This is my SE MN 5.5 year old 9 pter that I shot on October 5th, 2007. Haven’t had him scored yet but he will go in the mid- 130’s.
After 10 years of hunting, my first bow buck not is not too shabby. I have done my part and shot many does in that time and passed many smaller bucks in hopes of better results.
This is a success story at its best. We took over a farm 3 yrs ago that was hunted and pressured extremely hard the last year (2004) the other group hunted. They shot 13 bucks under 2.5, and the land owner, my friend, claims that # approach 30+ bucks in the last 3 seasons they hunted (holy $%^&) but to each their own. Since taking over the farm we have been doing some QDM, implemented bows-only, and added a no hunting sanctuary. After 3 seasons we are noticing a huge difference in the #, age classes, and quality of bucks on the farm.
This buck is one that we didn’t have any trail cam pics of…so we are unsure if he was a local boy or not. Too bad he won’t get any photo time in the future…
Chad