Author Topic: OT/Monster Buck shot in Maine! (Read 5464 times)

44 Degrees North · « **on:** Nov 17, 2014, 02:04 AM »

It is the internet,but if this is true,WOW!

254lbs. ,19 points,23inch spread,7.75 inches circumference at base of antlers. Bragging rights belong to this man.

44 Degrees North · « **Reply #1 on:** Nov 17, 2014, 02:06 AM »

44 Degrees North · « **Reply #2 on:** Nov 17, 2014, 02:09 AM »

masoneddie · « **Reply #3 on:** Nov 17, 2014, 02:14 AM »

Wow....what a buck!!

Gills-only · « **Reply #4 on:** Nov 17, 2014, 05:29 AM »

Nice buck, where did all the blood go in the last 2 pictures? Looks like the same trailer!!

Snopro · « **Reply #5 on:** Nov 17, 2014, 05:35 AM »

Last 2 pictures the deer isn't gutted out yet!

gunn308 · « **Reply #6 on:** Nov 17, 2014, 06:48 AM »

254 dressed and 19 points shot in Prentiss. Kudos to the guy that shot him. Can't help but wonder what that ole boy left in the gene pool.

darkeyez · « **Reply #7 on:** Nov 17, 2014, 07:18 AM »

BRUISER!

Prentiss twsp., North of Jackman? Darn, my old stomping grounds!

JustForTheHalibut · « **Reply #8 on:** Nov 17, 2014, 07:34 AM »

Buck of a lifetime!

lobsterman · « **Reply #9 on:** Nov 17, 2014, 09:15 AM »

defiantly looks like a record on some level

44 Degrees North · « **Reply #10 on:** Nov 17, 2014, 04:13 PM »

Pictures were not in sequence. I believe the first one is probably at the tagging station. The other two when they got him dragged out of the woods. More info and pictures at Roughkutoutdoors.com

Anomaly · « **Reply #11 on:** Nov 17, 2014, 04:35 PM »

NICE! Might have to change my hat and stuff

That IS one serious BUCK! I wonder if it was on private land on feed plots..... $:-\$

Dale Henderson, down this way grows some big ones on his 5000 acre plotS.

44 Degrees North · « **Reply #12 on:** Nov 17, 2014, 06:09 PM »

DALE HENDERSON he is liked as much as Roxanne Quimby-right? Kind of like the King's land I understand.

Shrinkage · « **Reply #13 on:** Nov 17, 2014, 06:55 PM »

You could open a Chinese laundry with that many hangers. With all due respect to my Asian friends

Cotacatchers · « **Reply #14 on:** Nov 17, 2014, 07:02 PM »

STUD!!!!

Anomaly · « **Reply #15 on:** Nov 18, 2014, 10:07 AM »

Quote from: 44 Degrees North on Nov 17, 2014, 06:09 PM

DALE HENDERSON he is liked as much as Roxanne Quimby-right? Kind of like the King's land I understand.

I think Roxanne would win in a popularity contest. Dale allows NO ONE from the general public on his land, only close acquaintances and friends.

44 Degrees North · « **Reply #16 on:** Nov 18, 2014, 05:13 PM »

I've heard old -timers tell of a red river going through peoples land that were like that.

darkeyez · « **Reply #17 on:** Nov 18, 2014, 06:12 PM »

Quote from: clamfarmer on Nov 17, 2014, 04:35 PM

NICE! Might have to change my hat and stuff

That IS one serious BUCK! I wonder if it was on private land on feed plots..... $:-\$

Dale Henderson, down this way grows some big ones on his 5000 acre plotS.

I doubt if it was shot on private land W/food plots. That area is where I spent a lot of time in the NM woods. I hunted both Prentiss, and Bald Mt twsp. on many occasions. There is a big swamp that lays North of the Kelly Dam Rd., accessed over a bridge at a syrup shack. That swamp gives up some big buck, but that whole area has the potential for monster buck.
One year, when driving in the Kelly Dam Rd. to hunt, I saw a fresh set of tracks in the snow that were huge. I didn't go after that deer because I would have had to cross a stream. I think a guy from Mass. got on them and only went about 150 yds. on the other side of the stream when the buck stood up in front of him. 250+ dressed, and I think it was the heaviest shot that yr.

After that I started taking a pr. of hip boots along!
Still thinking that I should have stepped in those tracks, he would have drove right past them!

I also ran into the Benoits on Bald Mt.. Wonder why they were there!!!!!!

sebagosalmo · « **Reply #18 on:** Nov 19, 2014, 02:24 AM »

That's big buck

When I was up hunting in Hustis last week stopped at the Pines store and the biggest buck shot so far was 265 lbs

That's going to be a tough one to beat in the local big buck contest .

APJ · « **Reply #19 on:** Nov 19, 2014, 06:26 AM »

Just to clarify It is not the North maine woods.. Prentiss in Penobscot county. About 10 miles from my house. Farm land and fields that's all there is there.. Live weight was 303lbs and dressed was 254lbs. Smasher for sure.!

44 Degrees North · « **Reply #20 on:** Nov 24, 2014, 09:53 AM »

My wife showed me an article on her Facebook page I guess reprinted from a John Holyoke piece in the BDN. The hunter from Lee has terminal cancer. It just makes it so much better that this man had this opportunity, I am so glad he got a chance on this buck and made good of it. Also,it said he has been offered as high as $5000.00 for the antlers and turned it down,good for him.

APJ · « **Reply #21 on:** Nov 24, 2014, 10:34 AM »

Also the man said he had 100 people stop to look at the Buck at his home on Silver Lake. Its now being stuffed at the taxidermy in Enfield..

BassinAssassin · « **Reply #22 on:** Nov 24, 2014, 10:43 AM »

A friend of mine from Gillford said one was tagged in Greenville weighed in at 279 dressed.

44 Degrees North · « **Reply #23 on:** Nov 24, 2014, 04:25 PM »

Well, we have lost our ice, might as well post another buck. I thought I had BA's buck that he posted about, guess not 5lbs. lighter. Still a super buck. Shot around Jackman on the 5th. 274 8pt.

joefishmore · « **Reply #24 on:** Nov 24, 2014, 05:14 PM »

Is it better to hang a deer from the head or the stern ?

44 Degrees North · « **Reply #25 on:** Nov 24, 2014, 05:47 PM »

Don't know the answer to that one. I personally have always hung my bucks by the antlers, it's what my father always did. Does when we were able to shoot them a century ago were always upside down on a gambrel. I think the last doe I shot was in 1976. So how's this bucks only thing working? We have definitely given it enough time.

APJ · « **Reply #26 on:** Nov 25, 2014, 07:11 AM »

Quote from: joefishmore on Nov 24, 2014, 05:14 PM

Is it better to hang a deer from the head or the stern ?

From the head lets the blood run out of it..

BassinAssassin · « **Reply #27 on:** Nov 25, 2014, 07:21 AM »

Quote from: APJ on Nov 25, 2014, 07:11 AM

From the head lets the blood run out of it..

It's best to hang from the feet. This way it lets the animal cool quicker, dosent trap all the body heat in the chest cavity. The blood will run out the nose and mouth.

woodchip · « **Reply #28 on:** Nov 25, 2014, 07:51 AM »

When a deer is hung from its hind legs the blood drains from loins and hind quarters making meat tenderer it also enables one to cut down to the throat and hold open rib cage allowing meat to cool faster. One should consider if it should be caped out for a head mount and not to cut down to far. If one skins his deer one starts at the hind hocks and works down.

joefishmore · « **Reply #29 on:** Nov 25, 2014, 08:31 AM »

Has anyone tried the skin removal method wherein you skin the neck, then put a golf ball under the skin tie a rope around
it and tie the rope to your truck and pull the skin off ?

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Author Topic: OT/Monster Buck shot in Maine! (Read 5464 times)