Biggest Bucks shot in 2012 Minnesota Rifle Season!

Both of these Non-Typical bucks taken in the 2012 Rifle Season have a good shot of being placed on the top 15 Biggest Bucks in Minnesota All-Time.

The first buck was shot near Osakis, MN by Osakis' Josiah Hetland and Alexandria's Aaron Gould.  The huge non-typical whitetail buck had 22 Scorable Points and green scored 236 6/8 Inches.

 

Josiah Hetland (left) and Aaron Gould (right) with the "Red Willow Buck"

 

More about their hunt can be read here - http://www.theosakisreview.com/event/article/id/9870/

 

 

 

 

The second buck was shot near Sebeka, MN by Dylan Beach and was a buck I covered in an article a few weeks back.  Dylans buck has 27 Scorable Points and is rumored to have green scored around 241 Inches.

 

Dylan Beach and "The Cornstalk Buck"

 

 

More about Dylan's hunt can be read here - http://brainerddispatch.com/outdoors/2012-11-06/27-points-success

 

 

 

As the Minnesota Record Book stands, anything above 234 1/8 would put either of these Non-Typical brutes in the Top 15.  Below are more Trail Camera Pictures of Dylan Beach's Cornstalk Buck!  Enjoy!  

 

 

Montana Mule Deer Hunting 2012

Another successful hunting season was capped off by the 2012 Montana Mule Deer Trip.  My hunting party was able to go 7 for 7 filling all of our buck tags.  Unsure of how productive our usual public hunting land would be due to summer fire that Burned 20,000 + Acres of public/private land we set foot in search of of a big Montana Mule Deer Buck. 

Pictured above are trees that were burned in the Summer Fire of 2012.  Although a majority of the land was charred, we did manage to see/harvest several deer within the burnt timber.  One neat feature seen on several of our tagged deer, was the darker than usual antlers due to Rubbing on the Charred Trees.  These deer were given the nickname "Smokey".

 Deer sheds were also obtained during the many miles of hunting.  Including a nice 6 point Bull Elk Shed!

  It was the second to last day when Author Ted Rud was able to harvest his 4x4 Mule Deer Buck (pictured above).  Dave Duchene was able to complete the hunt with his Last Morning 3x3 Mule Deer Buck (pictured below).

Pictured from left to right is Sam Tumberg, Erik Tumberg, Pat Peltier & Ted Rud

Posing from left to right is Danny Tumberg, Dave Duchene

 

Pictures of "Smokey Valley".  There must be a coal vein that was burned in a 2011 forest fire that continues to smoke to date... hence Smokey Valley!

Dave Duchane with the Deer Lineup

Rud Boys with the Deer Lineup

 Tumberg Boys with the Deer Lineup

Peltier Boys with the Deer Lineup

Dylan Beach's 27 Point Buck

Below is a youtube video I stumbled upon of 12-year-old Dylan Beach in an interview about shooting his near 30-point buck!  Dylan was hunting with his step-father on his aunt's farm roughly eight miles west of Sebeka.  He shot the 229 lb buck with his .270-caliber rifle.

 

Bucks in Rut!

The Bucks are rutting and with that several nice deer have been taken the first weekend of MN Rifle Opener.  The biggest I've seen is rumored to have been shot by a youngster name Dylan Beach!  Below are a few trail Camera pictures that have been floating around and some have been referring to him as the "Cornstalk" Buck for his massive brow tines!  Also below is Dylan and his brute of a buck!  Congrats Dylan!



Dylan Beach and His Opening Day Buck

Trail Camera Pictures of the "Cornstalk" Buck!

 

It appears that the bucks right brow tine broke 3-4" off while fighting other bucks sometime between the 9th of October and November 3

 

 

 

My hunting party (Kantack Cattle Co.) also had some opening day success!  With 5 guys in the stands we were able to harvest 3 nice bucks.  The nicest of which was shot by Dave Rud (my father AKA Old Guy) around 5 pm.  Without having left his stand all day, Dave was rewarded with this typical 10 point buck.  Congrats Dad!

 

Dave Rud with his 10 point Buck

 

Dave was the only Rud to put a deer on the ground.  I was able to shoot a mature 8 pointer around 9:00 AM.  After being field dressed, the deer weighed in at 225 lbs... one of the biggest we have taken off our land.

 

Ted Rud's Bucks (weighed 225 lbs)

Rud Bucks hanging side by side







Trail Camera Picture courtesy of Brady Winter. 
Which Rud buck do you think it is?

 

Last but not least, Randy Windels (member of Kantack) also took a nice 8 point buck.  Pictured below in the trail camera photo is Randy's Buck.  The deers left main beam is now broken off after the G3.  Bucks be fightin!

 

 

 

 

Mark Simpson was also able to score on a nice Rifle Buck.  Pictured below is Mark with his Buck.

 

Mark Simpson and his buck

 

The rifle hunters weren't the only ones to score big antlers in the past week.  Todd Paavola was able to arrow this three beamed buck on the Thursday morning before Opener.  The buck green-grossed 203".  The deers right antler has a second main beam coming out of the base.  I couldn't even get my fingers all the way around it!  Talk about a base ball bat! 

 

It is also believed that deer who have previously injured one of their hind quarters or legs will reflect that injury with abnormal growth in the bucks opposite antler.  Sure enough, it appeared that Todd's buck has sometime broken his back left leg.

 

 

Todd Paavola with his bow buck that grossed 203"

Another angle of Todd's Buck.  Congrats Todd!

 

 

In addition to Todd's archery buck, the Mursu boys were able to shoot two nice bucks by bow in the week prior to Rifle Opener.



Jeremy Mursu (left) and Trent Mursu (right) with their bow bucks

Trent Mursu's buck

Jeremy Mursu with his buck












2012 MN Bow Opener! Doe Down!

This weekend is the opening weekend for Minnesota bow hunting.  It felt good to gear up and get back in the stand.  On opening morning, I saw several does and fawns and had a fork within shooting range.  In the Evening, I arrowed a doe at 20yds and was able to record the shot on my GoPro Hero 2!  I'm pretty excited about that!  Take a look at the video below for the shot.

Last weekend I was testing out my GoPro Hero 2 and was able to slow down some video while I was target shooting.  The result was a neat slow motion view of my Mathews Switchback bow as the arrow was being released.  Check it out in the video below.

Round two of Trail Camera Pics.  3 of my 5 Hit List bucks have made an appearance on the trail camera.  Two of which can be seen in the video below along with several other young bucks with good potential.

Last week was opening Early Goose season in North Dakota.  Pat and I sat in the fields on Saturday morning and had a chance to break out our new GoPro's and take some video.  Although we didn't shoot many geese (3), we still had a blast and got a chance to get some cool footage. 

Watch the video below

Hello all,

As we near the up and coming hunting season I've set out my trail camera's for some early velvet footage.  Take a look at the video below to see a hitlist buck we've labeled Hondo.  I haven't been able to check my camera's for the past two weeks so I'm eagerly awaiting the weekend!

Montana Muleys

Yet again my favorite hunting trip of the year proved to be one of the most successful as well.  The Montana Mule deer hunt.  Pictured below are hunting party members, Pat, Ken, Dave (aka Old Guy), Ted (me), Dave, Danny, Sam and Erik.   As Danny Tumberg would say, our hunting trip concluded with 6 "fine specimens".

Pat

 

Dave

Ted

Dave, Danny, Sam and Erik

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ken and Pat

 Now that my hunting season has wrapped up.  Its time to do a little fishing!

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