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Opening Day buck (story and pic heavy)
#1533372
11/23/15 12:51 PM
11/23/15 12:51 PM
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Montgomery
bamaeyedoc
OP
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Dawn rose on November 21, 2015 and I found myself at my club in Lowndes county, sitting watching a crossing between two pine plantations. Nothing in particular attracted me to the area other than it just looked like a place a deer would hang out. It was also fairly close to where Janet was going to be so that was the main factor in choosing this particular set up. I got settled in a little after 6 and within 10 minutes I could hear some turkeys yelping. A little while later I heard them fly down. It wasn't too long until I saw them start to ease into the road I was watching. There was bearded hen and all her young ones from this year's hatch. There was a mixture of jakes with stubs for beards and hens. I watched them for a long time as they chased each other around and were obviously establishing a pecking order. Two jakes were bowed up on each other sizing each other up like boxers in a ring. It was an awesome sight! They eased up to me and I was able to get some video of them and also the hen doing a kee kee run to get all her brood back together. They got to within 15 yards of me. Unfortunately, it won't load up on the site. While I was filming the turkeys, I was so focused on the them I didn't see a deer stepping out about 100 yards away. I looked up and saw it so I immediately stopped filming and got my gun up and saw it was a doe. She stepped out, then a yearling, then another yearling followed by another doe. The last doe kept looking back from where she came so I started to get excited! The next deer was a small buck with a spike on one side and a 3 point rack on the other. He hung around for a few minutes and I was hoping he wasn't alone. He wasn't. The next deer was a larger buck! Much larger! I was trying to judge his spread because I didn't want to shoot one too small but when he turned and looked the other way, I could see he was definitely outside the ears. I settled the Leupold on this shoulder and at 7:18, I touched the trigger! Through the scope, I watched him do the old "bucking bronco" kick and in a blink of an eye, he dove for the timber across the road! Out of the corner of my eye, I saw the turkeys flush like a covey of quail! Oh man was I pumped!! I got to shaking more than Keith Richards going through withdrawals! I had to gather myself to keep from hyperventilating! I finally calmed down enough to climb down and went to find him. When I got to the place where he was standing, I could see where he dug in deep trying to get traction to run. I looked for blood and found nothing. Not one drop. Man, I just knew I hit him though. I started second guessing myself but finally convinced myself that this deer had to be dead within 50 yards. I started walking down the pine row where he jumped in the woods. I was looking hard for blood and for rack, for a white belly, for a brown body, for anything!! Finally about 40 yards I looked over in the next row and saw a rack! Heck yeah!!!!! The first thing I thought was "Ok, he's definitely gonna make the club requirements on body size alone!" He looked massive lying there in the pines. I gave the old owl hoot and then thanked the Lord for such a beautiful experience! Here's how I found him:  Well I was all pumped up and went to get the Ranger! I got back to him and realized right quick this was gonna be more than I could do myself. But, not one for giving up, I tried for about an hour to lift this dude up on the bed of the Ranger. It wasn't happening! I could get his head up to the edge but that was it. All I had was a strap so I tried every way I could but there was no way for me to lift him this high (y'all see where this is headed?  )  So, I thought back to a thread that was about 50 pages long about 2 weeks ago and started laughing out loud. Yep, I'm gonna have a co-pilot in the floorboard! It took me about 15 more minutes to pull his body through to the other side but finally I got him in! I'm sure some of y'all could have just thrown him in the bed all by yourself. If so, good for you! This 49 year old body ain't what it used to be! It was hell driving back to camp trying to work the gas and brake pedals around his head and rack but we finally made it! It ain't a Can Am pic but I had to snap one for y'all!  We finally made it back to camp after some difficulty but heck, every hunt has a story right?! He was a fat 7 point with a 17 inch spread. We put him on the scales and I was thinking he was gonna be around 190 or so. He ended up weighing 210 lbs! He's the heaviest buck I've ever killed!    Overall, I could not have had a prettier morning! I got to see a sunrise on an another Alabama opening day, I got to watch turkeys for 45 minutes, and to top it off, I was able to kill the biggest body deer of my career! Dr. B
Last edited by bamaeyedoc; 11/23/15 03:59 PM.
AKA: “Dr. B”
Aldeer #121
8-3-2000
Proud alum of AUM, UAB, and UA
Member of Team 10 Point
2023-2024 ALdeer Deer Contest Winners
Glennis Jerome "Jerry" Harris
1938-2017
UGA Class of 1960
BS/MS Forestry
LTJG, USNR
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Re: Opening Day buck (story and pic heavy)
[Re: bamaeyedoc]
#1533374
11/23/15 12:55 PM
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Posts: 34,433
Boxes Cove
2Dogs
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Freak of Nature
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Congrats Doc , I always like your stories, BTW.
"Why do you ask"?
Always vote the slowest path to socialism.
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Re: Opening Day buck (story and pic heavy)
[Re: bamaeyedoc]
#1533377
11/23/15 12:57 PM
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Posts: 7,073
TN
Reaper
14 point
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14 point
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Posts: 7,073
TN
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Re: Opening Day buck (story and pic heavy)
[Re: bamaeyedoc]
#1533401
11/23/15 01:22 PM
11/23/15 01:22 PM
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Posts: 15,980
Brierfield
Beadlescomb
Old Mossy Horns
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Old Mossy Horns
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Posts: 15,980
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Awesome man I killed my first deer and first racked buck at that club. We were down there for the youth hunt meant to look for you but forgot all about it.
We will burn that bridge when we get there
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Re: Opening Day buck (story and pic heavy)
[Re: bamaeyedoc]
#1533402
11/23/15 01:24 PM
11/23/15 01:24 PM
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Posts: 24,832
Buc-ee’s Beach Express
leroycnbucks
Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
Joined: Nov 2010
Posts: 24,832
Buc-ee’s Beach Express
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Congratulations Benji! I heard your call to cast and blast Saturday morning so I went on and let everyone here know about the deer in the floor board.
Proud Army and ALNG veteran
God Bless America!
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Re: Opening Day buck (story and pic heavy)
[Re: bamaeyedoc]
#1533452
11/23/15 02:26 PM
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Posts: 7,899
Huntsville AL
Rocket62
14 point
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14 point
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Dang nice deer! Great story, thanks for sharing it
I don't want to pass quietly into the night. I want to slide in sideways kickin and screamin
Life really is awesome ... Soak it up while you can ...
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Re: Opening Day buck (story and pic heavy)
[Re: bamaeyedoc]
#1533459
11/23/15 02:29 PM
11/23/15 02:29 PM
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Posts: 2,095
Arab, AL
Andrew Morton
8 point
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8 point
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Posts: 2,095
Arab, AL
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That's a great morning, and a hoss of a deer, thanks for sharing.
Middle aged, middle income, conservative, Southern, white male.
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Re: Opening Day buck (story and pic heavy)
[Re: bamaeyedoc]
#1533534
11/23/15 03:03 PM
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Posts: 3,436
bham
crocker
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10 point
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Posts: 3,436
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Re: Opening Day buck (story and pic heavy)
[Re: bamaeyedoc]
#1533560
11/23/15 03:19 PM
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Posts: 11,351
Kennedy, al
globe
Booner
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Booner
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Posts: 11,351
Kennedy, al
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Hey that's great!
Them road crossing are good spots
Everything woke turns to shucks
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Re: Opening Day buck (story and pic heavy)
[Re: jaredhunts]
#1533589
11/23/15 03:41 PM
11/23/15 03:41 PM
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Posts: 15,650
Montgomery
bamaeyedoc
OP
Old Mossy Horns
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Old Mossy Horns
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Montgomery
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I don't care what any body says about putting that deer in the front. I pulled one of them big sumbiches up into the back of my mule by the horns. Hurt my back and wont do it again. Yeah I know the story. GREAT DEER! My back was some kinda tore up Saturday night. I could hardly move. My quads are still sore! Dr. B
Last edited by bamaeyedoc; 11/23/15 03:41 PM.
AKA: “Dr. B”
Aldeer #121
8-3-2000
Proud alum of AUM, UAB, and UA
Member of Team 10 Point
2023-2024 ALdeer Deer Contest Winners
Glennis Jerome "Jerry" Harris
1938-2017
UGA Class of 1960
BS/MS Forestry
LTJG, USNR
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Re: Opening Day buck (story and pic heavy)
[Re: bamaeyedoc]
#1533592
11/23/15 03:43 PM
11/23/15 03:43 PM
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Posts: 31,681
Slidell, La
perchjerker
Freak of Nature
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Slidell, La
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I'd get me a come a long for next time. Don't hurt your back. I don't like to wrestle with them, thats how you get ticks.
hunt safe
Thomas Jefferson. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Life is too short to only hunt and fish on weekends!
If being a dumbass was fatal some of you would be on your death bed!
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Re: Opening Day buck (story and pic heavy)
[Re: bamaeyedoc]
#1533691
11/23/15 04:27 PM
11/23/15 04:27 PM
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Posts: 10,055
Northport, Al.
BOFF
Booner
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Booner
Joined: Nov 2012
Posts: 10,055
Northport, Al.
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Great buck, story, and pics!!
Thanks for sharing!!
God Bless,
David B.
Premium member #8925
Team Rack Addicts
2016 Aldeer Deer Champions
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Re: Opening Day buck (story and pic heavy)
[Re: bamaeyedoc]
#1533764
11/23/15 05:00 PM
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Posts: 658
Here
Chiller
4 point
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4 point
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Posts: 658
Here
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Re: Opening Day buck (story and pic heavy)
[Re: bamaeyedoc]
#1533807
11/23/15 05:23 PM
11/23/15 05:23 PM
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Posts: 6,778
Alabama
3FFarms
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Alabama
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Congrats Dr. B! That's a mature, old warrior right there! Enjoyed the pics and the story!
Ya'll are just overthinking it now
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Re: Opening Day buck (story and pic heavy)
[Re: bamaeyedoc]
#1533968
11/23/15 09:29 PM
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Posts: 1,644
Pine Hill, Al
sluggun
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Posts: 1,644
Pine Hill, Al
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Nice buck. In the future keep a 30' piece of rope in the ranger. Next time you kill one pull the ranger up to the nearest tree. Tie one end of the rope to the tree. Throw the rope over the top of the ranger and tie it to the deer. Then just back up and it will pull him up into the back of your ranger. I loaded a 230# hog into the back of a rhino like this.
Team Rack Addicts
2016 Aldeer Deer Champions
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Re: Opening Day buck (story and pic heavy)
[Re: bamaeyedoc]
#1534316
11/24/15 06:48 AM
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Anniston, AL
ikillbux
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ishootatbux
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Posts: 6,095
Anniston, AL
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Just saw this post! That's a great story, I could smell the powder burning and hear those turkeys!
We were on the edge of Eternia, when the power of Greyskull began to take hold.
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Re: Opening Day buck (story and pic heavy)
[Re: bamaeyedoc]
#1535864
11/25/15 08:12 AM
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Posts: 10,586
Central, Al
Bustinbeards
Booner
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Booner
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Posts: 10,586
Central, Al
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that is a hoss of a buck! congrats Doc!!
Originally Posted By: Wiley Coyote
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