Waiting Pays Off

I wanted to share with all my THF friends. My wife is always "why don't you shoot a buck" After passing some good bucks for the last 10 years and just harvesting spike and doe for meat, which I love venison. I pulled the trigger on a buck Saturday evening. When I saw his tines you can add the adjectives that came out of my mouth! He was a Mystery Buck. No one had seen him before. I was just in the right place at the right time, and he wasn't. Afterwards I sent my wife a photo and texted, "This is why I wait" LOL!

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Holy long tines! Congrats on a tremendous buck my friend. I would have waited 10 yrs for that one also

That is awesome!!!! Congrats!!!

Awesome buck Congrats

Very nice

I cant post the words that came out of my mouth when I saw the 1st photo! A lot of nice bone on that buck, congrats sir, hell of a deer.

Nice to see patience pay off. That's an outstanding deer!

Well worth the wait!

WOW!!! Those are some tines!! Great buck and definitely worth waiting on. Congrats

Good lord. That is a great buck.

Wow, what a buck!

That's one heck of a good reason!!!!

Awesome deer, congrats!

Great buck, patience really paid off. What part of the state?

Holy Sh!t!! Is the first 2 words that came from my mouth.

Awesome buck. He will be pushing 170.

Love stories like this one. Congrats

Son of a B! GREAT DEER

Awesome Buck my friend

Well By God

Congratulations Sir

Holy moley......

What county?

Sonofabuck!!!!

beautiful deer sir

Yep, that is a great one!

That's amazing

Nice deer.

Wow! That is some time length now jack!!! Way to go!

Whoa.

GREAT GOOGLEDY MOOGLEDY! Congratulations!

surprised you where able to look and then pull the trigger and not have an issue.

Very nice buck and congrads...

North Central Texas

Heck of a deer!

I can't think of another deer that I've seen with tine length like that. Very nice!

Fantastic Buck
Congrats

Any measurements available and what area he came out of?
He doesn't look like a huge bodied deer.....is this Hill Country?

Holy.... Now THAT, is a buck! Congrats, incredible deer.

How did you ever hold steady enough to shoot. You da MAN!!!! Congrats sir.

Dang. That is nice!

wow that was worth waitin for

Ufda, that's a heckuva buck. You are a patient and smart man. Congratulations.

Holy cow, nice deer! Good to see someone from Cowtown slaying a big one. Where you hunting?

Good grief! Nice buck

Very Nice

Geez, had to double check to make sure that wasn't a muley.

Great, great buck. Really impressive.

Helluva buck. Congrats.

HOLY SMOKES, nice one for sure, congrats

That deer is worth ten good ones. Amazing animal.

I'm dying to know what area he came from.

Whew! That's what I am talking about, that gets me pumped up. Congrats on a hell of a deer!

Amen!!! I'm speechless!!! So awesome..

Congrats on awesome buck!

Sweet! Great buck! Congrats

Awesome deer

What a stud! That's an awesome deer!

Definitely a stud worth waiting for.....congrats!

That is a beautiful buck, congratulations sir.

That's a beauty. Great job !

Yes sir !!! You deserve this fine buck wow !

Incredible deer. Congrats!

I hope you have high ceilings! (to mount him in the house) I could hunt 60 years and never even see one with that tine length.

Awesome buck Congratulations....

Very nice indeed

That is probably the most impressive buck I have seen posted on THF. Congrats on a tremendous buck. I'm curious myself to know what county he came out of. Awesome deer. I've got him just shy of 180".

What a beautiful buck !!!
Congrats !!!

That is awesome. Congrats to you on your patience. Care to share how long those G2s and 3s are?

That's all we need to know boys

Wow deer

Congratulations sir!!!!! A buck of a lifetime!!!!

Same here. I've got him right around 180, give or take. Incredible.

WOW!!!
One of, if not THE mostvi impressive buck I've seen on the THF!
Simply amazing tine length! I see 80"+ in tine length alone.
I'm gonna guess 183" gross, and probably a net that's darn close to the b&c 170 mark.
Congrats!

He does have the wow factor but he is not as big as some of you think. He was not a big bodied deer and his small neck make his antlers look even bigger. His long G2s and G3s made him look huge when I saw him with his head up. His left G2 is 16 6/8, right is 14 2/8. His left G3 is 13 2/8, right is 13 1/8. After we got over the wow factor and looked him over we guessed he would push 160 gross. I have roughed him out and he is 163" gross. His long tines make him a great buck!

Well worth the wait!!!

Congrats.

If he only has 90" of mainbeams, mass and spread then adding in the G1's,2's and 3's ONLY will give you close to 160. That does not include the 4's and NT point. You have posted 57 3/8" of 2's and 3's alone. That is 147 as a 6 point. He still has 5 points to add into that 147 or so total. I think he has from 75-80" of tines. Then add in the frame. Tremendous buck not matter what he scores. Post up all your numbers if you don't mind so we can see what we missed our guesses on

Congratulations that is one heck of a great buck, your patience was a virtue, again congrats

Dude, I think you missed a measurement. He's bigger than 160. His tines are just as big as I thought they were.

Really weak on mass I'm guessing?

Here are the numbers.

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You missed a part on th form.... Exact Locality Where Killed: is not filled in.

Thanks. I missed his mainbeams, mass and spread. He sure looks much bigger in your pics. Great buck that no one would pass up.

Very deceiving. Still an amazing deer, and it's refreshing to see someone score a deer properly. Well done.

My lord

Talk about stunned silence! Are you hunting the FW Zoo again? Congratulations on an awesome buck.

I keep coming back and looking at this one....awesome deer.

Regardless of score, he's an amazing trophy......but I would double check measurements - he sure looks bigger!

still an awesome deer sir

Congratulations on a great trophy !!

Re: Waiting Pays Off

For some. I have been waiting 61 years to kill a deer like that and it has yet to happen

I took about 50 pics of him and in all of them his antlers looks really big! Even in the ones with me and other objects and people in the photos that would give a size perspective. I guess maybe because of his small body size, age and it was dark, and he is surrounded by black, it makes his antlers look huge! I quartered him up shortly after before the storms hit and got him on ice. I have not taken any more pics of just his head and antlers in the day light. All I can say is that in the moment I saw him raise his head and wave it around (120 yards), I wasted no time watching him and trying to analyze him as I have all the other nice bucks I have passed the last 10 years. I knew to shoot him. It was almost dark, but not too dark to see him good through the binos and scope. He was very skittish and 1 second from bolting back in the brush if something spooked him. At that moment my heart was instantly pumping and he looked 180” to me too!!! I shook for 30 minutes! It was a great feeling that I had not felt in years!

Just to philosophies for a moment like ole Augustus McCray, most of us on here know hunting is not just a hobby to us, it is a way of life that goes on every day that we breathe! Me and my old buddies don’t hunt near as hard as we did back in our 20s -30’s but we are doing something with hunting and fishing all year long. Now deer camp is more laid back and we look more forward to our big breakfast and what we are going to cook for dinner! Our boys, now in their late twenties are shooting most of the bucks. If either one of them, or my buddy had been with me at that moment I would have gladly let them take the shot. As it turns out, it was my turn and it felt good!!!

Thanks everyone for the nice comments

Well worth the wait, congratulations on an outstanding buck!

Wow! what a buck.

Ok we know the score, now let's talk age. I'm guessing 4.5. That means you should have let him go and get bigger next year...

Kidding... Very nice. Will you be more specific than North Central Texas? Maybe a county?

Dang! That's a beautiful Buck!!

WOWSERS that is a GREAT buck

Congrats!

Why do yall want to know where it was killed so bad. If I was the op I certainly wouldn't tell now because I'd be suspicious about why yall are so interested.

Once again hell of a deer. I would've thought it scored way higher too but who cares on score when its that impressive. Thats a monster

I don't think their asking for the ranch name just the County

Awesome Buck

I guess you used the typical score form and not the non typical? Truly outstanding buck once again. I have never seen a whitetail with a 16 inch tine, it just blows me away.

That is just amazing.

Feel free to post some more of him! Awesome to look at.
Also, what is the deer lift on your ATV? Did you manufacture or buy that?

OUTSTANDING BUCK!!

Great buck!

that is an awesome deer, and well worth the wait! Congrats to you, I don't know if I could have held steady looking at that one through the scope!

Congrats, beautiful buck.

out of this world!!!

Tremendous buck right there. Congratulations on a buck of a lifetime.

I made the lift. It is on my jeep and works off of the winch. It mounts in the receiver hitch in the front bumper. I made it mainly to haul pigs and dump in a dry creek we call the pig cemetery. It also seconds to haul deer, or whatever, such as firewood, corn etc...

Amazing animal! Make sure you post up pics of the mount when you get him back!

Congrats on a great buck!

Congrats sir, that is a fantastic deer.

From your measurements, it looks like normal Hill Co mass, beams but with extra-ordinary tine length!! I find people often over-score Hill Co bucks when looking at pics. However, with a deer like that you can toss the score out the window. He is one helluva trophy.

Truly a lifetime deer, congrats to you.

I still cant get over how gorgeous this deer is. That is a dream deer! Congrats again

I am sure everyone on here used the same adjective.

That's an outstanding buck! Your patience was certainly rewarded.

Wow, Congrats, AWESOME DEER!

Probably my favorite buck I have seen on this site. Color me jealous!

Holy tines!! Congrats!

you are so right, not enough adjectives to say, that is a lifetime buck

Good lawd. That's a great buck right there. Congrats

I wanted to update everyone and show how he turned out from the taxidermy. I just got him back this last weekend. He turned out great! Up next to my 150" Buck he makes it look small. I have to say when I walked in and saw him again for the first time since last December, I said "Holy %#@*"!!!!

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That's is one awesome mount and buck.

What did he end up scoring and what are the lengths on those G2s and G3s

that 2nd pic is a thing of beauty sir, gorgeous animal

Fantastic animal!

Wow

Outstanding mount and buck. He has great symmetry also. Looooooooooooooooooong G2's and G3's.

The mount turned out great. Incredible buck. Congrats again.

Turned out awesome!!!!

Wow really nice,,,,

Longest tine nearly 17" - that's some kind of record for sure. Congrats on what has to be your best buck and definitely worth a decade wait! Excellent mount, nice position to show off those "spears for tines" and taxidermy looks perfect. Well done.

Congrats again

Awesome buck and mount

Congrats that buck is amazing. What do you do after that:) I guess back to does and cull. He is one heck of and animal..the mount came out great as well. Sweet!!!

Dangit what a great buck, with tines we all dream of!
Also amazing that he is all intact with that tine length. Where I hunt he would be lucky to have two of them left intact or possibly even a beam missing.

Congrat's on a buck of lifetime!