DA LEGEND OF OL FREAK NASTY

[WAHOONBOX]

SEEMS LIKE YESTERDAY WHEN I FIRST ENCOUNTERED OL FREAK NASTY....AN EASTERN OHIO BUCK....A MERE 3 X SPIKE RACK........THE MAIN BEAM SPIKE SIDE SHOWED POTENTIAL FUTURE MASS THEN.....

THE YEAR WAS 2004.

I FIRST MET MARK aka "BUCKEYE" ON A HUNTSWAP INTERNET FORUM BACK IN EARLY 2004 I THINK.....I WAS SWAPPING OFFSHORE FISHING LOOKING FOR A MID-WEST PRIVATE LAND WHITE-TAIL HUNT .....MARK AND I CAME TO AGREEMENT ON WHAT WHY AND HOW WE WERE TO PULL OFF THIS SWAP AND HE ARRIVED IN ATLANTIC BEACH I BELIEVE IN EARLY SUMMER 2004

WELL MOTHER NATURE WAS A BIT RUDE THAT WEEK AND FOUND US SHARK FISHING BEHIND SHACKLEFORD BANKS....WE EVEN RESORTED TO SEA SHELL HUNTING AND A SCENIC CRUISE IN THE EVENING....I MEAN THE WIND ALONE WAS FREAK NASTY RIGHT OFF THE GITGO..! .....

BUT MARK WAS EASY TO PLEASE AND UNDERSTOOD WHY NO OFFSHORE ADVENTURE WOULD HAPPEN THIS TRIP....HE SEEMED PLEASED JUST TO HANG OUT WITH IS FAMILY ON THE ISLAND AND HOPED TO GET OFFSHORE ON HIS NEXT TRIP SOUTH


SUMMER PASSED QUICKLY AND THE NOVEMBER RUT WAS NOW UPON THE HIATT CLAN.....MY BROTHER , SWB'S , AND MY NEPHEW, PEEROW, WOULD JOIN ME IN OHIO FROM UTAH FOR MARK'S PART OF THE HUNTSWAP.....I MEAN ...MARK GOT SHARKS AND SEA SHELLS AND HERE I WAS IN BIG BONE OHIO LOOKING FOR A FREAK NASTY!!!!......DOESN'T QUIET SEEM FAIR DOES IT ...BUT I KNEW BUCKEYE WOULD RETURN LATER FOR SOME SOUTHERN SALTWATER ACTION.....


SO HERE WE THREE ARRIVE AT THE BUCKEYE del rey HILTON FARMO IN EASTERN BIG BUCK OHIO AND NOT ONE OF US HIATT'S HAS A CAMERA......DO YOU BELIEVE IT? THE FOOTAGE I COULD HAVE-SHOULD HAVE TAKEN WOULD BE PRICELESS....MARK HAD TOLD ME THAT HIS UPPER FORTY WAS LIKE NO PLACE ON EARTH....95% BOWHUNTED AND BY FAMILY MEMBERS ONLY.....NO FENCES....ALL FAIR CHASE... RECLAIMED LAND. WHAT WAS AND WHAT HAS TAKEN PLACE IN THE PAST 4 YRS I NOW TITLE IT - PRICELESS...

UN-FREAKIN'-REAL. TIS THE GATEWAY TO BIG BUCKVILLE...THE LAND OF DEER TRAVELLING BACK AND FORTH 24/7.....WITH NO PATTERN TO IT.....10-12-2 or 4PM ........YOU SET UP YOUR STAND IN ONE PLACE AND THE DEER COME SLIPPING OUT IN ANOTHER SPOT...YOU MOVE YOUR STAND TO THAT SPOT AND OH-NO....THEY COME OUT IN YOUR PREVIOUS LOCATION....DEM SOME SMART CRITTERS AREN'T THEY! .....YOU SIT STILL LONG ENOUGH IN ONE SPOT AND MORE DEER WILL PASS YOU THAN YOU CAN IMAGINE...........TRULY, THE BUCKEYE del rey HILTON el FARMO IS ONE OF THE TOP MECCAS OF ALL DEER MECCAS

YEP....2004, NO CAMERA!....THE HORROR..... I SHOULD BE SHOT...THEN LINCHED WITH A ROPE MADE FROM A HAIRY POISON IVY VINE...AND SENT TO MY ROOM ALL AT THE SAME TIME........................NO CAMERA. I SAY THAT'S PATHETIC.

ON THAT 2004 HUNT, I WAS ONCE ON THE SIDE OF A STEEP GRASSY SLOP....GLASSING THE CREEK BOTTOM BELOW.....SORT OF LIKE A PASTURE WITH SPORADIC GROWTH OF SAPLING AND THICKET......ALMOST TO SCENIC TO BE THERE...SO SURREAL.....SO YET PRIMITIVE.

I NOTICED A SMALL 5 POINTER AMBLING UP THE CREEK....200 YARDS BELOW ME........LET'S HAVE SOME FUN I THOUGHT....I GRUNTED ONE TIME AND HE BEGAN ANGLING TOWARDS ME....160....120 YARDS AND CLOSING.....I WAS SITTING IN A POCKET OF WASTE-HIGH BUSHES AND THORNS OUT IN THE OPEN FIELD... MY BIG BUTT WAS PERCHED ON A SMALL FOLDING DOVE STOOL....MY BOW ACROSS MY LAP.........................96 YARDS SAYS MY RANGE FINDER ......ANOTHER LIGHT GRUNT ECKED OUT FROM MY CALL.......GEEEZZZUS H ...HE IS COMING STRONG NOW! 60...55.....I SHOOK THE BUSHES AROUND ME VIOLENTLY.....ADDED MORE GRUNTING ....NOW I AM DOE MOUTH GRUNTING NATURALLY SQUEEZING MY OWN NOSE AS I GRUNT....HIS HEAD IS DOWN AND IS COMING STRAIGHT FOR ME......NOT A THOUGHT IN THE WORLD FOR HIM OTHER THAN HE IS LOVESTRICKEN.....

I SHIT YOU NOT,... HE IS 15 YARDS AWAY AND CIRCLING ME ON MY STOOL! ...NOW 5 YARDS......HECK I KNOW HE CAN HEAR THE PLASMA BLOWING THROUGH MY VEINS AND HE STILL WANTS SOME OF ME! DUDE! YOU ARE A PUNK 5 POINTER COMING IN HERE LIKE STUD MUFFIN HIMSELF....I GRUNT AGAIN EXPECTING HIM TO STICK BONE IN MY BACK....HE IS NOW 3 FEET TO MY STERN AND ALMOST AT FULL CIRCLE WHEN ......BYE BYE YOU STINKING SMELLING REDNECK ON THAT STOOL!

YEP......HE FINALLY WAGON-WHEELED ME ENOUGH TO FINALLY BE DOWNWIND AND GOT A NOSTRIL FULL OF MY STINCH....

WAS THAT UNBELEIVABLE? YOU BET IT WAS... BUT IT DID HAPPEN AND I WAS THRILLED BEYOND MY WILDEST EXPECTATIONS.....UP CLOSE-IN MY FACE-HEART POUNDING ACTION! .....AS FAR AS I WAS CONCERNED, MY HUNT WAS COMPLETE......I TOOK NO ANIMAL ON THIS HUNT BUT WHO CARED.....CERTAINLY NOT ME......FOR I ENJOYED BUCK AFTER BUCK AND DOE AFTER DOE TRAVELLING THE COUNTRYSIDE



NOW IT'S SUMMER 2005 AND BUCKEYE AND HIS CREW TRAVEL ONCE AGAIN TO SOUTHERN OUTER BANKS IN HOPES OF SOME OFFSHORE FAMILY ACTION.....THE WIND GODDESS SENT SOME LIGHT AND SLIGHT OUR WAY AND THE RUN-OFF SET OUT AFTER THEM.....NOW CLICK THIS LINK FOR THIS DAY OF FISHING: http://www.wahoonbox.com/videos/whatisit.wmv


A FEW MEATFISH IN DA BOX AND A DIRTY WHITEBOY RAG TO FLY AND THE BUCKEYE FAMILY GOT THEIR WISH! I LOVE IT WHEN IT ALL COMES TOGETHER!


NOW JUMPING FORWARD....IT'S NOVEMBER 2005 AND ONCE AGAIN WE LOAD UP TWO TRUCKS OF GEAR AND HEAD BACK TO OHIO de BUCKEYE ESTATES. ONCE AGAIN, IT'S BUCK HERE AND BUCK THERE.....WITH POOR DOES RUNNING EVERYWHERE!

AS I WAS RETURNING TO OUR BASE CAMP FOR A NOON FEEDBAG WITH PEEROW.....WE WERE JUST 75 YARDS FROM THE FRONT PORCH WHEN I SPOTTED OL BABY BONE FREAK NASTY......SLOWLY, WE BEGAN MY FIRST & SILENT STALK ON HIS HIGHNESS WITH THE WIND IN OUR FAVOR.....CLICK THE LINK FOR THIS MOMENT....

http://www.wahoonbox.com/videos/GREENTOWN3.wmv


HE WAS BIT ON THE PUP SIDE OF LIFE AND WE DECIDED TO LET HIM GROW UP FOR ANOTHER DAY.....


NOW FAST FORWARD TO SEPT-OCT 2006....BUCKEYE IS DOING SOME SERIOUS SCOUTING FOR ME AND RECORDED THIS FOOTAGE OF EL FREAK NASTY PUTTING ON THE POUNDS AND PLAYING BIGSHOT....CLICK THIS LINK TO SEE DA FREAK GRASSING UP

http://www.wahoonbox.com/videos/CLIMB%231.wmv

AND ONE MORE

http://www.wahoonbox.com/videos/CLIMB2.wmv


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NOW BUMP FORWARD TO NOVEMBER 2006....BUCKEYE HAD JUST HELPED ME SET UP A LADDER STAND ON A STEEP HILLSIDE INSIDE A STAND OF ACORN LADDENED HARDWOODS....I REMEMBER PACKS OF TURKEYS DOTTED THE LANDSCAPE THAT MORNING....IT WAS COLDER THAN A WITCHES TITTY.......BRRRR.........I PRAYED MY HANDS WOULD NOT FALL OFF WHILE IN THE STAND ....

AFTER ABOUT THREE HOURS IN THE STAND AND NO FOUR LEGGED MOVEMENT, MY EYES SOMEHOW FIXED ON A PATCH OF....HOLEY CRAPOLA....I BELIEVE THAT IS THE BACK OF A DEER.......AND IT'S BEDDED......IT'S A BUCK AND IT'S TENDING A BEDDED DOE......60 YDS AWAY AND THE THING HAS BEEN THERE ALL MORNING I SUPPOSE 'CAUSE I HAVEN'T SEEN SQUAT TIL NOW!

CLICK THE LINK HERE....THIS IS MY FIRST ENCOUNTER WITH FREAK NASTY WHO SHOULD BE 3 1/2 YRS OLD NOW....THE FOOTAGE ISN'T ALL THAT GREAT BUT I MANAGED TO GO TO MANUAL FOCUS SO I COULD ZOOM THROUGH THE BLOCKING LIMBS IN FRONT OF ME
http://www.wahoonbox.com/videos/ODDSHOT6.wmv


THE BUCK FINALLY GOT UP TO FOLLOW HIS GIRLFRIEND SOME MORE AND WAS OBLIVIOUS TO HIS OWN SLACKARD WAYS AND SURROUNDINGS.....NO SHOT GIVEN...

THREE COLD WET DAYS LATER....SWB'S AND I DECIDED TO REARRANGE SOME STANDS AT LUNCHTIME....A LIGHT SNOW FLURRY WAS JUST BEGINNING....I THOUGHT WE WOULD BE WORKING MOVING STANDS SO I DIDN'T CARRY MY CAMERA.....THEN, HALFWAY ACROSS THE HILLTOP FOOD PLOT......HOLEY TOLEDO!!!......FREAK NASTY IS HAVING A NOON BUFFET ON THE FAR SIDE OF THE HILL....AND NO CAMERA.....SO HIGH HIGH TAIL IT BACK TO THE CRIB AND GRAB MY CAMERA....

WE COMMENCED TO STALK HIM WITH THE WIND IN OUR FACE....WE HAD A SLIGHT KNOLL TO WORK WITH .....HE RANGED OUT AT 71 YARDS AND WE COULD NOT KEEP UP OUR CRAWLING AT HIS GRAZING PACE.....CLICK THE LINK FOR THIS 2006 STALK

http://www.wahoonbox.com/videos/ODDSHOT7.wmv

I KNOW THIS IS A LONG ASS THREAD BUT STAY WITH ME GUYS.....FREAK NASTY HAS NOW BECOME STUD MUFFIN ZOMBIE NASTY! ........I WAS UNABLE TO HUNT OHIO IN 2007 .....SO HERE IT IS FALL 2008 AND NASTY IS STILL RULING THE SAME HILLSIDE


HERE ARE SOME TRAIL CAM PICS COURTESY OF BUCKEYE BEGINNING IN THE LATE SUMMER 2008 FULL VELVET



HERE IS THE NEW LOOK FOR THE BUCKEYE del rey FARMO



A NEW STAND HE PUT UP....I MEAN CONDO






AND HERE ARE A FEW TRAIL CAM PICS OF THE CURRENT MR. FREAK NASTY COURTESY OF BUCKEYE....




















SHOULD I STAY......OR...... SHOULD I GO?

ME THINKS I NEED TO PACK UP SOME BOW HUNTING GEAR AND HEAD TO OHIO IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE WAHOO CHALLENGE...


WOULD YOU HARVEST THIS ANIMAL?

[Buckeye]

When we win the wahoo challange use my shares and get up here.

You could have told that Perow took 2 nice bucks ans SWB an other. The Box has sacraficed the better hunting spots for his family and I keep begging him come back and get one for the BOX. If we get together we will about 6 cameras to use and I'm sure many other intertaining events will happen once we get started.

[cravertosu]

Great post! I hope you get lucky this year and get to stick him! Looking forward to seeing the pictures!

[bigfish4me]

Load up your truck and git goin man......the way i see it you have unfinished business with this bruiser...finish the last chapter in that epic journey you just shared with us...sneak into his world and finish what you started my friend...good luck and may your arrows fly true and your blood trails be steady.

[reelaxin]

WOULD YOU HARVEST THIS ANIMAL?

Without a doubt – I would be locked, loaded and ready to hit the highway north. Way cool to be able to observe ole “freak” growing up over the years. Definitely a wall hanger in my book.

Great story for a Friday morning – hopefully the next chapter will have some pictures of him on the ground with a bloody hole in his chest.

[seapower]

He's way tooooo pretty. Why aren't you satisfied just taking pictures? What are you some kind a blood thirsty heathen? Ever thought of changing your why's, Marty you sicko, Bambi chas'in lunatic!!! Hope not . Good luck to ya!! Frank

[weekender]

sickem Box!

[BTH284]

Some people say won't say kill they will say harvest, let me tell you what is going right here....things are dying.....it's kill!
Come November 2008 you ain't conserving nothing!

[Bird Dog]

Great read, Box. It looks like he is definitely worth the wait.

[Tenacious]

Great read, Great video, what more to say then get your azz up there and pluck the sombitch!!!! He is ready to be picked. Don't forget the camera!!!!