Elkaddict Report post Posted January 2, 2009 Dusty and I had the late whitetail hunt south of Tucson, A premier tag as you all know. Dusty is DustyB0 on this site. That's Dusty Be Zero, referring to his online Hearts card playing days. Dusty has shot a couple of bucks in the 90"+ range, but not a 100 incher. So the quest was on. We were seeing 10 to 13 bucks a day, all small up to 80" plus or minus when we saw a buck we named "Shooter" Here's a photo of "Shooter" the first time we saw him. We figured he'd fill the bill of 100" so Dusty made a stalk. While he was crossing the canyon a coyote came into the picture and spooked the buck up and over the ridge. Two days later we spotted him and another buck on top of a ridge across from us, at 500 yards. Being on the top of the ridge didn't give a very good opportunity for a shot. Instead of coming down towards us they went over. At this time we could see he had broken off a couple of inches of his main beam on his left side. It wasn't until the last day of the season that we found him again and Dusty nailed him at 430 yards. As you can see he is now broken off from his G3 forward and his G3 is half gone!! He scores 92"+ as is with about 10" missing. Funny thing, Dusty passed on him at 300 yards a few days earlier when he saw the breakage, thought it was a different buck. In the bottom photo you can see a bullet hole in his right ear. Old? New? Cause of breakage??? 100 inches??????? Maybe next year. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
IKillCoues Report post Posted January 2, 2009 It's a shame he's broken off, thats a good deer. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Brian Payne Report post Posted January 2, 2009 Nice buck and video. Thanks for sharing. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cramerhunts Report post Posted January 2, 2009 Very nice buck and video, too bad that you couldn't get to him before he broke. Phil Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Coues Archer Report post Posted January 3, 2009 Wow. tremendous buck great job. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shortpants Report post Posted January 3, 2009 Great buck and video, thanks for sharing! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
longshooter Report post Posted January 3, 2009 Nice job dusty... The cool part about that deer is you have all the video footage of him from your scouting trips there. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Elkaddict Report post Posted January 3, 2009 Nice job dusty... The cool part about that deer is you have all the video footage of him from your scouting trips there. Hey Bear, it makes the "to be continued " on the video I sent you pretty special. Thanks for posting. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
