Archive for October, 2008

11yr Old Shoots Beast In Bladen County

October 31, 2008 Deer

Bladen County is in the southeastern region of North Carolina and is a great area for deer.  This buck was taken from a stand by an 11 year old boy from Clayton, NC.  The story has it he and his father were hunting off a field near Clarkton, NC and when it walked out, the [...]

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The Mrs. Brings Home The Buck

October 27, 2008 Deer

This comes from Aaron Enget out in Colorado.  He and his wife Jody were hunting on Cevey Pennington’s ranch in Elizabeth, CO, a place where they had good luck last year.  With buck tags in hand, they headed up to a ridge to overlook a bottom where several mule deer have been seen.  It wasn’t [...]

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Smokepole Success

October 24, 2008 Deer

This one came from Bubba and while it’s a couple years old, still impressive.  The shooter, Chad from Glen Ullin, North Dakota gave this account, ”I grunted him into about 55 yards and shot him head-on.  He dropped in his tracks.”  Chad was in his blind in the cold Dakota weather for seven hours before this [...]

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Ruttin’ In Round O

October 22, 2008 Deer

This bruiser was taken near the town of Round O, South Carolina.  Never heard of it?  Neither have we but sure enough there it is, between Walterboro and Charleston.  The state’s lowcountry is prime territory for big Southern bucks and this one had a 20 inch inside spread to go along with eleven scoreable points. [...]

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Redneck Timestamp

October 17, 2008 Asides

Thanks to Bill “Bearpaw” Groom for sending this in this morning.  Time to upgrade the trailcam!

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Bulls Ready For Winter

October 17, 2008 Sightings

Someone ought to take these out of the gene pool before the cold weather arrives, because once the snow flies they’re gonna disappear.  My first thought is they must be part of someone’s private herd;  no way they’ve grown this old on their own in the wild with such a handicap.  

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Hogzilla Lives!

October 15, 2008 Hog & Boar

David Petzal on his fine forum, The Gun Nut, posts about this boar taken over in Europe.  Field & Stream writer Tom McIntyre took the photo.  There are a couple more photos, click here to see them.  Makes me wonder if this the same boar or the shooter was out gathering food for the winter [...]

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Harsh Winter

October 14, 2008 Sightings

Cory Glauner of GotHunts.com had me thinking over the weekend of these photos when he Twitter’d about the big snowfall they got out in Idaho.  These shots came our way from a guy who has shared the Doubletough campfire, Bill Groom of Minnesota. According to “Billy Bear Paw”, wolves tracked down this buck by a [...]

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