Crabby jr.

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[Edcyclopedia]

Spectacular!

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I didn't really have a buck figured out this year when the Indiana bow season opened October first so I was still in scout mode when the season opened.
I halfheartedly sat a few stands while I was thinking about the next place to scout.
Finally, during the second week of October I bumped a pretty nice buck out of his bed. He was bedded pretty close to some houses, so I figured I could get away with one little bump. I hunted that bed a couple times, but he never returned.
I still had faith though that he was bedded somewhere in the 50 acre thicket that he called home.
I hunted the downwind side of that thicket a couple times, but didn't want to push him too much because I was pretty sure once gun season came in I could get in there and get a crack at him.
The weather man had been predicting rain and high wind for the opening day of the Hoosier gun season and I couldn't be happier!
How could I get any luckier than to get the perfect weather for still hunting that bucks thicket.
I got to the downwind side of the thicket right as it was getting light enough to see and started so ever slowly to work my way in.
As I crept ever so slowly through the thicket I noticed the squirrels were going about their business and barely paying any attention to me. I knew as long as the squirrels were relaxed with my presence that my speed was about right.
I was only about an hour and a half into my hunt when I caught movement 100 yards or so dead ahead in some cedars.
I focused my attention on the cedars and finally identified the movement that first caught my attention was a pretty dang nice set of antlers waving around.
I ducked behind some cover and crept forward a few more yards. A doe stepped out of the cedars just as I positioned myself next to a tree. I got my gun up and rested it against a tree just as she led him out of the cedars into an opening.
I gave a loud grunt with my mouth and he stopped to look my way.
I dropped the hammer on the ole
.44 lever gun and he burst forward out of sight, but I could tell as he disappeared that he laboring.
I heard the crash and eased in the direction that he went.
I found him piled up about 50 yards from where I shot him.
Nothing more satisfying than scoring on your target buck.
We had pictures of a buck in 2011 in the same area that we called Crabby because of his crab clawed rack.
Sadly, he was killed on the road before we had a chance to score on him, but the buck I took today has an almost identical rack so I am pretty sure Ole Crabby passed on his genes.

[Arrowbender]

He's Cool!
Congrats!

[Jackson Marsh]

Awesome buck! Congrats

[<DK>]

Excellent deer man!!!

Btw, what brand .44 is your gun?

[tgreeno]

Congrats...Nice buck!

[JAB]

Nice buck, well done!

[Stanley]

Dandy Buck.

[PAbowhunter]

Congrats!!

[SamPotter]

Nice buck!

[Killtree]

Excellent deer man!!!

Btw, what brand .44 is your gun?

Marlin 1894

All the .44s are finicky when it comes to what ammo they shoot the best.
200 gr. Fiochi shoots the best through mine, but its hard to find.
200 gr. Hornady is a close second.
The leverevolution don't shoot well through mine at all.

[<DK>]

Excellent deer man!!!

Btw, what brand .44 is your gun?

Marlin 1894

All the .44s are finicky when it comes to what ammo they shoot the best.
200 gr. Fiochi shoots the best through mine, but its hard to find.
200 gr. Hornady is a close second.
The leverevolution don't shoot well through mine at all.

Same issue I have! Man I will try your suggestion on ammo for sure. Just started using hornady in general for the .270 so ill look for some rounds. They sure are a fun gun! Great stuff. Congrats again!

[U.P. MAN]

Great buck!