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Milk River 7 Year Shed!
Posted On: January 27, 2012 | By: mike hanback
Very cool guest blog from our bow brother Luke Strommen:
One day last week I found this shed that I have been hunting for 7 years!
Mike, remember the “7 Come 11 Buck”? He was a big 5x6 that I hunted for a couple of years. One day in 2004 we.got some awesome footage of him when I was hunting on camera for Mossy Oak. He came to within 40 yards and on the wrong side of a tree, too far for me to shoot with my recurve anyway. He would have scored 163 to 170.
I went on to miss him twice that year. One day I stalked him on the ground and shot over him; the other time, on a rainy tree stand day, he heard the wet feathers on my arrow coming at him and spooked!
The next year I passed him up at 7 yards in his bed because I was pushing brush to some guy; I drew on him 3 times before he knew I was there, and then he spooked up!
He got poached that fall, in October 2005. We caught the guy; I snapped this picture of the buck in the officer’s truck. He went over 170".
I found his last right shed in the spring of 2005 (left in photo below) and have been looking for the other side ever since. I would go into the point where the buck hung out several times every spring, saying: “Today I am going to find 7 Come 11’s other side.” I found it 7 years later! I am stoked. The flood last spring and animals moved it around I guess. It has some chewing and cracks. Found it less than 200 yards from where I found the first one.—Luke
Giant Croc Photo!
Posted On: January 26, 2012 | By: mike hanback
This photo popped up on my Facebook page. The giant was shot on the Zambezi, wherever that is, and the size of it is astonishing. No wonder these predators can swallow animals (including people) whole. I have no desire to hunt one, would you? comment
Tall-Tined Indiana Giant Buck, 169!
Posted On: January 25, 2012 | By: mike hanback
Hi Mike: After numerous days of bowhunting and passing up several small bucks, I finally had luck on the second day of Indiana’s gun season last year. I shot this buck on November 13th, in Decatur County, Indiana.
It was very windy that morning and I honestly didn’t think I was going to see any deer. It was already getting light out, so I put on some blue jeans, a sweatshirt, camo vest, orange hat, grabbed my muzzleloader and was out the door. The rut was on and I had decided I would just find a good spot and sit on the ground.
I only made it about 250 yards out in the field next to my house when I spotted 2 small bucks, and then I saw a buck that I wanted a better look at, a wide 140” 10-pointer. As I was sneaking closer a bigger buck and a doe jumped out, and I shot him.
I had watched this buck in this field one evening when he was in velvet not 50 yards from where I shot him. He didn’t have any ground shrinkage--the rack actually seemed to get bigger the closer I got to him! The meat locker guy weighed him in at 210 pounds field-dressed, and I wish I would have been able to get the live weight as well.
The tip to tip spread of the rack is only 2 4/8”wide. What I like most are his really long tines and a 10” split that comes off the right G2. The rack has 3 tines over 13”. He grossed 169” non-typical —John Herbert
Great buck young John! Two key points: Go when you can when the rut is on, even if conditions (wind, warm, etc.) aren’t great; John saw 4 bucks that morning and shot a giant…also, while some mature bucks move a mile or more after rubbing velvet in September, many stay in the area where you see them in summer, as proved by John’s buck he shot in the same field. comment
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