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You Shot My Deer! I'm sure it has happened to a few of you. You have been scouting a certain buck all year. Capturing him on cam
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Understandably it sucks when you get pics of a deer all year, or watch him grow into a nice buck then someone else gets "gets lucky" and shoots him opening day. Either on an adjacent land or friend or new member of a lease. But should you claim deer... no. By the way Dr.Mike nice comment about Shane... I dont think anyone here should be "bashing" on each other. It has happened to me before and i didnt appreciate it.
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I've been on the harvesting end of this situation more than once. I am very good friends with another guy in my club and last year he had seen tracks and rubs from this big buck so he set up a trail cam. I saw the same big buck three different times while hunting from one specific tree. Once out of bow range, once chasing a doe after I had climbed down. Took a shot at him but shot right over his back. Once running full blast through the pines. On 11/23/08 my buddy and I were going to hunt. I always called him to wake him up when I was leaving my house so he'd have time to wake up get ready and be at the land at about the same time I got there. I told him the night before that he could hunt the area I'd seen the buck and I'd hunt somewhere else. Well this morning I over slept. When I called him he said he was going to stay in bed so I told him I was going to hunt that area. He was cool with it. I got in the stand at 8:00. At 9:50 a doe came out 75 yards below me, right where I'd seen the buck every time before. I turned was ready to take aim if he came out when I heard a twig snap behind me. He walked out 25 feet on the other side of me. I was able to get turned around and take him. My buddy was aggravated, mostly at himself for sleeping in. Hunting is a lot about luck. You have to have the skills to find trails, pick up on rubs, patterns, etc. but if you are not in the right place at the right time, no deer. This buck is the larger of the two mount pictures I posted.
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