JoeRE wrote:moondoondude wrote:JoeRE wrote:That's awesome thanks for sharing.
Do you have much history with that first big buck/do you think he will put on more inches?
He was about 110" last year at 2.5, this year his antlers went 150.5" without a spread credit (right under 170"). I set up a camera where I found his antlers last year at about 4 p.m. on 11 sept. I had pictures of him an hour or 1.5 hours later. I got pictures of him just about daily since, almost daily in daylight too. I hunted there 3 times this year, first 2 times passed him, third time had a couple others from his bachelor group come in and when they passed, i got down and snuck out early. He was shot sometime between october 6-11 through the guts and lived, never phased much at all by it. I figured he would die sometime this year but really hoped he wouldn't, i got lucky there. I still am getting daily pictures of him and his bachelor group. There are probably another 10 or so antlers within 100-150 yards of that camera, but i am not going to shed hunt it due to the regularity and comfort of the bachelor group there.
Holy buckets.
Crazy that he's acting normal. Did the gut hit just not penetrate or did it go all the way through? I have seen that once, shot a buck that had a huge expandable wound through the hide and against the last couple ribs, basically dead center guts but never penetrated enough to kill. Tip didn't even puncture anything somehow...
Yes, clean pass through. I will put some pictures up tomorrow. I figure there had to be some type of internal damage, but clearly things are still functional.