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To the ones that gave us the slip.

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Boone Liane

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This buck still haunts me.

I hunted him for two years. The last I saw of him was a picture on opening morning of bow season in 2009, 15 yards in front of a stand I wasn’t in!

He was killed by a gun hunter that fall and I got to score him.

Big 4x4s really turn my crank.
 

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Boone Liane said:
This buck still haunts me.

I hunted him for two years. The last I saw of him was a picture on opening morning of bow season in 2009, 15 yards in front of a stand I wasn’t in!

He was killed by a gun hunter that fall and I got to score him.

Big 4x4s really turn my crank.
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Your gonna show us a giant 8 pointer, tell us you scored it, and not tell us the score? :rolleyes:
 
I hunted a 14 point for 3 years on my Grandparents farm in the mid 70's. I was able to watch him several times with binoculars, but he busted me every time before shot distance. I got within 20 yards once by sneaking through a cornfield to a dry dam he had been bedding at. He spotted me as I was drawing my bow and he did not hesitate. The last time I saw him the setting sun highlighted him on a knoll, and he'd lost the right rack. I can still bring that picture up clearly from the depths of my mind.
 
I've had several that got away. Two in particular stand out. About 10 years ago a buddy and I found 2 really nice 8 points (both high 140's at least) hanging together early season along a big creek that bordered a soybean field on the old club we were members of. We made plans and did everything right except for one thing. He could not resist showing the trail cam pictures of the deer to everyone. Well, it wasn't hard to figure out where that spot was because there was only one soybean field on the club. It didn't take long until that area was swarming with hunters and as far as I know, those deer got killed off on another adjacent club during rifle season. Suffice to say, from that point on if I discovered another good deer out there I never told my buddy about it. He couldn't keep a buck secret to save his life.
 
Boone Liane said:
This buck still haunts me.

I hunted him for two years. The last I saw of him was a picture on opening morning of bow season in 2009, 15 yards in front of a stand I wasn’t in!

He was killed by a gun hunter that fall and I got to score him.

Big 4x4s really turn my crank.
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I chased a big 3x3 for 3 years and shoulder punched him.. never saw again or found sheds
 

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Early in my hunting career, when I was still a gun hunter, I missed a chance at the biggest buck I have even seen on the hoof in my life. I was way down on the south end of the hunting club. There was a big creek that the loggers left as an SMZ and the tracts to the north and south of it were regrown pines, about 10 feet tall and choked down with sawbriars and were basically impenetrable. The SMZ was the only open way to move through that big block of land. I had a chain and ladder stand set facing the end of the SMZ where it butted up to some more open pines. I set the morning and saw nothing so about 10 I just felt I needed to stay, so I texted my friend I was hunting with and told him I was going to sit all day. He said I was crazy. I didn't have any food or water....anything. I just had a strong feeling.

The SMZ T'd into a big block of 15 year old pines about 40 yards to my front. I sat until about 4 o'clock without seeing anything and then movement out in the pines caught my eye. It was a big body moving south. The first thought that went through my head was a donkey...it was just big. Then I saw it's headgear. It was huge. I could only get glimpses but I surmised when it hit the edge of those young pines it would turn right or left. If it turned left it would be gone. If it turned right it would be inside 20 yards within a minute. It turned right. Once it was out of my sight I stood up and pushed the safety off the 30-06.

It walked down the edge of the thick pines and was at 20 yards but it stopped with its body behind a big tree and just stood there and looked straight ahead. I had the crosshairs on it's neck. If it would just show me a little shoulder it would be all over. During this time, which seemed like forever, I got a good look at the rack. He was tall and wide and had very heavy dark chocolate bases. I'm guessing he was in the 170's. Understand also, that up to this point a 110 inch buck was the biggest thing I'd ever killed.

Instead of taking that next half step he backed straight back and turned and started back the way he came. He then turned and acted like he was going to cross the SMZ right in front of me, giving me a 25 yard broadside. Once again he showed me his head but his body was just behind a tree. Once again he backed up and turned and went back toward the pines. Just like that he was gone.

I went in the next day with provisions and sat from 1/2 hour before daylight to dark and only saw a spike and a trespasser. To this day that was the biggest buck I have seen on the hoof.
 
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Couple years ago, I had a mid 160s 9 point, I'd already hunted for 3 years previously, inside 80 yards 3 hunts in a row, and even at 25 yards once, but my bow was on the ground and I was standing on my 2nd stick.... that one hurts the most. Been 3 years now and I can still remember it like it just happened, and as of last summer he was still alive, but has gone downhill substantially. I haven't even bothered to hunt him the last 2 years because of the ass kickings he gave me those first 4 years lol
 
A few years back, I shot a small buck and was happy with what I'd shot....even though I knew there were bigger bucks in the area. (Ohio has a 1 buck per season regulation)
After I shot the small buck, I figured it was time to get out the recurve and go after some does. Murphy's Law was in full effect, while I was on my very first hunt with my recurve....when this guy walks by my tree at 8 yards, stops, looks up at me and walks on by like he knew he couldn't be touched. :rolleyes:
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BowhunterXC said:
A few years back, I shot a small buck and was happy with what I'd shot....even though I knew there were bigger bucks in the area. (Ohio has a 1 buck per season regulation)
After I shot the small buck, I figured it was time to get out the recurve and go after some does. Murphy's Law was in full effect, while I was on my very first hunt with my recurve....when this guy walks by my tree at 8 yards, stops, looks up at me and walks on by like he knew he couldn't be touched. :rolleyes:
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Is he sticking out his tongue at you in that last pic?
 
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