2013 -Knife Hunter Big Buck Contest!---winner-KDSTRICK

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Its late August and you Die Hard hunters are getting ready for archery season all over the country. Here in parts of SC deer season opens early on 8/15. Its open to all bladeforums members that score a legally harvested buck, and meet the following requirements.

You post here as often as you like. Share experiences past and present, funny stories, camping etc( These will help you in the event that there are multiple deer of equal quality taken)

The winner will be the person from either bladeforums, or someone that is signed up and has posted their picture on knifehunter.com, or both.

This person will be least 18 years of age, post the picture of the largest legally harvested Buck( the rack) that they killed this year starting today through January 1st 2014 and can prove it. We will need multiple dated pics with you in them. The more the better... from the field, in transit, at home, dressed etc. All of the photos may or may not appear on this site as this contest is open on private forums too. Also, cause I want the young ones out there too....If you take a child and he/she wins then the legal adult that guided will be eligible.

The winner will be solely decided by Knife hunter LLC, rules subject to change, only where legal, no purchase necessary to enter. Use common sense, ethics, and OBEY ALL GAME LAWS. Knife Hunter LLC is Not responsible for any misfortune, heart break, break ups, divorce, physical or mental injuries in any case for any reason cause you waive all that and more for being a willing participant in this friendly on-line contest etc.:rolleyes::D;)

As, some of you have til Jan 1 2014 to fill your tags I will bump and have a last call for pics shortly afterwards.

The winner will receive a free Game Warden sized Scrap Yard Elmax 340. Now go chase some tail .;):D

 
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I can't wait to see the pictures that will flood this thread! Good luck to all fellow hunters! :thumbup: Awesome giveaway!
 
Very cool of you, Knife Hunter. Good luck to those who enter :thumbup:

Here is who I have my eyes on this season:

 
Good luck everyone!!!

Me with the Tikka Hunter in .308. 200 yards.

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and at the museum the other day - :p

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Great giveaway!! I am going to keep my eye on this thread and hopefully post a pic or two for the competition.
 
Great. Now the wait for the season to open here is going to be even worse. Oh well the pics of everyone's monsters should keep the need to go and sit in the woods a bay. Hopefully.
 
Trevor is feeling very giving. :) Great idea T, can't wait to see how this thread will end up. :)
 
WOOHOOOOOOO!!!! IT"S ON BABY!!!!!!!!

This was a couple years ago....

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This is a great GAW Bro. I can't wait to start flinging arrows. So far nothing but does on my trail cam (only been out for a week) but that is a good thing. The bucks will come to where the does are. Hope everyone has the season of a lifetime.

Garth
 
I am in.... :)

First one....

2010... Black Fallow Buck.

Hunted this guy over three days, had seen him numerous times over the priod (both morning and evening, he was carrying around 20 hinds as well. Each time I would stalk up into where I had seen him previously he would of course have moved a ridge over. At one point I was doing the ballistics in my head to shoot at around 400yds but though I am sure I would have been able to hit him I am not about to do so and have him run off to die slow or not be recovered. Third morning I hunted up into a spot where I knew he had been but by 9am no sign of him, hunted in on a couple of young bucks grunting in the hope it was him but no. Finally the little guys playing up to his girls got the better of him and while I was just piled up under a big fallen tree he came down from behind me and started grunting up a storm..... had to stand to take the shot that ended up being bang on 80yds (offhand) and put him down in one... :D :D

It was a two hour walk back to the quad bike with most of him on my back and then another 45mins back into camp, can I tell you... it was bloody hot by the time I got in at 1300hrs..!!

 
OK... how about some "Old School Andy" ..... ;)

1995, New Caledonia :D :D Oh to be so young again.... ;)

Jarvan Rusa Stag, hunted with my best mate for a week, as is the way he took a gorgeous stag on the first afternoon out, the head was small than mine but was only just stripped and the pearling was just spectacular.... :D The next day the weather set in and it rained....and rained and yes rained......... almost three full days of it.... I hunted but it was tough going and despite the number of deer that were present back in those days (lots and lots less now :( ) it was hard to find a critter out...well except me... starting to get a bit despondent about taking a really nice head, I passed up (even with the rain) several that I would have been proud of in the hopes (and at the risk of not taking anything) of something a little special.

Now.... before we travelled and hunted we had been told that long range was the norm in New Cal and as such we had been practicing back home on hogs/goats and other furry critters at much longer ranges than normal. I was confident that anything out to 500yds was in trouble between me and my .300Win.... now of course that was all well and good except no one told the French authorities how important it was that I hunt with MY .300Win and in the end NO ammunition was available for my when we arrived in country (you can take the firearms but the French control - tightly - the ammunition)....ahhhhh.... well at least we could get .270Win for my mates rifle and so it was I hunted with that.

Tried the mate's .270 out on one of the local swines.....because I love hunting swine.... ;)



Last morning I had to hunt I spotted what turned out to be five really good stags all out sunning themselves as at that point the rain had let up and the sun poked through (three hours it lasted in the end)... problem was they were about 700yds away in the only really scrubby area I had seen (all told only about 500yds from the ocean...!!!!) ...so off it was we hunted down and into the scrub and then spent the next couple of hours poking around in this cra%%y scrub where visibility was all of about 25yds.

After all this and still not sure if ANY of the stags were still about I was getting up to move into the open to try and get some high ground to look down on the area again when this guy just wandered into view...hard part was no clean shot offhand so I had to ease myself down into the mud and turn the rifle 45 degrees over to get it under a bush and fire...(in the pic you can see the mud and shyte on my pants but I also had a jumper on that got stripped off before the pic was taken so my shirt stayed clean)... now I hit him spot on in the heart/lungs but he still took off... :( After about an hour of following tracks in the mud (his initial ones were easy to see as he was running hard and tearing up the mud but as he slowed they started to blend in too easily with all the other deer traffic that had been through), I truly thought I would not recover him but then about 80yds away I found him keeled over in a bush.... :D :D PHEW....let me tell you that was a load off !!!!!!!!



Just as I wrestled him out of the bush...



We had a pickup parked about an hours walk away so while I started to dress him (just the guts out for lifting) the mate went back for the truck... of course the rain came back as well....so me and the stag rode in the back of the pickup while my mate and a Kanak that worked on the property rode in the cab....of course I was back in the jumper and a poncho for the drive and managed to make do with a luke warm can of "Number 1" beer, the local drink ;), to rehydrate me and celebrate all at the same time.... ;) :D



And about 2 years later and home from the taxidermist...



Now... an interesting tale.... remember I said there were four or five good sized stags running with this guy, well about an hour after my shot and just before the rain started down again we heard another shot off in the distance this would have been from the adjoining property..... fast forward a few days and we are at the airport and run into another Aussie that we both know, to say he was pretty happy was an understatement, hard to see as it was packed up for the trip home but he had clearly taken a GREAT head. So while waiting for the flight we are talking and realise that he took his the same morning as me... and yes you guessed it, he was on the adjoining property and, as he tells it, he hard a shot off in the distance and the kept hunting down toward the coast, after a bit he sees the stag he took come trotting up along with a couple of other nice stags, yes they had come from down where he heard the shot. So, he took his stag and was over the moon... he should have been, as it turns out that stag was the world record Jarvan Rusa (Douglas Scored) for the next year or two.... ;) ;) And yes...he probably was one of the others I saw, like I said, they were all good looking heads.... ;)
 
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Some Godkid tales.... ;)

Last year, my best mate (same one who was in New Caledonia with me) takes his son - one of my Godsons - and a school friend of his camping/hunting, sends them off with a rifle while he is at camp setting up or some such, a bit later they both walk back, Godson asks "Dad, would you help me dress a deer" ....he says "Of course" thinking this is a theoretical question, as there are normally no deer in this area, hogs and such but no deer, Godson says "well come one" ... seems he took his first out hunting with his mate (much like his father and I did back years ago) and now Dad got to do the work...!!!!!!

Godson is on the right..... :D :D :D Yes I was very very happy when they called to let me know..!!!!



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So this year.... he is hunting with his Dad on the same place that I took the Black Fallow pictured above, we have to cull out a number of does (think 500 this year so far) ..... this is the one he took..... :D :D



Interesting, that rifle he used is his father's .270, the same one that is pictured above that he and I both used in New Caledonia. I got it Cerakoted for them earlier this year but other than that and a new sling there is no change... :D :D
 
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OK....one last one....

Goddaughter doing the work that follows a morning hunting.... rabbit, cat (feral variety - horrible nasty things) and a fox... OK...not deer I know.... but a cool picture none the less. She is using the Izula I gave her for Christmas a couple of years ago and her brother's Scrapper 411 is in the foreground.

 
Great contest Trevor!
Great stories and pictures, Andy! If I didn't hate sitting in the stand so much I'd try to get in on the action.
 
Stand ...???? What is this "stand" you speak of ???? ;) Can't say I have ever hunted from a tree mate, not my style I am afraid... :D
 
I don't really think it matters much where you choose to hunt from, ground or tree stand, so long as you enjoy the hunt. :thumbup: Great pictures!
 
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