From the thread on my two San Angelo bucks (success southwest of Dallas), you know that I had another buck to kill on the Junco. My SA bucks were both over 150. The buck I settled on hunting on the Junco was going to be upper 40's and maybe eek into the 50's. If I could close the deal, it would be a season I wouldn't soon forget.
My Junco hunt started back in August when I started scouting for a deer that would meet the ranch requirements for age and my requirements for score (6 1/2+ and no more than low 60's). I came up with a buck I called Brother John. He was a buck that had never been seen in person. He was 6 1/2 and I had him at 158 on TC pics. I had a thread on him earlier. Here is what he looked like early.
He had matching split brows and you can see that the right was already broken. By the 18th, he had broken the other split and the whole right brow. I had hunted him in the evening only from my camera data. He never showed up early, so I spent those hunts scouting other deer, mainly to help my brothers.
During those hunts, I located a typical 12 that I figured would go upper 40's. My little brother wanted to stay below 150, he had never killed a typical 12 and I had; so, I told him about it and figured he'd hunt him. Here are some clips from my first video of the buck. He was about 100 yards away, so it's rifle type video, not normal bow video.
When I went to the ranch and found that Brother John had broken his brows, it was back to the drawing board. I might shoot a buck with a chip or small break, but when they break off total points or beam parts, I let them live. I talked to Keith about the deer and it having broken and asked that he be protected another year. Especially since I was the only one with a history of him, he agreed. Back to the drawing board. I needed to find another buck.
While going through my cam pics I saw several pics of this buck. Good beams and WIDE. Not much mass and short points, but he was another buck that no one knew. Looked mature, so I set out to find him.
This feeder hadn't been functioning for a while. We let it dry up, so I didn't really know where he'd be. However, it's a good area. I went in behind the feeder pen and set up a new Easton I had just bought. It's duckhunter camo and with the tall grass, it didn't take me long to grass it in. I corned it up and left it. I corned it for a couple days before I hunted it. I didn't know how long it would take for the deer to return.
My Junco hunt started back in August when I started scouting for a deer that would meet the ranch requirements for age and my requirements for score (6 1/2+ and no more than low 60's). I came up with a buck I called Brother John. He was a buck that had never been seen in person. He was 6 1/2 and I had him at 158 on TC pics. I had a thread on him earlier. Here is what he looked like early.
He had matching split brows and you can see that the right was already broken. By the 18th, he had broken the other split and the whole right brow. I had hunted him in the evening only from my camera data. He never showed up early, so I spent those hunts scouting other deer, mainly to help my brothers.
During those hunts, I located a typical 12 that I figured would go upper 40's. My little brother wanted to stay below 150, he had never killed a typical 12 and I had; so, I told him about it and figured he'd hunt him. Here are some clips from my first video of the buck. He was about 100 yards away, so it's rifle type video, not normal bow video.
When I went to the ranch and found that Brother John had broken his brows, it was back to the drawing board. I might shoot a buck with a chip or small break, but when they break off total points or beam parts, I let them live. I talked to Keith about the deer and it having broken and asked that he be protected another year. Especially since I was the only one with a history of him, he agreed. Back to the drawing board. I needed to find another buck.
While going through my cam pics I saw several pics of this buck. Good beams and WIDE. Not much mass and short points, but he was another buck that no one knew. Looked mature, so I set out to find him.
This feeder hadn't been functioning for a while. We let it dry up, so I didn't really know where he'd be. However, it's a good area. I went in behind the feeder pen and set up a new Easton I had just bought. It's duckhunter camo and with the tall grass, it didn't take me long to grass it in. I corned it up and left it. I corned it for a couple days before I hunted it. I didn't know how long it would take for the deer to return.
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