CAPTAIN HOOK: 200 Inches of History Found Dead!

[@casualobserver77]

Awesome story.
Awesome buck.
Can't help but love it when they outsmart us. Respect.
RIP Captain Hook

[@ryantuminello8248]

It’s funny how that deer never been shot just died of old age

[@southernmanoutdoors3840]

Not shooting him when he was locked up with the other buck really shows how good of a sportsman you really are.

[@jdsegelhorst5984]

This is very true. It would of made it a lot easier, not to mention safer to unlock them, specially when he was so concerned with their ability to make it after they were released. If you look at his eyes he was contemplating it.

[@thetoxicbadger9202]

SouthernMan Outdoors I would of shot him because only big bucks around here are 6 points and those are really rare here I shot any spike or doe I see cuz there’s nothin

[@DIEorSK87273]

Just wouldn’t feel right. Killing a buck in a position of already suffering. Your just a shitty hunter if you do that.

[@MrPaulluma]

David Shafnacker oh im sure that there’s plenty of knuckleheads and yahoos out their that would shoot a buck that’s locked up. Same jackasses that go for head shots, road hunt, get drunk and hunt. Those type of dumbasses would!!!

[@MrPaulluma]

I agree that was the ethical and right thing to do. Always do the right thing even when no one is around. It’s the way to be. Would be pretty pathetic shooting a deer locked up!

[@twincam103]

Great deer at least he was able to spread his genetics for all of those years.

[@big_male_shooster2471]

steven scott I hate when bucks get locked up and one breaks the others neck it’s just sad

[@dequavis6220]

Drake Bell it didn’t break the others neck, they both ran off

[@exploringcreation1354]

@@big_male_shooster2471 it's part of life. Survival of the fittest. I don't like it either. But that's just the way of life

[@BigBuckGetter]

Great story. Great gift from Captain Hook. It worked out for the best of both of you. And he gave you his rack to always remember him.

[@justsomecoolprayingmantisd6422]

I’ve always liked watching Mark’s hunting videos. Ever since I was knee high to a grasshopper. Much respect to you sir 🫡🤝

[@elwudz88]

DOD, these videos are incredibly informative and so very enjoyable. Thank you for putting in all the time and effort to bring it to our screens, keep it comming!

[@ryanrosenbaum6052]

I never get tired of watching this video - great respect and sportsmanship for an amazing animal.

[@justinperrin9503]

This video shows the ethics of a true hunter

[@gary4645]

This is what I love about the DOD team, Mark you and Terry live the outdoors. This was a tribute to the love that you have for your deer and the time you spend with them. I am a wildlife photographer/sometimes hunter. I would rather photograph than take. I have friends that are deer breeders and even as a photographer/breeder I would rather see one killed than die. Memories are made in the photos and videos we acquire and when someone kills one then the meat can be consumed and a story told. This is sad for this to be his end. I salute you guys and keep up the good work!

[@stevenalford3796]

This animal is amazing and smart!! Glad you found him !!

[@bobbuilder8922]

Steven Alford yeah he didn't get that big from being dumb haha

[@donnieurbanjr4755]

Awesome story. Thanks for sharing. Prolly the coolest hunting story's I've ever heard

[@DIEorSK87273]

Damn I just watched Captain Hook locked up in another video.

[@Ricyone]

Amazing story This is why I love Drury Outdoors... Documentation of deer and showing the people outside the Inner circle .. Mark I believe it's time for you to write another book and produce a video about the extended story of the deer you follow and the ones who have been harvested. I've followed since day one and always wondered what happened to certain deer that just up and disappeared from Drury Outdoors.

[@philalfred8307]

Undoubtedly he passed that DNA on to some youngin's that will provide some excellent hunts in the future! Thanks for the great video!

[@derpypara1952]

I hope he does so his legacy goes through that young one

[@B.D.33]

It's HUNTING NOT KILLING Thank-you DOD for promoting good sportsmanship and ethical hunting tactics. That gift of BUCKTOBER is reward from the Lord for Character of Men You Are. God Bless

[@DruryOutdoors]

Thanks Bob! Best luck and stay safe out there this fall!

[@justinperrin9503]

Bob Desmond and Danger

[@hawkmanracing]

That is the coolest deer story any one will ever tell. With pics and videos to prove it! That’s awesome

[@hawkmanracing]

And the deer won!!

[@eliwitham3133]

the randomness shows how smart mature bucks actually are and that's why they live so long

[@khenneman87]

What a giant!!!!! Thank you for sharing!!!!

[@taofouajarodeve]

awesome history of Capt. Hook. Happy he lived a long life.

[@davidblanchard5035]

Nice to see you have honor and let him live when he was locked up. Nice to see you only wanted him in a fair game way. The best man win. That's greatness. You have much respect in my book

[@DruryOutdoors]

Appreciate you recognizing that it's all about the hunt, not just the kill. Good luck this season David!

[@davidblanchard5035]

@@DruryOutdoors thank you. I can relate. I'm after a 7 yr old that has walked under me 3 yrs in a row as a brut. Hopefully he does it 1 more time now 😅

[@fatheremmons85]

Never seizes to amaze me just how "random" mature bucks can be while others can be somewhat easy to pattern. Mind boggling just how smart a deer can be to "out smart" hunters for so many years to survive season after season and never be harvested. Awesome story.

[@MaloneNYDeerhunter1]

Incredible Deer.... Awesome story !!

[@RickNethery]

Great Story, and Beautiful Deer.

[@henrywarren5634]

I respect that that's something I probably wouldn't do if I came across a 185 locked up in a creek bottom

[@GopherHayes]

Captain Hook congrats on your victory 😉

[@jaybean8086]

You just gained a tremendous amount of respect from me let me tell you! Not shooting him when he was locked up just shows the true sportsman you are and you truly respect hunting! Not very many people would have passed him up In that position. God bless!!!

[@DruryOutdoors]

I really appreciate that, bud! At the end of the day, I feel blessed to be able to pursue my passion of hunting, but I want to make sure I do it the most ethically way possible and be a good steward for conservation.

[@jaybean8086]

@@DruryOutdoors amen to that...I rarely watch hunting videos these days..but that one episode I watched on UA-cam made me a viewer let me tell ya. I was able to harvest my biggest buck last year...155 3/8 that I called ghost! My life time deer. My dad had his own smallmouth bass fishing show for years in Tennessee..so he taught me conservation in that area as well as hunting. Keep putting the videos out and I'll keep watching....god bless and good hunting!!!

[@DruryOutdoors]

@@jaybean8086 Thank ya sir! I really appreciate it, and good luck out there this fall! We'll try to keep the good content rolling in for you! ;)

[@pa50cals]

That was an awesome story to have been able to fallow that deer for so many years!

[@jimkaddell2996]

Awesome story guys! Thanks for sharing

[@josephhale9198]

What a Kool story! Mr Drury!💯🦌👍

[@houstongroeneveld2122]

Amazing story. AMAZING!

[@Glockshooter09]

Great story! love it, keep it up

[@WNE8]

The thrills of the outdoors. Great story guys! Hopefully Captain left a first mate for you to chase!

[@samuelwoodward7760]

Y'all got the best Job ever!

[@henniebogan1966]

Just a crazy rollercoaster ride with that buck. Just goes to show you how cagey and smart deer can be.

[@SteveZ-yd6em]

Depending on how many tags I had one of those giants would have lost that battle to my Mathews DXT!

[@AnglerOutdoors]

There is always a reason big bucks live as long as they do....the art of hiding and yet being right under your nose is a prime example of this bucks maturity.

[@DruryOutdoors]

Great insight!

[@aarongunnink6826]

great story as usual. keep em coming

[@juddevans8043]

That’s heart breaking!!!!!

[@DruryOutdoors]

We hate when this happens. He was such a beautiful deer, and this is definitely not the way we wanted to see him go!

[@derpypara1952]

I am new to this channel but that buck behind you guys almost had my cousin faint

[@sandyharrelson6163]

That's an awesome story. It's also cool to think that that buck was alive for three quarters of my life

[@MrPaulluma]

Good yall got closure and found him but it really sucks you weren’t able to tag him.

[@keatons.1169]

Sad ending for such a beautiful buck. Very cool story

[@billmiller236]

I just love you boys and you movies and the story I am bill MO. I love to bow hunting but now I can't git around because of back problem I fall off a ten story building that I was working on but you boys keep me intertended. I am on disability and so there no way I have money go out and git four wheel but thanks boys very muck four the great move to see god bless to keep it up here s two to buck I got the loud give us the land for us to. hunt

[@Ramzey44]

99% of y’all don’t realize that this happens so frequently. Mature bucks die every single day from all kinds of reasons. Car wrecks, disease, broken bones, old age, fights, the list goes on. Just crazy that they actually found him, it was meant to be, a gift from god!!

[@Digger927]

That's an awesome story guys, thanks for sharing it with us! Looking at him in the first pics, I don't think he was 4 that year, more like 2 but that's just my opinion.

[@skipfitz4017]

yes last year I took a 190 class whitetail.see pictures at bushy creek whitetails outfitters I'm the one in the red shirt. when I took this buck I asked if any bow hunters had seen this deer or had trail cam pictures or even sheds. nothing. also check out the testimonials my 30 second claim to fame lol great video of captain hook

[@josephhale9198]

There are some nice deer here in liberty mo. About 145 miles from iowa border

[@jjordon607]

True ambassadors of the industry!!! Amazing sportsmanship. Would have been easy to take a chip shot and not get them fair chase. Hats off to you Mark.

[@EnNergyTrix]

So did the other buck ever make it?

[@exploringcreation1354]

Not likely. With the amount of stress he had gone through. He was physically exhausted and if that area has a high coyote population, which is increasingly common for there to be so, with it being so close to nightfall he likely laid down to rest and was snatched by them. Also with winter coming on it would be more difficult to find nutrients to gain strength back from a fight like that! It is possible though, that he did in fact survive and is still out there today. On the fact that we never hear anything about that deer in future DOD videos I'd say he's probably gone.

[@lucasberggren676]

I've got a deer named hooker who is 200 inches and I haven't seen him in a while...

[@firemancobb38]

I remember watching this live.. What an awesome buck.. Thats the reality of hunting elusive whitetails.. I cant tell you how many times someone has killed or found a buck we were hunting.. Its nauseating..

[@lukemaggio950]

That story sounds like the one that is hanging up on our wall. He scored 146!

[@evanbowen4221]

Man what a buck well good luck this year@Drury outdoors

[@briskt648]

My friend shot a 16 point last bow season and it scored over 210

[@armbender777]

very interesting and great video

[@jarrodlambert3914]

Great story wow

[@keithnewton4172]

He was the old man. Love the pic. Of him..

[@tfelich19]

Yet more awesomeness from Drurys!

[@justsomecoolprayingmantisd6422]

I have a huge main frame 8 point I’ve been hunting for a couple years and he’s been elusive like Captain Hook. I got him a couple times in august and then for months nothing. Then mid November I got him on camera and boy he’s big . I’d say 150 plus on size, and that’s good for a 8 pointer. Anyways I tagged out Nov 3rd with the other big 8 point buck I been hunting as well that I had on cam for 3 years. But I’m hoping “buckzilla” it’s the name I named it lmao is still around 🙏. I’m gonna set out a few more cams tomorrow. I’m very happy with the buck I got this year with my bow. He will score in the mid 140s. I hunt in Indiana, and we don’t really have giant bucks like Iowa and some of the other states, but we do have some big ones in certain areas, especially around river bottoms it seems. Anyways good luck fellow hunters 🤝

[@juddevans8043]

At least y’all found him!!

[@DruryOutdoors]

Very true! It's better than wondering what happened to him!

[@TheIceman101]

Mark, are you guys using Black out cameras or LEDs?

[@justinsigmon1878]

I'm sorry but I would have tagged out when they was locked up lol. Never even got deer half that size here. I got pics of my biggest buck ever this year hunted him hard. Was within 30 minutes of him 3 different hunts according to my camera. He went missing 3rd week of September. Pushed down towards the creek bottom to see if I could lay eyes on him in bedding area and sure enough I smelled a dead animal glassed from top of ridge and all I could see was horns and ribs I could have cried I was so sick... had to tag him to keep him but I skull mounted him. For NC he was a good deer pushing 145.... would love to have took him with my compound but God had other plans. Game warden and the biologists said probably died of ehd it hit allot of the counties around us.....

[@donnieseeley4529]

It's called respect for the buck to not shoot him locked up and it's called real sportsmen ship !!! if you don't understand that your not a real hunter!!!

[@kingdoofey2092]

How much money would it cost for you to guide 2 people on 1 hunt looking for 10 point 12 point or giant 8

[@johnpsurny1751]

I am curious who gets to keep the Captain Hook buck, they guy who found it (I think his name is Wade) or if Mark gets to keep it? Just curious.

[@Kahwuwiqhfhkgehi29260]

Can only imagine what you would have given to get some telemetry on that buck through all those years...really see what he was doing.

[@estonrush380]

I live in north eastern iowa so 👌 lots of nice bucks here i got a nice 10

[@philalfred8307]

What a testament to how smart these trophy bucks are! This one cheated the hunters and died on his own! Chalk one up for a wise ole boy!

[@jeffree6996]

Great story. Possibly one of the top archery whitetail hunters on earth. A true sportsman and an unmatched passion and love for the sport. I'm shocked at the garbage comments by all the jealous scum hunters that are aimed towards the Drurys. They obey all laws and are always fair chase. So they have much better land to hunt then you or I. Props to them. Living a dream the RIGHT way. Thanks so much for all the great videos of gorgeous buck

[@sammartin2660]

awesome story

[@matthewbowen3200]

And you near Knox city or Plevna or Edina my grandpa has a few hundred acres in Plevna mo and we have a few very high scoring deer

[@jamestoler9344]

The drurys find a lot of deer dead on their property I notice

[@jakewallace1059]

Ever find out what he does from?

[@mattm5676]

That was a great buck story!

[@gavinmoore3073]

What a shame. Beautiful deer

[@rsuch5544]

Great story

[@Youngin6923]

I Leaned something.....i did not know deer make that noise, so now i know if im ever hunting and i here that, im b lining to that noise because ylu said they could be dying

[@craigsymmes2375]

P Sylar not necessarily, if they make that noise it doesn't mean the deer is dying it's just a distress call deer do, to warn other deer when there's a predator or something suspicious going on, but if there doing it repetitively for that long yeah probably good to go check

[@bendigr]

how did he die ? old age or shot ?

[@LunkerswithLucas]

RIP Capt. Hook

[@dyllpickle3608]

Me and my dog found a six point buck, we were very lucky to find him because the coyotes started naring on it’s antlers

[@davidfoss4836]

Was those Mac-10 or Draco slugs you found with the skeleton?

[@bradroll7528]

Y’all have a pic of the mount of him?

[@rustyshakelford6757]

what part of iowa are you near?

[@therandomavsfan2473]

My grandpa had a similar story he got a picture of a buck with 2 drop tines on the left side which made him a nontypical 12 and he was around my grandpas trail cams consistently for 2 yrs never could get him close enough to shoot or never saw him then he dissapeared so we thought he went to better grazing lands or something we didnt know but one day we were pulling out fence posts and my dad sees what he thought was a ribcage of a deer in some grass and we walk over their and it was that buck no idea how he died

[@DruryOutdoors]

Man, sorry that happened to you too. It's tough finding them that way, but at least you know that he's not around anymore instead of constantly wondering where he is. It's still a huge bummer though!

[@donnbillman288]

Two years ago on opener I seen a deer on one set of land. Later that day I shot at and missed him two miles away from where I seen him in the morning. Two weeks later my uncle shot that deer right between both of the places I seen him

[@3006USMC]

Awesome !!

[@erikmurray3661]

Hey you guys aren't on tv anymore?

[@DruryOutdoors]

New seasons of Thirteen, Critical Mass, and Bow Madness start in a few weeks on the Outdoor Channel!

[@bucksandducks5454]

i would love to hunt where you do lol !!! great deer

[@stickjr.3715]

There called timid Tommy bucks. You had to many mature deer around for his liking. He in my terms a non dominant buck that would avoid other deer at all cost. Prolly why he showed up the day after you shot another 5 year old buck.

[@romanmolina7555]

What do they mean by the 200 inch deer. Like how do you measure it.

[@paulbryson111]

Just dick size.

[@bobsandylovinggodagain7811]

awesome story glad you found the body and sheds ...Like and Sub people !!!!!!

[@DruryOutdoors]

We are too. Glad to get some closure!

[@russelrobinson960]

was the other buck high tower

[@sidd6830]

awsome story but how did he die starvation stress ? im half way threw the video btw

[@countryboysusa623]

We have a buck named that too

[@theyoungdeerhunter1779]

What u know i watched this till yhe end and i seen something. At the end it said fb live and i saw the date and day and i cant believe yall found this amazing mature deer on my birthday I thought it was pretty funny but wow. He a monster

[@DruryOutdoors]

Happy Belated Birthday! lol... Best luck and stay safe this fall!

[@theyoungdeerhunter1779]

You to

[@JPsChannel.]

That sum bucks a monster ! They don't get that big for no reason they are smart as shit

[@ltrroblox9324]

How do you know in 2010 pics of him how do you know you did already have a pic on him

[@DruryOutdoors]

Just lots of time setting out trail cameras and studying the pictures!

[@1anthonybrowning]

Good story.

[@sammartin2660]

they don't get big for no reason.

[@jomama969]

That would drive me nuts on end. Small home range and not even seeing him in the stand for 5 years. I’d sell all my gear lmao