bobcat, I think what many folks are calling the long tail leaving the edge of the picture is just its right back leg. the tail is short with a black tip, just hard to tell because the picture is blurry.

Awesome! Thanks for sharing.

Great buck and great write up! You earned him with some hard work and smart hunting.

I am sorry. He will still be hunting with you every time you are out. I swear my dad, who has passed on, watches out for me on all of my hunts. It is in the peace of the outdoors, that I think of him most, and get the strongest feeling that he is still around keeping an eye on me.

Awesome, great late season trophy. Nice write up. Thanks for sharing.

Wow, beautiful pic. Well worthy of a calendar

Please continue. I haven’t commented previously, because I don’t know what to say. But I have been reading and praying. I can’t pretend to understand how or why things turn out the way they do, but I do believe that prayer/hope helps and the more the better. By sharing it here, you are just multiplying the prayers/well wishes and that is definitely a good thing.

Still a sweet picture even though that buck is in no danger from that doe.

Everyone else will differ but for me and my golden and springer who don’t point and sometimes don’t work as close to me as I like…

1. Grouse with Dog – Hardest
2. Pheasant without Dog
3. Grouse without Dog
4. Pheasant with Dog – Easiest

good shooting!

Awesome. That is a memorable hunt!

Did you darken the antlers or is that just the picture of the skull that makes the antlers look darker than the trail cam? I like the dark antlers.

Congrats to Lindsey! I just never will understand some people. A big buck on the wall is worthless if you know that how you got him was wrong. Do these people tell their buddies how they stole someone elses deer when they are showing it off? Do they brag about how they trespassed? I hang deer on my wall and I am proud every time I see them. I think back and remember the story of the hunt. What do they have to be proud of?

Good job, late season birds well earned.

Gray Squirrel

Great buck! Congrats! Beautiful photos.

Another great buck and awesome post!

Is something wrong with that buck with the splits? His body looks messed up. It would have been hard to pass him up, but you ended up with a dandy anyways!

that was hilarious

Awesome job! As a MN hunter, how exactly does the earn a buck tag work? I always wondered if you had to quit hunting, haul the doe out, register it, purchase a new tag for a buck, and then head back into the woods. It sounds like you don’t need to. That is nice.

Do you buy 2 tags at once, a doe and a buck? Is the buck tag “activated” as soon as you shoot a doe?

Lots of things had to go right for you to pull off this hunt, and everything did. Great job!

Nice job! How many cameras were you guys running? That one doe shot looked like you had three? One on the shooter, one close up on the deer, and one from farther down the field? Quite the production.

oink oink, thats a pig

Awesome post! I loved the detail. It shows that it pays to stick with it. Great bear and nice pics!

The hills are so steep where I hunt, that I choose only to shoot does when I can drag them down hill or up hill a short way to where I can get an ATV or truck. Dragging a doe up a near vertical hill is no fun. They don’t have antlers to grab on to.

Awesome story and awesome buck! Do you think you would have found him without the snow? 70 yds to the first blood would have been difficult to say the least without snow to follow tracks in.

Great job.

awesome story, thanks for taking the time to write it up. Great deer! You’ve had some special veteran’s day gifts. Thanks for serving

2 does for team 35

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Head shot? Not a stich of waste on her!! That euro is awsome!! Sad as it is finding a big dead buck, at least you found him and you will enjoy looking at and wondering about him!! Thanks for shanring!!

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Nope, I took out her heart and one lung. The slug exited low because I had such a steep angle shot. The stand is 20 feet up and she was down hill of me.

That dead 8 would have been a great deer with 2 more years. He was wide for a young buck.

Go Team 35! I will be putting down some deer this weekend, so we should get a few more points on the board.

Congrats. It sounds like you definitely put your time in and earned that buck Great shot on a great deer.

No ground shrinkage there! You knew it was a shooter, but you didn’t know it was a SHOOTER. Awesome, thanks for the story!