The morning of Nov 5th started with a barrage of texting back and forth between my fellow forum member and friend Bigbucksurock. Bigbucksurock had just scored on a 17 pointer early in the morning and I was in my stand passing smaller bucks and hoping something bigger would come by. At 10am after I had sent another text out ......... I stuck my phone in my pocket and when I looked up....a buck I called Tecumseh was bird-dogging across an open field right to me. After grunting to him a short sequence......he came right in......walked into one of my shooting lanes that had cut the day before as I hung the stand. Tecumseh stopped in the lane at 25 yards....and my trusty Destroyer 350 sent the Slick Trick on its way.......and it was OVER!! Tecumseh ran about 80 yards and piled up.

Not a huge buck, but all tines except G-1's were 9-12 inches long.........and I wanted to get back home to chase something else..........More on that later I hope....

Very nice once again putting a big deer on the ground congrats

congrats dew...another great buck

Great looking buck, Dew! Congrats!

"Not a huge buck" Whatever

Great looking deer. Congrats

That's a real nice buck, congrats!

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Very fine deer. I always look forward to your posts this time of year........ Every year!!!! Hope to see another deer soon.

nice buck...... Congrats

I love the cockiness of some people "not a huge buck" uhh okay !!

Another beauty. Nice job

Nice going.

Nice Buck!

Awesome buck!

In the area I am at in Ohio......the one I got is not a huge buck, which is what I meant when I typed that. These bucks were also on my trail cams and farms I was hunting in Ohio this year....and they are HUGE bucks....

So maybe before you label someone as "cocky" Johnc911 when they say they didn't shoot a "huge buck".......you may want to ask them what they are comparing them to before you go off and type out a "quick snap negative comment/judgment"..... You'll look like a more credible moderator.

Good Hunting all.......

Beautiful deer! Congrats on the monster!

Congrats. Def a LOT to look forward to next year there.

You seem to make it happen every year! Congrats on another mature whitetail

"So maybe before you label someone as "cocky" Johnc911 when they say they didn't shoot a "huge buck".......you may want to ask them what they are comparing them to before you go off and type out a "quick snap negative comment/judgment"..... You'll look like a more credible moderator."

Narcissism. The pursuit of gratification from vanity or egotistic admiration of one's own attributes.

Nice deer, but the attitude is still pathetic. Some things never change.

+1....pass the popcorn!!!

Attitude, maybe. Im not on here enough to see all Scarletts posts but I do know he appearss to be maniacal about his time put in so I just dont see it as cocky. Every year he kills more big deer than anyone I see posting.

He's like a golfer thats a 2 handicap but plays 6 days a week. Good golfer yes but there are tradeoffs to be that good. Scarlett seems to put in that kind of time and it pays off. His choices and his tradeoffs. I'd love to be able to groom properties and find properties w big bicks. I'm just too busy with life.

Another great deer and congrats! Love seeing the pics and thanks for sharing the trail cam pics as well.

Them are some nice deer. I think it is good you shot the one you did them other ones need at least another year or two to mature and grow.
Geeesh yea right thanks for sharing

Oh and John thanks for your post which allowed the rest of us to see the trail cam pics of some very awsome deer

What Brew said !!!!!

I enjoyed the trail pics as well. Hard work and knowing how to pattern these big boys shows in those pics! I wish I could put that much time and effort into finding big bucks.

Nice deer Tim. Congrats ... year in and year out.

If you ever need a hunting partner to split lease costs I would like to apply!

Love the coke can base mass of trail cam picture#6. True "azz kikker"Congrats on a nice one dew

Cool! Real nice!

Has NOTHING to do with the deer at all. He puts in the time, money, and effort and it has payed off. (DFA, before you call this a great deer, you should probably ask Scarlett what the definition of a "great deer" is so you do not get scolded.)

Great buck! Looks like you are the 1st to score for our team! I really wish I had more time to hunt this year. I'm looking forward to late season over some beans when I get a break from school. Good luck on your Indiana buck. -camokid

Nice buck Tim. Congrats.

Great Eight!

Isn't baiting legal there?

congrats!

I believe for the buck to count for this sites contest it would have had to have been taken here in Indiana. Best of wishes when you get a break from school. I remember those days when getting my Bachelors and Masters Degree......it was precious time to get out for a bit to hunt..... and my dad would always just smile and shake his head while helping clean the blood out of the trunk of his 1967 Oldsmobile from his borrowed car I had to use.

The good ol' days.........

Yes baiting is legal in Ohio. Which makes it even sweeter when you don't use bait to score in Ohio. Kinda feels like using your bow here in gun season......ya know you could be using something else, but you choose to do it "your way".

Very satisfying.......

.........and usually the target of a few dis-believers or "egg-throwers" that don't understand "personal goals and personal values" (yes, even when nobody is looking) ........or does not want to give credit where credit is due.

Dew,
I totally respect your passion and time spent on hunting big bucks. Not only do you score big every year but it's not by accident. I'm not willing to invest that much time. So I don't have the success you have.
Nice Work!

I do think trail cams should be illegal though. I realize they are perfectly legal, but to me it's a far better advantage than a baitpile. At the very least, they should have to be pulled a couple weeks prior to deer season. To me, sitting in my recliner or worse yet, on the clock at work checking pictures and times and dates with a smartphone... To me, that's crossing the line

I agree....... the whole "being able to check the cams with your cell phone" has rubbed me the wrong way too. The Moultrie M-80's I use, you have to physically be at the cams to switch SD cards. There is no doubt....cam information does help. For me though.... the cams don't dictate my stand selection sites....they simply help me determine what bucks are in the area that may slip by my stands. It's always nice to know if you may have 3,4 or 5 bucks in the area over 150...or bigger to shoot at..........or nothing at all in the area that peaks my interest.

It also helps with my own termed "Soft Center/Fine Center" philosophy of approach to big buck hunting.

Scarlett, could you elaborate on what that philosophy means? Thanks.

The continued march of technology makes for great discussion and argument. After following a couple of prominent outfitters in Kentucky over the last couple of years I have come to a clear conclusion that baiting is a much stronger advantage then cameras, any camera, even the texting cameras. But remember, trad guys were rubbled the wrong way by bow with wheels, vertical guys rubbed the wrong way by crossbows, archery guys rubbed the wrong way by gun guys, many rubbed the wrong way by regular trail cameras when they were first introduced. And the list goes on. It has taken me a long time to realize that being rubbed the wrong way about use of legal technology is of little value and use of whatever technology is available should never be questioned or judged with a legal harvest. The issue with you Dew is that you do it your way and you do it well. That's not to suggest it is better or worse then anyone else regardless of size of harvest, use of technology or outcome of effort. You are simply to be congratulated on your accomplished like all others who harvest a deer.

Since they are used by EVERY deer hunter in one form or another, most have long forgotten the single biggest advancement in "modern" deer hunting.…..the portable tree stand! I don't ever hear anybody bitching about someone using them!

Point taken Yaz!