{"id":280,"date":"2010-06-14T01:00:13","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T08:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/?p=280"},"modified":"2018-07-31T10:13:23","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T17:13:23","slug":"twin-towers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/14\/twin-towers\/","title":{"rendered":"Twin Towers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last fall I shot an exceptional blacktail deer with Diamond C Outfitters<\/a> up in Humboldt County. Early in the year Dylan had nicknamed him ‘twin towers’ for his split mainbeam on the left side. I had seen scouting pics of the buck but have been mostly focused on getting a big 4×4 ever since coming close the year before and having taking a few 3x4s.<\/p>\n

In the past month the story of this buck was covered in Relentless 365<\/a> and his picture also appeared in the back of Eastman’s Hunting Journal in the Hornady Successful hunter’s section. Was really happy to get my pic in Eastmans<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Here are some scouting pics of twin towers in velvet where you can first see his split mainbeam growing on the left side.<\/p>\n

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While hunting for the big 4×4 we came upon a few bucks and he immediately identified one as ‘twin towers’. I had a lot of time to look at him through the spotting scope and didn’t think he was all that special at first, thinking his tall forked eye guard was the ‘split beam’ however after he turned I could see he truly had two mainbeams on the left each forked. At that point I decided I had to take him and the stalk was fairly uneventful. We crawled into the grass at about 200 yards until the hill breaking downward let me get a clear shot. He dropped at the shot from my new Cooper custom classic in .270. I’d waited two years for this rifle and was so happy to break it in on such a great buck.<\/p>\n

At the sports show in San Mateo in January I talked to some guys that were starting up a brand new magazine on California hunting called Relentless 365<\/a>. Soon I’m telling them my fall hunting stories, breaking out the iPhone and sharing pics.\u00a0 Editor Brent Miller asked if I would write a story for their Spring magazine. I told him I would be happy to. Was very pleased to see it come out last month, a full four page story with lots of pictures. It’s great to see a magazine devoted to California hunting again.<\/p>\n

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Last fall I shot an exceptional blacktail deer with Diamond C Outfitters up in Humboldt County. Early in the year Dylan had nicknamed him ‘twin towers’ for his split mainbeam on the left side. I had seen scouting pics of the buck but have been mostly focused on getting a big 4×4 ever since coming […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[15,16,89],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hunting","tag-blacktail","tag-deer","tag-hunting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309,"href":"https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions\/309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}