Is there a "legend" of your hunting area?

Daniel

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I was hunting Saturday morning and I found the biggest whitetail tracks I could ever imagine. I saw them last week, but I thought "there's no way those tracks are really that big, they must have "melted-out" bigger." Then I saw them fresh. ####ty, but I had no camera. They were about 3/4 the size of my hand :eek: and they weren't calf moose tracks. This is THE Dominator for this area
As I was walking out from my unsuccessful hunt, a local guy stopped me to chat (and check me out, to see if I had permission I suppose) I asked him if he hunted there as well, as I had seen signs of other hunters, he said yes. I asked if he's seen "the tracks", and his face lit-up. I said, holy #### man, that's gotta be a bruiser... This guy lives right across the road from where I was hunting. He says "I saw him! but before the season. He was out in the field right before dark and I had a good long look at him: He's an 8x8, :eek: perfectly symmetrical from what I could tell through the binoculars, his rack's about shoulder width plus 5 inches per side, and it curls arround real low. His fur's so dark he's almost black. I've been after him since then.... He never got that big being stupid."
I don't know how tall of a tail that is, but it sounded good anyway. The same guy also said there was a BIG non-typical shot out of the same area a few years back... I'll spare you the details, but he said it's 125th or so in the Boone&Crocket. So: can anyone confirm any ontario deer near the 120-125 range of B&C? (Just curious if there's any truth to that) For that matter, are there any "thunder Bay area" deer in there at all?

Any legends in your stompin grounds? current or past?
 
Daniel said:
I was hunting Saturday morning and I found the biggest whitetail tracks I could ever imagine. I saw them last week, but I thought "there's no way those tracks are really that big, they must have "melted-out" bigger." Then I saw them fresh. ####ty, but I had no camera. They were about 3/4 the size of my hand :eek: and they weren't calf moose tracks. This is THE Dominator for this area
As I was walking out from my unsuccessful hunt, a local guy stopped me to chat (and check me out, to see if I had permission I suppose) I asked him if he hunted there as well, as I had seen signs of other hunters, he said yes. I asked if he's seen "the tracks", and his face lit-up. I said, holy #### man, that's gotta be a bruiser... This guy lives right across the road from where I was hunting. He says "I saw him! but before the season. He was out in the field right before dark and I had a good long look at him: He's an 8x8, :eek: perfectly symmetrical from what I could tell through the binoculars, his rack's about shoulder width plus 5 inches per side, and it curls arround real low. His fur's so dark he's almost black. I've been after him since then.... He never got that big being stupid."
I don't know how tall of a tail that is, but it sounded good anyway. The same guy also said there was a BIG non-typical shot out of the same area a few years back... I'll spare you the details, but he said it's 125th or so in the Boone&Crocket. So: can anyone confirm any ontario deer near the 120-125 range of B&C? (Just curious if there's any truth to that) For that matter, are there any "thunder Bay area" deer in there at all?

Any legends in your stompin grounds? current or past?
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I don't know your area too well but I know there are some monster in the books from up that way.

As for an 8 by 8 typical rack, I'd have to see it to believe it. That is just about unheard of. I'm not saying it can't happen because I am sure it has, but that is extremely rare.
 
yeah, that was my thought too. Then I remembered people were telling me about this deer they see at a conservation reserve near here. he's at least a 7x7, but you can't legally drop him, due to his territory.... Nice to dream anyway. (I'll tell you, there better be a f*ckin good dream out there for me to sit in -20 + winds and blowing snow for two or three hours at a time!) LOL

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saskhunter said:
is There A Legend Of Your Hunting Area

Yeah me Lmao
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SOB you beat me to that lol..
but yes a few years ago i seen one...i can not say how big the rack was because of the angle it was to me...it was a huge big black bastard..it was the biggest deer ive ever seen..the flag on it was huge..i was in awe all week just to get to see it:D
 
When I lived in Ontario there was a musky in the Petawawa river that suppositly ate the legs off a german sheppard,Old Smokey is what we called him.I seen a giant one snorkling in there that certainly looked big enough to do the job.

For hunting there are lots of giant muledeer stories around my area(everyone's got one)mine is a huge non-typical I missed last year.
 
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Out here it is common knowledge that deer have racks so big that they won't fit in your dreams. Count the tines and drop 'em in the pines.
 
My Grandfather, may God bless his soul...still miss him dearly, he passed away last March...used to tell me stories of 'Ghost Bucks', 'Giant Man-Eating Muskie' and moose with 'racks like 747's wingspan'. He had some good stories...but only a few trophies to show for it...which now proudly hang on my wall. And no...there are no giant bucks or monster muskie or huge moose...just your average trophy.

I did see some pretty big deer tracks out in a field I was 'yote hunting on last week that caught my interest...out near Ingersoll. Looked larger than usual. Maybe made by the same people that make crop circles...
 
There was a bona fide beast of a whitetail between Chetwynd and Tumbler Ridge (close but no details ;)). My friend ended up buying a 1/4 section (it pretty much all agricultural land up there) and this buck was a brute! Every once in awhile he or one of the neighbours would get a glimpse, but never when there was a rifle at hand. Or out of season.:rolleyes:
Every year they found his sheds, near the neighbour's grainery. As far as I know no one got him, and he is dead from old age by now. But his genes live on!

I have a picture of my mother holding one of the sheds. She is about 5'5" and the main beam is ~the length of her arm, the bases are similar to wrist diameter. If I can find the pic I'll post it.
 
Since we are talking about deer I will share my story from yesterday>
Last day of whitetail season here in sask: I had to go visit a gun builder friend of mine and return his 24Xleupold scope I borrowed to try on my middlestead. I spent most of the afternoon there listening to his stories of varmint hunting in sask and north dakota in the 80's (really cool stuff) When I was coming home I was thinking of what a disappointment this deer saeson has been as I have not seen anything that I would say is even a good deer 150+ , I had to go watch my niece sing in a play as it is her fist time on stage and she is only 8 and asked us to come(how could I say no) I guess she didn't know it was the last day of deer season???? I am almost home but still close to city limits and there he is. 7 deer in the little hay field and 2 shooters for me anyway but one monster. He is just strutting across the field towards the other very respectable buck, real deliberate steps. So I am thinking its 4:15 ( I STILL HAVE TIME ) show starts at 6pm. There is a house about 200 yards from these deer but I know this guys brother so it doesn't hurt to ask?? Just as I putting my game plan together 2 retards in a small car pull up and jump out of thier car and pull out this huge election sign and start to pound posts in to put this piece of #### up. well my deer vacated the country and I ran out of time.. Guess the big bastards will make it until next season! At least I finally saw one or 2 nice deer this season.
 
Here is a legend from where I grew up, and go back to deer hunt.

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My buddy took him back in 1994, and people are still asking where he shot him, I'd have never thought that the secret would still be kept 11 years later, but there are few who know:D Any of you who had been to Wholesale Sports in Winnipeg a couple of years ago, I guess it was actually Farmers Supply at the time, should recognize this guy.:cool: He scores around the 261 inch mark:eek:
 
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there is a griz in the Chinchaga area of northern Alta that my buddy videotaped in 2003 at about 900yds. (close to the desert for those that know the area near the Shell Oil airstrip).....comparing the griz to a nearby tree, he's been estimated to be a over 48" at the hump. Id say that's a big griz.
 
There was a HUGE non-typical near Yorkton. I had just climbed over a barb wire fence, so my rifle wasn't loaded when he went past. He was caped like a mature elk. Huge, dark beams, with more points and stickers comming off than I could count. Then natives chased him down and killed him on leach lake two winters ago. Real sportsmen.
 
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