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Well, although it was overcast, something was shining on me and a PT food plot this day, and the CHeif is dead.
I have been watching this guy for two years now. I spotted him first on July 2009 trail cam pics. He was a 13 pointer, with a mainframe 6( plus a tine off the base) on one side, 5 on the other. I named him Cheif 12tine. In 2009, I captured several pictures and video of him, but never saw him while on stand.
After a brutal winter, and worrying about his (and others) survival post rut, we found his left shed antler on our place. It was a 72 inch antler, so figured he was right at 160″ last year. I knew this year he was hit list material. No doubt 4 1/2 and maybe 5 1/2, I could not wait to see what he had grown to.
Well, a little disappointing, he really did not grow, he lost the base extra point, the 6 moved from left side to right, and although mass went up, tine length did not. I had to rename him Cheif 12 now 11( haha)…he did not put any total inches on….. not sure if it was the hard winter,age, or just his genes. I got my first 2010 pics in July and many more pics and videos through the summer….up until the last picture, 3 seconds before I killed him.
On sept. 4th after planting the main BF oats plot, i decided to take out the back of this bean field that was eaten down by the deer, it was only about 15 yd by 15 yds, and I planted oats. This night I had the right wind, all the weather factors were right, so I went to that mini plot, and the Cheif decided to beat the “after dark” dinner rush for some fresh greens….bad idea.
He is a moose of a deer, broad shoulders, huge neck for September, big toes. He seems to be 5 yr old, 160″ green, he field dressed at 220, so over 300 on hoof ! … which is pretty good for a buck who lives in Neckville, where the motto is ” if it’s brown its down”. Fortunately, at our place, we have had success keeping good bucks home with the 3 keys….food(crops and foodplots), cover(timber cuts), security(sanctuaries)
I was kind of obsessed( if you can’t tell) with this deer. It took the 5 P’s. Planting, planning, prepping, patterning, and praying to get it done, but that is what it is all about for me….enjoying the experience UP to the moment.
So, this next weekend, I do my part to give back to the herd and give thanks to the Lord, I go doe killing saturday and church on sunday.
AMEN.
Brian, thanks for being there, good pictures!
Good luck to you all this season, please keep in touch with your outdoor experiences.”
CT
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Friend of Premier, Chris Toth, with his 2010 early season Nebraska Trophy
Thursday, September 23rd, 2010Braggin’ Rights!!
Monday, January 4th, 2010
We love to share successful hunting stories of property owners who harvest trophy game on land purchased utilizing the services of Premier Outdoor Properties—and this is a great one! Approximately two years ago, Marty & Jolie Edwards acquired the property where their son, Quaid, harvested his deer that Marty references below. The Edwards are founding members of the Heartland Branch of the Nebraska QDMA Association and they certainly “practice what they preach”! They have enhanced the recreational value of their property by implementing many of the recommendations the QDMA suggests for successful harvesting of deer.
Read on about the gallant efforts made by 17 year old Quaid Edwards in his quest for the Big Buck!
“I wanted to send a short note and let you all know that Quaid (my 17 yr old son) was blessed with a wonderful gift on the second to last day of the 2009 Nebraska Archery season. This is a buck that first showed up on trail cam in early November. He became amazingly habitual in a .75 acre brassica plot on our property in late December. So much so that Q actually missed him at 23 yards two nights before, on the 28th. He had to hunt a different area due to bad winds the evening of the 29th, then at 5:10 pm on the 30th Quaid put an absolutely perfect 18yd quartering away shot on him as he dug through deep snow to get to the brassica’s he had become so addicted to. Q got to watch this deer on several different evenings prior to those encounters as well but was never offered a shot. Getting to watch as many as 27 deer at one time in the small plot, Quaid got to learn a lot about deer behavior, being patient, and what kind of rewards can come from freezing your tail off night after night. The old man is proud of him, it ain’t always easy getting up and dusting yourself off after a miss, but he did.
As far as details on the deer. While I haven’t had him aged, obviously, I really think this deer is a 2.5 yr old. It’s possible that he’s 3.5, but I seriously doubt he’s any older. When we walked up to him he had popped off his left antler when he crashed, so he won’t be going in any books or anything (nothing against books by the way, but that’s not overly important here at our house anyway). He grosses somewhere very close to 165ish (Troi you were right on). This deer fooled me on trail cam. I thought he was older and bigger…not that 165 is small, especially for a 17yr old bowhunter.”
Congratulations Quaid and thanks to proud dad Marty for sharing Quaid’s story!