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deeks1989
11-21-2011, 06:02 PM
Was out this past weekend with Isaac, my girlfriends younger brother hunting the Grand Forks area. After filming a few nice mulie bucks and a stomper ram I set out in quest of a whitey buck to end my "ungulate" season. The morning of Saturday Nov 19th I headed up into my favourite spot in the area to hunt. Not seeing much for whiteys other then a couple does I headed quickly over to my other "honey hole". Getting to the spot me and Isaac instantly started locating many deer in which one was a spike buck. Watching him chill around with the does for a while I began to think it was time to move on when all of a sudden a small average 4x4 walked out to our left headed towards the spiker and does...
Isaac willing to take the buck did not get a chance due to the buck dissapearing obver a slight hill. Coming up with a game plan of how to get this buck...we decided to try and rattle him in for fun. Isaac had to run back to the truck to get the set of rattling antlers to see if we could rattle him in. Just after he left for the few minutes I glanced way up on the mountain side in a totally different spot and spotted 2 whitey's standing together. Identifying one was a better then average buck and in a perfect spot to try out my long distance shooting I have practiced a bunch on I figured I would take him. Ranging the tree-line beside him I got a reading of 448 yards. Scrambling around I eventually got a rest, compensated for the steep uphill angle and squeezed off knocking the buck down. It was neat shooting that far dropping the animal and it felt rewarding. So then we hiked way up the steep mtn side to the buck, cut my tag and took pics and celebrated before the work started.
Here are some pics of the buck and where I shot from...enjoy.

Here is my set up and where I shot from to where the buck is laying. The buck is in the strip of white way up toward the top of the mtn dead just outside the timber line.
http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/384300_10150964253925425_651515424_21408134_145783 8196_n.jpg

Here is the buck.

http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/306419_10150963629815425_651515424_21404113_127627 390_n.jpg
http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/306419_10150963629825425_651515424_21404114_132037 2948_n.jpg
http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/383321_10150964268800425_651515424_21408190_624100 375_n.jpg
coach
11-21-2011, 06:19 PM
Great shooting and very nice buck! Congrats on a great season. Thanks for sharing.
Whonnock Boy
11-21-2011, 06:30 PM
Yeah, way to go Deeks. Send the young guy runnin' while you get a bead on the buck. :-D

Nice shootin'!
deeks1989
11-21-2011, 06:34 PM
Yeah, way to go Deeks. Send the young guy runnin' while you get a bead on the buck. :-D

Nice shootin'!


Haha it was funny how it worked out. But he still has a way bigger buck then me he got this fall in the junior season when we went out. This coming up weekend we will be hitting our spots again to get him his buck.
Weatherby Fan
11-21-2011, 06:49 PM
Awesome Buck,nice shooting and great pictures to,but that really is dirty pool deekin the young fellow out like that :mrgreen:
Thanks for sharing
WF
kennyj
11-21-2011, 06:56 PM
Nice buck. Good for you for practicing those long shots.
kenny
deeks1989
11-21-2011, 07:02 PM
Awesome Buck,nice shooting and great pictures to,but that really is dirty pool deekin the young fellow out like that !
Thanks for sharing
WF



I did not get it when whonnock boy wrote that....You guys got the story mixed up. I might have to rewrite it...but the way it went for EVERYONE to see is that we were watching the spike and does then a small 4x4 came out that I would not shoot but Isaac would. That buck went over a knowl and that is when Isaac ran back to the truck to get the rattlers. On his way back I spotted another buck(the one I shot) in a totally different spot then where the dink 4 came out... I then said to Isaac there was a big one way up top that I was going to shoot and he was pumped so I shot it cause I spotted it... long story short there were 3 bucks.
Not mad just wanted to clear it cause if any of you have met me you would know I am a very generous person.
mark
11-21-2011, 07:10 PM
Nice whitey Deeks, congrads on a pretty long shot!
Weatherby Fan
11-21-2011, 07:18 PM
[QUOTE=deeks1989;1023470]I did not get it when whonnock boy wrote that....You guys got the story mixed up. I might have to rewrite it...but the way it went for EVERYONE to see is that we were watching the spike and does then a small 4x4 came out that I would not shoot but Isaac would. That buck went over a knowl and that is when Isaac ran back to the truck to get the rattlers. On his way back I spotted another buck(the one I shot) in a totally different spot then where the dink 4 came out... I then said to Isaac there was a big one way up top that I was going to shoot and he was pumped so I shot it cause I spotted it... long story short there were 3 bucks.
Not mad just wanted to clear it cause if any of you have met me you would know I am a very generous person.[/QUOTE

We were only teasin ya buddy , no worries and again nice shootin,is that a Tikka ?
ROEBUCK
11-21-2011, 07:20 PM
nice buck guys !
congrats !
BCHunterTV
11-21-2011, 07:58 PM
thats a great buck Shaun!
deeks1989
11-21-2011, 08:59 PM
Thanks everyone. It is a Tikka T3 Laminate Stainless rifle with the Leupold VX3L 4.5x14x50 B&C reticles. Shooting 154 Hornady SST.
Wrayzer
11-21-2011, 09:23 PM
Looks like you had a good season Deeks, congrats on all the sucess and good luck gettin the young one a trophy.
d6dan
11-21-2011, 09:33 PM
Solid GF buck Shaun!.. I definitely know where that spot is.:wink:. Congrats on a stellar season.:-D
deeks1989
11-21-2011, 09:34 PM
Solid GF buck Shaun!.. I definitely know where that spot is.:wink:. Congrats on a stellar season.:-D

Thanks Dan.
moose2
11-21-2011, 10:16 PM
Good shooting nice buck
Mike
fozzy
11-21-2011, 10:45 PM
Congrats on the nice buck Deeks!!! Sweet shooting too, very nice.
one-shot-wonder
11-21-2011, 10:48 PM
Good shootin on the WT..... Even nicer work spotting some of those endangered Mule deer in Grand forks country!
hunter1947
11-22-2011, 03:42 AM
Shaun we talked about you wanting to shoot a buck at a long distance in our hunting camp this fall glad it all came together for you the shot was a solid hit at that distance nice shot you made bud ,congrats to you and Isaac on getting this fine WT buck..
matt420
11-23-2011, 12:14 PM
great shootin man, thats a long shot, congrats on a beauty whitey
shaydog65
11-23-2011, 02:21 PM
Hey Deeks, Great buck, and great shooting! Just wondering how you did your bullet drop compensation? Did you have data from previous shooting recorded, isnipe, custom scope turrets, DOA600 scope etc?

Just curious cause I'm interested in reaching out a little further too. At this point, I'd have to pull out my Remington 700Police which is roughly 12lbs but I have DOPE recorded out to 1000m on it.
deeks1989
11-23-2011, 05:33 PM
Hey Deeks, Great buck, and great shooting! Just wondering how you did your bullet drop compensation? Did you have data from previous shooting recorded, isnipe, custom scope turrets, DOA600 scope etc?

Just curious cause I'm interested in reaching out a little further too. At this point, I'd have to pull out my Remington 700Police which is roughly 12lbs but I have DOPE recorded out to 1000m on it.


Studied up on long range shooting, watched tons of videos on long range and also uphill and downhill shooting... I know my gun and my bullet drop well and graph it out in my head before shooting...
rocksteady
11-23-2011, 05:39 PM
Congrats....

Long range sure has a different feel to it....Drop the hammer, gun bucks, scope settles, deer still standing, wait, wait, wait for it ............

WHAP...Down it goes...

I took a muley at 475 yards on time with my 06 and it was awesome...