Yes. Couple years ago. Walking out to my stand and seen him laying with his head up. Thought he was alive and for a second started to stalk. His head was up against a tree. He had been shot thru the guts with a 22.. betting he suffered a great deal

I'm not sure if one I was after has been poached. But I have had 2 giants, one pushing 190", get hit by vehicles. Real bummer.

I moved into the "Giant Pyramid" unknowingly but soon realized it when I'd pull in at night and discover a herd of deer in my front yard. Very frustrating especially after ya set in the Woods 400 yrds. away for hours freezing 🥶 😫! Regardless I never resorted to illegal or unethical means but several other guys were more then happy too. How I found out was sounds of gunshots at night not far from my home. Then one night I pulled in after we just got several inches of snow and my whole front yard was deeply scarred with truck tracks! Yeah these Bastards were so crazy they drove into my front yard to try to hit these bucks. I couldn't believe it and I felt very threatened because they could've hurt my Children,Wife! So I ended up calling the Game Warden and they caught them. One buck was 150 Class and the other one 170 and I'm sure there were more. Come to find out the creek behind my house was a Rut funnel. Anyway,I know it can be tough but just keep plugging away and trying and everything will eventually come together. Good luck & God bless!

"He was pierced for our transgressions" Love it, great to see you know the Lord bro.

Mr. Plainview that is terrible! What state?

Thanks!! Lots of learning lessons, even in bad circumstances!

Thanks so much, def been blessed with an amazing family!!

Honestly that has been one of the downfalls of the big antlers movement in hunting, everyone wants a giant and some guys will go so far as doing it out of a vehicle at night just to say they got a big buck. Totally agree! The hunt and the chess match are what make it so enjoyable!!! Thanks for watching and following along the journey!

Smh a true hunter doesn't use cameras or deer feeders...oh yeah u guys are partually the blame for wild hog explosion

Thanks for the great compliment, that means a lot!!!!

Amen to that!!! So thankful to even have had the opportunity to hunt such an incredible deer! Def a blessing from God! Thanks for watching!

Great words!!! Couldn’t have said it better myself!!!

Thanks so much!!!!

Thanks, yes it was really nice to be able to hold the antlers….a guy spends so much energy thinking about deer like this that getting to see the antlers and hold them is quite amazing!! Yeah, it is a big issue!!!

Valid point 🤣

Thanks very much!!

It's because of his personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

@@painterboy454 thanks and yes, Jesus is the reason behind this channel! Always will be!

Travis Dameron He was spot on !!! ✌🏻😎✌🏻. Hunt to live live to hunt !!!

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Amen! So true!!

Thanks so much!!!!!! Really appreciate that, and yes the faith part is what it’s all about!

Wow!!! I commend you for doing that!!! We put so much into this earthly stuff that we forever the only thing that will last for eternity is our relationship with God and the people who enter heaven with us!! It was probably tough letting go of that stuff, but a good reminder of where your values are found!!

It’s difficult giving them away after everything that goes into each and every hunt. I’m sure you know! Just boiled out a couple heads/European mounts to eventually give away. We are blessed to have such great public hunting. Looking forward to taking the muzzle loader out! Then ice fishing with the boys and down south hog hunting

Nice!!! Yeah getting out ice fishing sounds fun too!! Never tried hog hunting but know a guy that really gets into it…quite the adrenaline rush!!

Thanks bro!! Can’t wait to see your next film!! No kidding man...this camera was the best investment I made into my channel...love it! Wish it had better autofocus and lowlight capabilities but the quality of video is amazing with that thing!!

@@swostillwateroutdoors it’s tough for one camera to have the best of everything! A camera with the a7iii’s low light and autofocus combined with the GH5’s IBIS and 4K 60 would be the holy grail of cameras...from what i hear, the a7siii comes extremely close to the perfect camera

@@artofthechase1482 yes that would be an incredible combo!!!!!

For real tho

Appreciate that, all these experiences whether good or bad shape us. Rather it be for the better!

Thanks so much! She just turned one here this week!

Appreciate that! It was a tough situation but in the end not much I can control! We don’t deserve it, but God loves us that much!!

Been a tough road for them recently, hopefully it will be a good turning point for them!

Amen and amen!!!appreciate that man!!!

Thanks so much!!

🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 seriously, some great self control there!!!!

Dang.. How you passed I'll never know brother. But it paid off either way.

I was hunting Hickman Co. TN and in blackpowder season I found him on a Thursday. As I sat the edge of an old pine thicket rt up on top of a l ridge from a big creek bed. Killed a big 7 pt year before no brow times and 1 broke off on left side. As it got daytime 3 big does came out about 50 or 60 yards to my left. Perfect chip shot. All of the sudden I hear a grunt and then stepping out of the thicket was Ole mossy horns. He walked rt out beside this Ole doe and was eating across. Now I got 4 deer 35 to 50 yards poping across and I'm bout to shake myself out of the stand. I put my gun on the top of his shoulder and sat on him seemed like 15 20 mins. I couldn't pull myself to take that shot knowing it was my 1st morning had that evening fri sat Sunday. So instead if taking that shot I passed and didn't see any sign or deer - theone lil 3pt Sat morning. Sat evening I went to the backside where I killed my 1st 2 deer of my life" bam bam with a 742 rem 30-06. As I was walking back toward a powering I came across a rub line and found 3 big scrapes with what looked like slide marks on this losing rd with a cross road and there was 24 rubs some big ad my leg. Talk about fired up. I drive back to Nashville and stayed with my brother and he was comeinh back with me . Of coarse I couldn't sleep. Got up and made the works bis gravy eggs bacon and coffee for my bro. Dont drink it myself. Started waking him at 3am was about ready to cut at smoke pole lose on him when I finnally got him in the truck to head out like Dale Earnhardt comeing from the back a Talladega. Sry for the long story but it all has to be told. Do finnally I get there. Let him out where I was hunting cause when I went and got my stand to move I had seen 3 groups of deer 1 had 6 1had 4 2 bucks and the 3 pt was almost sitting on my stand eating acorns. I fly around and its starting to Crack lite coneing down the big ravine of coarse there was a big tree rt across the road and 5ft bank on my rt side and big drop off on left 15 20ft. I try to figure out sone way to get around it but with no saw no rope to drag it was impossible. Just bought a new Toyota 4x4. As I thought if I go back and the other way gonna be 30 mins after daylight and hunt would be over. Well I looked n saw a lil opening in the branches of the fallen tree. So I locked my hubs and secured my gun so I wouldn't knock my scope off and played daredevil and went to jump this thang. "THIS BUCK WAS GE BIGGEST ONE ID EVER SEEN" So when my front tires grabbed the big tree in 4wheel drive well I didn't jump it slung this tree back on under my truck and the big limbs turned and busted rt into the extr cab if .y truck knocking a dent from behind my passenger door all down the side of my bed but I had made it past the rd block. By now it just lite enough to see through the woods bout 50 to 80 yards. I cross the creek and start up the hill wher the power line crosses the rd an my tree stand was at. You could see my area from the rf at that angel about 150 yards away and of coarse I've gotta look starting to run was horns and it looked like a elk this monster runs parallel to the powerline and jumps off the bank rt in front of my truck standing in the rd tho Hoss turns and looks at me like I'm the man and walks on of he rd down a lil ditch and started up the holler no more than 25 yards rt now. I grabbed my smoke pole and got it capped after dropping the 100 out of the lil round thing they come in. Well 93 I guess cause I got 1 and had shot a few.Ike mossy horns just waking up the mouth of the holler just turns looks and goes to his left up a lil point and starts eating across. BINGO I thought game over. Stuck that CVA out onto my window rest and lined up the cross hairs and bout that time he looked back at me and I slid my gun back in the window and watch the biggest deer I had ever saw start trotting back down into the holler mouth then drop his head and move fast . Then I saw the 3 does to our rt on the hill and there he went along with the vision I had had since I found all the sign and moved my stand the day before. I had shot him probably 3 or 400 times since then. I get to my stand and there wS a 4x4 scrape 7 brand new rubs all with on 15 yards of my stand . The scrape was in the logging rd rt in front of my stand no farther than 7 ft. I sat long as I could3 1/2 4 hrs maby got so over it 1 a guy walked up on the property beside ours and walked the fence lineage sat down on a white 5 gallon bucket. As I got madder and madder I figured I might as well go shoot my brother and scare the 4 does off that are walking up the lil cut towards this jack a__ that has sat 70 yards from my stand and cut me off not really pYing attention to the other holler where I had killed my 1st 2 deer. There was a lil 6pt and a doe comeing in rt to me when I chucked my top part of my climber it looked like a petting zoo. What I didn't see in planning my brother's tragic accident was there was 3 bucks following the does headed towards Mr Bucket and a good buck behind the lil 6 pt I had rt up the rt side of my stand. He may have seen the deer in the thicket before I could've got a shot but I'm sure one of he 11 or 12 would've been in range after he shot. It was smoke pole season.

Well I got my brother and dropped him off in Nashville and headed to Knoxville. On my way I planned my escape from work because opening day was Sat morning and Ole boy way definitely gonna be there. As I got closer to home I thought well only bow season was open and the following week was open I had a eaither sex tag for 2 does so instead of being sick from work cause I wasn't in the stand I would be sicker because I always took off Monday- Wednesday that way Thanksgiving week I was off Friday through the following weekend so I had a plan and couldn't wait. I was spending every second of my time in the woods. I take off and head out Friday morning. Ready to get after it because I had sat through Thursday then I was coneing home and getting my smoke pole and getting back after it for the 2 deer eaither sex smoke pole season. I get my stand hung and go to the front side of the property and where I parked there was a logging rd that went down through the woods. I saw a rub line like no other. It looked like it was borrowed from a moster buck from Saskatchewan Canada about every 10 ft there was a tree rubbed big as my leg and peeled bald. Now as if I wasn't fired up enough from my week long strategy of how I'm gonna slip shuck this Ole Mossy Horns and Have him on my tailgate for the trip home. I go to the store at the foot of the hill shot the breeze and got my fresh ground country sausage for my breakfast and said anybody check in any big ones this week while I was gone during bow season, wondering if there chasing yet. And the old guy said that this guy killed a monster " man that thing had a 261/2 inch inside spread and its tines were all long as heck. My heart sank cause it was sounding an awful lot like Ole Mossy Horns. Big body , man that sob dressed 196pds bingo the just for sure I said did it have bout 12 inch brown tines they were 14 and12 1/4 what you seen it crossing the rd to I said nope not T the top of the hill at the power line yea yea ats where he you know ats private property and I'm the only one who has permission to hunt there. Man them locals went fron being my buddy as they had the past 4 years to not even knowing I had been in the store ever. No he killed it rt here past the store bout 300 yards. Well I done knew better n said thanks and just looked at the pictures of my dreams from the past 8 days n notes and was just in awe. He was 196 pounds dressed out had a 26 1/2 inch inside spread and brow tines that were 12 and change and 14 inches respectively and his rack was white tipped and chocolate bottoms where he had just been rubbing and not really got the bottom rubbed good I guess. I walked out and thus farmer I had talked to several tines because his place was rt down off the hill from the land I had permission to hunt and didn't wanna ever have any problems with them and actually shot a nice buck his brother's son had shot in juvenile and he hit it in the front leg and brisket just in front of the heart, and Monday morning I was in my stand and saw it wLk down the power line cut could tell it was hurt didn't know what 2as up and when I got down I stalked over and it was laying there and barely got his head lifted as I put one in him to polish it off. He said " that Ole boy shot that deer at BC's place at the top where you park at. They had been seeing him cross the rd at or around daytime every morning. He stopped and just sat in the truck waited he crossed rt before lite and shot it rt at 1st lite. Well shit it before I got to my stand. Friday. Tild me he was sitting in his buddy's truck sat morning before last when I found him on the back side and they watched him chasing does around in the flat at the crossroads where I saw the sign and had my stand at. He was watching and a big 9pt came across the rd rt in front of there truck and those slides I saw were where him and that big 9 were fighting. He said they tire up all kinds of heck for about 30 yards. Yep thats that mystery solved. Told him bout Sunday and my week and he laughed that was his buddy he owned the property next to where I was hunting on the backside and said some sob had slung a tree stand and made more noise than a heard of Elephants leaving the woods spooked that big 9pt and bout 8 more that were feeding rt to him. We laughed and I told him to let his buddy know I was sorry and would hunt the front and let him have at the big 9 solo. There were plenty of great deer left around there and one big 9pt. So I climbed up my stand and waited on daylight. 45 .ibs after good shooting lite 6 slick heads came out of my pine thicket and fed my way. Bout 35 yards I said big doe bout to cut this Ole Smoke pole lose on ya then I heard the same except it was ba ba ba ba grunting every step and talking bout excited I swung my gun slowly and out stepped the lil 6pt walked rt in to 15 maby 29yrd and click. Nothing put another cap pew just the cap and this time the lead doe which was under me looked up and swung around and they all hauled the mail back across the ridge towards my truck and towards the power line and where it crossed the rd and the farmers place. Bam Bam Ole semi-auto 30-06 rang out n I thought we he dusted that Ole 6pt. So you can imagine how I was about to sling my smoke pole quit hunting and then sale all my hunting gear except for what would keep me warm crappie fishing in winter. So I get my reload and put a little powder in the nipple just in case and got me another cap and settled in for what I had decided was gonna be my last 3 hours of Hickman Co til December 2 deer eaither sex hunt. Bout 20 mins I could hear what sounded like a deer rubbing trees and making a scrape in the pine thicket in front of me bout 40 yards or so . Then I see movement and xomeing rt out wher the Big 7pt came out of the pined stepped out a 6pt no brow tines probably 6 or 7 yrs old sagging back big gut thick chocolate horns probably 160 to 180 dressed out and walked rt under the tree i was in and started eating acorns. I sat there and kinda got a smile and was like heck yea not a bad consolation prize, the Old Monarch started walking back to the thicket and bout 25yrdd turned toward my truck and stopped broad side and picked up a acorn andstarted chewing. I thought he is gonna run rt to the truck if he don't hit the ground rt here and I can just pick him up and roll out. Wellhead is your sign, put the cross hairs on his neck and thought neck shot drop him and game over then Mr doubt said the luck you have had so I slid you cross hairs down behind his front shoulder and click pow just the cap. Grabbed another pow cap pow another cap bout now he was waking hurried towards the ridge my truck was on still 59 yards no problem. Packed all more in the nipple capped her and steadied the cross hairs and clic started to bring my gun up and KAPOW blew the leaves off the tree he was under bout 4ft above his head. Well the leave shower got him gone in a hurry. I'm ready to shoot myself and decided to leave and go to Scott Co where I usually go during big gun and bow season. I load my gun back after I sat n get a dip and drink pick a knot one tree bout 40yrd cap it pull the trigger BOOM busted that knot dead center and really wanted to sling it then. Get down back at my truck here is the ole farmer. Man I guess you made up for that Ole bigger with numbers cause I know you didn't get that Big 9pt. I'm like damn sure going to Scott Co now did your buddy get him . No I figured you missed him this morning but it didn't sound like you were using at smoke pole didn't sound much more than a 30-30 but I figured you shot down the other way. After I heard you shoot 6 does a 6pt and that Big 9 came rt down the hwy and across the power line instead of crossing the power line and going to the back they came rt down to my field and I decided to sit in my barn this morning and see if I couldn't get one with everybody being out they usually push some that cross the hwy and into my field. The 9 came down to 40 yards and that Ole 06 put one on him . He hit the ground and I swung around and pulled one of your tricks and busted a doe. Bam bam2 down.then I got the tractor and loaded them came up here and was gonna come help you cause I heard you shoot again when I was getting in to go to the checking station. Then when I stopped here I heard you shoot again. I figured you needed more powder n bullets, a couple of my kill tags or definitely a hand cause you done some shooting LOL. He had a big chuckle. I said man I really appreciate you taking the time to come and help me would you care to read help me out sure he said well then shoot me in the head and drive me down an Ole logging road and get them to fill my truck cab full of cement and intomb me . Whys that he said cause I missed that lil 6pt , didn't ever see the Big 9, missed a huge Old 6 pt no brow tines that was almost as big bodied as the big 10 pt they shot from the road and I missed hum from about 20yrds and 50yrds.

So I got no backstraps or any Horns. The reason I had to tell this whole story is because of me sitting on stand and putting in the time , planning my strategy and missing the times I missed what I got by not shooting the Monster 10pt With a 26 1/2 inside spread and 196pds dressed out wasn't a wall hanger but memories that will last me a lifetime and I'm sure alot longer after my kids and nephew's tell this story about how their crazy dad or uncle or buddies friend got the chance to hunt a true Monster Buck and did all the rt things and could have pulled that trigger and then what would I had.. Horns on the wall.. well he jumped in front of my truck and stopped, I grabbed my gun capped it and boom. Got him GREAT STORY RT THERE. As much as I wanted those Horns on my wall I got memories that will last many lifetimes and didn't have to cheat a true OLE MOSSY HORNS to get something on my wall with no story to tell. The great things that we get to enjoy in God's Country are the true trophy. Sorry for the long story but hope you enjoyed it. In the end I did. Ps N I didn't shoot my brother just put in in long walks to his stands and bad spots for 2 years. LOL

Agreed!! No my deer, was referring to it being my main target deer, very good point! This deer was on public but did spend time on a big chunk of private which made him tough to hunt!

I am jealous of you hahhaha!! I want to do some buck tracking in Canada here in the next couple years, so much land to roam around on!!!

Thanks so much!!! Appreciate that!

Appreciate that!!!! Got a bunch of videos coming out this fall! Same to you!!!

Appreciate that so much!!!!! Thanks for joining along!!!!

Congrats!!!!!! That is a huge accomplishment!!!!!!!!

November 19th is a great day for a birthday if you are a deer hunter!

Yes to be honest I was not in the game with him as much as I wanted…I learned a bunch about that area later on and figured out what I was missing on him…

Appreciate that!!!

Appreciate that so much, thanks for the kind words!!!!

Wow....I feel for you on that....sounds like an expensive day for that kid 😬😱 I am sure he got chewed out a little at home 😳 pretty crazy!! Such a bummer though to miss out on a chance to hunt a deer like that....I know in my area, seeing a 160 is like finding a unicorn 😂😂😂

Appreciate that so much!!!!

Thanks so much!!!! She is now 3 years old and such a blessing!!!!!!!! Amen!!!

Thank you so much!!!!!

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Appreciate that so much, we all need it that is for sure!!!!

Not my deer, but he was “my” main target deer, the biggest one I was pursuing. Def don’t own the deer, just saying it is the deer I am after :) that is a bummer!!!!

@@swostillwateroutdoors I know how you are meaning it..some guys just are a bit more intense am I right? Good luck in future hunts brother

Thanks sommige and same to you!!!!!

Dang, bummer that happened to you!!!! Appreciate that, means a lot!!!

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Thanks!!!!

If we stray too far from hunting principles and ethics the results could be bad. We def gotta be careful with where things are at right now!

Thanks so much, and yes it wasn’t an accident that it happened but a decision that was made! I may have been a little soft of that part of it haha!

Yes she does!! She is a couple years older now, she is amazing! Yess….so frustrating!!!!

Bahahahahhahaha!!!!!! I literally just spoke your comment in an Arnold voice 😂😂😂😂

@@swostillwateroutdoors Arnold lines are my 🍞 and 🧈 !

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Yesss!! I will and same to you!!!!!!

Wow!!!!! That is so disappointing….once a deer draws attention like that….it can get nasty real quick!!

So what makes u think he was poached...

@@markhamblin11121 if he was hit by a car around here 190" buck would be the talk of the town. 2 if he died from EHD no one ever found him in the creek bottom. 3 if someone else killed him in season as I said it would be known. I just think someone poached him and got scared so they never checked him in when season opened. Of course this is all my opinion. I know he did just evaporate. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🦌🦌

Thanks bro!! 👊🏼

Thanks so much! Yeah...super hard to know for sure!! Interesting theory though!!

Thanks soooo much!!! Yes it does!! Changes everything, doesn’t mean it doesn’t bother me but he changes the heart when I want to stay angry!

I put the tape on it myself, it was 150 inches, has a ton of mass!

There is def a serious problem of poaching out there for sure! Would castration be a good enough punishment to stop poachers?!! 😉🤣🤣

Uggggghhh that is painful!!!!!

Dang. Deer are smart as can be until it comes to crossing a dang road. I never could figure that out.. I feel for ya brother.

Wow!!!! That is super unfortunate!!! Takes the wind right out of a guys sails....

I found a buck someone shot at night and left in a field. Meat was spoiled. Nice basket 10pt. A friend took the rack. The wardens charged him with illegal possession of deer parts. Then took his license to hunt and fined him. Kind of shitty situation.

​@@albertlemont5471 damn sounds like a pretty laid back 'understanding' game warden! Lol. My friend lost his hunting license last year because he was duck hunting and the Warden found 3 lead shells in the back of his tailgate. But none on his person. Was a small fine but then yeah couldn't hunt his waterfowl last year.. I was wondering why he didn't hit me up for duck hunting!

Totally agree!!! It will screw a person up big time!!

Appreciate that! Not a fun situation for sure…I bet down there dealing with poachers/road hunters is a big issue…

@@swostillwateroutdoors yes sir it is and it should be a costly one if you are caught these people spend a lot of money on helping deer grow to trophy size and when someone steals it from you it hurts just as bad as if it was a car stolen from you

Absolutely….it sucks bad when that happens!!

I have had a deer or two with some similarities! Nothing quite like him though! Thanks!!!

I was reading a crap load of my uncles hunting books while down at the cabin. And believe it or not. A spike buck can give a doe the genetics for a trophy whitetail rack. I don't remember though if the spike had to be the son of Daddy though? But yeah, It's more about the deer getting old, good nutrition and minerals. Once his body's needs are met, it all starts going to that rack. That's why any deer that gets to be 5-7 years old usually has a thick nobby rack. Yeah some obviously have superior genetics than others but you can bet that little spike can knock up a doe, and that little yearling the following spring can grow and become a 225lb 12 pointer. Granted he gets all the minerals, nutrition, and age that is required

They have been able to do studies on spikes and have found that a spike buck could still be a boone and crockett! Pretty neat stuff!!@@mknight6556

I think that it popped! Not entirely sure though!!

Agreed!!! So true!!! I am just thankful to find and hunt a deer of that caliber!! Thanks so much!!!

Yes, I am sure it happens all the time...but yes def not worth it!!

Thanks so much!!!

No way??!?!!!! That is crazy!!!!!! Makes a guy wonder sometimes what happened...

@@swostillwateroutdoors I'm assuming that running through the brush she accidentally gored herself, the neat thing is she new she needed help and patiently stood still for me and let me do what I had to do. Had to do some praying for her during the process

Wow!! She must be very comfortable with you and trust you! Super cool though!

Since the time I raised Miss May I've raised 9 other ones, they all have their own different personalities, May has always had the sweetest, gentalist and most patient spirit within her than the rest of them. I didn't think I would ever get one any better than her, until baby Susie came along this summer, a late bloomer born in August and not having a winter coat going into winter she spent a lot of time in the house, she would sometimes sleep with my dog, but most of the time on my bed, she prefers the number 2 setting on her side, now that's bonding with a deer. Bad deal is they have to go potty quite often, it's generally 10:00, 2:00, and then she's good till 6ish.

@@toddhopwood9732 bahahahaha!!! That is hilarious!!! 😂😂😂😂

Yes and thanks!!! Appreciate that.

Hopefully it wasn’t poached off the private land 😬😬😬

Appreciate that!!!!!!!! Right back at ya!!!!

Thanks!! It was definately a frustrating situation but still feels good to have closure!

Yes, def a bummer!! Such a cool deer, thanks for watching!!

Thanks so much!!!!

Uggghhh…that is such a bummer!!!! Sorry about that!!!!

Haha, maybe I exaggerated a little ;)

So sorry you are having to go through that!!!! Super frustrating!!!!!!!! Hope it gets resolved here soon!!

@@swostillwateroutdoors I’ve run out of ideas I’ve also had an encounter with them last night after I posted my comment on your video and still nothing can be done. The warden knows about it and we are all baffled. Last year they were hunting with rifles during archery season and they had the nerve to shoot into my place on the same deer I was shooting with my bow . But without orange on I had no idea what happened to the deer. I heard the boom and saw the deer drop waited all night long to see if i could catch them but no luck only to comeback the next day and find only back straps taken and the rest to rot.

Wow what losers!?! That sucks dude!!!!!

@@swostillwateroutdoors yea man it’s terrible found another carcus this past weekend I plan to hunt my place this year with a gullie suite

Damn man that's crazy! Up here I find some illegal corn piles here and there but nobody shooting deer with rifles during archery season, that shit is hillbilly crazy.

Thanks so much!!!!

Thanks so much and same to you!!!!!

Yesss!! Don’t remember if I said anything about that in the video?? Yeah not sure what happened to him!

That is an incredible buck!!!! WV is a sleeper state, I know some guys that hunt out there and they find some giants!!

Thanks so much!!! That means a lot!!!!

Agreed! Not my deer but was my top target deer.

Heaviest antlered deer I have hunted in the big woods!!! I think he had like 5.5-6 inch mass 😱😱

@@swostillwateroutdoors yeah that thing is a old mature deer, it really stinks that it was poached would have cool to see at the hunters expo

Yes! Maybe I can talk the Dnr guys into letting us have it in the expo this year!!

@@swostillwateroutdoors that would be awesome why wouldn’t they let you keep the shed

They wanted to put it on the wall in the Dnr headquarters building, it was also that Dnr officers first big bust so the deer meant something to him too!

You gotta be kidding me?!? That is ridiculous dude….wow!!! Amazing people will go that that length to kill a buck illegally….😫 I am sure that made you very angry…

I am dealing with this at my house right now. Parking in my driveway and firing up their guns all night long, this is my house. There is a creek in my backyard that the deer use as a highway. The constant gunfire at my house all night long makes it like a war zone at my house.

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Ohhh wow!! That is crazy!!!! Glad you were able to get some justice!!!

Appreciate the great compliment man, hunting is filled with so many ups and downs and I know I gotta work hard to not let the bad get the best of me!

Thanks, appreciate it!!!

Agreed! I am not sure how all that works out in court….but they def came out much better in it!!!!

Yeah and they didn’t end up paying anywhere near that…a hefty fine would pucker em up a little more 😂😂😂

Yeah nice to have that closure, hopefully they don’t donor again!!

Appreciate that, not any better than anyone else, but just thankful that I have been forgiven by God! Agreed, they are incredible animals, deserve that respect.

Agreed!! Frustrating at times but can’t afford to let my undies get in a bundle over things!

Not sure which second buck you are referring to?

Yeah, seems like they get off a lot easier!

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That took some really good inner morals there!! That is an incredible deer!!!!

I am so sorry that happens to you…that is very unfortunate and doesn’t speak highly of hunters!!! So sorry about that.

So true....must be part of the thrill bragging about a buck. Sometimes I wonder how it would be possible for someone to get caught. If they are good at hiding it....

Appreciate the great comment!!! Yeah, I think that just that time outdoors is something that gets so sacred that it’s something you enjoy more and more with age!!

Def stings a little bit, yup absolute monster!!!!

Appreciate that so much!! Thanks, she is amazing!! 2 years old now, so much fun!!

Holy crap that is devastating....

@@swostillwateroutdoors yeah bunch of high school kids. There was another story going around of a different sort of special with a guy simply running them down with a truck.

@@ragnarw6600 wow what a bummer!!!