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[Shoot-it]

Well it's a long story .......I passed up what i thought was a wide fork Saturday morning I was 200 yards away when I got up too it i looked threw my scope and realized it was a big 3x2.All I could see was his head so I moved he ran.....I was sick all day so today I crawled a hundred yards on my knees and sneaked up to a spot I saw a few does then I jumped this young buck in waist high grass killed him like 30 yards away. here he is..  Shoot_it.jpg   146.48K   106 downloads

[ShooterJohn]

Hey John, great job especially after all the work you put into getting that gun shooting so well. There are an awful lot of guys out there that would love to have gotten that deer. I resized your picture for you as so of the guys have dial-up and that other picture was BIG! Congrats on the buck!

[Cranky Farmer]

Congrats. That should be good eating. He coming in rut yet?

[natural]

Good job !-Andy-

[Thumper Dunker]

Thats great , good job . you worked for it. now get one with your D6 tag.

[ShooterJohn]

One thing I might add for next time. Tell BIG FOOT to move, his shadow is in the picture!

[Thumper Dunker]

Boy John your lucky big foot was behind you and he did not get you

[Rimrock]

Good job. Thanks for sharing.

[peeker seeker]

Great job. I know peaple who have hunted for years and never got one. Thats a nice size fork and will be great eating. so whens the BQ.

[ShooterJohn]

Deer liver and onions! Yummy!

[Shoot-it]

Thanks for the replies. I didn't want too go home empty handed this time I have passed little guys up last season and came home with squat. He should be tender I am have him cut up.. steaks, back straps and the rest hamburger mixed with beef fat.......won't be much meat...... I practiced for too weeks shot 3 box's of shells at 100 yards and beyond and I end up killing my buck at 30 yards........... go figure at least i was smart enough too turn down my scope too 3 power.... I saved the lungs heart and liver for a old Mexican man that I know he was very happy when I gave him it he loves eating that stuff.... yuck......... well the lungs were shredded anyway.

[ShooterJohn]

That liver is like gold! I guess I'll have to go buy calves liver. Good shooting 30 yards or not.

[scubamike1974]

Congrats!! I also had a B-tag and all I got was sore blistered feet! haha I went to Telephone ridge east of Black Butte Reservoir and walked all over the place. I did see over twenty deer ... all does and fawns with the exception of one tiny buck whose horns where like two inches out of his head. I think the problem was the over fourty hunting rigs that I saw! WOW tons of pressure. I did see a couple nice bucks and a bunch of pigs all in the farmers fields on the way up the mountain. Go figure...maybe next year.

[Shoot-it]

Don't give up yet mike the rifle season just got started . I talked too the warden in b zone and he said last week end he just had 30 deer taken its just slow right now. good luck next time out. Sbf My buck wasn't in rut yet I did see a glimpse of another buck with some does. I did try rattling didn't work.

[Thumper Dunker]

If your going to rattle use small antlers you don't want to scare them off . I think rattling might work any way got to try it. I need to do something Ill try anything.

[stevowpappas]

ive been out 6 times. Last weekend in my group there was 4 us. 2 people got bucks on saturday. Then sunday morning i shot one, it fell, bedded. My friend released his dog wayy! too soon and my buck jumped up and ran down the hill, no blood, no guts, nothing. I know he was hit because he struggled to get up but once he was up it was all downhill for miles. Never saw him again.Later that afternoon i had a real nice 3 pt 18 inch wide buck in my scope. I was waiting for him to move out of the way of a cedar stump because all i had was a shot at his neck. Unfortunately i got to watch him drop in my scope because the guy above me saw the same buck and had a better shot.Next weekend we are going on a big hunt on private land that has pulled out some monster bucks in the past years. I cant wait. Private land is the way to go on B. So far on all 4 of my public land hunts i have seen about 40 does and 0 bucks.

[ShooterJohn]

That's why they call it "DEER HUNTING" and not "deer shooting."

[Cranky Farmer]

Well, here in SoCal they need to call it "deer tag soup" instead of deer hunting !!

[Shoot-it]

If your going to rattle use small antlers you don't want to scare them off . I think rattling might work any way got to try it. I need to do something Ill try anything.

I wish I knew that then i was using good size horns and beating them together I must have sound like a monster buck......... was reading JHO and some people keep the tarsels makes good rut lures. That sucks stevo having your buck shot from you. Next time go for the neck shot...

[John]

30 yds or 300 yds nice Buck,should be good eating.I use to hunt the b Zones and had darned good luck,got a few black tails and a couple of Bear.This year I'll be hunting my deer in Idaho-ho-ho! Lookin forward to hunting Here again,In fact I was out scouting areas today .Looks promising.