34-point Buck Taken in KY.

coalminer · Post by **coalminer** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 8:39 pm

This could be a new state record! The site for this monster is http://shedantler.net/archives/2007/11/ ... tail-buck/
Enjoy!! It's the talk of all the hunters right now & many days to come.
Brother-in-Law came by gave me a poke (paper bag) of deer jerky,
sure miss hunting this year, but got to do, what you can do!

EDIT: Fix Link_Hukk

Duffy · Post by **Duffy** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 9:12 pm

That's a nice one there Miner. I'm like you this year, wanted to go hunting but just couldn't make it

. Well, there's always next year.

Duffy · Post by **Duffy** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 9:15 pm

PS. figured you would get a laugh by using the word POKE.

Not alot of people know what that is.

Hukk · Post by **Hukk** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 9:15 pm

Real nice non-typical rack on that ole boy.
I've seen some youngsters get Buck Fever, never understood it. Seen one kid empty the magazine, so, I shot it, saw another kid miss a Big Blacktail standing on his hind legs, eating plums from a tree and MISSED at 15 yds,

I shot that one on a dead run.

One guy I guided gut shot a buck so bad on his first hunt that I could track him by the pieces of intestines and paunch. I put the buck out of his misery with a shot in the head. I managed to dress it out and save most of the meat. The guy, his first hunt, well he was just hugging a tree

puking his guts out.

Guss the site of blood and guts and the smell of paunch got to him.

Duffy · Post by **Duffy** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 9:20 pm

Those are called tourist and not hunters aren't they Hukk?

Hukk · Post by **Hukk** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 10:07 pm

Duffy wrote:Those are called tourist and not hunters aren't they Hukk?

Oh Man

For some, Dangerous Idiot would be a better monicker. Sheeeesh, I learned what a brush shot was. (Hear a noise in the brush and shoot ) Some sort of PhD and no sense! After the first year of guiding (in my early 20's) I made the clients shoot at a paper plate at 100yds from a bench. 1 client brought a .300 Weatherby Magnum and on 3 shots he never hit the paper plate (flinch). I fired 3 shots and they were just over 1/2 inch group, but about 2 o'clock position and at the edge of the plate, off by 3 inches right, 2 inches High (OK for long range the high, right was way too off).

Trying to scare them to death or actually shoot them, these are blacktails and around here they dress out at 90 to 120 LBS. HELLO, they aint all that big. I loaned him a .243 which he did much better with. IDIOT!

I used a paper plates cause they were cheap and approximately the same size of a one shot kill zone. After the first year, where I shot 8 Bucks, 2 of mine and 6 for clients, I only shot if a client wounded the animal. Good to be out of that, same thing happened with pigs, actually a few Black Russian boars and mostly feral hogs, so 300 LBS was Huge. I seen just too many stupid things.

Things that I did not find funny!

Duffy · Post by **Duffy** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 10:25 pm

Yep, we always say at deer camp in cases like that, if it aint killed by the bullets it'll be choked to death on powder smoke..

. My oldest son is wanting us to go out west and hunt mule deer or elk. That's why he bought the Ruger 77 MKII in 300 WIN. MAG. cal. Took lots of big whitetail here with gun and bow. Really big whitetail here in the county that I live in. That's because it's a bow hunting only county and the 3 other countys around it are too. Hasn't been a rifle season here for deer since 1965.

singin46 · Post by **singin46** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 11:38 pm

Impressive, Kentucky boy, very cool indeed. Man I need some antlers to display knives with.

Singin46

coalminer · Post by **coalminer** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 11:53 pm

Nothiny like a bow hunt about 20-25 ft up in a tree stand when Mother
Earth comes to LIFE!! People don't know what they are missing! I killed
one of my biggest buck out of tree stand 10 point!!

Duffy · Post by **Duffy** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 12:03 am

How big do you want them singing?

sunburst · Post by **sunburst** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 12:35 am

Very nice thanks for sharing...And Hukk you know as I do that some folks just don't need to be on the operating end of a weapon...

Sunburst

Hukk · Post by **Hukk** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 1:37 am

sunburst wrote:Very nice thanks for sharing...And Hukk you know as I do that some folks just don't need to be on the operating end of a weapon...Sunburst

Amen to that!!! I fully believe you have to know your quarry as well as your weapon of choice. I believe 100% that there ought to be a weapons training semianually and that You must PASS a test, how accurately can you shoot. A minumum standard SHOULD be set in order to get your hunting license.

If you can't hit a target in the off hand position, kneeling, etc. you don't get your license. A gun should be so familiar that it becomes an extension of your arms.

I have shot many deer and hogs offhand to 150 yards and have only wounded one deer that I tracked, several hours after my canteen ran dry.
Another point, how many people can track, not many below Redding, CA I can tell you that. Use a tree as a rest if one is nearby to get a more sure shot.

Some facts: My youngest brother and I were walking and a deer jumped out from behind a bush. I chambered a round, found him in my scope (lowest always when walking with a scoped rifle, my setting 3x) and dropped him at 40 yards with a single shot in the heart, BEFORE my brother got his rifle to his shoulder and he had a round chambered. HEY PRACTICE!

I have made a 1 shot kill kneeling while my same brother was fooling with a range finder. I got the buck, he got the range, 425 yards and uphill, 1 shot through the heart. THANKS FOR THE INFO.

PRACTICE ODD SHOTS!

Killed a bear with a bow, 1 shot through the ribs, 4 more in the chest as he dropped at my feet. HEY, STAY COOL AND DO WHAT YOU PRACTICED!

Killed an antelope with one shot at 610 yards according to the rangefinder (thanks for the info again). I prepared well by being on a 600 meter range with a .300 magnum. PRACTICE!

Find your weaknesses and fix them. I'm a righty and had tended to swing slow when going left to right, deadly when going right to left, NORMAL so practice trap. Problem FIXED.

I practice, rifle and bow. I know my weapons and can pass just about any test they can throw at me. I know my gun and it's one with my body because I PRACTICED!

Not enough people do practice, that same box of shells has had 15 rounds in it for 5 years.

I am an NRA member and have been for many years and most would not agree with me, but if you are unwilling to practice or ar least knock off the dust, then don't shoot much more than 50 yds, IMO!

Practice MAKES you know your limitations and strengths.

Forensic Jim · Post by **Forensic Jim** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 4:49 am

Wow, what a set of antlers! What county was that buck taken in coalminer?

Gunsmoke47 · Post by **Gunsmoke47** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 4:42 pm

That is one heck of a rack! (And I usually don't say that about deer antlers!)

MITCH RAPP · Post by **MITCH RAPP** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 5:14 pm

Gunsmoke47 wrote:That is one heck of a rack! (And I usually don't say that about deer antlers!)

smiling-knife · Post by **smiling-knife** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 5:32 pm

Looks like a Sandbar stag to me

Have Fox and Scully been notified

s-k

coalminer · Post by **coalminer** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 5:55 pm

Jim, he killed the deer in Owen Co. he was hunting on a farm. He is from
Floyd Co. in Eastern Ky. Alot of our hunters go to the flatlands to hunt,
because we have 1 buck only in this area. Most of the state has 1 buck
2 does! But some want admitt it take a HUNTER to take on these OL'
MOUNTAINS and drag out a big buck!!!

I'll post more when he
tell of the hunt.

Duffy · Post by **Duffy** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 9:04 pm

I've seen a 15 and a 21 point buck that's been bagged before. They both had what looked like a small briar patch on there head with points sticking everywhere. Nothing like this one though. This one is a nice buck

. Any body remember that old buck on TV that they called 30-30? I think it was on Remington's hunting the country TV show. He was a nice one too.