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Our 2010 Prairie whitetails!
 Well so far this has been the best season my dad and I have had. We both got our first bow animals and a couple of nice whiteys!
Thursday found us leaving the house at 4:00am. Highways were not that good, but we still made it to our zone on time. We made our trips to a couple of my dads honeyholes but nothing was out. I guess it was because of -25 degree weather and the windchill. (My dad has been hunting this zone for the past 20 years and said this was the worst it has been, not the temperature, but the wind). Well Plan A was shot and so were the rest up to about F. Well we went to the 'Big Patch' where my dad, his dad, and friends have had awesome luck in the past. Always have put up deer. So we get out of the truck and talked about how we were going to do this. We were going to walk each side. Well we start walking in and im still putting on my gloves when a little 4x4 whitey comes bolting out 50 yards away. Too small. So I keep walking and when I get over this little rise I see this guy bolting out toward my dad. I yell "Nice buck" and right after I yelled I hear a shot, another shot, and one more. I keep walking to the end of the bush and my dad is waiting where he shot, so I walk up to him and say "there is a big in the buckbrush up there" and he replies and says "yep, he is in rough shape". I look through my binos and I cant see him so we must have bedded down. We go up to him and as we get closer he jumps up and my dad puts another one into him, but the sucker was still alive and needed 1 more.
His first whitey in 8 years so he is pretty pleased. Ad he came out of his favourite area.
Well now its my turn. Day 2. We get up, have a cup of coffee and some toast. still about -25 ish and foggy. GREAT!! We just kept poking along, doing some pushing, some driving, and in all of this land we saw a mulie doe and fawn, EVEN BETTER! So we go back to where I shot last years doe, when ever we go over there, there has been some whitetails so it was out best shot. So we get up to this spot and there ya have it, this buck and 3 does standing/rutting in the middle of a dried of slough bottom. They were out there about 600 or so yards. They start to run off the lake and this bad boy can't even keep up, (most of you guys know what I mean) well they just stop on this ridge and he is after this one doe (first deer we saw doing this in 1 1/2 days) Well my dad and I just keep walking the edge of the slough bottom/lake which is about a mile long and wide. My dad tells me to keep walking and get to the fence line and he goes back to the truck. I just keep walking and by now the deer crossed this fence and just went into some buckbrush and I knew they were still in there playing around. I cross the fence and start walking quitely and there is this little 15 foot hill I decided to climb up. As i get to the top I see a doe about 40 yards to my left, then I looks a bit more and see this guy facing me at about 60-70 yards. Safety off, crosshairs on his chest, BOOM, THUMP. Heard the smack. So I waited about 5 minutes to go look for some blood. Sure enough there is some decent spray and there is only 3 legs touching the ground so that means broken front shoulder. I followed the taril for about a minute and he jumps up ( I knew that was coming but I wasn't ready for it.) I try to find him in my sights and once I did I touched off a round but a miss. SO i know where he is going which isn't too good. Some thick trees and bush. I crawl up this steep dirt pile and I see my dad bouncing around. He comes to me and I tell him what happened. We followed the trail for about another 100 yards and we reach the thick trees. I look down and then up and see him bedded but still alive. I tell my dad he is right there. I raise my 30.06 and one more shot finished the job. And thats when my dad started to somewhat jump around (I guess when your 48 its difficult  ) We are both really excited when we got him out of the bush because he was the biggest we saw the 2 days of hunting. We snap some pictures. I guess my grandfathers gun still gets the job down. And so did the 150 gr supremes, man those bullets did good. I pretty much destroyes his left front shoulder and one more giant bullet in the boiler room ( 4 fingers wide)
We can't ask for more. These 2 deer are as big as they get in the zone we hunt. 2 whiteys down in 2 days, Perfect!! Dad has his mulie buck with a bow, a got a mulie doe with the bow. Cant complain!
Here are a couple of other pictures we took
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11-20-2010, 03:57 PM
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WOW - congrats to you and your dad! 
That is awesome. Thanks for the story.
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11-20-2010, 03:58 PM
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11-20-2010, 04:00 PM
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Those are some great prairie bucks!!! Congrats!
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11-20-2010, 04:11 PM
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congrats on the whitetails!
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Congrats to the both of you!
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11-20-2010, 06:11 PM
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Good job!!! Great deer!
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11-20-2010, 06:11 PM
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Congratulations to you both!!!! Sounds like a great hunt!!!
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11-20-2010, 06:55 PM
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So I just went outside and did a quick score. For my deer I came up with 159.5 and for my dads I got 147.5. Give or take, just rough.
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11-20-2010, 07:08 PM
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Great bucks, Great photos, Great story! Great Job!
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11-20-2010, 07:10 PM
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nice bucks. good job both of you.
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11-20-2010, 07:33 PM
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2 beauty Southern whiteys!!
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11-20-2010, 07:48 PM
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Great job Brett and congrats to you and your father on some fine animals..
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11-20-2010, 08:11 PM
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Way to go guys thats a fine double header on prairie WT's
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11-20-2010, 09:54 PM
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Congrats to both of you....great looking whitie's. Neat seeing the different coloration in the two capes. Nice photo of the Sharpie.......Marco
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11-20-2010, 10:01 PM
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Awesome pics and awesome story..
I really love the pics they are really well done..
I think we may have a future outdoors writer here boys,, good stuff all around..
Oh yah nice deer too...
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11-20-2010, 10:17 PM
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Great deer, Good Pics, love the grouse. Thanks for sharing.
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11-20-2010, 11:29 PM
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Cool, nice pair of bucks, congrats to you and your dad, and good write up!
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11-21-2010, 12:21 AM
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Congrats to the two of you on your whitetails.
Some nice looking deer.
Thanks for sharing with us.
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11-21-2010, 01:36 AM
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Great work gents, nice father son action !!! Now get back after those mulies!
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11-21-2010, 10:12 AM
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Good stuff Hunter10! Good to see you out with the ol' man...classic hunt that is!
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11-21-2010, 10:38 AM
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Thanks guys! Really appreciate it!
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11-21-2010, 12:22 PM
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Congrats to you and Pops on a couple of dandies, H10!! Well written story, and some nice pics as well.... Good job!
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11-21-2010, 01:28 PM
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congrats Brett looks like you and your Pa had a blast Cya at the tourney's
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11-21-2010, 07:10 PM
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thatta boy bretzky , nothing like a good ole fashion father son hunt !!
Congrats on 2 beauty white tails .. shoot a mulie and your season will be complete ...
congrtas again
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Great job to both yourself and your dad...congrats!!
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Great stuff! Congrats.
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