Gunner500 Broken Antler Buck

[Gunner500]

Stephen, many Thanks again for posting pics my friend, I gotta say we hunt some amazing animals with their sheer need to reproduce, exert dominance and survive.

This brawler buck had already completely broken off his right main beam with the two or three points on it, his left main beam was broken off close to the end with the point behind it broken off too, he didn't have much head gear left to fight with, but, at the conclusion of my 4th rattling sequence, he busted through that brush looking down his nose with his head and ears laid back ready to MMA with the first thing he saw.

About 30 yards out, he suddenly stopped kinda quarter broadsided and put his nose in a scrape, hunched up like he was hiking a football and pee'd in the scrape, I already had the sights of the 45-110 Bull Gun on him, he turned his head to look back from the direction he came and BOOM, the bullet struck him where the neck joins the shoulder to exit low ribs on his left side, DRT, I didn't hit the spine, but must have shocked it enough to interupt his logistic function ;] the lungs were bloody chum chunks upon dressing.

I was blessed to be part of this great adventure,, I thanked the buck and God, dressed him and pulled him down about 150 yards to an old dim log haul road, walked back down the mountain to get my ATV at the North end of the pasture, rode up and loaded him up, could not have loaded him without dressing him first, really long heavy mature buck.

BTW, humping those bull barrel Sharps rifles up the mountain will quickly seperate the men from the boys, at 55, hope I still have at least a few years left.