Long quest for this buck

[Sixes]

I know this is a turkey forum, but this is the first buck in a long time that really got me excited after the kill. here is the story.

This is a buck that I have gotten on camera and hunted for the last 4 years.I first noticed him as a 3 year old and quickly saw how he did not like to show up in day light. I saw him once as a 3.5 years old and it was at/after dark. I drew and could not make out my sights, I never thought that it would take 3 more years to see him again.


Fast forward thru the years. I never saw him during shooting hours and in the 3 years since the first time him, I only had him on camera during daylight hours 3 times out of hundreds of video.  One year, he showed in January during daylight and last year, he showed on Christmas Eve morning and about a week later, he showed up right after daybreak on camera.


He is not the biggest racked buck, never was, but he was slick and a survivor.


I had videos in September, none for almost all of October and then on the 30th and 31st, he showed on video two mornings in a row at 430, so I knew he was in the area.


This morning, I climbed up a little after 6 and saw 4 small bucks cruising throughout the morning. I have to work this evening, so I knew the cutoff was 1030 or so, and to my amazement, at a few minutes before 9, I saw him step out on an old road bed, angling to me, but appeared to have saw something he didn't like and got nervous. I took the slight quartering to shot and saw the lighted nock spin around when the buck took off.  I waited a few minutes, eased down and walked over to the shot. The ground was torn up, but didn't see any blood (but I am color blind and struggle with blood).  I eased out the trail where I saw him run and about 60 yards away, I saw the glowing nock. I walked over and scanned down the steep hill to the bottom and saw a big white belly laying in the branch. It's the first time in a long time that I had to call and get some help.


This buck has given me fits over the years and I'm both glad and sad that it is over.

Resized_20191105_105410 by Tim Hillhouse, on Flickr

Resized_20191105_093400[30] by Tim Hillhouse, on Flickr

[davisd9]

That is awesome!  Congratulations on the buck, but I am sure you will miss the chase.

[redjones]

Very nice.


  Greg

[Yoteduster]

Good story and a Very nice buck congrats and thanks for sharing

[3bailey3]

very nice Congrats

[Spring Fever]

Nice buck!
Congrats!

[Muzzy61]

Congrats. Nice buck, thanks for sharing the hunt.

[Yoder409]

Congrats on a good deer and a good story !!

[Sir-diealot]

Congratulations

[guesswho]

  you know what I mean.

[catdaddy]

That's a good buck!

[bobk]

Nice deer. Congratulations.

[Jimmyj]

That is great!!

[Greg Massey]

Nice deer , congrats

[Chris O]

Congrats on the great buck