2008 Whitetail

[Wild Images]

Took this old brute with 20 minuites of shooting light left on the last day of this years Alberta hunt.
He is an old warrior, thick horns on the decline and a huge body. I'll take a character buck like this any day, sometimes score doen't come into play :smile:
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[waistdeep]

Good on you. Isn't it great to harvest the best of them! Those old boys have left many a youngin to carry on the bloodline.

[Bighorn hunter]

Can't agree more, what a great trophy

congrats
bhh

[Caveman]

Nice looking old Monarch, Congrats!!

[Stone Sheep Steve]

That thing is a TANK!!!:shock:

His antlers may be on the downhill slide but his body sure aint!!:cool:

Huge congrats!!

SSS

[proguide66]

Doesnt get better than that !.........:cool:

[Freshtracks]

Some great AB whities showing. Big congrats ... definately a 'buck fever' maker.

[Chuck]

I cannot disagree! Very nice catch indeed. Wish we had them like that here.

[bruin]

He looks like me after Christmas dinner! Good old grain fed prairie deer. Gnarly old buck, way to go. How were his teeth?

[TSW]

That guy is an absolute pig! Well done!!

[Wild Images]

His teeth were about 3/4 of the way gone, he had a puss pocket on his ass about the size of a 2lb margerine container . At some point in his life he had been hit high in the shoulder and it was a bis lump running back into his backstraps. His body was as big as any mulie I have ever taken, somewhere in the 300 lb range

[whitetailsheds]

Wow, nice buck Ken! Who'll be doing the taxidermy work? LOL. Look at the neck on that thing! Just got back from my own Alberta WT hunt but will do a separate thread.

[6 K]

Nice, very nice.
I'd have taken him in a heart beat.
Neat to hear he survived prevoius bullets,
congrats.

[Brambles]

Nice buck Ken, glad to hear you connected on your Alberta hunt. That buck sure is thick in the neck and shoulders. Nice dark heavy rack too. Are you going to work your majic on him or ???

[Wild Images]

Yup, Started looking for the right mannikin for him so that he looks like the brute that he was.I'll post some pics when he is done.

[1/2 slam]

What a PIG. Nic

[Thor Rider 88]

lol holy crap, that body is massive, that old boy liked his food... nice heavy rack also, great deer congrats on that one

[catwelder]

congrats, it sure pays off to stay off the trigger sometimes until the end

[Wild one]

Nice buck if you don't mind me asking where abouts in Alberta were you hunting. I miss hunting those big bodied Alberta bucks.

[Shade Tree]

He is an old warrior for sure and a beautiful trophy. Congrats.

[Kitimat Killer]

what a nice w/t way to go thats a wall mounter thats for sure

kk

[kennyj]

Everything they all said X 2.
kenny

[Wild Images]

Athabasca region, they lost 50-70-% of the deer last winter and it really showed. Will take a while to rebuild.

[Wild one]

My bro inlaw lives up there and has shown me pics of true monsters dead and alive. I may have to head up there myself next year

[Asper]

Absolutely do not want to steal your thunder. That is a peach of an animal. I'm only showing this to reinforce your point. You constantly see perfect trophies. Farm land or urban. These deer never fought for nuttin. When you drop something, gut it, let it hang in 15 below overnight. The next day its everything two men that look more like sasquatches can do to drag the rigged body a 100 yards down hill on snow. Throughout the rest of the process you find rotten teeth, a 30 and 243 cal slug festered into the meat from years past. Your taxidermist calls you after he's started it and says"I've been doing this 30 yrs, Do you realize what you've shot?"And yes he had much higher scoring wider racks in his shop. I guess where I'm going is through all that I really am honored. Way more honored to have a war horse like yours on the wall than a perfect walt disney deer. GOOD ON YOU MAN

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