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Brandon Thomas
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Cayuga County, New York,
Monday, November 19, 2007
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I call this deer "crazy horns" as you can see from the picture.
A typical 4 piont on one side and a fork with a small kicker on the base of
the other. Gross score ~120" and nets in the 80's. Field dressed at 180lbs.
I first spotted this deer on 10/29/08 on one of my trail cameras and could not
figrue out for the life of me what it was. The buck was in the distance of one
of the photos so I didn't have a clear look at him...but could tell something was
definately different.
I kept the camera up all fall and never got another picture of him. I finally
decided I was going to hunt this buck and this buck only. On the third day of
southern tier firearms season I coated myself with cover scent and started the
20 minute walk to my stand at ~3AM. I knew if I was going to get him, I had to
get there extremely early.
I soaked myself with an entire bottle of Code Blue doe in heat as I walked into
stand, freshened up my Tinks buck bomb, and made the final 100 yd journey to my
stand. After about 30 min of sitting there in complete darkness I heard a deer
walking. It got closer and then it stoppped. Then I heard antlers scraping on
a tree. I was sitting there thinking, "great, a buck is nearby and all can do is
listen to him scrape his antlers." Eventually he walked away.
It finally started getting light out and I could see across the corn field I was
sitting by. About 7am I was focused on the 2 squirrels that were fighting about
10 feet from me when I caught movement in the corner of my eye. I slowly turned
and saw a large bodied deer through the walnut tree. I raised my binoculars to
get a better look and immediately dropped them to my chest. I was staring at
"crazy horns"! He was about 150 yds away working towards my scent bomb when
he stopped (presenting me with no shot) and stared in at the bomb...looking
for the doe he could smell.
After less than a minute he turned around and
started walking back towards the woods. I was freaking out, the biggest deer
I have seen and I won't even get a shot! I stood up in stand to watch him,
he made it the woods and started walking towards me. I found the first opening
I had and put my scope on it waiting for him to walk through. He stopped in
the opening and I sent my slug flying at him.
I waited 20 min and then descended
from the stand and started the tracking. I found blood everywhere that he was
standing and followed it. He ran 80 yds and was down. I called my buddy and we
got him out of there. What a buck!
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army rangers lead the way
hudson valley
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10/31/2008 4:23:43 PM
sir nice buck i like unique bucks.i shot one once had 6 on one side and and one big spike on the other totally cool.very similar to yours.whats nice is its not the run of the mill buck its diffrent.they have character and they look mean.nice good luck.
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smokes
marcellus, ny
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10/28/2008 10:38:29 PM
awesome deer buddy, just came across this page tonight and was happy to see my buddies on here. i will be forward to seeing up to camp soon man and stopping over to see the mount of crazy horns in person. nice work.
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theemperor
hemlock, ny
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9/17/2008 10:50:11 AM
way to go Brandon. neat buck!
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