Nice buck

[200"mulie]

Here is a buck we tried to get on this past weekend but no luck....hopefully no one else got to him so we get another chance this weekend.

 

 

well here is the story.......we found 4 bucks in this pocket month before...two of them stood out to us....one had very good mass but was barely starting to fork and the other one had long tines but had not yet grow his g3.......Havent been back there in a monthe due to work and scouting other places. But Saturday afternoon i told my buddy we want to be out there glassing bout 2 pm. Soon we found 2 deer, 1 doe and 1 buck (looked like the mass buck we've seen month before but was still only a fork)...we glass and glass without picking up any other deer. So i change my tactic and start to glass the really thick stuff with my new scope.....but still now finding anymore deer .... Bout 4 pm buddy said the buck is getting up and moving. We watched him for feed for little bit. I decided my buddy to keep an eye on him and i'll look for other deer. Shortly i found 8 doe's and starting to get frustrated not finding the bucks we saw 1 month earlier ..... i said well where is the fork and you have a plan yet? As i am still glassing hillsides i see 2 deer appear out of a thicket..automatically thinking it's the same 2 doe's i saw couple mins earlier casue it was the same general area...i didnt have my binos on the tripod so didnt get a good look. Got over to my tripod with my scope on it and get on the first....yup thats a doe ..go over to the other and my jaw dropped ...hey come look at this i think i found that long tine buck. My buddy looked in there and said wow! whats the plan? We went straight at him and the 2 doe's he was with and hopefully he will feed to us. 1 hour later we are in the edge of the thicket we found the 2 does on the open hillside but with no buck. We waited till they went over the finger they were on but that was another 30 mins....while we wait i glass up 4 more bucks 3 forks and 1 small 3x3 moving over saddles. Finally we were able to move..so we were going to stay on the edge of thicket but had to cross a small gorge. My buddy took 2 steps and said there is a deer looking at me in the bottom of the gorge. Turns out it was another doe. She starred at us then a cow would kick a rock and she starred at the cow, back at us, back at the cows, back at us, and back at us....seems like 10 minutes and it's getting darker by the minute. She calms down and starts feeding...within seconds she turns around started back up the gorge away from us. I was think please dont run dont run....just in case the buck was right there around her. Then the starrign game started again....but it was much shorter stare down. I kept telling my buddy the whole time during both stare downs TO NOT MOVE....since we were still partially cover by a small tree. Then out of no where she turns around again!! headed straight down the gorge...as soon as she got down in the gorge i told my bussy get ready just in case the buck comes up with her...she will come up right next to us...which we could on see 25-30 yards...i got down just in case she came up in front of us in the open.....next thing i heard was couple rocks clangin around and saw 1 white flag. I got up and said how close was she????...and turned out to be 8 yards!! It was a really cool experience that i wont forget even though we didn't get the big boy.

[CouesWhitetail]

very nice!! good luck!

[DrRx09]

Love those tall bucks, good luck

[200"mulie]

i was guessing score of 70's....but i'm no good at guessing

[bonecollector]

Nice buck good luck getting him. I'm no expert but he looks bigger than a 70's buck

[270wsm]

That buck will score more than 70's

[Coues 'n' Sheep]

That buck should have no problem hitting the 90" mark (or more) based on that one pic... other angles might tell a different story. Best of luck on him!

[luvdemcoues]

Where did you say that was?

[200"mulie]

Now that i look at it closer on my camera...and crop it.

 

does seem to be bigger than i thought. Just the angle i guess threw me off..i'll get mor pics of him this weekend if he is still around

[pwrguy]

Tough to tell from that one angle, but I would guess at least 85

[Pine Donkey]

90+ nice buck

[tjhunt2]

Can't wait to see your ground pictures. Good luck!

 

TJ

[200"mulie]

UPDATED WITH STORY OF THE STALK THAT DIDN'T PAN OUT. Cows and doe's everywhere and some thick stuff where he hangs out no wonder he is so big!!

[bow.hunter8971]

nice one good luck