cc93crusier
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Well, Friday evening i was lucky enough to finally harvest my 1st buck after years of tagging along hunting trips..My brother and I have been going on hunting trips with my father for about 20 years, but have never really been serious about killing one ourselves.. We basically had tagged along on most of my father's successful trips up untill last year. Finally got some buck fever and decided I had to get a kill of my own..
It all happend Friday evening in the D5 CA hunting zone. It was a public land hunt. That made it extra special, because the deer I got, well let's just say it is a 5by5 monster
. You just don't normally find people harvesting a nice trophy buck on public land oout here in CA.
I spotted the deer hiding behind a large tree stump. At first glance, all I seen was his large massive antlers and ears moving trying to hear where my noisey brother was coming from.. I had my aim right on his head as that was all I could see. I had there for about 3-4 mins and taking a head shot ran through my mind. I starting panicing and starting to think that if I didn't do something fast, this deer was going to jump up and run away fast. The last thing I wanted to do was shot at a buck running through heavy brush/trees etc.. So I chambered a bullet, and pullied the trigger. Bam hit him right below the right-side antler about 75 yds.. Instint death, no suffering, although I still feel kinda weird about taking a head shot.
I didn't mind taking a shot at the head because I knew I was not going to send the full head to a taxadermist, to damn expensive... What I did want was the meat, and beautiful antlers, luckily nothing at all happend to the antlers.. I was wondering what you guys thought about taking head shots..? By the way here are a couple pics:
That is my son standing next to me.. When I killed the deer, I thought that this was probably a little too much for him because he is only 5 years old, but the first words out of his mouth when we finally walked up to him was, "Dad, I wanted to shoot him."
It all happend Friday evening in the D5 CA hunting zone. It was a public land hunt. That made it extra special, because the deer I got, well let's just say it is a 5by5 monster
. You just don't normally find people harvesting a nice trophy buck on public land oout here in CA.I spotted the deer hiding behind a large tree stump. At first glance, all I seen was his large massive antlers and ears moving trying to hear where my noisey brother was coming from.
. I had my aim right on his head as that was all I could see. I had there for about 3-4 mins and taking a head shot ran through my mind. I starting panicing and starting to think that if I didn't do something fast, this deer was going to jump up and run away fast. The last thing I wanted to do was shot at a buck running through heavy brush/trees etc.. So I chambered a bullet, and pullied the trigger. Bam hit him right below the right-side antler about 75 yds.. Instint death, no suffering, although I still feel kinda weird about taking a head shot. I didn't mind taking a shot at the head because I knew I was not going to send the full head to a taxadermist, to damn expensive... What I did want was the meat, and beautiful antlers, luckily nothing at all happend to the antlers.. I was wondering what you guys thought about taking head shots..? By the way here are a couple pics:
That is my son standing next to me.. When I killed the deer, I thought that this was probably a little too much for him because he is only 5 years old, but the first words out of his mouth when we finally walked up to him was, "Dad, I wanted to shoot him."
