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By:
Gonzo
Date:27-Nov-14
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I just wanted to do a followup on "The Hit List" thread I started back in August that had a few bucks on it I was looking at for this year...
I ended up getting #1 this morning chasing a doe on our 80 acres.
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By:
Gonzo
Date:27-Nov-14
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Here is the original photo from back in August...
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By:
Gonzo
Date:27-Nov-14
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My wife got #2 which scores really well yesterday from the same tree following a doe...
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By:
Gonzo
Date:27-Nov-14
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Here is her harvest photo...
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By:
mainbrdr
Date:27-Nov-14
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Nice buck Gonzo! Eights that can accurately be called great are few, in my opinion, but that one is!
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By:
Gonzo
Date:27-Nov-14
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I got a consolation buck for #3 on October 31st from the same property...
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By:
Gonzo
Date:27-Nov-14
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Here he is where he fell...
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By:
LongbowLes
Date:27-Nov-14
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Congrats!
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By:
HuntinFoolUtah
Date:27-Nov-14
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What a year! Congratulations to you and your wife.
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By:
jjb4900
Date:27-Nov-14
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wow...good year.
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By:
elmer@laptop
Date:27-Nov-14
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Cool
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By:
Bowboy
Date:27-Nov-14
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Oh not another gun kill!, the bow ethic police will be harrsing you shortly.
Congrat on two great bucks!
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By:
Gonzo
Date:27-Nov-14
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I originally posted this on Deerbuilder...
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By:
Thornton
Date:27-Nov-14
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Massive bucks!
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By:
carcus
Date:27-Nov-14
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Nice bucks, but this is a archery site aint it? Sorry but if I tried posting posting my compound kills on tradgang I would get my azz kicked off. I just hate guns and gun kills, sorry!
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By:
Eddie Bauer
Date:27-Nov-14
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Very nice deer! Congrats. What county?
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By:
Fulldraw1972
Date:27-Nov-14
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Nice bucks congrats.
However you put 3 bucks on a hit list then hunt them for how long with a gun and then post them on Bowsite? Did you even hunt them with a bow?
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By:
Gonzo
Date:27-Nov-14
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Bowhunted every single day I had off until Muzzleloader season when I switched to my TC Omega until I got that deer then again every day I had off until Rifle season. Never saw any of these bucks until the seasons switched... just the way it was... I am a weird kind of guy though and don't feel the weapon makes the hunt. I have killed more deer with recurves and selfbows than many on here and have taken 7 deer at MCAAP in Oklahoma including a PY.... Look the MCAAP hunt up. I don't feel any different about that recurve PY than I do about the deer I took this morning with a 30/06...
As I mentioned above I posted this on the Deerbuilder food plot site that Pat also hosts that happens to be linked to Bowsite so I didn't post it to the Bowsite per se...
www.deerbuilder.com
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By:
Buffalo1
Date:27-Nov-14
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If a deer makes "hit list" do you tack their photos to the trees on your property to serve notice?
Those are some beautiful bucks. You've definitely got your program together and know your bucks and your property.
Congrats on some nice trophies.
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By:
Bowhunter#22
Date:27-Nov-14
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Don't look then carcas.nice bucks gonzo congrats to you and your wife taxi bill will be high.
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By:
Gonzo
Date:30-Nov-14
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Thanks Bowhunter22. Hopefully the taxi bill won't be too bad since I used to have a taxidermy studio several years ago but gave it up to work for someone other than myself. Long way of saying I am a taxidermist ;)
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By:
deerslayer
Date:30-Nov-14
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Wowsers.... Those are some big bucks... congrats
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By:
SteveB
Date:30-Nov-14
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Beautiful bucks. You must have a great place to hunt. Congrats!
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By:
WV Mountaineer
Date:30-Nov-14
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Nice!!!!!
No difference in the trophy quality based on the weapon you killed it with either. Some guys are so eat up with it they don't see the joy in hunting in all weapons. Every time I hear those that distinguish between weapons, I realize they grew up hunting fields or the wide open. Anybody that's hunted hardwood timber knows the challenge isn't the weapon you hold. It is getting any shot on wild deer. God Bless
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By:
patdel
Date:30-Nov-14
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Did you shoot all three of them off 80 acres? If so, that's an awesome piece of dirt. I Dont care what you shot em with. Great bucks. Congratulations.
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By:
Fulldraw1972
Date:30-Nov-14
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Congrats again Gonzo. I didn't mean any disrespect. Just because I don't care to shoot a deer with a rifle doesn't mean the next guy doesn't.
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By:
carcus
Date:01-Dec-14
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Last time I looked this is a archery forum, is it not?
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By:
GhostBird
Date:01-Dec-14
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Did you leave any for next year???
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By:
gulfcoast
Date:01-Dec-14
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Gonzo, where are you in oklahoma? Oklahoma has exceptional deer and those are three that do the state justice. Congrats to you both! Wow!
I am a taxidermist here in oklahoma too, only birds though. Located east of Purcell.
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By:
Sage Buffalo
Date:01-Dec-14
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Oklahoma is the most under-rated state.
Awesome bucks!
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By:
Gonzo
Date:01-Dec-14
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Ghostbird - I have 7 bucks left that 3 are exceptional now and the other 3 will be by next fall but alas I only have 80 acres and all the neighbors hunt but don't seem to have the resolve to let a smaller deer go to await something better. I passed several 3.5 year old deer trying to get these specific deer. The wide 8 pointer I have more history than I realized with when I found he is the buck I shot with my bow on Veterans day high in the back due to not following protocol of bending at the waist when shooting from an elevated position. Here are photos of the entrance and exits from that arrow...
I just realized I shot this wide buck on 2 different fall holidays and the other one on another fall Holiday...
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By:
Gonzo
Date:01-Dec-14
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Exit...
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By:
Tall 1
Date:01-Dec-14
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3 great bucks regardless of weapon. Congrats on 3 super bucks!
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By:
Gonzo
Date:01-Dec-14
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gulfcoast - NE part of the state.
Sage Buffalo - you are correct butthat is Ok...
Tall 1 - Thanks - we had a plan and it worked out this year.
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By:
Bow Crazy
Date:12-Dec-14
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Gonzo, you are doing something right. Do tell. What make your 80 acres so spectacular when your neighbors do practice any type of QDM? BC
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By:
Busta'Ribs
Date:12-Dec-14
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Hmmm....
80 acres you say?
No qdm in the area?
And you kill three Bucks of that caliber in one season?
All I can say is wow.
What did you kill last year?
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By:
Wayniac
Date:12-Dec-14
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Great deer! All of them.
Wow - great that you got the same 8 that you shot earlier!
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By:
Stinkbait1
Date:12-Dec-14
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Congrats Gonzo. Great deer.
Oklahoma is a horrible place to deer hunt. You guys will be better served hunting someplace else. :-)
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By:
Gonzo
Date:12-Dec-14
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I guess the terrain and the acorns make our spot well liked by the deer. Ridges, hollows, creek bottoms, white oak, red oak, post oak, black jack oak, thickets, thermal cover with cedars and pine thickets, a waterhole and a great clover plot of about 1/2 acre or a bit more...
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By:
Gonzo
Date:12-Dec-14
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We didn't own this land a year ago and this was our first time hunting it.
As far as the neighbors they are more opportunist hunters than the up early and sit in trees hunters I think...
I hear you stinkbait ;)
