I did it after 5 years trying!

Thats just great! I am in the 2nd year of trying to get one with my flinter so can feel for you. Fine looking little man beside you as well :thumbsup: Dan.

Bravo, Trench! :applause: Very nice! :thumbsup:

:thumbsup: Congratulations!
I love hunting season, great stories and good shooting. Timing is everything, being in the right place at the right time.

Way to go! Thanks for sharing the experience with us too, a great Thanksgiving.

Way to go!! Heck of an accomplishment! :hatsoff: :hatsoff:

GREAT JOB Trench! I wish Ohio had gun season or at least ML season on Thanksgiving day!

Proud for ya Trench. Way to stick with it for five years straight. Gonna make you up something this winter when I get time in honor of your persistance and for being such a fine gentleman. Always appreciate your demeanor on this forum. You deserved that buck in my eye.

Awesome job Trench! Congratulations! :thumbsup:

Congrats to you Trench and the young hunter to be :thumbsup: Pics like that will be something to talk about for years to come :thumbsup: I have a pic with my oldest Daughter soon to be 23 years old when she was around 9 mos old with a bow killed buck that she looks at almost everytime she come to the house :wink:

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Real happy for ya old man. How ya going to follow that one up for Christmas?

Hey, congratulations! You may even go five years again without getting one, but aint it fun trying?

That shot was actually pretty typical for a good roundball hit. Sometimes they drop right there, and sometimes they trot off a little ways. Point is, he was dead when the ball hit him. I have a friend who just killed one with an '06, and it went even farther than yours, with a good lung hit. You did everything right, and your load is right on the money. :thumbsup: Bill

Congrats Great Buck!!!

scobrien said:

Proud for ya Trench. Way to stick with it for five years straight. Gonna make you up something this winter when I get time in honor of your persistance and for being such a fine gentleman. Always appreciate your demeanor on this forum. You deserved that buck in my eye.

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Wow. Your generosity is touching. Thank you for the kind words, Scobrien. :bow:

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Real happy for ya old man. How ya going to follow that one up for Christmas?

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I think I'm just going to follow it up with some squirrels. :grin:

MDK_WV said:

:thumbsup: Congratulations!
I love hunting season, great stories and good shooting. Timing is everything, being in the right place at the right time.

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Being able to pull off a shot on the ground and that close to a deer without spooking him made missing those two does earlier in the season easier to swallow.

Congrats! I knew it would come to you in time... :thumbsup:

Snow

Trench: I'm awful proud of you for sticking to it. A flintlock deer is such a gift. Hope to do it myself some day.

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Trench, it takes steady nerves to keep calm and take a deliberate shot like that, on the ground and with the deer in your face. That's the mark of a hunter. I think the deer are in trouble, now.

Couldn't happen to a nicer guy, congratulations.

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