I want to introduce everyone to Amber Tamer.  Jeff recently met Amber at the the Deer and Turkey Spectacular we attended in Lansing.  Amber was the only woman to win an award in the archery division for this incredible buck that she shot in Allegan county on her brother-in-law’s property.  The buck scored 129 6/8 and weighed approximately 220 pounds.  This is only the second deer Amber has shot and it is also only her second year of hunting.  I’d say she is off to a pretty good start.

Here’s the story in Amber’s words:

Myself and my husband Robert went to his brothers for the weekend to hunt out on his property in allegan.  We got out there to late to hunt in the evening, so me not being much of a morning hunter, my husband basically had to talk me into hunting the next morning (which I’m glad he did).  I was in a tree stand in a tree row with a blueberry field in front of me, with woods to the right of me, and a tall grass field behind me.  My brother in-law told me to watch over my shoulder into the field because they usually come from the woods on the other side of that field. The sun was just starting to come up when I looked over my shoulder and caught a glimpse of something moving in the grass and as it got lighter I could see it was a buck, and I watched him for a long time, and he kept coming my way across the field. Finally he started to walk down the tree line I was in and headed right for me.  When he got close enough I stood up, drew back my bow, and waited for him to get close enough to get a good shot.  He was not quite 20 yards from me when he stopped broadside and was facing the blueberry field, but where he stopped I couldn’t get a shot because the way I was standing in the tree stand there was a tree blocking his vitals, so I took one step over and seen I had a good shot.  I put the pin on him and took a deep breath and thought to myself  “shoot him amber”.  I hit my release and saw him kick and my illuminock light up and I knew I got him.  There was a really good blood trail and he ran 80-100 yards before he dropped.  I didn’t realize how big he really was until I found him in the woods.   This was only my 2nd year hunting and my first year I got a big doe.  So, getting this buck was a lot of luck and some skill on my part, LOL.

Personally I love it when the ladies show the guys up.  So congrats to Amber on a very nice buck.  Thanks for showing my brother up at the show as well.  I truly appreciate that since I can’t do it myself.

I better see a lot of people give some props to Amber in the comments.  That is truly one nice deer.  I can only hope that I have a run in with a buck that is even close to that size someday.

We hope Amber keeps coming back to the site and that every year she has a buck to submit that looks like that:)

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Well I guess I will start by introducing you to Justin, my younger sister’s boyfriend. He shot the buck you see to the left just over a year ago today. Very nice deer and I wish I remember the whole story, but I don’t. He shot this buck with a bow and arrow last year and all of us were pretty impressed with the deer. I would be bragging that thing up everywhere I went.

Now one year later here is Mr. Buck up on the wall! Pretty cool mount and a good looking deer. Thought everyone would enjoy!

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Jeff stopped by the body shop where they took his truck, to have a look-see and see what the damage is. As you can tell the damage was pretty extensive and much worse then we initially thought. There is talk that they might end up totaling the truck, although that is still up in the air at the moment.

I just wanted to share the picture so that you folks got an idea of what kind of damage 60mph collisions with a deer will do. For now he has a rental so he’s not stranded!

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