Old Giant buck dies

[AT Hiker]

A 7 yr old giant was killed by a car this morning. He lived on Fort Campbell military base on the KY/TN, just a few miles down the road from me.
This morning

Last year

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[big44a4]

Sad


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[Hilltop]

Wow, heck of a deer. Sad to see a great one like that die that way.

 

[ElkTrout]

Man that's too bad! Heck of a deer!


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[Winchester]

Wow, great deer. How sad.

 

[Work2hunt]

Wow! What a deer. That is unfortunate, but I'm glad it was a car and not a poacher. When I 1st opened this post I saw the 2nd picture 1st, before I read anything, and I was sure it was going to be another poacher story.

 

[bghunter]

It almost made me cry, looks like WT, it looks much better in velvet.

 

[AT Hiker]

It is a Whitetail, a freak one at that.
As for poaching, this deer was well known by biologist and the chances of someone legally killing him was slim as he spent most of his time in a off limits portion of the military base. Needless to say, if you lucked up and killed this joker you better have had all your t's crossed and i's dotted. Unfortunately for us hunters he was killed by a car this morning.

It also appears he lost some inches from last year. I will dig up some more pics. *Yet he still has some growing to do but it looks like last year was his prime.


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[AT Hiker]

This is a pic the biologist got of him last year doing surveys.

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[Work2hunt]

It is a Whitetail, a freak one at that.
As for poaching, this deer was well known by biologist and the chances of someone legally killing him was slim as he spent most of his time in a off limits portion of the military base. Needless to say, if you lucked up and killed this joker you better have had all your t's crossed and i's dotted. Unfortunately for us hunters he was killed by a car this morning.

It also appears he lost some inches from last year. I will dig up some more pics.


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I wouldn't be so sure that he lost inches. I've got pics of a 12 pt for 3 years and he put most of his antler on in August, but his pal he hung out with put most of his anter on mid-June to mid-July.

 

[Work2hunt]

This is a pic the biologist got of him last year doing surveys.

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I hope he left some DNA in the local herd.

 

[siwulat]

Wow. Truly impressive animal right there!

 

[Alabama]

This is a pic the biologist got of him last year doing surveys.

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Good grief what a toad! That is the deer of many lifetimes!

 

[xtreme]

I parachuted nearby where that dear was killed. I assume.

 

[mallardsx2]

What a buck. I saw a buck very similar (Almost as big but not quite) to this magnitude once in PA....Never seen or hear of him again. He lived in Propagation area land.

 

[Jrod]

That was an incredible buck. To bad, but he had to have bred at least a couple girls during his tenure so I would hunt the outside area for a couple years for sure.
Cheers