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> This buck was taken in Albany, IL, which is north of Moline
> on the
> Illinois/Iowa border....................
>
> This is how we do it in IL!!!
>
> ok boys, sit back and take a look at this friggin'
> monster.that's my
> elk
> hunting partner,chuck hamstra[aka hamster]with a 200 inch
> class 18 point
> buck he shot 11-4-08[at least one good thing happened that
> day]with his
> old
> high country bow from a tree stand on his albany,illinois
> farm.he has
> found
> a shed from this critter in april '07 and they had seen
> it while coyote
> chasin' in january.[his son dave had even missed the
> monster during gun
> season!]chuck had been combining corn all day tuesday but
> quit about a
> half
> hour before sunset.as he hopped on his 4 wheeler dressed in
> filthy blue
> jeans,a"good will" flannel shirt and a sweat
> drenched garst seed corn
> hat,
> his wife, judy asked where he was going.he replied i still
> have time to
> hunt and took off.as he crossed the field he watched in
> disapointment as
> several does scattered in his path but he crawled up into
> the stand
> anyway.no less than 10 minutes later along comes the drop
> tined buck
> which
> stops br oadside at 10 yards and receives a 125 thunderhead
> through both
> lungs.[that's an incredable hit for chuck![ask any of
> us who have hunted
> with him!]it stumbles off a few yards and goes down for the
> count.chuck
> goes and tells judy he shot a decent buck,she
> says,"whatever",it's not
> gonna hang in the house.he calls his son dave who is
> driving over to son
> kevin's treestand to scare away some little bucks that
> have him held
> hostage on stand, and tells them he shot a buck and needs
> help tracking
> it.having helped dad track several deer in the past they
> figured they
> were
> in for an all nighter.as kevin takes the double dribbler
> blood trail he
> says he thinks they're gonna find this one.a few yards
> later he shines
> the
> light on the huge buck and the poop hit the fan!they
> called me from
> the
> scene and i swear there were 50 people there hollering and
> cussing in
> joy!what on ordeal.oh,when judy saw the buck she dropped
> the "f" bomb
> and
> said it could go in the house and hang over the fir e place
> in the
> space
> thas was reserved for the elusive elk tha t chuck can't
> get.congrats
> chuck,you deserve a trophy like this!!

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