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Saturday Morning Success
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12/07/20 09:59 PM
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TX TCAT
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The story starts when this deer showed up on camera for the first time 2 weeks ago. He got there mid-day on a Saturday, ate for an hour or so, then moved on. As things typically work out, I arrived at the ranch the day after he was was caught on the camera. I hunted that blind all day, but he never made an appearance while I was there, leaving me with 2 weeks to obsess over the game camera pictures and wonder if he was still around or if he was just a buck stopping for a bite on his way to chase a hot doe in some other pasture. Either way, I wasn't going to hunt anywhere else this weekend. I got to the blind early on Saturday morning. 6:30 am, an hour before sunrise. Conditions were perfect. Temperatures in the low 30s, winds out of the NE at 3 to 5 MPH, and clouds building on the horizon for what would be an overcast day. At about 6:40 the sun started casting light on the horizon. It was one of those sunrises that, no matter how the hunt turned out, it was going to be a good day because you had been able to see it. I pulled the camera out and took some pictures. That's venus rising with the sun, which I thought was pretty cool at the time and still do. After taking the sunrise pictures, I settled into the blind, focused really hard on every shadow that looked like a deer and waited for the feeder to go off. At 7:20 I heard the sound that no hunter wants to here. "Whiirrrrr..." The feeder went off, but the sound of corn being flung by the spinner was absent. I was beside myself. How could I let the feeder go empty at this point in the season? It was the longest 2 minutes of my life until 2 does walked out of the brush looking at the feeder pen, wondering why there was no corn on the ground. I thought to myself that I would wait for them to move on, then go get the rattling horns and take a different approach. Not another 2 minutes went by before my buck came charging out of the brush, nose down, hot on the trail of these does. I took one look through the binoculars and knew it was him. As he pushed these does around the field for another minute or 2, I got the gun up and waited for the shot. He gave me one broadside at 130 yards, and I made it count. The old warrior tried to run, but only made it 10 yards or so before his shoulders gave out and he took a dive. The whole thing was done by 7:35. I haven't put the tape to him yet, but feel free to throw out some guesses as to what you think he'll go. He's very easily my biggest buck ever. I sure do love a big 8.
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Re: Saturday Morning Success
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#8080068
12/07/20 10:00 PM
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Texasteach
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You did what?
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Re: Saturday Morning Success
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#8080084
12/07/20 10:11 PM
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bill oxner
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Great story. Great buck. Great pictures.
Quail hunting is like walking into, and out of a beautiful painting all day long. Gene Hill
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Re: Saturday Morning Success
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#8080085
12/07/20 10:11 PM
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Stevarino
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Great buck. Congratulations
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Re: Saturday Morning Success
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#8080105
12/07/20 10:24 PM
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angus1956
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In the third pic is that a chip out of his left side antler. Is so someone took a shot and lucky for you missed. Wall hanger for sure
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Re: Saturday Morning Success
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12/07/20 10:44 PM
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Pope&Young
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Awesome buck Congrats on that 8 point stud
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Re: Saturday Morning Success
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#8080172
12/07/20 11:19 PM
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For it is not the quarry that we truly seek, but the adventure.
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Re: Saturday Morning Success
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12/07/20 11:34 PM
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Great story and I also love a Big8!
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Re: Saturday Morning Success
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12/08/20 01:02 AM
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Re: Saturday Morning Success
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12/08/20 01:12 AM
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Re: Saturday Morning Success
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12/08/20 01:28 AM
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Very nice 8, pushing upper 130s to low 140s would be my estimate...
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Re: Saturday Morning Success
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12/08/20 01:43 AM
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sfa99
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Congrats
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Re: Saturday Morning Success
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12/08/20 02:18 AM
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In the third pic is that a chip out of his left side antler. Is so someone took a shot and lucky for you missed. Wall hanger for sure He does have a chip off his left G3, but I suppose he probably had a split tine or kicker that broke off over the possibility of someone hitting that antler with some lead. I don’t have a picture of him with any other tines, so this is all conjecture. I had the taxidermist leave as is.
Last edited by TX TCAT; 12/08/20 02:25 AM.
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Re: Saturday Morning Success
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12/08/20 02:27 AM
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Nice wide, thick, 8 point...what rifle, cartridge, and ammunition did you use to take that monarch?
Just my .02, LeonCarr
"Whitetail Deer are extinct because of rifles with telescopes mounted on them." - My 11th Grade English Teacher
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Re: Saturday Morning Success
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#8080463
12/08/20 02:42 AM
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As a fellow Throckmorton County hunter, it’s a great place. Congratulations!!!
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Re: Saturday Morning Success
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12/08/20 02:43 AM
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Re: Saturday Morning Success
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12/08/20 02:44 AM
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Tundra
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Re: Saturday Morning Success
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12/08/20 03:05 AM
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Nice wide, thick, 8 point...what rifle, cartridge, and ammunition did you use to take that monarch?
Just my .02, LeonCarr Weatherby .300 Win Mag, 163 grain custom load given to me by a buddy a little more than 10 years ago.
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Re: Saturday Morning Success
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12/08/20 03:12 AM
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49 up, 86 down puts him at 135 but it could be closer to 140. Great buck, pics, and story! Congratulations!
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Re: Saturday Morning Success
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#8080532
12/08/20 03:36 AM
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Signature images may not be larger than 600 pixels wide by 125 pixels tall. That smile says it all [North Dakota -16degrees
"Things may come to those who wait, but only those things left by those who hustle." - Abraham Lincoln
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Re: Saturday Morning Success
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#8080563
12/08/20 04:05 AM
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That’s a great 8!! Congrats!!
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Re: Saturday Morning Success
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12/08/20 04:37 AM
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bobcat1
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Stud of an 8 for sure. Congrats!
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Re: Saturday Morning Success
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12/08/20 05:40 AM
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Re: Saturday Morning Success
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#8080676
12/08/20 11:58 AM
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Very nice, he's pushing 140" really hard.
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