Trey's 2011 String and a Stick Buck
And the story as told by Trey...good stuff
"It all started when I joined a new chruch. My pastor is a rancher, and in desperate need of somewhere to draw some blood, I asked him if he had anywhere he would be willing to let me hunt. He said he did and he wouldn't charge me a dime to hunt it.
As we pulled up to the property, I knew something amazing was going to happen with this piece of ground. It was a full section, the river running along the back side with soy beans on one side and wheat on the other and a wooded area on the bank. After finding a tree that looked promising with trails all around it, I hung a stand. For the next few weeks leading up to the season, I sat in my truck and scouted the area. One night, I saw exactly what I was looking for, it was a bachelor group with approx. 6 or 7 nice bucks, one of which being considerably bigger, but didn't know how much bigger seeing as how I was 600 yards away.
First day of the season was finally here. I couldn't wait to be in the stand. That day I saw quite a few does and a nice younger buck, but no big boys. October 2nd came around and I decided to hit the stand early. I had been sitting there all day and had only seen 4 does and little forked horn. It was around 6:00 or 6:15 pm when the does came back and started working my way. After debating with myself for awhile, I went ahead and decided to go ahead and stick one of them if the shot presented itself. When they were at about 50 yards, they stopped and looked off to their right. When I turned to look I couldn't believe my eyes. There he was, the big buck I had seen a few weeks before, only 18 yards away! It was getting late, but still light enough to see to make a good shot.
The only thing was, I could only see his body and the right side of his rack. I automatically knew it was him and that he had a good set on his head. So, without hesitation I grabbed my Mathews Z7 Extreme settled my pin behind his shoulder and put a Rage broad head through him. By the time I let everything settle down and got down from the stand, it was dark and I wasn't finding much blood, even though I saw my arrow hit and found pieces of lung on the ground, along with my arrow that had good blood on it. I decided to back out and find him in the morning. Needless to say I couldn't sleep that night. When I went back that next morning, I couldn't believe what I saw. I had no idea he was that big! He had only run 100 yards from where I had shot him and fell over dead.
The only sad part in this story is that the coyotes had found him before I made it back and had eaten him clean from the base of the neck down. At least they left me the head, so now i have a nice skull mount to hang on the wall, and a great story to tell."
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Trey's String and Stick Buck
And the story as told by Trey...good stuff
"It all started when I joined a new chruch. My pastor is a rancher, and in desperate need of somewhere to draw some blood, I asked him if he had anywhere he would be willing to let me hunt. He said he did and he wouldn't charge me a dime to hunt it.
As we pulled up to the property, I knew something amazing was going to happen with this piece of ground. It was a full section, the river running along the back side with soy beans on one side and wheat on the other and a wooded area on the bank. After finding a tree that looked promising with trails all around it, I hung a stand. For the next few weeks leading up to the season, I sat in my truck and scouted the area. One night, I saw exactly what I was looking for, it was a bachelor group with approx. 6 or 7 nice bucks, one of which being considerably bigger, but didn't know how much bigger seeing as how I was 600 yards away.
First day of the season was finally here. I couldn't wait to be in the stand. That day I saw quite a few does and a nice younger buck, but no big boys. October 2nd came around and I decided to hit the stand early. I had been sitting there all day and had only seen 4 does and little forked horn. It was around 6:00 or 6:15 pm when the does came back and started working my way. After debating with myself for awhile, I went ahead and decided to go ahead and stick one of them if the shot presented itself. When they were at about 50 yards, they stopped and looked off to their right. When I turned to look I couldn't believe my eyes. There he was, the big buck I had seen a few weeks before, only 18 yards away! It was getting late, but still light enough to see to make a good shot.
The only thing was, I could only see his body and the right side of his rack. I automatically knew it was him and that he had a good set on his head. So, without hesitation I grabbed my Mathews Z7 Extreme settled my pin behind his shoulder and put a Rage broad head through him. By the time I let everything settle down and got down from the stand, it was dark and I wasn't finding much blood, even though I saw my arrow hit and found pieces of lung on the ground, along with my arrow that had good blood on it. I decided to back out and find him in the morning. Needless to say I couldn't sleep that night. When I went back that next morning, I couldn't believe what I saw. I had no idea he was that big! He had only run 100 yards from where I had shot him and fell over dead.
The only sad part in this story is that the coyotes had found him before I made it back and had eaten him clean from the base of the neck down. At least they left me the head, so now i have a nice skull mount to hang on the wall, and a great story to tell."
See the Gallery with all the pictures
Trey's String and Stick Buck
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