This is one of my whitetail bucks from the 2023 season and I am happy to get him on the wall. I do my own taxidermy work and it takes a while to get everything going in the right direction. The buck is mounted on a Competitors Choice semi upright form, Brad Eppley nose, Tohekin eyes, and Ozark Wood walnut panel. This is a large Oklahoma whitetail that weighed over 200 pounds with a 21 inch neck measured behind the ears. I worked really hard to get this one. I was setting in a ground blind in brush and grass on the side of a ridge in the late evening when he appeared. It was about 30 degrees with patches of snow and ice on the ground. There were 7 doe and 2 smaller bucks in front of me at about 100 yards and I noticed them looking intently down the canyon. The two smaller bucks ran back into a side canyon so I knew something was going on and then I saw him.
View attachment 1209801View attachment 1209802View attachment 1209803. His antlers are naturally chocolate colored and they were even darker when seen in the tall winter colored blue stem grass and snow covered ground. This is a short hair buck with genes that probably came east from the Texas panhandle. It is common in my area to see both short hair bucks from Texas and long hair bucks whose genes came south from the Dakotas. I was very happy to get him.
. His antlers are naturally chocolate colored and they were even darker when seen in the tall winter colored blue stem grass and snow covered ground. This is a short hair buck with genes that probably came east from the Texas panhandle. It is common in my area to see both short hair bucks from Texas and long hair bucks whose genes came south from the Dakotas. I was very happy to get him.
