Monday night and hunted that evening with no luck but knew with the cold temps that the deer would have to move to stay warm and with bucks still chasing. I about FROZE monday night camping. I went back to my spot from the previous evening and saw zero deer so about 1pm I get down and come up with another plan. I took about an hour looking at some topo maps and decided to go to a place I had scouted earlier in the year. I get to my new spot and head in with the hopes of seeing some deer. I get settled in and about 4:00 pm I can't take the wind anymore, I'm freezing so I hop down and decide to just tuck up at the base of tree. Shortly after doing so I had a couple does come in at about 40 yards to my right and as I'm watching them I hear chaos on my left so I turn around and have 3 does running wild in the underbrush and catch a glimpse of a tall tine. A nice buck was bulldozing the underbrush trying to pen down a doe. He's not stopping as I literally yelling at him so I find him in the scope and pull the trigger BANG!!! The buck stops at 80ish yards but doesn't appear to be hit and off he goes chasing again so I get him back in the scope as he's chasing and BANG!!!! This time he's down and I "thought" he was finished but nope it was a high hit just behind shoulder and since I'm sitting on the ground it hit zero vitals and he gets up. I chamber another round and as he gets ready to disappear off the side of the mountain I send my last shot and he drops hallelujah. Longer story a little bit shorter I hit a tree on the first shot but the 3rd shot was good in the chest cavity. They aged him at 5.5yr and it about killed me dragging it out.View attachment 62348

VERY NICE BUCK!!!!! Congrats

 

[Antler Daddy]

I've seen some nice bucks posted from Prentice this year! Congratulations!

I think that place had a history for producing nothing but small bucks for awhile.

 

[tree_ghost]

That is a dandy buck my friend!!!! Congratulations on a bruiser buck!

 

[camoman270]

Well I went to Prentice Cooper Monday night and hunted that evening with no luck but knew with the cold temps that the deer would have to move to stay warm and with bucks still chasing. I about FROZE monday night camping. I went back to my spot from the previous evening and saw zero deer so about 1pm I get down and come up with another plan. I took about an hour looking at some topo maps and decided to go to a place I had scouted earlier in the year. I get to my new spot and head in with the hopes of seeing some deer. I get settled in and about 4:00 pm I can't take the wind anymore, I'm freezing so I hop down and decide to just tuck up at the base of tree. Shortly after doing so I had a couple does come in at about 40 yards to my right and as I'm watching them I hear chaos on my left so I turn around and have 3 does running wild in the underbrush and catch a glimpse of a tall tine. A nice buck was bulldozing the underbrush trying to pen down a doe. He's not stopping as I literally yelling at him so I find him in the scope and pull the trigger BANG!!! The buck stops at 80ish yards but doesn't appear to be hit and off he goes chasing again so I get him back in the scope as he's chasing and BANG!!!! This time he's down and I "thought" he was finished but nope it was a high hit just behind shoulder and since I'm sitting on the ground it hit zero vitals and he gets up. I chamber another round and as he gets ready to disappear off the side of the mountain I send my last shot and he drops hallelujah. Longer story a little bit shorter I hit a tree on the first shot but the 3rd shot was good in the chest cavity. They aged him at 5.5yr and it about killed me dragging it out.View attachment 62348

Beautiful trophy and great story!

 

[Winchester]

Congrats nice deer

 

[east_tn_gk]

Nice buck and good work!

 

[sgtwebb1]

DadGONE that's a NICE deer for PC!!
Congratulations, and great story as well.

We used to wear that place out, never saw anything close to that size up there.

I knew they were in there, Just too many places for them to slip off the ridges off the steep cliffs and ledges.

Congrats again, that's a great buck!

 

[artwork001]

Great buck congrats!!!

 

[Joe2Kool]

Kool!! Sometimes perseverance pays off. Sometimes it doesn't. In this case, it paid off big! Congrats!!

 

[Hduke86]

Kool!! Sometimes perseverance pays off. Sometimes it doesn't. In this case, it paid off big! Congrats!!

You aren't kidding cause a few times when I was sitting up in the tree and couldn't feel my toes or face cause of the wind I thought if my truck was back at the road that I'd would have came down and warmed up in it but my truck was back at camp and I took the side by side 8-9 miles down the gravel road to my area

 

[rifle02]

Congratulations on an awesome buck. Your picture is very good too.

 

[tori9600]

Nice buck! Congratulations!

 

[41Magnum]

Congrats on a fine deer Sir! I've never hunted Prentice Cooper.

 

[JKC]

Congrats on a great buck!