2 kicks to the nuts

[Iowa_Buckeye]

I took last Friday off to fill my doe tags. While in the tree I got a text a big one was dead on the interstate just east of the farm.
I eventually made my way over there to see which one it might be. It ended up being a deer we have no history with, so he must have lived across the highway and got himself killed while out looking for love. I met the DNR guy for a salvage tag about an hour later, but when we went to scoop him up we were too late. He was dead in the median so I'm kinda surprised he was gone. Mainframe 8s don't get much bigger or prettier than him.

Then today I got a call around 1 as my buddies were going in to hunt the farm. An eagle in the picked corn across the road tipped them off to a dead deer in the field. When they went over they found this one. The one we called 'Daisy' (9x5). Not sure how he died, but also assume roadkill as he was about 70 or so yards off the gravel. Called the DNR on this one too and I headed up after work and got him out of the field before someone else snagged him. Looked like he had been dead a few days and was getting a tad ripe. Last pics we had of him were from last Saturday.

 

[hickslawns]

Well that is a kick in the bucks.

 

[Sgt Fury]

Two great bucks there...they both have a lot of mass.

 

[Redneckfucker]

Hit this morning two miles from my house what a beauty

 

[Bigslam51]

Damn that sucks!!

 

[Redneckfucker]

 

[whitetailjunky3]

That 8 was a awesome buck for sure!

 

[xbowguy]

Dang...All were Great Bucks. What a crying shame!

 

[Outside]

That’s a shame. Let’s hope they were able to pass those genes on to another deer.

 

[GoetsTalon]

That sucks for sure. Hunting about a quarter mile from l-280 we go through this every year.

 

[giles]

How’s Shea taking it? I’ve been pulling for her to take Daisy. I know how excited she was to have history with a deer.

 

[Dustinb80]

Damn that sucks

 

[Schu72]

Dang, those were some studs.

 

[bigten05]

wow great deer, atleast you know what happened to them and not hunting a ghost now.

 

[djohn9713]

What do you guys do with the deer? Are they in any kind of shape to process?

 

[Iowa_Buckeye]

How’s Shea taking it? I’ve been pulling for her to take Daisy. I know how excited she was to have history with a deer.

She’s ok with it. She gets to keep his sheds from last year now and I think that is all she cared about! Got word from the guys who hunt that side if the gravel that they heard a big gun go off at that same field yesterday around 8:30pm while they were out tracking one. Heard the vehicle speed off. I’m meeting the CO up there here in a bit for the salvage tag so may cross-cross the field a bit to see if another may be out there.

 

[Iowa_Buckeye]

What do you guys do with the deer? Are they in any kind of shape to process?

The one from yesterday was in no shape to process. Was getting stinky.

 

[cspot]

That sucks!

 

[OhioWhiteTails]

I know the feeling. That sucks!

 

[Iowa_Buckeye]

And a 3rd kick!!!
My buddy found this one today while heading out for an evening sit. We called this one 'Droopy' and believed him to be 5.
Strange thing is the last known pic we got of him was an hour prior to and just across the gravel from the gun-shot I mentioned earlier. Found him at least 1/2 mile from that spot, so maybe just coincidence. My buddy did pull a bunch of cams on that part of the farm so it will be interesting if we did get any later pics of him. Two COs showed up when he got the salvage tag and there were discussing setting up the robo-buck over the field where the shot was and where we found the other one. Hoping they do it! It is set up perfectly for it.