Every now and then, its your background

[John Bennett]

That turns an ordinary shot, into something special

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Spent the day yesterday, trudging through 3 feet of snow in minus 21 degrees in shooting Whitetails. Got lots of great shots, inluding  bunch of this 17 pointer. The above was my fist decent glimpse of him. Had to sit in a snow bank that was upto my waist and prey the Does wouldn’t get wind of me and blow. He always hung out way back in the brush for awhile before venturing out with the Does…He’s no dummy, always letting the Does be the Canaries.

[jarrod white]

John, sweet picture!!!!!

[David Anderson]

So the dude is a bit of a magnet huh ?

www.dsaphoto.com

A picture is thousand words that takes less than a second while a thousand words is a picture that takes a month.

[anonymous]

I remember when I had that kinda cache- who am I kidding:)))

Will

[brian primeau]

Hey John, looks like you finally hooked up.  Are you finished with him cuz the are two weeks left in the bow season and I still have a tag.
Just sayin… 😉
Good for you John, I know you paid the price.

Seriously though I am off between the 24th and 30th (1 guide TBA) if you want to get together and do some shooting….or some shooting…Or some shooting of some shooting. ;D
Or just beers. Gimmeacall.

[Mike McKeown]

Question, and I think I know the answer, does 17 points refer to the points on the antlers??

To me they are horns and only have one point on each.
We also measure them in length, Kudu trophy is 52 inches in length or more… or in really bushy areas, 4 turns… Gemsbok, 56 inches… etc
Then Buffalo and likes we measure the distance between the tips, A big bull, like you see at the beginning of “Battle at Kruger” (YouTube it) might be 48 inches, a 50 incher is almost a goliath, then horn length 40 inches…

if you want to get together and do some shooting….or some shooting…Or some shooting of some shooting. ;D

Made me laugh…

[John Bennett]

So the dude is a bit of a magnet huh ?  😉

All the great wildlife shots come from hours and even days of personal sacrifice and hardship, truding through mud & snow, climbing great mountains, fording mighty rivers and sometimes fighting lions.  😮

It’s why I shoot people.. 😉

Great shot !

Lmao D.A.

Brian.
Would love to get out. I think I have 1 more day to burn, or theres the Sundays between New Years and X-Mas. Shooting of some Shooting sounds good 🙂

Mike when I have time later today, I’ll see if I can find a succint explanation of the Scoring system used here. You could google Boone and Crocket. But yeah the 17 refers to te “points” on the antlers.
I’ll have a couple more pics of him sometime in the future that show his rack a bit better.This came just a couple minutes after the above

[brian primeau]

John, you have my cell. I’m off today, my client cancelled and I am undecided.

[john michael white]

Nice picture John.

[Eric DeWitt]

Nice pics, but how do you get 17 points on that rack?

[John Bennett]

Heres a better pic. One thing Ive learned after shooting a few specific Bucks more than once is that I often need 4, sometimes even 5 angles to see all that its head gear has to offer.

If you go buy official scoring, yeah some of them are kickers. To me they are still points…Even this pic doesnt show everything, theres alot you cant see. I count 13 here alone.

If you check the 1st pic where hes behind the does, his right beam, looks classic G1,2,3 and brow.. G1 has that fairly substantial “kicker”. So thats atleast 5 on the right, not counting smaller kickers

back to the 1st pic. Left side. Theres again 4 plainly visible, wheras

[John Bennett]

Some of the small kickers are visible here

[Zach Matthews]

I have a sense that the ancestors of the DeWitt family may have been responsible for killing off the Pleistocene megafauna.

Zach

[anonymous]

John

I’m curious what that buck is doing in your last post –

[Aaron Christensen]

Here’s a couple we took home from iowa with us last week:

Wow, preparation pays off.  Those are some big deer.

[John Bennett]

Doesn really show it to well but he’s sctaching his head on the twig/branch thats sticking up 🙂

Got some of him feeding as well be hes extremely obscurred by branches and stuff

J

[Eric DeWitt]

I would give him 13 or so, based on what i saw, it depends if you submit to the “1 inch point rule” to count, or the “if stevie wonder can feel it, i count it” rule!  Another interesting note, you notice how his right beam is significantly narrower, and has more junk on it than the left?  Often times that is caused by an injury the previous year or during the antler growing season to a leg or body part on the opposite (left)side of the animal as the deformed antler (right).

Zach, i’ll take that as a compliment!  Its actually been a phenomenal year for my dad, brother, and myself.  Both myself and my brother harvested our personal bests bow hunting in michigan, only to go to iowa and blow those out of the water.  My dad also scored a personal best for michigan just this week with his muzzleloader (shooting a buck i had at 6 yds with my bow, but i couldn’t shoot him because of self-imposed 1 buck per year rules on our farm).

Will, that buck is rubbing his faace on that stick… obviously, right?  All deer have scent glands in the corners of there eyes, and deposit that scent on licking branches and rubs as a way of communicating with other deer in the area.

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