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Vic Bulliner

World Record 8pt

Dustin Huff

Dustin Huff – US #1 B&C Typical

Jason Thomas

Ohio All Weapon BTR #1

Amish Buck

36 Pt

Canon Falls Buck

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Lucky Buck Deer Mineral

It’s Time To Put Our Bucket On Your Bucket List!

Lucky Buck Mineral supplements the deer population’s diet with minerals that not only make them healthy, but also help develop big racks! The most critical thing to consider in wild animals is that you can’t MAKE them eat anything…they have to WANT to eat it. Lucky Buck Mineral is developed with just the right ratio of minerals that deer love, mixed with an ingredient that will limit the amount they want to eat (unlike competitor’s attractant mixes that have grain or molasses by-products that cause deer to overeat).

For best results, Lucky Buck Mineral should be used year-round. It is easy to use—–just dump it on a stump, log or even on the ground. Stock up to avoid running out. Usage will be greatest in the spring…they should have all they want while their racks are growing. (Please follow local laws and regulations for baiting and feeding deer).

Lucky Buck Mineral is manufactured by MAR-VO MINERAL CO., INC.,the same company that has been producing livestock minerals for the past 85 years.

Freak Factor Supplement

It seems everyone judges the merits of a feed or hunger based attractant on how quickly it disappears!

That is also how quickly your hard earned money disappears.

It’s all about controlling intake and reducing the size of each meal to get more bang for your buck! Freak Factor does that with a patent pending method that is new to the industry!!! Put an equal amount of Freak Factor and a competing product in comparable locations and see the difference. Deer will find Freak Factor sooner, and will return to the site for smaller, more frequent meals.

Corn has been the attractant of choice for many. It is relatively cheap highly available and the deer like it. BUT, it has some major weaknesses! Corn doesn’t have a lot of odor, the deer won’t find it from great distance. Corn is low in protein and high in carbs and can easily cause metabolic upsets if the deer suddenly eat too much.

While Freak Factor is an excellent stand alone feed, it can also be a great way to increase the value of your corn. The aroma from Freak Factor will bring deer from greater distances than corn itself. The added fat and protein will make that site their go to feeding location. Freak Factor’s formula, designed to control consumption, will help that corn (and your dollar) last longer.  Use a ratio of FF:Corn that works best for you (50:50, 80:20, 20:80). The higher the percentage of Freak Factor, the longer your corn (and that dollar!) will last.

Freak Factor: Attract Deer + Save Money + Healthier Deer = A Winning Formula

Perfect Perennial Seed Blend

Lucky Buck brand products are designed to greatly improve your chances at RECORD BOOK BUCKS. A food plot of Perfect Perennial along with Lucky Buck Minerals will do just that!

These clover and alfalfa varieties are superior to most other food plot blends because there are  no “two year” varieties which usually make up a high percent of most competitors’ mixes and will require you to replant after two years.

Perfect Perennial is also superior to the commercial farmer’s varieties of clover and alfalfa that have been selected for tons of yield and stand ability for mechanical harvesting. Deer don’t care about tons or how tall it stands. They want sugar content and less fiber.  Just What Perfect Perennial is selected for. 

ESTABLISHING A PERFECT PERENNIAL FOOD PLOT … 

Select an area for your Perfect Perennial food plot that is not prone to flooding. Ideally the area should have heavy soil that will hold moisture. If possible, avoid sandy soils and slopes or hillsides. Most importantly, the food plot should be able to get plenty of sunshine. 

Perennial weeds and brush can be controlled by using a herbicide like Roundup®. Once weeds and brush have started to die, the soil can be tilled with a disk, plow or rototiller until you have a loose and level seed bed. Before planting, use a cultipacker to firm the surface of the soil (if you do not have a cultipacker, use a lawn roller, bed springs or piece of chain-link fence with weights). Soil test recommendation will indicate the amount of lime and/or fertilizer that is needed. Once that has been determined, apply the lime and/or fertilizer and till into the soil. 

Broadcast Perfect Perennial at 8 pounds per acre or more. After seeding, use a cultipacker or lawn roller to press the seed into the soil to insure good soil-to-seed contact. DO NOT cover the seed with more than 1 /4″ of soil and do not disc or use any heavy tillage after planting the seed. Early spring or late summer plantings always have the best results. DO NOT PLANT IN HOT, DRY CONDITIONS. 

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Listen to Dave Describe More of our Big Bucks

Dave talks about a little history of some the great bucks and their use of Lucky Buck Deer Mineral

The Science Behind Why Early Spring Feeding Works

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Dave on Planting the Perfect Foodplot

Lucky Buck brand products are designed to greatly improve your chances at RECORD BOOK BUCKS. A food plot of Perfect Perennial along with Lucky Buck Minerals will do just that!

How to Build Natural Feeders for Lucky Buck

Creating a natural feeder for Lucky Buck Deer Mineral takes a chain saw and some effort. But it’s great for swampy areas and will last for years.

Freak Factor Deer Supplement

It’s all about controlling intake and reducing the size of each meal to get more bang for your buck!

The Skeptical Taxidermist

This taxidermist was skeptical about the results of using Lucky Buck Deer Mineral, Here is what he found out!

The Origin Of Lucky Buck Deer Mineral

Dave Wheeler explains how he came to create Lucky Buck Deer Mineral and why it works,

This is Why Feeding all Corn can be Dangerous

All corn in plentiful batch is not only unhealthy for the deer, but can also be fatal.

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The Colby Success Story

Scott and his son Nate Colby have hunted the same property in western Wisconsin for years. They lease the property, it’s several hundred acres, and they do a really good job of managing their deer. For years they passed young bucks and they collected sheds and recorded trail camera videos and they never had anything over 140 inches on that property before they started feeding Lucky Buck. They started feeding Lucky Buck year round, including in the spring. And that picture shows the results since feeding Lucky Buck, including a 218 inch with a big unicorn point coming out of his forehead and a 185 inch clean 10 point that Scott actually caught the kill shot on his trail camera video, which was strapped to a fence post. It went off at exactly the right time to catch that buck with his nose in the middle, his nose coming up and the arrow hitting the deer and the deer gave a kick and that was the 10 second clip that that trail camera video captured. He had never seen that buck in daylight. They had lots of night pictures of that buck, including on Lucky Buck. But that 10 second clip was the first daylight look and it was when he was able to harvest it. So Scott has now passed away, but Nate continues to hunt and manage the same property and has additional bucks that he wants to put onto that wall. But we’re going to have to get a wide angle on it. There just might not be room enough for all of the success that they’ve had.

Vic Bulliner - World Record 8 Point

This eight point is the World Record eight point. It is the biggest legally killed eight point ever killed in the world. It was killed in 2001 in southern Michigan. It had, at the time it was killed, the longest main beams in Boone and Crockett history at 32 and a half inches on both sides and scores 180.5  in Boone and Crockett. And was only four years old.

A tooth was pulled and sent it in to verify the age.

The sheds on this buck were found by two local farmers as a two year old. This buck scored 148 with 28 inch beams  At three, he’s 169 with 30 inch beams. And when he’s killed, he’s 180.5 in Boone and Crockett with 32-1/2″ beams on both sides. If he would’ve had a chance to grow a little more, he would’ve been even more impressive.

This buck was fed lucky Buck mineral starting the spring of 1999. And one side of his 1999 shed was found on the same property. The Lucky-Buck minerals were fed again in 2000 and both sides of his sheds were found where the mineral was fed. He was then killed on an adjoining property in November 16th, 2001 by Vic Bulliner.

The rack and skull plate weighed over 13 pounds. We believe this is one of the top Typicals ever killed and highly unusual for Southern Michigan. And we attribute a lot to age as well as genetics and to Lucky Buck.

Vic was not a trophy hunter and never killed a big deer in his life. He never killed a big trophy deer and just was in the right place at the right time, but he got the job done. He hunted this property for over 25 years prior and never killed a buck over 110 inches on that same property. After feeding Lucky Buck for three years he had the opportunity to harvest this one.

This buck had the longest main beams in Boone and Crockett at history when he was killed. He’s now second 22 years later, he’s still number two for beam length. The only one bigger than him is the Schmidt Buck out of Central Ohio who has 35 inch beams.

The only other clean eight point ever killed bigger than him was killed illegally. And that’s why we still consider this one the world record. It was a Cannon Falls Minnesota buck that scored 193 inches with 32 inch main beams, similar mass to this one with a 30 inch spread, and was on Lucky Buck for four years in Cannon Falls, Minnesota

World Record 8pt recorded 3 weeks prior to harvest!

This video was taken during an unsuccessful bow hunt 3 weeks prior to Vic Bulliner harvesting the World Record 8pt. The buck was harvested on November 16, 2001

Dustin Huff - US #1 B&C Typical

Dave Wheeler – Founder of Lucky Buck shares this about the Huff Buck.

Obviously the highlight is that he is the biggest, the highest growing typical ever killed in the US and second in the world to the famous Milo Hanson buck.

He is only a few inches off of the Milo Hanson buck. He has tremendous mass, which seems to be a characteristic of our Lucky Buck bucks. He has, I think it’s over seven inches of mass out beyond the G3. It’s just huge mass. And he was on Lucky Buck with photo evidence from three of our customers over a three year period, over an eight mile range.

We have almost a thousand trail camera pictures of him at Lucky Buck sites.

That’s just about as good as it gets right there. Dustin himself was not feeding Lucky Buck, but his immediate neighbors were. And as we found out later, these other customers had pictures of him as far as eight miles away.

I think what else was significant about him. That the real highlighting kicker are the consecutive trail cam pictures that were taken right next door to where he was killed. That customer had let his Lucky Buck run a little bit low. He had a series of trail cameras sent to his phone and realized that the buck was working the spot pretty hard trying to get some. The cusotmer went and dumped a new bucket of Lucky Buck. I think it’s three days later, the buck is back in resulting in a series of two pictures. The buck gets what he wants and is satisfied, He gets what he needs.

Being willing to spend 30 minutes trying to get it and then coming back for more, just a couple of days later.

It’s just a prime story about that buck.

Feeding on Lucky Buck for 34 minutes!

The Kill Story as told by Dustin Huff

I remember it was November 4th. It was a Thursday. I had hunted that whole week. You know, I always come home and I hunt for two weeks, last week of October, first week of November.

I remember it was a kind of warm–I hunted that morning till about noon, seen a bunch of deer, came back home, got lunch, and I went back out about 2:30-3:00 that afternoon amd evening. And I remember I took my climber with me because I had hunted my four set stands that whole week, so I was just going to give them a break and pack my climber with me.

I didn’t even know where I was going to go, but I went back to the west end of the farm. And it’s a place that I hadn’t hunted for a long time. I mean, it’s probably been since high school, eight, ten years ago. And I just always left that west side to the deer because, I didn’t keep up with the four-wheeler trails and everything was just overgrown. But that’s where I decided to go that evening.

So I packed my climber on. I start walking to that west end of the field and drop in at this corner where that old four-wheeler trail is. I drop down on that four-wheeler trail. There’s a little creek that I have to cross. Then there’s this old–another old four-wheeler trail that I used to sit on. And it’s about 60 yards to my south.

Well, I decided to go west up this little–it’s a little acorn grove, whatever you want to call it, acorn flat. So I go up that acorn flat about, I don’t know, 50 yards just up to the tip of it where I can still see down into the creek. And sure enough, it’s about 3:30pm once I get up in a stand. And I get up in this tree.I just picked a tree.

I saw two limbs off on my way up. And the whole time I’m sitting in this tree I’m dapping myself. Man, I need to be 100 yards closer to that cornfield up there to the west. I need to be–and I just–I dapped myself the whole time.

And so 3:30, I’m in there. 4:30 rolls by. 5:30. 630 hits. And still, I haven’t seen the deer. And I’m texting, you know, my girlfriend at the time, my dad, my friends. And, you know, I’m telling, no deer, no deer.

And at 6:38, I remember it was 6:38.

And I looked–I was making one last pass because my dad texted me. He was like, “You still not seeing any deer?” And I was just about to text him. And I said, “Well, I’m going to do one last, you know, look around.”

And I looked down to my left, which was my south, southwest.And there he was. I seen him at about 70 yards, 70, 80 yards down in the creek. And he had his head down. I remember he had his head down, so I couldn’t even see how tall he was or anything. But I could just see how wide. And then he put his head up after about a split second of me seeing how wide he was. And that’s whenever I said, “Oh, my gosh, like, you know, this is the biggest deer I’d ever seen, you know, anywhere on YouTube or any kind of, you know, Bass Pro, anything.”

And he put his head up, and, you know, he’s looking around. And in my head, I’m thinking, you know, which–you know, I’m always–which way is he going to go? And sure enough, he comes right up this draw that’s about 40 yards from me.

And he starts coming up on the west side of that.

I’m starting to panic now. I’m trying to figure out what the range is. You know, is he 35? Is he 40?

And so I’m just guessing. And it’s really thick through this draw that he’s walking up. And if he would have been on my side of it and not the west side of that draw, I would have had a perfectly smooth shot. I would have let him pass me and would have smoked him. But he was on that west side of it, and it’s so thick in there. He’s coming through saplings,

Briars, just, you know.

So I just whistled at him whenever I was–I got ready, and I whistled, and he was–I was guessing 40 yards. And when I whistled, he stops, and he’s looking right at me, and I can’t shoot him. I got saplings. I got briars right in the boiler room where I need to kill him.

And so I don’t know how many seconds. You know, it was such a blur, that timeframe of when I first whistled and stopped him, and I couldn’t shoot him. And then I waited whatever that was, three to five seconds, whatever, how many seconds that was. And in my head, I was thinking, do I got to stop him on this next–there’s not much room here.

Next–he was taking a real slow step on that next one, and I did a really faint whistle again, and I whistled at him, and he stopped. Still he had a little bit of briar and saplings in the way, and I leaned out to the left just a hair, and I just pulled the trigger. And I was guessing 40 yards, and I heard the smack and he took off running straight west.

I watched him about 50, 60 yards, and he stopped. All I can see is the back of his rack and his tail,and it was unreal how big he is from the back, you know. And he stops, and he looks around for, two, three, four seconds, and I’m in the stand just–you know, I’m watching him, and I’m through all that brush and briars, and I’m going, go down, go down, go down. And sure enough, he started doing the stutter set, flipped his tail and I watched him crash right there at 60 yards in front of me, and he fell back in the holler that he came from down in that creek. And I just threw my hands up and started yelling, you know, “Let’s go, let’s go.”

I made my phone call to my girlfriend, which is my wife now,

I called my dad. I told him. He actually had the biggest beer on that property before I killed Moose. So he killed like a 170-something 180 back whenever I was a freshman. And so I called dad, and I said, “Hey, Pops, I think I just, you know, broke your record here at the farm.” And he was like, “There ain’t no way. There ain’t no way.” And then he showed up, and the property owner and his boys all showed up, and then we all walked to go look at him, and we all walked up to him together.

We just couldn’t believe how big he was, but nobody really knew like a score. And we’re just throwing, like, “What do you think he is, you know, 170, 180?”

And the property owner added, “Man, I’d say he was a high 160.”

And, you know, we’re just – we have no idea. And so it wasn’t until later that evening and the next day and the day after where we started to really figure out, like, how big and, you know, magnificent this deer is.

I had never killed anything over a 140 or anything before..

Jason Thomas
 Ohio All Weapons BTR #1

In 2021 this buck lived on the farm all year but was just 130” 8. This was the beginning feeding this buck Lucky Buck Deer Mineral. This trophy buck would hit the Lucky Buck Deer Mineral all summer and through the fall. The following summer he grew 40-45”.

2021-2022 Trail Cam Photos

As told by Jason Thomas

I guess we’ll just start from the beginning.

I’m hunting a small tract of land here probably within the last three to four years. I’ve really started figuring out this property, figuring out how the deer move, figuring out how to utilize mineral sites, and trail cameras, and food plots, what crops are on and figuring out how these deer move on this particular property when certain crops are on. Here in the last four or five years, I’ve gotten to the point where, if there’s a big deer on the property, I’ve harvested that deer or my wife has harvested that deer.

But this particular deer, we first saw in 2021. He was a resident deer on this property. I saw him all through bow season, gun season, late season.I saw this deer all the time. I was after a bigger deer that year. I had told a few about this deer. I’d shown pictures. Nothing crazy. A 130, 135 inch eight pointer. This is a real nice, clean eight pointer.

I’m not going to shoot a deer like that. So we elected to pass in that year, 2021. The year comes and goes and comes into 2022.

In the back of my mind, I’m thinking, there was another big 10 pointer that was around. I’m really focused on that deer, not really thinking about this eight pointer at all. I personally, never actually ended up seeing that eight pointer again that year. But, some neighbors a couple miles away, one neighbor to the south, another neighbor kind of northeast, were getting pictures of this 170 inch mainframe nine pointer. Just a huge frame, tall times, little three inch brow tine. But, just super long beams, super tall tines. We’re looking at it. I’m thinking, man it kind of resembles that eight pointer from last year that disappeared from where I’m from. You look at pictures and it’s pretty easy to identify that’s definitely the same deer. But, he, for whatever reason, he has decided to leave the farm.

A different deer moved in, 160-some inch 10 pointer moved in. And, my wife harvested that deer that year.

I knew that big nine pointer was in the area because people were showing me pictures of him. I was kind of holding out hoping he would show up. He never did and I had crops out. There was beans out that year.

The farmer left an acre of beans up. I had planted a food plot. I was running Lucky Buck all year. And he never showed.

We move into the 2023 season. In the back of my mind, I’m thinking, okay, that nine pointer is still alive, which I he made it through the hunting season. Just didn’t know. Nobody had picked up any sheds. Nobody had any pictures of him, even the people that had pictures of him the year before. This deer kind of vanished. But, in the back of my mind, I’m thinking he’s probably laying low. Hopefully he survived the season. So, hopefully, he shows up. I was out in second week of August. I was out putting in a food plot. And, there were some trails that needed trimmed up. Some little trees come down.

I run Cuddeback cell cameras. I was going to put out my cameras on this farm. I came back two days later on August 14. I was cutting up trees, clearing trails, and putting up cameras, and I go back into this part of the property that is really kind of a sanctuary. I put cameras in there, and then I don’t come back. WithCuddebacks, I can leave and go all year. The batteries won’t die. As I’m walking back in there, I catch movement, coming out of this, green bean field, coming into this timber.

I can see that there’s bucks. It’s a bachelor group. I can see like, oh man, these deer look really nice. So, I got behind a big oak tree, that just kind of stood there and had my phone up and I’m holding an arm full of cameras. I’m in blue jeans and a Carhartt t-shirt. I’m not on a scouting trip.

I’ve got a nine minute video from this. The last deer to come into the woods is this 211 and 4 eighths inch,12 pointer.

At 40 yards, he comes browsing into the woods, eating acorns, and just kind of, bozing through with the other bucks. I couldn’t believe what I was looking at. That deer, that nine pointer from the year before had just exploded and put on 40 inches.

I kept him a secret, you know, I told my wife, I told one other person about him, but I wasn’t really sharing any locations, any pictures or nothing.

Immediately I became obsessed with that deer. I went out, bought four more cell cameras, placed them all over the farm and I immediately started getting pictures of this deer pretty much every night. He was hitting this one bean field, every night with the same group of deer. And so, I immediately started door knocking, trying to get permission, dropping letters off people’s mailboxes. Doing everything I could to try and get hunting permission. I didn’t end up getting any deer hunting permission. I got permission to hunt groundhogs. I could go sit and watch deer, or I could put up trail cameras, but never actually got permission to hunt. But, one of those pieces of property that let me go in I was able to watch this bean field from that property.

I got some pretty good pictures using my, my spotting scope in my phone, I got pictures of him feeding in this bean field. I’d go out every night or every other night. It started getting close to season.

This deer, he still got his velvet, one by one, his bachelor group he’s with, they start losing their shed and their velvet. I was hopeful that, when he shed his velvet, he wouldn’t really, he wouldn’t change his pattern. Hopefully he would stay around. But,I never actually saw him in person, hard of the horn, until the day I killed him.

I went out, watched him one night, he was full velvet. I went out like four, five, six nights in a row. I never did see him. I wasn’t getting any pictures of him, and it was like a two to three week window, before I got another picture of him. And when I did, he was hard horned, and had been hard horned for a while.

And then, you know, from that point on I was lucky to get one picture a week. I just was knocking on doors and just doing everything, you know.

I was not successful getting any other permission to hunt. I knew if I was going to kill this deer, I was putting out Lucky Bucks (deer mineral). I’m putting out everything I can to try and attract this deer and get him. When he does come to the property I want to get him to stick around for a little bit.

I’m not sure the date, but it was on a Tuesday, the Tuesday before I killed him. I’m laying in bed, and I got my cameras on and pictures coming into my phone It had been a couple weeks since I had gotten any pictures of this deer. And there he is standing in my food plot at nine or nine thirty. And at the time, I think it was getting dark out at maybe like seven thirty. Two hours after light, so he was close. I knew he was close in the area to be there that close to the sunset.

So immediately I have high hopes again. My heart rate goes up. I’m sure my blood pressure went through the roof seeing this deer. Okay, he’s back. He’s in the food plot. I’m going to try and kill this deer this week.

So I think it was the next evening I went out hunting. When I got down out of my stand I could see this cut silage field. Right at last light I kind of looked across the silage field and I could see there’s a couple bucks out on the far end, like 400 yards away. I could see like a huge framed deer, and I thought to myself, man, that’s got to be this deer.

So, you know, I hunted a couple other nights that week, didn’t see him, wasn’t getting any pictures of him. I elected to not go hunting Friday night. Where I live, we had a football playoff game.

So I went to that game and come to find out later, that that night, the neighbor guy that hunts right by my tree stand said he (the buck) watched me as I grunted at him. That deer he said took off and went right back under my tree stand. Right back on the property I hunt.

I never had any pictures of him, but he was there. I went with that. I didn’t known this at the time that the neighbor guy had seen him that Friday night, but I went in Saturday morning and hunted. That was my first morning hunt of the year. I sat in stand that I had not hunted all year, The wind was right. It was really a morning stand. It was tough to get into in the evening

I sat over this standing cornfield and I hadn’t seen anything all morning. Which happens a lot of times this property. I really didn’t see a whole lot of movement and I was contemplating on getting down. I was getting close to that time to get down and I caught some movement to the far south end of this field. A little that’s kind of a waterway. Kind of grassy, but there’s still some corn in it, but just doesn’t grow very well. I caught movement and looked, I looked at my binoculars and there he is coming up that waterway just real slow eating corn and he may be coming up into there about 50 yards. Then bedded just off the side of this little, you know, depression waterway in the cornfield.

So immediately everything starts going through your mind. Should I try and run at him? Should I try and sneak down there? Should I sit here all day? I started checking, the wind forecast and my wind was going to switch, going south, blowing to the southeast, to blow directly to the south, which if it did that, he would wind me. I knew, regardless I got to get down, and get out of here, otherwise, you’re going to wind me.

I get down, go home, call up my cousin, kind of put together a game plan. It had rained the night before and it was kind of breezy. The corn was pretty loud. And he’s bedded in this field I decided on a plan I knew I could be quiet getting in there, because I had no trails right along this cornfield. I  knew I could sneak in there really close, and really quiet.

That’s what I did. I went in there, I put my crossbow over my shoulder on my back. I had a little stool in my left hand, and I just got on my hands and knees and crawled 200 yards to where I could get right on that little waterway of the cornfield.

I pushed some weeds down and set up in the weeds right by the woods. Quite a while went by and I’m sitting there playing games on my phone and I look up. And there he is, at 30, 40 yards, kind of, angling left to right, kind of towards me, though, walking in this corn. I immediately range him, get my bow up and ready and he stops broadside He starts itching his back, and when he did that, I’m getting on him. Just getting ready to pull and squeeze the trigger, and he turns, and he walks straight towards me.

I’m looking at his eyes through my scope, and he just keeps coming, and keeps coming, and keeps coming. And at this point he’s 10 to 15 yards and still coming right at me. He stops, and kind of picks his head up and at this point he sees me. He’s looking right at me and you could tell. His tail’s flickering and he’s just standing there upright. He is shifting positions. He kind of shifted his rear end, and shifted his legs, you could tell he was getting ready to turn and bolt. A lot of times they kind of, drop, push, turn and run away, all in one motion. I thought to myself, as soon as he spins, I’m going to put the crosshairs behind the shoulder, and pull the trigger. And, you know, he did that and I just moved quick and pulled the trigger. I heard it hit him and he’s crashing through the corn,and just disappears. All I can hear is him just destroying corn.

Then it gets quiet. There’s just a huge rush of emotions. You know. You don’t know. You know, I knew I hit him, but I didn’t know where. I waited a few minutes, and slowly, went up there, and thought, okay, I’m going to look for, air, blood, tracks, anything, and I’m looking. I can’t even hardly focus.

I’m just a wreck, and I think, myself, okay, I’m not seeing any footprints, I know he was standing right here, I can’t see any footprints. I’m not seeing any blood, I don’t see any hair, There’s no arrow and I’m thinking, well I can’t find him, I can’t find any blood, I’m not going to go walking through this cornfield, and potentially push him. I did hit him in the shoulder, I hit him in the back, or hit him in the liver or something, I want to give him time. So, I got, packed my stuff up, and I went home.

I go home and I wait a couple hours, and call my cousin and we decide okay, let’s head back over there and see what we can find. It didn’t take very long. We found blood about, 20, 30 yards from where I’d hit him. The blood was everywhere. You could tell it was, it was a lung shot.

He had went maybe a 100, 150 yards, and died in the cornfield. We went up to him and looked at him. It was a perfect shot. Three inches behind the shoulder, a complete pass through.

I couldn’t believe how it all happened. How I went down. That I had actually was able to stall to it at 50 yards, as that deer always bedded And then was able to put that shot on him and make it all come together.

36 Point Amish Buck

Jonathan Schmucker, Adams County, Ohio knew this buck was out there. It would come out into the bean field next to his house and he would actually get on the roof of his barn and watch this buck. And he knew where it was coming out. Opening day of bow season was the first time he actually went back into the woods, got up in his tree and shot that buck. There is a little bit of history on it, a couple of non Amish guys, they call them English, found the sheds on that buck the year before and he was about 240 inches. John himself was not feeding Lucky Buck, but four other Amish men within the square mile that that buck was likely calling his home range went through 40 buckets. It was the year he was killed and they started feeding Lucky Buck in the spring. He put on over 60 inches going from about 240 to 305 and that is just a tremendous increase. The impressive thing about him is the symmetry along with all the inches. There’s a lot of non-typicals that get pretty funky as they get big. His mainframe nets enough to beat the world record typical that Milo Hanson shot. If you saw it off 85 inches he nets over 220 which easily beats the biggest typical of all time.When you look at that buck from straight behind him, you can see his G1s through his G5s on both sides from straight behind him. That’s probably the most impressive framed deer among the most impressive mainframes on any whitetail ever harvested. Excellent.

Since November 16 of 2001 when Vic Bulliner harvested his 185” 4 year old 8 on my farm in southern Michigan, I have been calling him the world record 8 point. There is one that is bigger, but it was harvested illegally and that is why I still consider Vic’s the world record.

The bigger one was poached in the Cannon Falls MN area in 2009. This buck I believe scored about 193” with about a 30” spread and 32” beams. He was fed Lucky Buck Mineral at least 4 years. A person hunting this buck called him Fred and bought a pallet of Lucky Buck because of this buck. His sheds were found the two previous years and he was bigger the year he was killed than both of the previous years even though he was 8 years old!

The majority of all whitetails will be 8 points in their prime and these two are the biggest of all time! They were killed 5 states apart and 8 years apart, so I don’t think it was genetics that was the common thread here. They were both on Lucky Buck mineral Vic’s for 3 years and the Cannon Falls buck for 4!

HERE IS WHAT IS HAPPENING!

Up until now the deer were eating nothing but dry grass and browse while getting only 50% moisture.

Suddenly new grass makes up their entire diet which is 80% water, essentially flushing the electrolytes out of their system.

They crave Lucky Buck to replace those electrolytes and by “accident” they also get the selenium and the other things needed to help their antlers grow at this critical time.

Give the deer all they want. Lucky Buck Deer Mineral is self-regulating and deer won't overeat. Keep watch on your  site and when it gets low, just add more.