Good one to end the season

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Good one to end the season

Postby LawDawg » Wed Jan 02, 2013 12:52 pm

Been after this deer since I got him on camera. He finally slipped up last week chasing a doe.

Here he is in camera

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Here he is after he met his maker.

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Gutted, he weighed 265. That puts him dang close to 300 on the hoof and I believe it. It's the biggest deer, both body and horns, I've ever shot.

Almost 21 inch spread mainframe 11 with a 1.5 inch kicker off his right base. Scored 147 1/2.

For all you jaw bone experts, how old you think he was?

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I bet he was a STUD 2 or 3 years ago.
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Re: Good one to end the season

Postby The Captain » Wed Jan 02, 2013 1:33 pm

Fine buck LawDawg , I'd say 6.5 .
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Re: Good one to end the season

Postby pondman » Wed Jan 02, 2013 1:42 pm

Congrats Alec! Heck of a deer. You are going to have to take out a second mortgage to pay off the taxidermy bill for the year.

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Re: Good one to end the season

Postby Hunkerdown II » Wed Jan 02, 2013 2:10 pm

Dead n half. Great Deer. Of all of my years of hunting, this is the first time that I have actually killed bucks that I had pics of. It is cool to have a trail cam photo of the deer framed just below the mount on the wall.
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Re: Good one to end the season

Postby landscaper » Wed Jan 02, 2013 2:19 pm

Very nice!
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Re: Good one to end the season

Postby mshunter77 » Wed Jan 02, 2013 3:25 pm

Man great deer, it looks like it went all of 300lbs.
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Re: Good one to end the season

Postby DUCKAHOLIC » Wed Jan 02, 2013 3:27 pm

awesome
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Re: Good one to end the season

Postby eSJay » Wed Jan 02, 2013 3:45 pm

nice alec......berry nice
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Re: Good one to end the season

Postby Jay Dufour » Wed Jan 02, 2013 6:53 pm

SOOOOWEEET ! CONGRATS !!
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Re: Good one to end the season

Postby cwink » Wed Jan 02, 2013 8:54 pm

Man that is a haus for sure.. Congrats.. I'd say he isn't getting any older... :D
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Re: Good one to end the season

Postby KWAKHED » Wed Jan 02, 2013 11:44 pm

Nice! Congrats!
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Re: Good one to end the season

Postby randywallace » Thu Jan 03, 2013 7:47 am

Thats a sho nuff good un. Congrats. That side shot of the jaw looks kinda odd with some teeth missing, some relatively flat and another still having a defined lingual crest. Its plenty dang old though. Cant imagine that sucker being younger than 5.
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Re: Good one to end the season

Postby ShotgunSP » Thu Jan 03, 2013 2:31 pm

Great deer, Alec. Did not realize just how big he was until I read his weight. Must have looked like a steer on the hoof.


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Re: Good one to end the season

Postby The Captain » Fri Jan 04, 2013 2:47 pm

Could you please give his age ?
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Re: Good one to end the season

Postby redspeckable » Fri Jan 04, 2013 3:01 pm

Giant. Great kill!
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