CANADA: BOWHUNT: Another Ontario Canada Buck

[Chago]

Hey guys, just wanted to share another buck I shot last week on my home farm. Back in 2017 I shot a official Boone and Crocket buck on this property. 2018 I shot one that was just shy of B&C by 3" but qualified for Pope & Young by a long shot. 2019 and 2020 I didn't have any mature bucks showing up so I let a lot of bucks walk. 2021 got another stud. This deer was over 6.5 year old is my guess. His teeth were nearly all gone. I have had him on camera for years and when I saw him I took him. I have not had him scored officially yet but he is no where near B&C but will easily be another P&Y.

 

[Reed Thoma Outdoors]

That's an awesome buck! Congrats

 

[gillettehunter]

Great looking buck. Congrats
Bruce

 

[PHOENIX PHIL]

Great buck, congrats!

 

[WAB]

Awesome dude!!!

 

[Neil Molendyk]

Beauty eh!

 

[Daktari]

Very nice buck

 

[BRICKBURN]

Congratulations.

 

[MarkB]

Another dam nice buck. You keep this up and that memory room of yours will need to be increased in size, or maybe add a monster buck from your place room? Well done.

MB

 

[Tra3]

Impressive! Very nice buck.
Tell us more: what distance was the shot? What archery setup are you using? Looks like a good hit so he must not have gone far.
Did you weight him?

final questions: (always about the joy of eating free range meat!) will you eat the heart? Do you have a tradition of cooking a tenderloin ASAP or something similar? With the age of that buck, you might have a good amount of sausage to be made.

 

[Justin.]

Congratulations!!!

 

[enysse]

Congrats, well earned whitetail!

 

[Chago]

Impressive! Very nice buck.
Tell us more: what distance was the shot? What archery setup are you using? Looks like a good hit so he must not have gone far.
Did you weight him?

final questions: (always about the joy of eating free range meat!) will you eat the heart? Do you have a tradition of cooking a tenderloin ASAP or something similar? With the age of that buck, you might have a good amount of sausage to be made.

Thank you everyone for the comments.

@Tra3 I have seen this buck a few times already this year. Again taking 2 years of passing bucks and not seeing anything mature on cams. This year when I saw this guy a couple times I knew he was a shooter. Then about 2 weeks prior to me getting him, I saw him while in the stand for the very first time.

My property has two neighboring wood lots one to the east of my land which is the whole way from front to back. Then In the north west corner another. So this particular stand is a great spot as its a crossing point for them to come from either bedding zone (the two woodlots) and cross to either water or food etc. By the way these are my favorite types of spots to hunt. I am big on the no scent, no sound, you were never there school of thought. I know guys love hunting over bait, scents, use calls etc. I have nothing against any of them, I have just never been successful with any of that, and if I have been its always young bucks or does. And every time they come in they are high strung, wind checking everything and anything mature and smart will wind you first and will be gone. So anyhow two weeks prior I did see this buck, he came from the Northwest wood lot and approached my fence line. He walked all along the fence line and I knew he was old when I saw him. But he just didn't get within bow range.

The day I got him it was another evening hunt and he was in the woodlot bedded down to the east of me. I saw him make his way behind me the whole way. I could see he started suspecting something was in the tree and I knew he was headed directly to my wind, like you could see he literally made a B line for that area. Amazing how they know. But fortunately for me my wind path was in a shooting lane that I had so when he stepped out I saw him lip curling and I knew I had a couple seconds before that tail goes up and he is gone. So I sent an arrow and he ran maybe 30-40 yards and just piled up.

I am archery hunting. The bow I use is a Xpedition Archery X ring 7. I bought a brand new MX-16 from them last year that I haven't even set up yet lol. This Xring has been with me for about 8 years now and she was the one who took the other 2 bucks too. I haven't given up on her good luck yet lol.

 

[dobber]

@Chago have you ever had them scored by http://frow.ca
i try to attend several shows every spring and score a bunch of great deer

cheers

 

[cpr0312]

Congrats and thanks for sharing!

 

[Chago]

@Chago have you ever had them scored by http://frow.ca
i try to attend several shows every spring and score a bunch of great deer

cheers

I actually had the first one scored for all of the books and never even sent them in. We had this talk a while ago. You described me as the "You are not that guy who shoots record book deer and doesn't submit them are you" lol. To be honest I would like to get the second one all done and now this third one in the 60 days. And actually get these all submitted. I reached out to Mike (he is the official who if I remember right lives out east of Toronto). He scored the first one and I asked him recently is this still valid or would he need to re score. He said it would be fine. PM me where you are located. Maybe we can do this all over again and submit all of these.

 

[dobber]

I'm just south of Detroit in Windsor, hope the shows are on this spring, i typically miss the Little Britain and Bass Pro one but they are decent shows, not sure what's out the Eastern side of TO. Give Liz a call

• Phone 705-742-0148

And i understand about the record book thing, while i score some absolute studs of deer only ever scored one of mine own - was symmetrical - only 2" difference between sides
Or check out the Flow webpage, shows a bunch of scorers and some could be within your area, i know Paul Martin is an official scorer for B&C as well