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| STANDRIDGE BUCK
By Allen "horntagger" Morris PEACH ORCHARD BORE For the last few years Tim Standridge from Dexter, Mo. has been hunting with is friend Mark in a peach orchard near Campbell, Missouri, with the hopes of seeing the peach orchard bore. Mark's cousin has been trying to plant some new peach trees in this two-acre area for the last couple of years. But a large buck keeps using the trees as a rubbing post and breaking most of them down. With the buck killing the peach trees the locals started calling him the Peach Orchard Bore and even on occasion, Mark had seen a few glimpses of him. MISSOURI Opening day of Missouri firearms season, is always a great day for over 500,000 hunters. It is a time for family and friends to get together. But, November 10th, 2001 was a special day for Tim Standridge, this year he was going take his son Jacob hunting. Early that morning they both headed out to the location Tim had hunted the year before and also had scouted while squirrel hunting. Jacob was hunting this area that 8 other deer had been shot in the past, while Tim moved off about 40 yard over the top of the hill and sat down. It was not long that morning when Jacob’s 50 caliber CVA sounded off about 6:30 a.m. Then Tim watched a doe run by and stop. He walked back to Jacob’s location and with excitement in his voice Jacob told his dad that he had shot at what he thought was a buck. But, Tim explained to him it was a doe that ran by and he must have missed, because she was not hit. |
Lorraine Heiser photo Tim Standridge of Dexter was among the lucky hunters to bag his deer the first day of hunting season around 9:30 in the morning. According to Standridge the Department of Conservation scored his trophy as a 20-point buck, which field dressed at 195 pounds. Standridge was hunting in an area west of WW, about three miles north of Campbell. photo caption courtesy of The Daily Statesman |
After, that Tim moved back to his location and settled in, then another shot rang out and about 9:00 a.m. he could see two hunters below the hill trailing a deer. So he decide to move about 20 yards around to the other side of the ridge. Within 15 minutes he could see a doe in a fast trot heading straight for him at about 150 yards.
Then he could see something following right behind her. He put his cross hairs on the doe and waited. He could then tell, that it was a buck following right on her heels, but could not get a clear shot.
They kept closing the distance then the doe finally broke and turned at about 100 yards out and that is when he squeezed the trigger on the Remington 7600 pump .270cal. rifle. The buck never raised its head and kept following the doe that was now in a run. Tim could not believe he missed. He followed up with another round when the buck came within 60 yards and then two more as the buck passed within 10 yards.
The buck ran down into the valley and he watched it go down. The 150-grain Remington core-lock soft point had found its mark.
He knew it was a nice buck, but never really knew what kind of rack it had. He worked his way down to the buck and finally got to where it had fallen. He still could not see the rack since the deer had fallen, hiding the rack underneath him.
So Tim reaches down and pulled the head around to see the rack. As soon as he got it into view he stepped back and said, " OH MY"
FRIENDS AND FAMILY
He knew he was going to need help getting the deer up out of the valley. He went and got his son Jacob and brought him over and Jacob started counting points and came up with 23 points.
They worked their way over to his friend Mark that was just over the top of the hill. And told him what he had down and needed an ATV to get him out. After Mark got to the deer he told him that is the Peach Orchard Bore they have been seeing tearing up the peach orchard.
The Buck field dressed at 195 lbs. and after all the shooting the Tim said the, first shot is the one that put him down but you would have never known it as he was following the doe in front of him and did not react to the shot.
This official ?? point bucks final score is ___ Boone and Crockett and ___ Buckmasters. Which we will give you as soon as the 60 day drying time has passed.
After 26 years of hunting and with this buck only the fourth deer Tim had taken, he said it was great to be able to share it with his son Jacob and wanted to thank his friend Mark for a great place to hunt.
Congratulations, Tim Standridge for outstanding Missouri Buck.
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Desloge man bags 26-point buck. It took him about ten hours to get his buck back l to camp, but Stephen Armi- jo, 33, of Desloge, felt it was worth the effort. Armijo was at a family- style hunt off Highway C near Annapolis last Wednesday, November 14. At about 4:30 p.m. he spot- ted and killed an unbehev- j ably big buck with a rack i. that was later counted as 26 points. "It seems like a hundred people counted, and they all agreed on 26 points," he said. He had killed the deer at ; the bottom of very steep hill, and daylight was fad- ing fast. He went back to camp and got a 4-wheeler to bring the deer out of the hollow. "It was treacherous," he said of the location. But as he was driving the deer back up the hill, the 4- wheeler flipped over on him and the deer, breaking his ' 30-30 Marhn rifle in half. Then gas cap came off the vehicle and spilled gasoline on both hunter and prey, thoroughly soaking them. Fortunately for Armijo, he had a Motorola Talka- bout with a two-mile range with him, and he was able to contact his brother-in- ; law, David Lee of Middle- brook, at camp and Lee went to assist him. |
Mystery Deer! MYSTERY SOLVED....well
almost.
I am the guy in the picture BNINMO, a buddy of mine sent you the picture. The deer was taken 11/12/00 in Lewis county just outside of La Belle.It is 26 point that scored 200 5/8. |
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Mike Kasting Buck
Killed near Doniphan, Mo. He is from Sikeston. I believe he harvested it on November 11th, 2001 |
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Here is a deer story to check out. The deer was found this year of
natural causes by some turkey hunters here in Hawkins County , Tennessee
just a few miles from Missouri! This deer aged to be 12 years old by state
biologists and
has an outside spread of 41" . This deer could have easily been a world record in its prime. Take note of the deer racks on the wall behind. This deer must
have wandered there from Missouri! Wow, what a buck.
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| I got this deer on opening morning at 9:30. I was hunting in northern
Missouri. When I first saw him he was following a doe. The two deer were
in the bottom of a draw and I was positioned on a ridge above them. The
buck stayed in the brush and the shadows making it hard to determine how
big he really was. We have a rule on our place that states a buck has to
be 8 points or better and outside his ears before he can be harvested,
so I had to wait awhile to be certain he was a shooter. The doe moved on,
with him following and suddenly he turned and came back offering me the
opportunity for a shot. If the buck would have kept following the doe I
would have never had a shot. This is definitely the biggest deer I have
ever taken. I green scored him at 175 1/2. His neck was 36 inches in diameter
at the base and we are guessing that he had to go close to 300lbs. My buddy,
Kurt Sondermann got a nine point at 7:30 and that is the other deer in
the pictures. He was hunting just a couple of ridges over. We haven't had
a chance to green score his but we are guessing it is in the 140 class.
Kieth Allen |
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| Gary Blomberg
Killed on the family farm near Atlanta, Mo. on 11\13\01 at 12:10. 10 pt. with a 5 inch drop tine. scored gross 157 2/8 final score 147 2/8. Shot it with a Ruger 243 |
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