Pink camo, #dadbodhunter, and a whole lotta stupid!

[perma]

That's a great buck. Looks like the one I was after when I lived in Iowa. "the one that got away".

Congrats buddy.

 

[Dsnow9]

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It was more of a frontal shot, he was facing slightly left. I should have taken photos but the hammer hht absolutely exploded the back shoulder. The entrance hole was between the shoulders. The wild thing that we ended up finding the bullet back on the inside of the passenger side hind right under the skin by his pecker. We were worried the guts would be exploded but they weren’t even leaking. Not sure how any of that happens but pretty wild. View attachment 349762
And then we dragged him out into the field and staged him in the field. The sunset cooperated amazingly!View attachment 349763

Just realized I forgot the last part of the hunt, the third deer. We pulled the buck out of the slough and took those fancy sunset pics! @SwaggyD took some awesome pics.

We started walking back to the truck, standing in the middle of the field to go Jill a doe in a different spot. We were almost to the tree line when we looked back at the end of the field about 600 yards away. Two does came out into the field. It looked like a yearling and a fawn. Swaggy thought they were going to stay that distance so we slowly made our way to the long grass and sat down behind 4” diameter cottonwood branch about 12” off the ground.

I started setting up on my tripod incase they turned and remembered my missed shot off the tripod. I went prone and used the branch to get above the field dikes a little bit. They started feeding into the field, 300 yards and feeding. I could see the top 2/3 of the vitals and split the difference. One shot and it was down at the edge of the field.

Went and got the truck and loaded them straight into the pickup. And in a moment of honesty I’m gonna admit that swaggy gutted all me deer. I always do gutless and it’s been about 5 years since I’ve gutted an animal. I guess I was taking to long and doing it wrong on the first one and he jumped in there and showed me how it was done.

Got the deer back home, got them skinned and watched the beginning of Monday night football during dinner. Went out, and got the skull fleshed out, all of the deer 1/4ered and into the cooler before the fourth quarter of the football game.

 

[Rie Bread]

Making hunting family men proud dsnow! Hell of a season

 

[SwaggyD]

@SwaggyD your rules change on the last day?

Yes. They were my rules, not the landowners.

 

[Nick87]

We were both on the same page man. When you get invited to hunt a property that someone has permission on you hunt it however they say. We both were holding out for a stud and it didn’t happen with our limited schedule. I’m glad he made me wait. I saw a ton of deer and all age classes of bucks, got to learn about tendencies and patterns, the challenges of wind direction with river bottom white tail, and at the end of the day we were having a blast. I’m glad it lasted till the last possible hours of the hunt.

As a kid starting out I always shot the first deer I saw. About the time I was 16, I started passing deer all of archery season. Learned more that year about deer and how to hunt them, probably then the previous 5 and next 20 years combined. You learn a LOT by just watching.

 

[Dsnow9]

This was supposed to be a back on the road post. Made it 20 miles and the truck lit up again. Turning around and heading back towards billings.

 

[BrentD]

Me thinks you need another mechanic. Does he ever test drive what he "fixes"?

 

[Nick87]

Inquiring minds want to know how much for the van?

 

[Dave N]

Damn!

 

[ShootsManyBullets]

Yeah how much is one of those rolling death wagons?
You throw magnets over the rear quarter panels that say "FREE CANDY" and you're in business.

 

[Dsnow9]

Mechanic has been very thorough and has checked all the different systems parked and driving. It seemed isolated and now the problem is back in the original spot. I walked the whole process through my fleet mechanic and he said the steps taken were the same steps he would have done. There is one more thing it could be before we either throw it on a trailer or drive under 60 mph the whole way.

 

[Dsnow9]

Inquiring minds want to know how much for the van?

It’s 20 dollars a day plus $.79 per mile. If you are close it would be a steal of a deal.

 

[Nick87]

It’s 20 dollars a day plus $.79 per mile. If you are close it would be a steal of a deal.

Noted. Thanks