Backyard horns evening of 26th.

[Lonegle57]

Have a small food plot on the back side of my 5 acres. It does back up to 145, mostly
planted pines. The genetics in this area are pretty bad, bucks for the most part are
non typical, having a great one side, the other... not so great, often just a huge,long spike.
This year my target deer is "Split", a nice 5 on one side, a huge split on the other, figure him
to be 4&1/2 years old. Anyway on the evening of the 26th a doe and her young one were
feeding when this guy was trailing them about 3 minutes later. Doe ran and he looked to follow.
It was close to dark and I thought it was Split. Not sure but my second look at the high side and I
pulled the trigger. A handgun hunter, this one took a 215 grain swc from a Smith 657 with a
Burris red dot. Shot was a little low, at 45 yards but clipped heart and plumbing, chest was full of
blood. I guess him to be 3&1/2 and am glad he is out of the breeding pool. Guess him to have weighed
close to 175 and me being 65 he weighed a lot more by the time I wheeled him to my truck. Now to
catch Split during legal hours.

 

[karlvv30]

Congrats. I like those funky rack bucks.

 

[Shmelton]

Did he have any damage to his left rear leg? (left side if u are looking at him)


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[Lonegle57]

Shmelton,
No damage, he was fine. I have over the last number of years watched many bucks
out back with a normal one side and the other most often a spike. First one was an old guy,
over 5 years with 4 on his left and the other was close to a two foot spike, called him Saber.
Two years later the mirror brothers, one had 4 on left-spike on right, the other 4 on right-spike
on left. This year "Split" and yesterday morning, think Saber came back to haunt with a pic of
this guy. Hope to get another pic of this one, doubt he is Saber, haven't seen the old guy in 5 years.