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Illinois hunting trip

Posted: Nov 20th, '06, 16:33
by JimmyG
I know this post has nothing to do with Bertrams but I just wanted to share this with you guys. Well, I just got in from Illinois and finally all the waiting (8 years) for the big one paid off countless days from 5 AM to 5 PM rain,sleet,snow and never coming out of the tree letting many many good bucks go by....then the last day and in the last few hours this 170 class (Non typical gross) 220 pound (dressed) buck came in and it was all over in minutes!
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Posted: Nov 20th, '06, 16:40
by Bruce
If God didn't want us to eat animals, he wouldn't have made them out of meat.

That's a beautiful thing.

Nice job with that bow.

Posted: Nov 20th, '06, 18:05
by Rawleigh
Sweet!!!

buck

Posted: Nov 20th, '06, 18:20
by thuddddddd
NICE job Jimmy.

Posted: Nov 20th, '06, 19:16
by JP Dalik
Nice critter, Pike County? That drop adds some real style. Doubt we'll see many of class up here in Dec.

Posted: Nov 20th, '06, 20:08
by scot
Beautiful...buck of a lifetime. They just don't get that big in East Texas where I hunt.

Congradulations.

Scot

Posted: Nov 20th, '06, 21:08
by daydreams
and they say dont put things off and wait till the last minute! Congrats.

Posted: Nov 20th, '06, 21:44
by AndreF
Real nice !!!!
Timmy, you need to go there.

Posted: Nov 20th, '06, 21:51
by Hueso
never tried deer or "buck"........studied one year at Indiana University of Pennsylvania back in 1992 as an exchange student and deer just walked right through the "Oak Grove"(middle of the school).....damn things were big...and sometimes they will run you........

Posted: Nov 20th, '06, 21:54
by In Memory of Vicroy
Jimmy, now that's a buck. I see the bow & arrow rig, but the hole looks like a 30-06. You musta shot hard.

Andre - went by your boathouse yesterday and you now have steel beams welded up there for the lifts. The mosquito invasion is still on, they almost outran the golf cart.

UV

Posted: Nov 21st, '06, 03:32
by bob lico
well done nice buck.the wait was worth it. i hunt with a bow in the pre gun season.quite frustating wacthing one like this walk on by out of range after sitting in a tree all week.i admire anyone who can take one with a bow let alone a Pope@ young candidate.

Posted: Nov 21st, '06, 08:07
by Brewster Minton
Nice job!!

Posted: Nov 21st, '06, 14:28
by JimmyG
Thanks guys I was so excited I had to share! I was hunting south central Illinois in Lincoln. There was a reporter from a Chicago news paper doing a story on the outfitter and he followed me to my parking place and interviewed me and took pictures of me back packing into my stand, one of the questions to me was why do I spend money to go to IL instead of hunting my state..I laughed and summed it up for him...last year our hunting club has a big buck (oxymoron) pool we hunt the pine barrens of south jersey and 18 bucks were killed that week I won the pool with 103 pound 8 point buck!

Posted: Nov 21st, '06, 18:37
by Charlie
Nice fish oh I mean Buck. That is a really nice Buck and with a bow too boot.