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

I have had moose burgers before and they were incredible. It could have been the fact I hiked over half if Wyoming that day. The moose is in my bucket list.
 
It's been an amazing season so far! Our buck to doe ratio on our ranch appears to be very close to 1:1. Lots of young bucks for the kids to get excited about and some bigguns way bigger than the two pictured. I had glass on a 160+ class buck running a doe but couldn't get a shot on the brute. Season's not over yet though.... ;)

I may have passed on mine since he is only 4 years of age, but he jumped into my field not 25 yards from my blind... caught my scent and started to scram. I had less than a second to make the call. With the crosshairs on the back of his neck, he caught the 140 grain Nosler from the 7mm STW exactly there. Game over amigo. Hello backstrap. :thumbup:

My daughter popped this 10 pointer with two little kickers. It's her best buck so far. I spotted him before season and 'saved' him for her. At 16 she held her composure well and squeezed the trigger... dropping him like 100 lbs of concrete just fell on his back. 270 is a hell of a caliber.

My daughter's buck:
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Mine... terrible phone pic. Sorry.... :
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Both, mine on top...
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17" inside spread.... not bad.

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EDIT TO ADD: My most used Busse knife is this slightly modifed Meaner Street. Damn thing simply refuses to dull.

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Live to hunt. Forced to work. :thumbup:


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Updated with the 10 pt my nephew on shot yesterday. He also nailed 2 coyotes but we only found one as it started to rain heavily and I knew we had to clean this deer so we got out of there.



5 1/2 yrs old weighed 145lbs scored 123 3/8 gross

I need to find a leaner meaner. It looks very similar to the caper I had made and I want to give infi another shot.

Kidstrick - that is a great buck for your daughter. Are you hunting South?
 
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There are a lot of great looking dear here! Congrats to everyone who has been able to use their tags :thumbup: Keep those pictures coming!
 
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5 1/2 yrs old weighed 145lbs scored 123 3/8 gross

I need to find a leaner meaner. It looks very similar to the caper I had made and I want to give infi another shot.

Kdstrick - that is a great buck for your daughter. Are you hunting South?
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Man, looks like a good place you've got there... We are in Comanche County. Where are ya'll?

The meaner is great, one of my favorite knives of all time. I highly recommend it.

Glad you guys busted some yotes. The bastids tried to have my retriever for dinner a number of years back. Thank goodness I was still up drinking at 2 am and was able to thwart their plan along with a 1911. It was quite a dust up. I've had a vendetta against them ever since.

The vendetta also goes for hogs. Last week my father and I lined up on a 'herd' of pigs in the midst of destroying one of my fields. We jacked the bolts on the 7mm's a couple times each and left piggie mayhem in our wake. It's about as much fun as a fellow can have with his pants on.

I'm headed back today and will be there through Sunday. Time to fill the rest of the freezer. :D

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Well, Knifehunters contest finally broke my two decade no deer hunting dry spell. I was finally unable to resist, so i went hunting this weekend. Shot this buck on Saturday.








I thought it was a freakishly big buck, especially for a spike.


Seriously, it was so fat we had to get a tractor to move it.


There were even some non Busse used too.


But we persevered and got it quartered and in the truck.





I'll be darned, if some crotchety old coot did not yell at us for harvesting the buck though. He did not seem to care that we had bagged it all legal like and tagged it proper. Tried claiming it was his "Bull" like he owns the great outdoors.

Some people just aren't sportsmen like they used to be. Feel like they got a right to what we already claimed. Even when they ain't don the tough work o getting up earlier, and done their scoutin' afore the season starts, proper like.

we showed him there were plenty left for him to bag, n' tried telling him now hard we worked at tracking, selecting the animal to be harvested, and singling it out from the herd........






And him, grumbling about "ownership" and payment.....


We jus told him straight like, we already paid the state for the deer tag, and besides which, we had guns and he ain't got none on him........well that settled that, and put paid to his strange notions about owning deer, or the great outdoors and whatnot. So off we went with plenty of fresh venison.......

I tell you what, easy as pie, makes a man wonder why they even bother calling it hunting. Should just call it gettin!
 
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The vendetta also goes for hogs. Last week my father and I lined up on a 'herd' of pigs in the midst of destroying one of my fields. We jacked the bolts on the 7mm's a couple times each and left piggie mayhem in our wake. It's about as much fun as a fellow can have with his pants on.
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I am on an eradication plan at the moment too. Already got three on three different outings since opening of season (1 large boar ~250, 1 large female ~125, and a smaller boar at about ~110 or so). It's ridiculous...and I haven't even hunted that much. Our acorn crop is horrible this year (at least at our place, near Doss)....so the hogs seem to really be pushing the deer, and the deer seem genuinely afraid of them.

I always try to kill the ladies first...boars if no ladies around :D
 
Holy smokes BIGFATTYT! Thats one hell of a buck!:eek:

I got one today... but it was so massive I don't believe it would be fair for a contest entry. It's massive rack is obscurred by all that fuzzy hair. But I'd estimate him to be in the 180-190 class Boone & Crockett.

Ain't huntin grand....:thumbup:

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This is my daughter-in-law Anna with her first buck, taken yesterday with a .243 @ 100 yds, dropped in its tracks. I wasn't with them, but my son Lincoln texted me the photo from their lease near Menard, TX.

I told Lincoln when your wife wants to go hunting on Black Friday, you know you married well. :thumbup:

Not sure the buck knew it was Black Friday, but I'm sure for him the term would have had its own significance. ;)
 
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