Chad Odum smoked the buck in the first photo on December 17th. Chad was hunting as a guest on a friends place in the Mississippi River Delta. As you can see in the background, the Big Muddy has been on the rise and the water had this buck cruising a high ridge where Chad just happened to be waiting!
The second buck was shot on December 22nd in Covington county. I received this photo literally as I was fixing to post this, so I've not gotten the details on him yet.
Now let me introduce y'all to the Burgess boys. These boys have been whacking and stacking! The first photo is of Lane and Bradley. Lane harvested this bruiser with his pawpaw. Lane has already killed multiple bucks this season and he's only 10 years old.
The second photo is of Bradley. Bradley was hunting with his dad, Michael, on this hunt but not in the same tree. This was Bradley's first official deer to kill while hunting on his own...way to go Bradley! That's a heck of a good buck!
Here's a buck killed by my friend Blair Marble's cousin, Jody. He was harvested in Hinds county in early December. The buck was all by himself feeding on acorns up in the middle of the morning. He scored in the lower 160's
Rich Nichols sent me this photo of his brother, Todd's buck harvested earlier in the season in Claiborne county. Todd was hunting his lease and watched this buck fight with another smaller buck right in front of his stand. What Todd didn't realize was that the neighbors cows were in the nearby thicket. According to Todd, when he shot this buck the world seemed to be coming to an end as all the cows busted out of the thicket and stampeded through the woods!
Last but not least we have a harvest report from Jim "Ironman, White Hi Nee, Peewee" Cole. Here is his account of the hunt for this nice MS River buck:
Killed 12/3/2011 approximately 7:45 am. Scored him at 132"
With temperatures ranging in the upper 50's to mid 60's I really didn't have
high expectations for this hunt. In my mind I was just going to try to put
some meat in the freezer with a doe. I decided to climb a tree on the side
of what we call the Big Lake, which is in South Warren County near the MS
River. Right at daylight I had a doe come out around 50 yards to my right.
I kept glassing to see if I could find a fawn but no luck, so I let her pass
to be on the safe side. I turned as she got behind me and low and behold a
fawn appeared with her. By that time I had no shot so I was bummed about
that. I noticed another deer while watching her walk away, it was a 1.5 year
old 5 point. Right after that I saw another small buck following a doe.
They went on their way. Around 7:30 I picked up some movement in the cutover
to my right about 90 yards away. I put the binoculars up and knew it was a
pretty good deer but I couldn't determine his width or spread with the view I
had. He turned to walk across the cutover and I turned and grabbed my
muzzleloader. By the time I got the gun turned around he had made it to a
thicket and no shot was available. I was able to watch him for about 10
minutes in the thicket and I could see his head and antlers but I still
couldn't determine how big his body was. I sure didn't want to make a
mistake and shoot a young buck. We the buck walked out of sight and I text
my hunting partner Robby and let him know I had just let a possible shooter
get away. He text me back and I glanced over my shoulder behind me and there
he was walking in the wide open. I could see then he had a huge body so I
had to hurry up to get a shot. I stood up and turned around and found the
last opening I could have shot through and he stepped in it. I let the smoke
pole sound off and place a perfect shot on him. He never took a step. I
aged him at 4.5 and he weighed 236 pounds. He had 16.75" spread and 21.5"
beams. He had a 10.5" G3 on the left beam. One of my best deer yet. I
scored him at 132.5"
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