Alright here’s the story on him;
After not seeing much deer movement the first two days of rifle, mostly due to windy conditions, I decided to sit at a stand tucked back in the swamp my father and cousin put up about a month ago, which no one has sat in yet. Monday afternoon turned out to be perfect hunting weather, with a little chill and little wind.
Walking to the stand I spooked a doe out, and after climbing in the ladder stand and waiting for 5 minutes, she came walking back into the swamp. After another 30 minutes she came walking back out again, this time right in front of my stand, and me with out a face mask on, I tried to hide my face in my right shoulder so I wouldn’t be so exposed. Well as soon as she got about 15 yards in front of me, I thought I heard a grunt from the direction the doe came (behind me and to the right)…when a massive body and horns stepped out through the brush, I couldn’t even stop myself from saying “oh my god”, I was praying that he would follow the doe to an easy 15 yard shot with my .308 ha, but he turned and started walking away, but he only went about 10 yards, and started rubbing a tree. With the doe still standing right in front of me I couldn’t move a muscle, when she finally wondered off behind a pine tree, I roted myself to back to my right quite a ways being that I’m a right handed shooter, balancing on a small corner of my stand, with one foot on for balance and the other one dangling down, I raised my scope just in time to watch him take two steps into the swamp and vanish. Well sense I heard him grunt I figure I’d try and challenge him, so I grabbed my grunt tube around my neck, and hit a few small grunts, which ended up callin in a small fork horn from my right, who walked behind me and disapeared somewhere??? After a little bit I grunted again, this time a little louder, when I saw him stick his head out and start looking for the deer who made the noise. All I could see through the scope was his neck and the very front part of his shoulder, and it was through some light brush. Not wanting the biggiest buck I’d ever seen on hoof while hunting disapear, I put the cross hairs on his neck, and pulled the trigger…..
After the shot rang out, there was silence, no deer running, no tails, no noise…which I wasn’t sure if it was a good or bad thing, so I referenced where he was standing from my stand by lining up two trees. I got down and started heading that way, when I saw a tail running back into the swamp, which I thought for sure was my buck,so I figured I should go look to see if I can find some blood, I lined up my trees and started walking, when all of a sudden about 15 yards away on the other side of a big log, I saw a deer laying right where he was suppose to be standing, I put my scope up and saw his body slowly rise and fall…so I quickly put one into his chest, where he let out a loud growl and started kicking, after a few seconds he stopped moving with me ready to fire again if need be. After he had stopped moving for a full 2 minutes, I walked up, and saw what kinda deer I had actually shot. My dad who I had texted after I shot the second time was already on his way at this time, knowing that I was holding off for a good deer. He showed up, shortly followed by my cousin, and everyone was all smiles! After guttings him out, we had to drag the beast about 300 yards through the swamp to where our atvs could make it, which didn’t bother me a bit! He had split brow tine on the left side, and a split G2 on the right, and two other stickers on his right horn. Couldn’t have asked for a better hunt, getting to call with a grunt call, having to shoot from an akward position, through some brush, at a small area, way back in the swamp, and then to have my dad and cousin there along with the ride…it was awesome!
took me 10 years of gun and bow hunting (sense I was 12, now 22) to get my first deer on the wall, and now looking back I wouldn’t have had it any other way.
Hope you guys enjoy the story, and that last pic is of my dad and me riding back to the cabin right after we loaded it into the trailer of my cousin’s 4 wheeler.

what a tank! awesome awesome whitetail!

WOAH

That’s pretty cool! as long as they don’t start sitting in the tree next to you and chirp for 2 hours straight! then you might feel the need to on the head haha

I took the picture to work today and asked my hunting manager if he had heard anything and he said the thing grossed around 180 but netted 150 because he had a lot of stickers around the base. aparantly it was shot on the south side of valley city and the guy who shot it also shot a 190+ inch two years ago….says my hunting manager

being that I go to school in north dakota I get resident licenses…went out on saturday morning and between the 5 guys we shot 17 ducks and 6 geese…and would of shot more but the guys next to us were sky shooting and scaring away the ducks. wack em and stack em guys! they’re there for the takin!

whoever is starting these rumors are not real hunters, real hunters would want every hunter to come away with a monster buck every year…like everyone on this sight! and way to go on that monster!

It is about an hour south of Fargo, near the town of Milnor

that thing looks like a cow with antlers!

Ha they might know cause my last name is knutson but if you come sunday i’ll be at customer service all day so I will know who you are talking about ha

If you happen to bring your around the Fargo area you should stop in at wholesale sports (formally sportsmans warehouse) haha I’m sure we could find a place for you on the bragging board! get r done rob!

I’ll hopefully be out on saturday morning! Good Luck Rob

I spent around 40 hours in the woods around work and the only turkey that was in my set up the whole time was one hen! so when the coyote came in at 5 yards I couldn’t resist!

Good luck out there this year! I’ll be on the east side closer to school (ndsu)…not as many deer on the east side but it beats studying!
and I believe you can buy OTC out of state archery licenses for
$200

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In some places the weather has been so bad, this could have resulted from high winds. maybe.

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That is awesome footage! the decoy must of looked at him funny to get him that mad

I start Friday as well…they’re calling for thunderstorms

That is one big bird! can’t wait to see the pics!

I think another reason why many people don’t pass up turkeys when they get the oppertunity is the turkey season is usually only a week, while bow season is 4 months leading to more oppertunities and like my dad said above a bigger turkey in the field may be the leading cause of passing up a long beard in attempts to get a longer beard

I go to the expo every year and ya the seminars are very helpfull. There are usually around three displays of different turkey calls which can usually be found just by listening. The deer and turkey expo does tend to lean towards deer hunting a lot more then the turkey hunting thought.

That sounds like quite the idea Branden I may have to try that. For myself I have had much success with creating mock scraps down my shooting lanes where there are trails crossing through it. My shooting lane is a little wider then a deer is long and this helps them stop them giving me a chance to set up or even see them. as well I have found that while even freashing up old scraps it is always helpfull to move the dirt around with a stick rather then just poor some on top. I also made the mistake one time to dip part of the licking branch in the urine yeah every deer that smelled urine at head height ran away fast. as for leaving scent trails I usually walk with the bottle down the path lightly shaking the bottle leaving drops here and there but have never had a buck following my trail.

I’ll be on duty at the Sportsmans in Fargo…I believe that every sportsmans is having the big buck contest that weekend so stop by your neariest one and check out some of the big scores

I like Primos for being what their videos are called the truth…when the hunter finds the deer dead he actually just found it rather then them finding it earlier and setting the camera next to it and watch them walk up to it and “fake” emotion as said earlier.

I also like how Roger Raglin can still get so excited over even little deer

Jim Shockey also has won many awards for his camera angles and he does have a lot of cool footages of many different kinds of kills with a muzzleloader

But the Crush is again a top my list for obvious reasons

I don’t really havea problem with the guy shooting a deer that size, “greatness is in the eye of the beholder” I do however think that he should of found someone to take his deer for the year before he shot it, or not shot anything at all.

That thing looks part elk!

I heard Cabelas offered him a pretty penny for the buck as well.

and I spent all that money on camo!

I made a mock scrap this weekend and had two does pass by it down wind and they stopped and turned around and sniffed around it for awhile…too bad they didn’t have a 150 inches of antler on their head!

looks like your kid has got a great start, deer hunting and a twins fan great looking doe and cool story

great story and cool looking 10 pt!