Post by Greenedog on Oct 21, 2008 7:15:51 GMT -5
Donnie Mullis of the Hoosier HIT Squad went up to Canada last week and took a true monster! Too bad it wasn't on camera. Maybe next year he can bring a cameraman, namely ME 
Here's the story:
Alright, I have had a long go of it up here....not really but staying out all day is LONG sit. First night saw 50+/- deer and 2 good bucks way to far away to get a shot at. Sat all day Thursday and saw one decent buck and I let him walk, about 9:30am. Saw several other deer just 1-1/2 year old bucks and TONS and TONS of does. Then Friday, went deeper into the same area and had about 200 acres (big I know, but it was a HUGE field and it was fingered back down to be somewhat narrow) of alfalfa field around me, and the deer have been hammering the fields as they are on the only green things left up here. Lets back up it was 14 degrees on Friday morning, and didn't get much above 25 all day and their was a steady breeze. Up in this area baiting is needed because there is so much bush and not many fields, but I was around one and the bait was on the edge of the woods and the field. Bait is alfalfa bails and oats. Then about 10:15am I saw a buck come accross the field and bedded down close to the edge of the field looking towards the bait, but he was 250+ yards away. He proceeded to lay there all day until about 6:00pm!!! It was a long sit of looking and thinking and not thinking he'd get up and give me a shot, etc. Finally he got up when there were does up in the field and I had decided long before this that he was a good buck, and I was going to shot anytime I could. I did and connected at about 170 yards and he didn't go 40 yards, as light and temps were dropping faster then you could image and my excitement was overwhelming!!! I was literrally trying to run over to him to see him....I guessed he was 160" buck last night. We left him overnight as we were 20 minute 4 wheeler ride to the truck and the guide has a ranger but we had 4 wheeler last night and no room for dad, guide, deer and I. This morning we went and got him with the ranger....last night I couldn't sleep too good kept thinking about how this all happened and how fortunate and lucky I was! The guide kept saying last night that I killed a pig, and I said what do you think 160" he said no, 170's!!! I didn't believe him because the deer doesn't have long tines like a 170's deer would maybe 11" max and only 10 pointer.....well we took a ton of pics today and skinned him out for the indians and then caped him out. Then we put the tape to him.....188" green.....I don't know all of the particulars of scoring a deer or what is deducted, etc...but it has 7.25" mass measurement and 24.25" inside spread and 24" + beams!!! Buck of a lifetime for sure!
Here's the story:
Alright, I have had a long go of it up here....not really but staying out all day is LONG sit. First night saw 50+/- deer and 2 good bucks way to far away to get a shot at. Sat all day Thursday and saw one decent buck and I let him walk, about 9:30am. Saw several other deer just 1-1/2 year old bucks and TONS and TONS of does. Then Friday, went deeper into the same area and had about 200 acres (big I know, but it was a HUGE field and it was fingered back down to be somewhat narrow) of alfalfa field around me, and the deer have been hammering the fields as they are on the only green things left up here. Lets back up it was 14 degrees on Friday morning, and didn't get much above 25 all day and their was a steady breeze. Up in this area baiting is needed because there is so much bush and not many fields, but I was around one and the bait was on the edge of the woods and the field. Bait is alfalfa bails and oats. Then about 10:15am I saw a buck come accross the field and bedded down close to the edge of the field looking towards the bait, but he was 250+ yards away. He proceeded to lay there all day until about 6:00pm!!! It was a long sit of looking and thinking and not thinking he'd get up and give me a shot, etc. Finally he got up when there were does up in the field and I had decided long before this that he was a good buck, and I was going to shot anytime I could. I did and connected at about 170 yards and he didn't go 40 yards, as light and temps were dropping faster then you could image and my excitement was overwhelming!!! I was literrally trying to run over to him to see him....I guessed he was 160" buck last night. We left him overnight as we were 20 minute 4 wheeler ride to the truck and the guide has a ranger but we had 4 wheeler last night and no room for dad, guide, deer and I. This morning we went and got him with the ranger....last night I couldn't sleep too good kept thinking about how this all happened and how fortunate and lucky I was! The guide kept saying last night that I killed a pig, and I said what do you think 160" he said no, 170's!!! I didn't believe him because the deer doesn't have long tines like a 170's deer would maybe 11" max and only 10 pointer.....well we took a ton of pics today and skinned him out for the indians and then caped him out. Then we put the tape to him.....188" green.....I don't know all of the particulars of scoring a deer or what is deducted, etc...but it has 7.25" mass measurement and 24.25" inside spread and 24" + beams!!! Buck of a lifetime for sure!
Just another night at work for me and Monty will be back here again bright and early. 
