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Attached is a photo of the 9-point
buck I harvested on 1-13-01 in McMullen county. He was 6 ˝ - 7
˝ years old, weighed 196 lb, Grossed at 143 5/8 with 23” main
beams and a 22 2/8” inside spread. I was sitting on the ground
in the middle of a sendero 140 yards wide using only a mesquite
bush as cover. And yes the spines of the bush did get me a few
times.
At 8:00 am, I saw the buck walking down the sendero right
towards me when I shot him at 80 yards out with my .300 Rem
Ultra Mag using a 180gr Nosler partition bullet. He jumped and
ran off into the thickets with his left shoulder broken. After 5
minutes of waiting I heard his last wheeze and after another 10
minutes I went to track him. When I got to the location of the
hit I found no blood. I knew I had a good hit and heard him go
down in the thickets 10 minutes prior so I started looking for
blood on the dirt road he ran across. Still nothing, only a
bunch of what my wife, who also hunts, and myself call “blood
grass”. Green grass with specks of red on them that looks just
like fresh blood. They also had plenty of small rocks on the
ground that looked like coagulated blood. Finally after
searching the thickets I found the buck lying 25 yards in deep
with no fresh blood around.
What a day!! This was definitely the most exciting hunt trip
of my life so far.
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