Osage Roost
All Hunting => Stick and String Hunting => Topic started by: etboxcalls on October 25, 2013, 10:10:14 PM
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Wednesday night was a pretty interesting night for me. Got in stand around 4:00. About 5:00 I heard something coming up the trail I walked in on, it turned out to be about a 300 lb bear. Well, the bear walked about 20 yds from me and stopped. it must've caught some movement as I was taking my Glock .45 from my pack just for caution. He then started walking toward my tree so i thought, enough is enough. I began clapping and yelling to get him to run. He had other plans. From there he began woofing at me and when I thought he was going to leave, he false charged my tree and came to about 3 yds from the base, stood on his hind legs staring me down. Needless to say my .45 was ready to bark, thank god he decided to walk away without incident. But it was definitely the most intense 2 min I've had in a while.
About an hour after the ebar came through, I caught movement about 75 yards up from me up on the ridge. I could see it was a buck but didn't know how big. I decided to grunt at him a few times. He did nothing more than look and began walking the other way. SO I decided to pull out the snort wheeze. He immediately turned 90 degrees and started coming down the hill. On his way down (which took almost 20 min) he made 6 scrapes and trashed a small pine sapling. Eventually he came into range and I smoked him at 32 yds. 12 points, 19.5" spread, with a 3" sticker and 4" droptine, 185 lbs. By far my best buck, it was a very emotional experience for me. As some of you know, I lost my Dad back in January and as that buck was working his way down the hill, I asked my Dad to "please make this happen". I know he was right there beside me that night. Thanks for looking
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Congrats on a great buck Ed!! *up*
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Congrats on that super nice buck Ed. Thats a beautiful deer and i am sure that your Dad was right there smiling ear to ear.
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Ed, as a life long bowhunter, I can appreciate this story with all of the excitement and big bucks brings...the bear on the other hand would probably have had his way, cause I would have just pissed on him ROTFLMBO ROTFLMBO. This is a great buck on all accounts, but certainly so much more noteworthy because of your father and the connection you had. Congratulations,this day will forever be engrained in your memory bank as a very special time. *up* *up*
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Congrats. Ed that is a fine buck a real trophy right there.
Jon
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congrats Ed awesome hunt !!!! Hold on it !!!!!!
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Sure is a nice one and a great hunt for the memory book. Big congrats
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Nice buck Ed and a great story. Your dad was the film crew on your hunt!!
Congrats!
Denny
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Congrats Ed on a mighty fine Buck!! *cool*
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Congrats Ed on a real fine trophy buck, I am sure your Dad was watching over you and is smiling as a result of your harvest. *up*
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Ed
You killed a nice one there! *up* *up* *up* *up*
Bill
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Congrats again Ed. Awesome buck and even better story.
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Congrats.
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Ed,
A dandy buck with lots of excitement. Well worth it. I did a lot of talking to dad the last couple year hope he heard me. Congrat!
Pitty from PA
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Congrats on A great buck!....I would have messed up my pants when that bear did that...Your dad was with you more than once that day!...he is watching over you.....I lost my dad and in 1999 and there's not a day goes by, that I don't think of him....Congrats again!
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Good Buck Ed Congrats on your cherised memory..
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Ed,congrats on a real fine buck! I'm sure your Dad was right there with you. *up*
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congrats on the great Buck Ed---and the help from above also *prayer*
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Nice one, Ed! Wish I could have been there to film that whole experience.....! I love those Bears! *up* *up* *up* *up*
Bill
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Awesome buck