high country
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Killed this 9-point Wednesday, Nov. 12th at 10:45am. I'll post the story later!!!
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Nice!
Bone Collector
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Congrats!
in the dog house
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Good looking buck! Congrats!
WORM82
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Great mountain buck! Were you hunting private land or CNF?
high country
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CNF, nothing but public for me!!!
Congrats!
WORM82
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Good deal I usually wait till rifle to start hunting around there in the CNF. That's a great buck for public land around here.
Awesome east TN deer, congrats.
Congrats
easy45
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congrats
high country
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WORM82 said:
Here's a few more public land deer I've killed. Archer 19 has killed some nice public land deer in Unicoi county also.
high country
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And here's a few more I'd like to see walk under my stand...
WORM82
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Wow those are all really nice bucks for this area especially on public land! I don't hunt it alot but usually I end up hunting probably 10 days a year on the CNF. I'm still looking for that SPOT where the deer are but the other hunters aren't lol I put on a lot of miles and still haven't found it. I usually hunt around the bumpas cove/Clark's creek area and a lil around buffalo mtn.
Congrats
gator-n-buck
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Congrats
bigtex
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Great looking buck, congrats!
RidgeRunner13
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Congrats
Mike, those are some fine bucks anywhere. But I know the work that goes into them here in the mountains.
We have good deer, smart, hard to hunt. Walk up ridges that make goat want to puke with a 50 lb pack on your back and maybe hunt several days without a sighting.
But boy when the stars align and the cards fall into place, man what a feeling.
Congrats on a great deer.
Hurry with the story.
We have good deer, smart, hard to hunt. Walk up ridges that make goat want to puke with a 50 lb pack on your back and maybe hunt several days without a sighting.
But boy when the stars align and the cards fall into place, man what a feeling.
Congrats on a great deer.
Hurry with the story.
Tennessee Lead
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Awesome !
high country
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OK, It was a rainy, cold pre rut November day and I had a feeling the noon to evening hunt was going to be where the action was. I decided to go in a little later in the morning. I arrived at my spot about 9:45am. I started still hunting into my stand. The 1st deer I saw was a big spike sneaking out of an old overgrown field. I gave him another year to grow. I got down into the hollow I hunt. As I got within about 75-100 yards of my stand I turned around to notice a deer at the top of the overgrown field. I got down as close to the ground as I could because I was kind of caught out in the open. At 1st I didn't notice anything wrong with the deer. Then I noticed he had a pretty good rack so I hunkered down even more. He made his way to the middle of the over growth and bed down. So there I was, caught out in the open with at least an 8 point within 75 to 100 yards of me bedded down. I watched him; remaining calm for about 30 minutes. Finally he stood up and started walking out of the field, that's when I 1st noticed he had a limp. So I put the cross hairs on him and Boom!!! He hit the ground...
My wife had just text me and ask if I had seen anything and I was getting ready to text her back I got a facebook message from a friend, Lee Nicholeson. He ask if that was me that shot and he was looking for a 8 point he shot early that morning. I knew then that was the deer he shot some 2 hours earlier. I had no idea he was even in there. Everyone who hunts this particular area knows where I hunt and pretty much leaves me alone. It just so happened I was in the right spot at the right time. He would have never found that deer. It had a torn up shoulder but no vitals were hit. You could say it was a team effort. We are good friends so we shared the buck. I got to claim it, take a few pics and he skint it and keep the horns. He kept the meet minus backstraps and tenderloins. Everybody wins!!!
My wife had just text me and ask if I had seen anything and I was getting ready to text her back I got a facebook message from a friend, Lee Nicholeson. He ask if that was me that shot and he was looking for a 8 point he shot early that morning. I knew then that was the deer he shot some 2 hours earlier. I had no idea he was even in there. Everyone who hunts this particular area knows where I hunt and pretty much leaves me alone. It just so happened I was in the right spot at the right time. He would have never found that deer. It had a torn up shoulder but no vitals were hit. You could say it was a team effort. We are good friends so we shared the buck. I got to claim it, take a few pics and he skint it and keep the horns. He kept the meet minus backstraps and tenderloins. Everybody wins!!!
Good deer!
