Mason, Brock, others

[Deersurgeon]

There is no doubt that there will be a picture of your boy with that dead buck on this thread eventually.

 

[brock ratcliff]

I found this deer on September 4 while looking for a different buck. He was on a farm I had permission on, but it’s a very small piece.

 

[brock ratcliff]

I think I may have actually snapped this picture of him 2 years ago.

 

[brock ratcliff]

I had to get permits from four more landowners to even have a chance at him. I really didn’t think I’d pull that off but due to landowners that I do know sort of speaking on my behalf, permission was granted by all. I also had this guy on my radar. He’s only four, lives in a bad neighborhood on a piece we own, and I doubt very much he makes it through the season. So figuring he won’t make it another year, I figured I’d better give him a try. I hunted the other deer on opening day, saw him but did not get a shot. Mason fell completely in love with the other deer so I told him to have at it and never went back. I spent the entire bow season hoping to get a crack at the tall fella.

 

[brock ratcliff]

Mason saw him 14 times in his first 16 hunts. He finally got a shot opportunity on October 27. He fouled it up, something he has never done. I didn’t think there was any way the deer would survive.

 

[Wiley E Coyote]

Is that the exit or entrance wound we are seeing?

 

[brock ratcliff]

The wound looked terrible. I quit hunting in order to watch this deer with the drone, morning and evening, thinking any time he would be dead. It was heart breaking, sickening. 9 days in a row I thought he would die. I do not hunt on days I fly just due to the appearance of not playing fair… and I couldn’t quit checking.

 

[Wiley E Coyote]

Holy smokes!

 

[brock ratcliff]

Eventually he started to look better and I went back to hunting my target but did check on him occasionally. He finally moved back to the property Mason was hunting and he was back in the game.

 

[brock ratcliff]

Friday after thanksgiving, Mason got another crack at him. 35 yard shot. He called me, mad as heck. Impact was good, result was not. I thought we’d better keep an eye on Mason .

 

[Gern186]

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