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Title: Talk about Ground Shrinkage
Post by: Hidehunter on December 02, 2009, 10:20:11 AM
Just after daylight this morning I saw a big bodied deer hit a thicket at about 185 yards from where I was sitting.  Threw the scope up and seen a big browtine.  Touched it off and it hit the ground.  I ran over there excited because I knew it would be another wallhanger.  When I got there it wasnt a browtine I had seen it was the whole dayum horn lol.  Big bodied spike and an older deer.  It was an excitable hunt anyways and I am thankful.


(http://i568.photobucket.com/albums/ss124/denverdf/008-1.jpg)


(http://i568.photobucket.com/albums/ss124/denverdf/003-1.jpg)
Title: Re: Talk about Ground Shrinkage
Post by: slagmaker on December 02, 2009, 11:20:59 AM
Congrats on the buck.  :yoyo:

May not have been what ya expected :shrug: but he will fill your freezer just the same.  :eyebrow:
Title: Re: Talk about Ground Shrinkage
Post by: alscalls on December 02, 2009, 01:19:14 PM
I have had very few opportunities at a nice buck this year and I could not quite get the shot I wanted......If I see a spike this week I will do the same.... :eyebrownod:

Congrats on what sounds like a good time...... :congrats: :congrats: :congrats:
Title: Re: Talk about Ground Shrinkage
Post by: Carolina Coyote on December 02, 2009, 02:06:02 PM
I have done that before, it is disappointing but hey you made a good shot and got meat for the freezer.  :congrats: cc
Title: Re: Talk about Ground Shrinkage
Post by: FinsnFur on December 02, 2009, 04:41:28 PM
Still looks like a nice bodied one though.
Congrats on the harvest :congrats:
Title: Re: Talk about Ground Shrinkage
Post by: SCcoyotehunter on December 02, 2009, 04:48:41 PM
 :yoyo:
Title: Re: Talk about Ground Shrinkage
Post by: iahntr on December 02, 2009, 06:17:30 PM
Yep, not a wall hanger, but nice sized and good eatin !  :congrats:
Title: Re: Talk about Ground Shrinkage
Post by: KySongDog on December 02, 2009, 06:27:22 PM
Looks pretty tasty to me.   :eyebrownod:   Remember, ya can't eat the horns.   :nono:
Title: Re: Talk about Ground Shrinkage
Post by: GunDog on December 02, 2009, 08:06:20 PM
I don't know why they shrink so bad once they hit the ground, I've seen'um do it around here too ....  :eyebrownod:  Congrats on the freezer meat ...  :wink:
Title: Re: Talk about Ground Shrinkage
Post by: pitw on December 02, 2009, 09:48:59 PM
Kinda like the stories some guys told there dates eh :innocentwhistle:.  Nice looking winter fodder in that one. :highclap:
Title: Re: Talk about Ground Shrinkage
Post by: msmith on December 04, 2009, 05:17:22 AM
Well...it does have pretty nice brow tines.  That is a pretty nice WV 11 point and some good eatin to boot.  :yoyo: