Short and Sweet rut vacation!!

  • shednut
    22 feet up
    Posts: 632
    November 3, 2011 at 7:01 pm #202840

    Well my 14 day vacation for the rut started yesterday. I passed a 140″ 3 1/2 year old last night, and was rewarded with a 5 1/2 year old buck this morning. Woke up a little late and hustled to make it to my stand at daybreak. Had 3 does and 4 fawns pass by shortly after first light. About 10 minutes passed and the buck parade started. Had a 3 1/2 y.o., two 2 1/2 year olds, and a 1 1/2 chasing does all over the oak ridge that I was perched on. That went on for about an hour and then things really died off. I was debating getting out of my stand around 10:30am but had a fawn come in from my west so I figured I’d stick it out till there were’nt any deer around. After watching the fawn feed below me for 10 minutes I noticed an adult doe off to my west coming my way, with a buck keeping pace with her. As soon as I got a good look at him through the binoculars I knew it was a buck that I called “Devilpoint”. The doe worked her way below me to twenty yards and when the buck stepped into my shooting lane at 30 yards I drew back and let him have it. Double lunged him and he only made it about 30 yards before flopping over backwards. I’m one happy camper! I believe that I may have a shed from this buck as a 3 1/2 y.o., and I found one of his sides this past spring. This was one of two bucks that I was targeting this season and I couldn’t be happier with making it happen so early into my vacation….the only bummer is that now I’ll have to pull house duties instead of sit in a tree .
    Best of luck to all you fellas! It’s getting good out there

    kooty
    Keymaster
    1 hour 15 mins to the Pond
    Posts: 18101
    November 3, 2011 at 7:04 pm #113821

    Wow, he’s a beauty! Congrats. Sounds like you should be spending some time videotaping from the tree the next 12 days.

    shednut
    22 feet up
    Posts: 632
    November 3, 2011 at 7:09 pm #113822

    Here are a few more pictures.


    prieser
    Byron, MN
    Posts: 2274
    November 3, 2011 at 7:20 pm #113825

    Congrats on a great Buck

    lick
    Posts: 6443
    November 3, 2011 at 7:29 pm #113826

    Awesome buck Kurt ! Congrats !

    ragerunner
    Winona, MN
    Posts: 699
    November 3, 2011 at 7:32 pm #113827

    Very nice buck! I’d trade some housework for a buck like that any day!

    mark_johnson
    St. Croix River
    Posts: 940
    November 3, 2011 at 8:20 pm #113828

    Great buck Shednut!!

    JacobNohner
    Posts: 217
    November 3, 2011 at 8:50 pm #113833

    WOW Great buck I only dream of having action like that up here!!!

    johnsy
    Mantorville, Mn
    Posts: 831
    November 3, 2011 at 9:12 pm #113834

    Congrats on an awesome buck :toast :

    travis_eckman
    Trempealeau County, WI
    Posts: 424
    November 3, 2011 at 10:58 pm #113836

    Congrats Kurt!
    I can’t wait to celebrate with ya!

    gobbler
    Central, MN
    Posts: 1110
    November 4, 2011 at 12:28 am #113841

    Congrats on a great buck! I feel your pain with the “honey do list”. Try shooting a good buck in the first 5 days of season? I wish MN would change the rules so a hunter could shoot a buck with bow and gun. Oh well, guess I’m off to WI to try and get another one.

    chev70
    SW Wisconsin
    Posts: 1008
    November 4, 2011 at 2:15 am #113848

    Great Buck Shed Congrats

    sauger
    Hastings ,MN
    Posts: 2442
    November 4, 2011 at 2:54 am #113852

    What a stud!!! Looks like 12 day’s to stack up some slick heads

    flatlandfowler
    SC/SW MN
    Posts: 1081
    November 4, 2011 at 3:26 am #113853

    Great buck! Congrats I would trade two weeks of house work for a big like that without question.

    Jon Stevens
    Northfield, Wi
    Posts: 1242
    November 4, 2011 at 6:48 am #113856

    Way to go Kurt! Was it possible that I may have seen that buck?

    postmaster
    Posts: 32
    November 4, 2011 at 10:14 am #113857

    Nice job. Sometimes there is a price to pay for success. I don’t know anyone who wouldn’t trade a buck like that for house duty. Still lots of does to harvest.

    rsballar6941
    Rochester, MN
    Posts: 412
    November 4, 2011 at 10:37 am #113858

    Awesome Buck, and one big congrats to you!

    witte
    West Salem, WI
    Posts: 428
    November 4, 2011 at 12:01 pm #113865

    What a brute. Congrats.

    scottb.
    Southeast, MN
    Posts: 1014
    November 4, 2011 at 12:17 pm #113869

    Way to stick to the plan! Great buck!

    shednut
    22 feet up
    Posts: 632
    November 4, 2011 at 2:13 pm #113875

    Quote:

    Way to go Kurt! Was it possible that I may have seen that buck?

    It’s possible, I killed him at what I would guess is 3/4 of a mile from the ridge you hunt on. Good luck Jigger, there’s plenty of good one’s left out there.

    Thanks for all the kind words fellas. Best of luck to all still hunting .

    dennisdalan
    St Cloud, MN
    Posts: 974
    November 4, 2011 at 2:23 pm #113877

    Killer buck man! Way to go!

    qdm4life
    Albertville, MN
    Posts: 956
    November 4, 2011 at 2:43 pm #113880

    VERY cool, AWSOME buck!

    illiniwalli
    WC Illinois
    Posts: 878
    November 4, 2011 at 4:08 pm #113890

    big congrats. he’s a dandy

    shednut
    22 feet up
    Posts: 632
    November 4, 2011 at 4:22 pm #113893

    Here’s one last picture with his sheds from the past two years. Pretty cool as my dog BB found his single side from when he was 3 1/2. I found one side of him this past spring but traded it to another fella that had found his other side. Met up with him for a few celebratory beers last night and he gave me the set from last year.

    bob_bergeson
    cannon falls
    Posts: 2798
    November 4, 2011 at 4:36 pm #113903

    Great looking buck Congrats

    coppertop
    Central MN
    Posts: 2853
    November 5, 2011 at 2:53 am #113947

    One great looking buck! Congrats! Passing a 140″ had to dfficult.

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