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A Mailbox Full of Bucks

Oct 23, 2006 @ 09:57 pm by Moose

There certainly has been some great bucks taken in the past few weeks. I thought I’d post up a few that I’m aware of. Mike Beatty has taken another big Ohio Buck. I’m sure many recall his 2001 monster. I don’t have any of the details just the photo of the buck.

Photo Courtesy of Awesome Antlers

Next buck or bucks come out of Wisconsin these two bucks got their antlers locked.

Comments from the email are sketchy at best but here is what it said;

Three Lakes, WI we saw about a dozen guys in camo standing around a pick up truck. As we got closer and slowed down we saw a tangled mess of antlers. We were able to get these pictures of these two bucks that had been fighting and killed just hours before. counted at least 21 points on one of the bucks. What an awesome sight!

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I also received this unbelievable video footage also from Wisconsin I don’t believe these are the same animals and the accuracy of where these photos came from but some awesome bucks none the less.

Lastly a unbelievable buck coming out of Amish country in Ohio

Photo Courtesy of Times Gazette

Knowledge of the buck was a little kept secret within the Amish community on Wheat Ridge in Adams County. Only a few hunters outside the Amish community knew of the buck’s existence, and they weren’t talking, either. It became the secret of Wheat Ridge, spoken only within the hushed gatherings of a few local Amish deer hunters who had personally seen the old buck and its magnificent rack.

How you keep a deer like this under wraps is not an easy feat.

John would usually observe the buck during the summer evenings. “Usually just before dark, sometimes he would come out 7, 7:30, and a lot of time you could only see him for 15 to 20 minutes before it was two dark.”

“Not everybody saw the deer, only four of us saw him in 2006,” said John, “There was another Amish hunter who had seen him that was after him, but he hadn’t started hunting yet.”

A decision I bet he kicks himself about now.

Scouting pays off

About a half hour later another small buck, a three pointer, came into the bean field. “During the summer I would watch this small three point buck come out first, and then the big one would follow about five minutes later,” said Schmucker. “When I saw the three pointer come out, I knew the big one was close by.”

“The small buck came out of the corn field into the woods and then jumped the fence into the bean field about 5:30 to feed,” said Schmucker. “After the small buck came out the big one followed about five minutes later and he came through the corn and jumped the fence right into the bean field”

Read the whole story here at the Times Gazette

Word spread fast throughout the small tightly knit Amish community that the big buck had been taken. “For three days solid I had a lot of people over here,” said Schmucker.

I bet it did and it’s spreading fast among the English as well.