I get cold just looking at the picture. Jon Smith killed this deer in Illinois the weekend before Christmas. He said he didn’t get the “sure enough biggun” he was after in November, but he managed to get an arrow into this one. Jon wasn’t completely satisfied with the shot; he felt he’d hit the deer a little too far back in the body. He decided to leave the deer overnight and search for him in daylight. He found him all right, frozen solid in the creek where he died. The temperature got down to zero during the night, and the wind chill was around minus 20. That’s cold, y’all, and Jon said it was even colder when he was chopping the deer out of the frozen creek. The buck was solid to the eyeballs.
If Jon didn’t look so tired in the photo, I’d say he bought that deer out of a walk-in freezer. Mr. President, you earned that one!
7 responses so far ↓
1 ccloud32 // Jan 16, 2009 at 12:35 pm
No pain, no gain……and Jon looks to be in pain so it must have been worth it! Nice one, Prez!
2 armchairoutfitter // Jan 16, 2009 at 2:14 pm
I’d love to see the “biggun” if that’s not him.
3 Jerry Emmons // Jan 16, 2009 at 6:22 pm
Way to go Jon!!! Having seen your trappings in HS, I can see you chopping him out of the creek! What was the spread on this one?
4 Wes Burney // Jan 21, 2009 at 5:29 pm
Nice one dude. Would you think about hookin’ an old buddy up?
5 Jimbo Fishman // Jan 24, 2009 at 5:34 am
Jon that is a nice one!! What did he score? I understand why I do not kill deer that size. If it were that cold I would stay in bed…….humm, maybe that is the reason I have four kids…Anyway that is a fine one esp. with a stick and string. Send Mike a few more pictures. I know you have killed some REALLY big ones over the years.
6 chuck b // Sep 30, 2010 at 4:05 pm
i think he showed me the picture of the big one on a trail cam and this one is smaller
7 armchairoutfitter // Sep 30, 2010 at 6:23 pm
I’d be happy with the “littlun.”
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