Let's see the bucks you wanted but could never kill.

T-Rock

Twelve Pointer
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After he scented me (came from the opposite route he usually came from), I never saw him in day light hours again. Caught glimpses of him on camera for 3 years and to my knowledge, he was never taken....

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Hunterreed

Twelve Pointer
The big problem here where I hunt is seeing the potential for a nice buck every season literally die away when rifle and muzzle loader season opens. Just three pics of the half dozen or some years a dozen or more 2.5 to 3.5 year old bucks that stop showing up come November
 

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timekiller13

Old Mossy Horns
First one Ashe county private land. Never saw him in daylight. Buddy that leased with me said he ran by him at Mach 2 one November morning. Only known daylight sighting, at least on our land.

2nd was Wilkes private land. Literally had hundreds of daylight pictures of this buck both before and during the season but he always gave me the slip. Saw him once out of bow range and then saw him in the headlights driving out one night. He disappeared in December and never saw him again. Don’t know if he got shot, figured I would have heard about him if he had since I knew almost everyone who hunted around me. D841C05E-7A33-4641-B61A-F20668F35B56.jpegF1538E26-E1C5-47A0-AB63-4810C0881692.jpeg
 

DRS

Old Mossy Horns
I hunted this one hard for several years. It is the one in the middle. The last pics I had of him were in 2018. This is the only one I could find. I watched him as a spike, then the as a 1.5 yo and saw him once as a 2.5 from then on just pics. I would have killed him if I had seen him from 3.5 on. He became a goal but I never fooled him.received_413689033543837.jpeg
 
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gremcat

Twelve Pointer
Moose, I don’t run trail cams either but when you hunt next to the house you can’t help but see them during the year.
 

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gremcat

Twelve Pointer
Ten with gnarly horns in velvet I had at 60 yards, the 8 I took had just gotten whooped by him. Any sane person would’ve waited to see if the 10 came over. I put an arrow in the 8. I’ll never kill a monster I bet.
 

gremcat

Twelve Pointer
The last two are a few years back. I kicked it out mountain goating during rifle. More intelligent crew hunting flats above me got it. 14 pts,
 

TrkyJedi

Eight Pointer
Forgot about Bully, knew who he was for 3 years. Came everyday and I was as confident as ever that he was gonna be mine. A week before season came in on September 1, 2016 a hurricane came through and I never got another picture of him. I probably had hundreds of him. I assume a tree or car got him.20211108_183507.jpg20211108_183300.jpg
 

30/06

Twelve Pointer
This one was hanging out about 100 yards from where our campers are parked in KY. Think I saw him during turkey season, looked like coke cans growing off the side of his head. We can’t hunt that little section he was staying in and we never got a pic of him that year on the 1000 acres around it. One from the year before.

have another 12 pt I need to find pics of in Caswell that I had 4 years of history with. Only saw him once as a 2 year old and passes, once as a 3 year old and couldn’t get a shot.
 

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Aaron H

Old Mossy Horns
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I don't have a photo- it predated my use of trail cameras. The year2000, my third year hunting a buck that I MIGHT have seen briefly the year before. He had rubbed the same trees 3 years in a row and the many rubs were the focus of my hunt for him. The day before I had shot a doe with my bow which I tracked such a distance that I decided to let her lay till morning. The night was cool so I planed a hunt into "his area" for the morning and intended to look for the doe after the morning hunt. I was wading up a stream with stand and bow in hand when I saw that white belly laying out there. I stopped and quartered my doe, lay the meat in rocks in the creek, put a bit of brush over her and took off my longhandle undershirt leaving it on the brushpile to ward off the coyotes. I waded on and came to a cedar tree next to the creek. I climbed the tree, hung my stand and pulled up my bow. It was about 10:00am, late, October 26th. Sitting there on stand I was just getting my breath from the climb when I saw a doe coming off a small hill close by..... followed by the big 10 point. He stopped to rub a poplar tree about 3" through the middle (his signature rub). I remember thinking how much I wished it was muzzle loader season, he was 40 yards rubbing that tree with both main beams and his eyes looking away. Then I stood up and readied an arrow. He came.... I took the shot thinking maybe 17 yards..... I was way wrong and knew it when I saw the arrow fall out the bottom and pass under his body. He was 26 yards! I had not even thought about how far anything was and never had been in that tree before. My excitement cost me what should have been the end of my 3 year hunt. He was killed opening day by rifle on the adjoining property. After all of this time it still hurts to think about that 140 class 10 point that I should have taken.
 
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