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Biggest whitetail you ever seen and didn’t get a shot at.
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<blockquote data-quote="The Badger" data-source="post: 1837572" data-attributes="member: 52390"><p>While on a bowhunting trip to IL about 15 years back, I had one that stood out from anything I'd seen before or since. It was in October and the pre-rut hadn't picked up yet. I was about 40 yards in off a large cut cornfield one morning in a climbing stand. The buck was paralleling the field edge so slow and stood like statue at about 45 yards. Fully mature with such heavy mass and palmated main beams. No idea about score or points. Just WAY over the top big! Even by mid-west standards. One look through the binos and thought, oh boy, don't look at those horn's again, just breath. He stood there staring off into the field without twitching for what seemed like forever (probably 10+ minutes) then did a semi circle around my stand location and was gone. No response to a grunt call. I imagine, he may have passed my climber on the tree during the night and was avoiding it during the day. Never saw him again the rest of the trip and ate the tag. Was well worth it though for the memory.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Badger, post: 1837572, member: 52390"] While on a bowhunting trip to IL about 15 years back, I had one that stood out from anything I'd seen before or since. It was in October and the pre-rut hadn't picked up yet. I was about 40 yards in off a large cut cornfield one morning in a climbing stand. The buck was paralleling the field edge so slow and stood like statue at about 45 yards. Fully mature with such heavy mass and palmated main beams. No idea about score or points. Just WAY over the top big! Even by mid-west standards. One look through the binos and thought, oh boy, don't look at those horn's again, just breath. He stood there staring off into the field without twitching for what seemed like forever (probably 10+ minutes) then did a semi circle around my stand location and was gone. No response to a grunt call. I imagine, he may have passed my climber on the tree during the night and was avoiding it during the day. Never saw him again the rest of the trip and ate the tag. Was well worth it though for the memory. [/QUOTE]
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