160" Eight Point Public Whitetail

[Zim]

Failed to draw anything out west this year despite piles of points. Then OTC Colorado elk hunt got cancelled due to two medical problems. But healed just enough to draw my bow Sept. 30th. So hit some Illinois public land on my way to work in St. Louis for the week. Cold front happened to hit that Friday and this guy wandered out of the corn from private land. Made terrible shot due to shoulder weakness, but got lucky and hit artery. He only went 86 yards down a ravine. I quartered him and hand carted over a mile to my jeep, finishing at 3 AM. Three hour hunt. 8 Hour extraction. 160" gross P&Y.

 

[JohnCushman]

Congrats!!

 

[recon6036]

Super buck. Congrats!

 

[tarheel]

Nice gnarly old buck. Is it the pictures or is he like me and getting gray around the snout?

 

[skimerhorn]

Awesome buck, worth the effort

 

[schmalts]

Nice!

 

[kansasdad]

Glad you could carve out some field time with a grand deer as the icing on the cake.

 

[Big Fin]

Cool to see that kind of hunting on public land in a place not known for such. Congrats on a great deer.

 

[mtmiller]

Huge 4 pt. Nice.

 

[L. I. Yankee]

Really not 've back....Congrats.....

 

[1_pointer]

Huge 4 pt. Nice.

Ha!! I figured you might have something to say about the point count...

Very good buck! Congrats!

 

[mtmiller]

Ha!! I figured you might have something to say about the point count...

Very good buck! Congrats!

I know you would have called a a nine-pointer since you can hang a ring off that one point.

 

[noharleyyet]

That's a main frame 8 below the gnat line. Nice buck.

 

[LCH]

No matter how you count the points, a giant buck in my book. Congrats!

 

[elk_hunter]

That is a sweet buck - looks like he was on his way to a split brow - very nice!

 

[BlakeA]

Congrats!

 

[MT_elk]

Congrats on a great deer!

 

[TheShootist.41]

Congrats

 

[1_pointer]

I know you would have called a a nine-pointer since you can hang a ring off that one point.

Yes I would have!

 

[DreaminofMT6X6s]

This is awesome. I'm stationed at Scott and have been slow to get started this year but This gives me some motivation to hang the stand!