Headhunter
Well-Known Member
Spent over 60 hours in the stand. Saw 26 different bucks and over 150 deer in 6 and half days of hunting. The farms around us are absolutely hammered. Each of the first 2 mornings of the gun season, over 100 rifle shots each morning. Other than one farm, most everyone around us shoots most any deer they see.
I saw 4 bucks that I wanted to kill. One would have grossed over 170". Never got a shot opportunity and did not see him again. Saw 2 other deer that were easy 150" deer, and I could not get a shot. Between the farm beside us and the farm my brother and myself hunt, 6 bucks over 140" were killed in the first 8 days of gun season there. 2 of them grossed over 160" one was real close to 170". My brother has not got to hunt much, maybe this weekend, last weekend of late muzzleloader in KY, he will get a chance to kill one. I will go back and hopefully kill a few does with my new CVA acura LR 45 cal muzzleloader.
I killed a nice buck on the second Sunday. 170 lbs dressed and 11 pts. One side is 6" circumference at the base and the other is 5-3/4". 18" inside spread.
The first morning I made a scrape with my boot, peed in it and I freshened it up everyday. On the second Sunday at about 2:30 in the afternoon a buck came out chasing a doe. They came through 4 or 5 times and I could not get a shot. I was whistling, yelling, screaming, grunting, anything to get him to stop long enough to shoot. He finally hit the brakes by himself and just as I got the gun to my shoulder, he took off trotting. He trotted to the scrape I had peed in, 90 to 100 yards, and stuck his nose in it. That was his final mistake. Killed him with new to me Remington sendero in 7MMSTW.
I am tickled with another nice buck from KY and so blessed to be able to hunt there. Not a 160" deer like I killed last year a for sure good buck.
I saw 4 bucks that I wanted to kill. One would have grossed over 170". Never got a shot opportunity and did not see him again. Saw 2 other deer that were easy 150" deer, and I could not get a shot. Between the farm beside us and the farm my brother and myself hunt, 6 bucks over 140" were killed in the first 8 days of gun season there. 2 of them grossed over 160" one was real close to 170". My brother has not got to hunt much, maybe this weekend, last weekend of late muzzleloader in KY, he will get a chance to kill one. I will go back and hopefully kill a few does with my new CVA acura LR 45 cal muzzleloader.
I killed a nice buck on the second Sunday. 170 lbs dressed and 11 pts. One side is 6" circumference at the base and the other is 5-3/4". 18" inside spread.
The first morning I made a scrape with my boot, peed in it and I freshened it up everyday. On the second Sunday at about 2:30 in the afternoon a buck came out chasing a doe. They came through 4 or 5 times and I could not get a shot. I was whistling, yelling, screaming, grunting, anything to get him to stop long enough to shoot. He finally hit the brakes by himself and just as I got the gun to my shoulder, he took off trotting. He trotted to the scrape I had peed in, 90 to 100 yards, and stuck his nose in it. That was his final mistake. Killed him with new to me Remington sendero in 7MMSTW.
I am tickled with another nice buck from KY and so blessed to be able to hunt there. Not a 160" deer like I killed last year a for sure good buck.
