2020 Arkansas Muzzleloader Buck

[sam-arkie]

8 point mainframe with a 4" kicker off the back. Shot him during out Oct. Muzzleloader Season with my T/C Pro Hunter .50 caliber (Bergara barrel). Using 90 grains of Blackhorn (volume) and a 300gr Hornady XTP Mag bullet.

 

[HC]

Nice Buck.

 

[deermanok]

Great buck. Congrats.

 

[eekjellander]

Definitly a shooter and nice shooting!/Ed

 

[Rainorshine]

Congratulations!

 

[michiganmuzzy]

Very nice! Congrats

 

[MrTom]

That's a nice buck. Interesting dark coloring across the nose. I've never seen that here in Minnesota. Is it common in Arkansas?

 

[sam-arkie]

Around my home farm on the southern edge of the Ozarks mountains, it's rare. I killed this one on our lease about 75 miles southwest of here in the Ouachita Mountains and I see quite a few with dark markings there. I dropped this one off with a friend of mine who does taxidermy for a living, not to get mounted, but because he always needs good capes. When I picked up the rack later, he told me he was saving this cape for a show piece he was going to do for competition, because of the unique markings.

 

[sam-arkie]

Mr Tom, what part of Minnesota are you from? I go up to Lake Vermilion in northern Minnesota every June for a week of fishing and to get away from Arkansas heat. Been up there every year since 2012, always stay at Pike Bay Lodge.

 

[MrTom]

Rochester, down in the SE corner. We have family friends who have property up near Vermillion and visit them each summer and of course spend time on the lake fishing.

 

[Idaholewis]

Nice buck!!

 

[deerlessbob]

☝Way to go! That’s the same load I used this year. The wound channel was pretty awesome in the doe I shot with it.

 

[brad502a]

Nice Buck!

 

[BuckDoeHunter]

Congrats!

 

[GLenn]

Congrats on a beautiful deer.

 

[Barn]

Good Shootin!

 

[weltech1]

Real Nice Buck

 

[retrieverman]

That’s a great buck, and his cape is beautiful. I would’ve had a hard time not mounting him just for the cape.

 

[tabosky]

Congratulations on a nice buck.

 

[LarryBud]

Very Nice Congrats.