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    Originally posted by retrieverman View Post
    Blaser BBF97 12 ga over 308 topped with an illuminated Schmidt Bender 1.25-4.
    Oh man that's cool!! My brother has one of the old Savage over/unders that I did a trigger job on for him... Cool guns!
    In the pic, it looks a lot like a .410 bore except the barrels are too far apart! I bet that joker is heavy! Ought to be real stable to shoot.

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      Nice buck retrieverman

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        Awesome buck retriever man.


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          Originally posted by retrieverman View Post
          I’ve focused all my deer hunting on my Oklahoma place since 2014, but I tagged a nice buck up there October 2nd and decided to give east TX a try this year. I did a little scouting last Thursday and Friday, and I set my climbing stand on a scrape line. Saturday morning, I passed a really nice young 11 point and ended up shooting a doe that busted me. I got skunked Saturday evening. Sunday morning, I through up a ground blind on another scrape line and saw a young doe, a 3 pt, 4 pt, 6 pt, and a nice 8 pt. Sunday evening, I went back to my climber and saw a different 4 point. I didn’t get to hunt yesterday and almost didn’t go today because of the heat, but I decided to go due to this being a “best” day on the solunar table. The minor time for the morning was 6:19-7:19. Just after daylight, the 8 point I passed on Sunday walked under me at about 25 yards, and a little after 7, I heard something moving through the leaves behind me. I turned and saw it was a buck, but I thought it was the 8 point coming back. I got my binos on him and realized it was a different buck with a huge body, so by the time I decided to take him, he was moving off through the woods away from me. I got him in the scope, and fortunately, he stopped. I shot through a 10-12” gap between two tree at 60 yards. I couldn’t see him but heard him fall, but he got back up and slowly walked about 20 yards twitching his tail. He stopped and fell within sight of my stand about 40 yards to my right.
          I knew he was a big bodied buck, but I didn’t realize he was the biggest buck I’ve ever killed in east TX. He bottomed out a 200 lb scale.
          He’s not the biggest racked buck I’ve killed in east TX, but he gross scored 130.5”.
          I haven’t hunted old school with no corn and no cameras in probably 30 years, and I have to admit it’s kind of liberating.
          Man that is a helluva buck. Congratulations.

          I busted out my climber a couple weeks ago and hunted a scrape line in some open timber near an SMZ. I saw a real nice up-and-coming 10, but taking the fight to the deer instead of waiting for them to come to me was a ton of fun.

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            Sweet deer!

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              Congrats on the recent bucks! Both absolute studs.

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                Originally posted by retrieverman View Post
                I’ve focused all my deer hunting on my Oklahoma place since 2014, but I tagged a nice buck up there October 2nd and decided to give east TX a try this year. I did a little scouting last Thursday and Friday, and I set my climbing stand on a scrape line. Saturday morning, I passed a really nice young 11 point and ended up shooting a doe that busted me. I got skunked Saturday evening. Sunday morning, I through up a ground blind on another scrape line and saw a young doe, a 3 pt, 4 pt, 6 pt, and a nice 8 pt. Sunday evening, I went back to my climber and saw a different 4 point. I didn’t get to hunt yesterday and almost didn’t go today because of the heat, but I decided to go due to this being a “best” day on the solunar table. The minor time for the morning was 6:19-7:19. Just after daylight, the 8 point I passed on Sunday walked under me at about 25 yards, and a little after 7, I heard something moving through the leaves behind me. I turned and saw it was a buck, but I thought it was the 8 point coming back. I got my binos on him and realized it was a different buck with a huge body, so by the time I decided to take him, he was moving off through the woods away from me. I got him in the scope, and fortunately, he stopped. I shot through a 10-12” gap between two tree at 60 yards. I couldn’t see him but heard him fall, but he got back up and slowly walked about 20 yards twitching his tail. He stopped and fell within sight of my stand about 40 yards to my right.
                I knew he was a big bodied buck, but I didn’t realize he was the biggest buck I’ve ever killed in east TX. He bottomed out a 200 lb scale.
                He’s not the biggest racked buck I’ve killed in east TX, but he gross scored 130.5”.
                I haven’t hunted old school with no corn and no cameras in probably 30 years, and I have to admit it’s kind of liberating.
                Great buck and cool gun too!

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                  Originally posted by retrieverman View Post
                  I’ve focused all my deer hunting on my Oklahoma place since 2014, but I tagged a nice buck up there October 2nd and decided to give east TX a try this year. I did a little scouting last Thursday and Friday, and I set my climbing stand on a scrape line. Saturday morning, I passed a really nice young 11 point and ended up shooting a doe that busted me. I got skunked Saturday evening. Sunday morning, I through up a ground blind on another scrape line and saw a young doe, a 3 pt, 4 pt, 6 pt, and a nice 8 pt. Sunday evening, I went back to my climber and saw a different 4 point. I didn’t get to hunt yesterday and almost didn’t go today because of the heat, but I decided to go due to this being a “best” day on the solunar table. The minor time for the morning was 6:19-7:19. Just after daylight, the 8 point I passed on Sunday walked under me at about 25 yards, and a little after 7, I heard something moving through the leaves behind me. I turned and saw it was a buck, but I thought it was the 8 point coming back. I got my binos on him and realized it was a different buck with a huge body, so by the time I decided to take him, he was moving off through the woods away from me. I got him in the scope, and fortunately, he stopped. I shot through a 10-12” gap between two tree at 60 yards. I couldn’t see him but heard him fall, but he got back up and slowly walked about 20 yards twitching his tail. He stopped and fell within sight of my stand about 40 yards to my right.
                  I knew he was a big bodied buck, but I didn’t realize he was the biggest buck I’ve ever killed in east TX. He bottomed out a 200 lb scale.
                  He’s not the biggest racked buck I’ve killed in east TX, but he gross scored 130.5”.
                  I haven’t hunted old school with no corn and no cameras in probably 30 years, and I have to admit it’s kind of liberating.
                  Good stuff and congrats on a great deer.

                  I get questioned quite a bit about not using a camera more or diving into cell cameras. They have their place, but I like going into the woods and being surprised at what shows up. That is most of the fun for me!

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                    Originally posted by Greenheadless View Post
                    Good stuff and congrats on a great deer.

                    I get questioned quite a bit about not using a camera more or diving into cell cameras. They have their place, but I like going into the woods and being surprised at what shows up. That is most of the fun for me!
                    I’m actually addicted to cameras and have 4 cell cams and 5 non cell cams running right now in Oklahoma. The decision to hunt was spur of the moment, and I kind of wanted to prove to myself that I’ve still got it.

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                      Beautiful deer y'all are killing

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                        I’m sure looking forward to the cold weather hitting East Texas Saturday.

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                          East Texas hunting 2022-‘23 season

                          I got pictures of bucks chasing does again lastnight. It’s ramping back up now.


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                            Originally posted by FLASH_OUTDOORS View Post
                            I got pictures of bucks chasing does again lastnight. It’s ramping back up now.
                            It’s definitely on where I’m at. Both hind legs on the buck I killed were dripping with pee, and he smelled horrible. My brother saw a buck behind his house a mile away from where I was hunting locked down with a doe almost all day yesterday.

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                              Last week was bussin’. There were deer running all over the place, but ever since that storm Friday night it’s been quiet. My cameras have had fewer and fewer deer each day sense, so I’m hoping the school snap it’s coming up gets them back on their feet.

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                                Yea, I have a pretty decent buck that is locked on to a doe that comes to the feeder behind my house. He's been with her for the past couple days... She's got him pretty stoopid right now. If he's still stoopid Saturday morning, it might be hazardous to his health to come with her out into the open after legal shooting light... I've never killed anything on my place since we bought it back in '15...

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