Freaky archery buck pics.....

supersider34 11/15/06 7:50am

Here is a freaky buck that was shot yesterday.
It was windy out so me and my buddy went out hunting. Actually I was trying to pheasant hunt and him looking for deer. We hooked up and I told him I would be out and about. Well he went one way and I went another. After not finding any birds or seeing anything I made a drive out for deer. Found some doe's and a spike and when i came around a corner I saw this guy at about 75 yds. Thought there was sagebrush or velvet hanging from his horns. Well when he got skylined I saw it was horns. So on the phone I went to let Matt know I found a wierd NT. He ended up hooking up with me and jumped in with me. We found a deer bedded about a mile out under some sagebrush. We hoofed it out there and found it was a spike. Well on my hunt this year the small buck was off the group of the deer I shot so seems to reason that this fellow was not that far away. Well we followed where this spike went and lost him in all the holes out there. Then again we spotted some deer another 3/4 miles out. We snuck out to them and found a buck with 5 doe's. The buck was bedded in some sagebrush and could not get a look at him. We knew it had wierd stuff on him. We watched him for about 45 minutes and about 217 yds away. We decided to get closer and a better look at him. Got to under 100 yds and laid on some rocks and still could not tell if he was the right one or not because I messed up on thinking the buck I saw in the morning was way bigger than this one. I was way off as I only saw the trash together as he topped the hill. So I guess it wrong and was trying to figure out if worth going after.Matt decided to go after this buck and with the wind blowing hard out of the SW we figured it might be possible to get in there. He snuck back out and aorund the rocks we where laying in and came at them from the NW. He made it to the edge of the rocks which put him right behind some doe's. There was 2 doe's on this end and 3 doe's on the other end. Buck in the middle. The rocks and sagebrush they where laying in ran N to S. So knew then that the wind would not blow or swirl around and into them. I moved down and around some rocks to get closer and watch this event unfold. Well as I was laying at about 75 yds the doe on this end started staring at me. Finally the doe's stood up and stared at me with the buck still bedded. They did not seem to think much danger as they moved around and had 3 of the doe's staring my way. I was glassing threw some grass so knew it was not a total bust. Matt waited and what seemed like for ever the buck finally stood up. Matt came to full draw and put a thumping on him. Buck ran out about 20 yds and went over. Matt put a second arrow in him to make sure he was down for the count. Matt got to within 20 yds of them without them knowing. He did a awesome job at it also and filled his tag. Could not of asked for a better situation.
Only thing is when we got pics taken and started gutting this buck, This buck had no nuts. They where the size of pea's. We asked each other and where wondering if this buck could breed and put off offspring????
But anyways here are some pics and have to post a few so you can get the whole pic of this freak buck.