26 something just shy of a miracle happened. He also figured he never see it again, but on Nov. He suspects a neighbor's dog smelled the deer and took his would-be mount. "We searched everywhere."ĭespite his efforts, the head was nowhere to be found. When he returned eight minutes later, the head was gone. He placed the head and cape on a trailer in his barn and went to dispose of the refuse. Johns finished cleaning the deer and caped the hide to have a shoulder mount made to display his unusual deer. It may have just been a fatty mass." A thief steals his trophy "There was something in there that was not normal for a doe. "When I was cleaning her it was just like a doe, but when I went to get the tenderloins there were organs that shouldn't have been there," Johns said. Johns said the doe was lactating, which he feels points to a sexually normal doe, but then he saw something else. When he got to the deer, his doubts went away - it was a doe. "I knew what I saw, but of course I'm questioning myself the whole time I was walking up," Johns said. Johns said, on one hand, he was sure of himself, but on the other hand, not so much. The deer went down about 20 yards away and Johns knew exactly where she was, but he let his boys find her so they could experience the tracking aspect of the hunt.
308 bullet." Hunter second-guesses himself "That’s when I knew what I had in front of me. I waited a few more minutes for that perfect broadside shot at 120 yards and that’s when I sent a Berger VLD. "Finally she faced away from me and gave a flick of the tail," Johns said. The deer was feeding on acorns and facing straight away from him. Johns watched the deer for about 20 minutes before his suspicion was confirmed. "I was wondering why that buck would be hanging out with them," Johns said. The velvet and the company the buck was keeping seemed odd to Johns. The buck still had velvet on the antler and it was in a group of six does. The spike was about three inches longer than the previous year, but Johns began to question what he was seeing.
"It looked exactly the same," Johns said.
24 Johns was hunting when he got a firsthand look at the buck. One of the deer captured on camera was what appeared to be a younger buck with one spike about nine inches tall.
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