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THE BUCK STOPS HERE - BULLETS, BROADHEADS, WHITETAILS AND ME!

The book was written and dedicated to her  94  year old father, T. A. Harvell.  He is not able to hunt with the family now, but she will always cherish and  remember the times she walked behind him as a young girl.  He was  an avid quail hunter and used a double barrel "White" 12 gauge shotgun. 

She was the oldest of seven children and although a girl, she followed him and the bird dogs on the hunting trips. After the  dogs pointed a covey of  quail,  and upon his comand  flushed them, she would watch where the singles would lite and tell him.  They would walk to the singles, the pointer bird dog would make the point, hold for him until he came up for the dog to break the point.  When the single came up dad would always make a good shot and the dog  would find the dead bird and bring it to him.  

He knew she enjoyed the outdoors and hunting trips so much,   he  gave her the  first gun when she was eight years old,  a Daisy BB Gun.  Later she learned to shoot his 16 shot  Remington automatic  22 long rifle, next he bought her a Stevens single shot 410,  then it was a double barrel 12 gauge Winchester.  Later she purchased a Remington 1100 automatic shotgun,  but the most treasured gun she owns is the Marlin 30-30 Model 336 C.  She has used the gun for  29  years and plans on using it again in 2009!

(The picture below is the Author and her Dad)!   He drove his pickup truck  nearby to  where she shot her first deer, climbed over the barbed wire  fence and walked with her through the briars, under-bursh, then to the dead deer.   He reached into his front pocket, pulled out his "old timer" pocket  knife and showed her how to field dress it.  She attached the tag to one of  the back legs, and they both  drag it to the pickup truck, let the tail gate down, then loaded  it.  They drove to  the nearest check station, which was  in Sallisaw, Oklahoma and checked it in.   

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20th November, 1979 - 7 Point - 118 lb.

The thirty first whitetail buck wasn't anything to brag about, but it was one of the most exicting hunts of my life.  The fall rut was hot and the bucks were out chasing the doe's!  I had climbed up in my Cabella 21' buddy stand before daylight on opening day of muzzle season 2007.  This stand was so much more comfortable than the portable stands I had used for several years.  In  past  season's I know I must have moved the three stands I used a dozen or more times.  I used the screw in tree steps to climb up the trees and hang them. The weather was just right this morning and any whitetail deer hunter would have been in paradise.  It was about 32 degree, light frost and little or no wind.  About prime time, which was about 7:15 a.m. there was  movement to the right side from the thick brush that caught my eye.  The two deer had came from no where and at once I could see the nice 6 pointer and doe.  I decided to shoot him and slowly lifted the 50 caliber Thompson Center Diamond and looked through the bushnell 3 X 12 scope.  I aimed at the bucks heart/lung area and pulled the trigger!  Lo and behold the musket cap mis-fired and the two deer leaped back into the thick brush and were gone.  Seems like the smoke would never clear!

I quickly removed the spent muskett cap and inserted a new one over the nipple and at the same time thinking the hunt was ruined.  I had tracked this buck for several days and knew he was the largest one in the area.  There had been two smaller sets of tracks, but I had seen the one spike and figured the other to be just a button head buck.

About 15 minutes later I was looking to the west and about 60 yards away there appeared a doe and she started walking slowly around the edge of the woodland towards my stand.  At the time I didn't know it was the same doe that had been by my stand with the buck.  Immediately the buck appeared and stopped dead still where the doe had appeared!  He stopped at the edge of an embankment and appeared somewhat confused.  He would look to the south and turn and look the direction the doe went.  I had noticed three doe earlier that had climbed the embankment and disappeared into the brush the way he came. 

I decided to try the grunt around my neck to get his attention and it worked.  After two short grunts he came trotting my way!  Since he was coming head on toward me it wasn't going to be easy.  I grunted again when he was within 50 yards and he stopped and turned broadside and this was what I wanted him to do.  I put the crosshairs at the exact spot and shot!  This time the Diamond didn't let me down. 

Like I say the buck wasn't anything to brag about, but the old saying is" you can't eat the antlers"!  James and Seth heard the shot and was waiting on the ridge that led into the woods!  I rode the Honda to them and we all went back into the woods where the 6 pointer lay.  I pulled my Case pocket knife out of my  pocket and gave Seth a lesson on how to field dress the buck.  Seth is 7 years old!

Kirby came in from his hunt  about 15 minutes after we made it to the house  and had shot a nice 8 pointer.  We made pictures and loaded them up and drove to the deer check station and then on to the Jiles Meat Processing plant.  It is always fun  to double the same morning  with he or James and they help me get my deer out of the woods.

 Telling stories to friends and family about each of the mounted deer that hang on the wall of her trophy room,  encouragment from a former vocational teacher and a computer motivated G. M. Barber to write her first book.  After 25 years  of deer hunting and 25 whitetail bucks,  the stories stayed fresh in her mind.   The book tells  the weight, antler size, seasons and all particulars of the hunt on each.   In doing so it was easy to sit down at the computer and write a story on each indidual whitetail buck harvested. (She did her own taxidermy work). 

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The Buck Stops Here - Bullets, Broadheads, Whitetails and Me! by G. M. Barber

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