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[Ateam]

Success with the cross bow. Sorry its not cast, a few more weeks yet till firearms opens. Now the work begins....

[sukivel]

Buddy that’s a nice buck! Where’s that one from?


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[Wheelguns 1961]

Congratulations! That is a beauty. Did you weigh it by any chance? It looks healthy.

[mac60]

That's a big bodied deer. Very nice - congrats.

[Ateam]

Buddy that’s a nice buck! Where’s that one from?


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I am in Northern Michigan, Traverse City area.

[Ateam]

Congratulations! That is a beauty. Did you weigh it by any chance? It looks healthy.

No, didnt weigh it, most fat I have ever seen on a buck, though I have never shot one during archery before.

[pworley1]

Great work!!

[500Linebaughbuck]

nice buck!!!

[sukivel]

A buck with a rack that size looks about half the size of that feller here in OK! Poor ******** here can barely hold their heads up!


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[Wheelguns 1961]

That buck there looks like it has a big fat neck. Definately a nice one!

[Johnch]

Well done
I am now also looking for a buck
I just hope if I get one it is as nice as yours

John

[CastingFool]

Nice job, Ateam!
In Michigan, the rut should be starting, therefore, the large neck. Normal peak of the rut around my area takes place the 1st two weeks of November. I'm farther south than Ateam, in farm country.

[Ateam]

Nice job, Ateam!
In Michigan, the rut should be starting, therefore, the large neck. Normal peak of the rut around my area takes place the 1st two weeks of November. I'm farther south than Ateam, in farm country.

He was chasing a doe (who was playing hard to get) and grunting. He also had some bruising around the neck and shoulders where I think he was fighting with other bucks, so I think the rut has begun here. I shot him off of the scrape at the back edge of our pasture. It was one of those hunts where everything went perfect. I sat for about 45 min before the show started, he and the doe came in up wind, and played grab *&^ for a while. She was not playing along so he went and checked his scrape which is about 30 yards from my tree stand. He turned broadside so I brought up my crossbow, he then quartered away and I sent the bolt home. It went in about the liver, traversed one or both lungs, chopped off the top of the heart, and exited through the meat of the front shoulder and stuck in the ground. He went about 80y and piled up in the middle of my logging trail where I picked him up with the tractor.

[trapper9260]

I still need to fill my permit with a crossbow also.No luck yet. I do not care what it is,doe or buck.it dose not matter.I did fill my permit for early muzzle loader . I got a doe.She was a good size one.Alot of fat on her also .

[CastingFool]

Ateam, that sounds like a great hunting day! Being out in the woodd is good, but when you fill a tag, it makes it extra special.

[marshall623]

Nice buck , he is a heavy weight for sure .

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[Markopolo]

Sheesh!!!! What do you guys feed them up in Michigan???? Awesome Buck!!!!

[Smoke4320]

Congrats.. great buck.
Thanks for sharing

[Ateam]

Sheesh!!!! What do you guys feed them up in Michigan???? Awesome Buck!!!!

You know, I dont know what he was eating, we hardly have any agriculture aside from cherries and apples here in Benzie county. Hard to grow a nice 8pt on sticks and berries. We are into year 4 or 5 of QDM, or what the DNR calls quality deer management, means you cant shoot a buck unless he has 3 points on at least one side. That may have some bearing on seeing more bucks like this.

[Rick R]

You shot a horse with antlers!

Congratulations!