PBB Deer Check-In: Who's gotten what thus far?

[Chemical442]

I know there are a lot of Deer Hunters here. How's your Deer Season been so far? Which seasons (Shotgun, Rifle, Pistol, Muzzleloader, Bow, Jeep LOL) are you hunting? What state are you hunting in?

Shotgun Season here in Illinois is only 7 Days long. Nov. 19, 20, 21 and Dec. 2, 3, 4 & 5. Muzzleloader Season here is Dec. 2, 3, 4 & 5 and Dec, 10, 11, 12. Archery season is Oct. 1-Jan. 13, but closed during shotgun season.

I had some great luck this year. 17 point Non-Typical field dressing out @ 234lbs.

Picked him off while my brother and I were working a wide thick draw between two corn fields down to my dad at the foot of the draw, sitting in his blind. This buck was bedding down with two does when we spooked them up. The does took off accross the field, so I aimed, took off the safety, held my breath and just before firing I heard something else in where these two does were.

Just as I suspected, there was a buck in there getting his groove on with these two does just before they high tailed it out of there. He tried making a break for it too, so I let the two does go and swung my gun around to his direction just as he cleared the brush and started to sprint.

One shot, one kill. :D

My dad bagged a respectable 8 pointer about an hour later. We still have two tags to fill, so we will be out 2nd season. Here are some picts. Has anyone else had any good luck thus far?

Me and the 17 pointer:
http://home.grics.net/~goudie/images/me_17pointer.jpg

Just after I field dressed it. Better shot of it's points:
http://home.grics.net/~goudie/images/17pointer_body.jpg

Here's My Dad's 8 pointer:
http://home.grics.net/~goudie/images/dad_8pointer.jpg



Doesn't my Dad look just like Gary!?!?! And get this... his name is Gary. :eek: :laughing:

[TEX]

Nothing, rifle season ends today & I got skunked. Saw LOTS of deer, but they were all either too small for my liking, too few points (4 on one side to be legal this year), moving too fast to count points in time to shoot, or concealed by too much brush. As usual, my father-in-law blasted the first thing he saw - a button buck that I passed on on opening day.

TEX

[n9emz]

I got a big gut-wrenching laugh and gave up this year. My thirtysomething daughter bought one of those "whizzers" that a woman can use to pee like a man, and she fell out of her treestand first time she tried to use it. That was enough for me.

[Mo]

I almost got one the other night with my minivan.

[Co Pilot]

Me and the 17 pointer:
http://home.grics.net/~goudie/images/me_17pointer.jpg



you look sad :(
is that guy going above the mantle? those antlers would look great decorated with christmas lights! :D



and yeah... your dad does look like Gary!! :eek:

[90WAG]

I killed a button buck and a 145lb doe opening morning. I hunted the rest of the week without seeing a whole lot. Having meat in the freezer kills my motivation for getting up @0430! I've still got the rest of bow season and a few days of doe only firearms season left to line the freezer a little more. I got skunked last year and missed having the meat so much that this year I said the hell with hunting for a decent buck, I'm fillin' the damn freezer first!
My wife wants me to get one or two more so she doesn't have to buy any beef burger this year. She hates cooking with it after cooking with venison, says all of the grease that comes off of even lean ground beef is nasty.

EDIT: BTW, awesome bucks! I'm in Pike co. MO, can't you guys force some of them monsters across the river? :flipoff2:

[CINCH]

my son got him a doe Saturday morning, we havn't seen shit this year

we have till the end of December, so we'll see

[Del taco]

Me and the 17 pointer:
http://home.grics.net/~goudie/images/me_17pointer.jpg

i] :eek: :laughing:

thats the Buck of a lifetime.

very nice.

[79broncn]

That's a nice kill. Yeah, there's some resemblance between you father and
SDCJ...same name...I hear he used to live not too far away in neighborin'
Wisconsin...spooky. :D

Nuttin' for me. Didn't see but one buck, way too far away for a confident shot,
and two does, just before 5:00 PM on Saturday, which was 'bout twenty minutes
past sundown. :(
Saw a couple more does early Sunday morning, but again too far for a descent
shot, and went the rest of Sunday not seein' a thang. :(
Hope my chances inprove for second season...can't get much worse;
unless I happened to be huntin' around Hayward, Wis. and had been shot!
Nice couple bucks gotten by you and your pops...impressive.

edit: While sittin' Sunday afternoon, I heard some serious stompin' around just
'bout 20 feet behind me in the thickets. I'm thinkin'...here we go. Well, turns
out to be 'bout a dozen turkeys. :D They dusted around for what must have
been two freakin' hours...seriously. I know the turkey population has been on
the rise here but it was the first time I've had that many, that close for so
long. Talk about noisy...sounded like they were square-dancin' or somethin'.:rasta:

edit2: Second season, first day. Sittin' in my spot about 40 minutes I watched
three does and a nice 8-point buck strollin' in to me. Took one of the big does
and let the buck go. Just lookin' to put some meat in the freezer this year. :)

[TEX]

I'm in Pike co. MO, can't you guys force some of them monsters across the river? :flipoff2:

Geez, you already have one of the best deer counties in the state & you want to steal from IL? Greedy fawker :flipoff2:

TEX

[FourBanger]

My thirtysomething daughter bought one of those "whizzers" that a woman can use to pee like a man, and she fell out of her treestand first time she tried to use it.

:laughing: :laughing:

She hasn't had the benefit of a lifetime of practice peeing while standing up.

[toymoto]

Me and the 17 pointer:
http://home.grics.net/~goudie/images/me_17pointer.jpg







Alright, where's the 442? :flipoff2:



Awesome deer. I haven't killed anything yet but I will be hunting religously over the holiday weekend.

[90WAG]

Geez, you already have one of the best deer counties in the state & you want to steal from IL? Greedy fawker :flipoff2:

TEX

How 'bout just a loan then? I'll give 'em back, I promise!


Well, parts of 'em anyway... :D

[Chemical442]

you look sad :(
is that guy going above the mantle? those antlers would look great decorated with christmas lights! :D



and yeah... your dad does look like Gary!! :eek:


Didn't mean to look sad, Rosie. That's just my "normal" face... http://www.spao.de/pict/smilies/nut.gif

Yeah, this one's going above the mantle. I'm gonna take the one that's there now and put it in my man-basement. Nicole has forbidden me to have more that one dead animal on the upper levels of the house. :sadface:

Isn't that crazy about my dad looking like Gary? I've been in the closet about that for quite a while now. :emb: Maybe my dad and Gary were twins that were separated in a fiery airplane crash back in the ole pioneering days of flight. :flipoff2:

[MossMan]

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Me and the 17 pointer:



CHOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!





come on. whatdya really kill :flipoff2:

[Chemical442]

CHOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!





come on. whatdya really kill :flipoff2:




A 17 pointer. :flipoff2: :p

http://home.grics.net/~goudie/images/me_17pointer_2.jpg

[rusted]

That's a magnificent animal. We don't even see deer like that where I hunt, nor even hear of them! That's strictly cornfield edge habitat animal there. Well done.

I like your dad's 8 pointer, that's a big animal and the rack is very pleasing to the eye.

I got nothing, I haven't even hunted since I left MI.

[Franklin]

Popped a doe last week just to get jerky meat. I had an 6pt or 8pt coming right at me through a pocket in the thicket. When he went behind a tree, I pulled the gun up and I NEVER saw him again.
Brother in law MAY have got him last friday. 8pt, 16" spread, 160 dressed. Plus the MONSTER he shot in Canada. Damn fucker is the luckiest person I know.

Still have 2+ weeks here, until 1-1-05 in other areas of the state.

[Roxywheels]

I hope he was able to bust his last nut before you killed him!!! Poor deer, thinking he's da pimp with two deer ho's and you interrupt them!! :laughing: :roxy:

[TEX]

I hope he was able to bust his last nut before you killed him!!! Poor deer, thinking he's da pimp with two deer ho's and you interrupt them!! :laughing: :roxy:


It's just like the human World. Your troubles always begin with the pursuit of pussy :D



TEX

[elarsen]

Nice buck. I envy you fawkers being able to hunt until December. A zone in Kali goes from August through September. Hot as Hell. I killed a meat buck & missed a nice one, but nothing compered to that.

Going turkey hunting tommorrow!

[TN TJ]

I hunt all season long. bow, muzzleloader, and rifle. During the week of muzzleloader I killed two does in one day. One with the jeep on the way to the stand then another about 11:00 as it came out of a thicket. All bow season long I had deer all around me but couldn't get a shot.

Rifle opened Saturday got skunked opening weekend. You can kill 3 deer a day during rifle, you would think I would have at least seen something. Ohio's deer season starts Monday. I'm torn on whether to go to my grandfathers and hunt with my uncle or stay here and hunt.

[GETTINTHERETOY]

Nice buck. I envy you fawkers being able to hunt until December. A zone in Kali goes from August through September. Hot as Hell. I killed a meat buck & missed a nice one, but nothing compered to that.

Going turkey hunting tommorrow!


Another Calif. hunter here. Got a decent 3x3 Mulie over in X12 Opening weekend. But our Opener is in Sept. I wish we could hunt during rut. But the group i hunt with still had an excellent season. 6 guys, 5 deer, opening weekend. Great by Calif standards.

[antipodalboy]

i didn't see anything the whole weekend....

[Big Hoss]

Very nice deer Brian. I've gotta say, those corn-fed monsters up there are HUGE. Both of those deer's heads are just massive. Do you have a full dressed shot???

I haven't gotten anything yet this year. Seen quite a few. Just not quite like the size you have there. My uncle is taking me to his ranch in a few weeks. he's got many many deer. He sent me these pics and told me I could choose between them if I saw them again when I go. Tough choice.

http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=158939&stc=1

http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=158940&stc=1

[Chemical442]

Very nice deer Brian. I've gotta say, those corn-fed monsters up there are HUGE. Both of those deer's heads are just massive. Do you have a full dressed shot???



Nice looking bucks your uncle has there. i imagined TX deer to be a little smaller. I think a good reason why our White Tailed Deer are so big here is because they have to live through winter every year. So they pack on the mean and food in order to have the energy to survive harsh winters. Look from Alaska to Florida. Deer just get smaller and smaller the more south the go.

Funny thing is, our deer do tend to get a little on the big size, but yet we have no Rifle Season. Which is fine with me. i feel that if you can't get your kill with a 12ga slug, then you're not doing something right.

i don't have a full side shot of my deer. My digital camera got destroyed, so i had to get by with a shitty conventional camera with just a few picts left on it. I do have video tho. I may try and import some of that if I find the time.

But in the meanwhile, heres a shot my dad's 8 pointer as he is dressing it. My 17 pointer field dressed out (gutted and bled) at 234lbs. My dads field dressed out at 165, so you could imagine how much bigger 70lbs would have made it.


http://home.grics.net/~goudie/images/dad_dressing_8pointer.jpg

[Entropy]

You're my hero Chem.

[Big Hoss]

Nice looking bucks your uncle has there. i imagined TX deer to be a little smaller. I think a good reason why our White Tailed Deer are so big here is because they have to live through winter every year. So they pack on the mean and food in order to have the energy to survive harsh winters. Look from Alaska to Florida. Deer just get smaller and smaller the more south the go.

...

But in the meanwhile, heres a shot my dad's 8 pointer as he is dressing it. My 17 pointer field dressed out (gutted and bled) at 234lbs. My dads field dressed out at 165, so you could imagine how much bigger 70lbs would have made it.


Damn...234lbs. Good lord. I'm guessing the deer I shot last year was around 180 or so.

But I think the reason some of the deer here in Texas are bigger is for the same reason as up there. We don't have the harsh winters but we do have those incredible dry spells. That's why the East Texas deer are smaller than the South Texas deer. There's more to eat and drink over in East Texas.

My uncles place is actually out in Uvalde...west of San Antonio about 1 1/2 hours. His place is 800 acres surrounded by about 14,000 acres of non-high fenced preserves. Its very nice hunting. :smokin:

BTW, where do you hunt up there? Private land? Government? I don't know how it works up there. :D

[Haole]

Didn't get one this year, but did get a doe two years ago. Nailed it with a ProComp X-Terrain at 65 mph on I-80. :D

[Chemical442]

My uncles place is actually out in Uvalde...west of San Antonio about 1 1/2 hours. His place is 800 acres surrounded by about 14,000 acres of non-high fenced preserves. Its very nice hunting. :smokin:

BTW, where do you hunt up there? Private land? Government? I don't know how it works up there. :D


Your uncles place sounds like a DREAM! :eek:

I hunt on private land here. There are public lands set aside for public hunting, but not many near where I live. And I wouldn't hunt one of those areas anyways. You never know who's in the tree next to you, and the way we hunt... by working the draws and strategicly walking the timbers with two of us on either side and a blocker at the end... it would be almost suicide.

Most public land hunters here just sit in their stands all day, so the chances of us walking into someone elses territory would be great. Thank god we have this land we hunt on. I don't know how people who hunt in congested public areas do it.

[Entropy]

Your uncles place sounds like a DREAM! :eek:

I hunt on private land here. There are public lands set aside for public hunting, but not many near where I live. And I wouldn't hunt one of those areas anyways. You never know who's in the tree next to you, and the way we hunt... by working the draws and strategicly walking the timbers with two of us on either side and a blocker at the end... it would be almost suicide.

Most public land hunters here just sit in their stands all day, so the chances of us walking into someone elses territory would be great. Thank god we have this land we hunt on. I don't know how people who hunt in congested public areas do it.
Next year I'll be hunting 7000 acres of private land in Cheeseland... with about ten other guys. We'll have a hard time covering it, but I'm not complaining.

[BUZZISCRAZY2]

250# 7 pointer got me and the Feep in 1 shot...........

http://memimage.cardomain.net/member_img_a/494826_40_full.jpg

http://memimage.cardomain.net/member_img_a/494826_38_full.jpg

[jeepguru7]

I haven't shot shit down here in Ga. Seen plenty of deer but our club is QDM and none were shooters. But we still have until Jan 1st and I always do better after Turkey day. Overall our club has killed about a dozen but nothing real nice. They have killed 5 coyotes so far.

I can't wait until next year I'm heading up your way Chem, my good friends aunt owns 100 acres on the Illinois river surrounded by fields. They always see big deer and no one hunts it. I tried to go this year but I couldn't get a non-res archery tag in time so I have to wait until next year but I think about it almost daily. When is the rut for middle Ill? What would be the best time to plan my trip? Later

[BUZZISCRAZY2]

Come on up Jeepguru...............I'm going to push for longer hunting up here, as they are Way over populated

[Motornoggin]

Wow Brian, that's a nice looking buck. We don't see anything like that here in Oregon either. We have blacktail over here and they tend to be a little smaller.

Oh, and I got skunked this year.


Another thing...some of those non-typicals kinda creep me out.

[manteca]

It's obviously not a deer but the deer up in the area I hunt are pretty small. Especially compared to those corn feed mullies in IL. I pushed this elk right to my buddy opening day rifle in the costal oregon area.

[bspencer]

got a doe so far in bow season which lasts till Dec 31 just finished up day 2 of bucks only rifle season........ so far ive seen 21 doe on hte farm :( alot of buck sign though..........damn weather has been to warm here for them to stir around much in the daytime

[Tbam]

This is the first day I have gotten to go this year, passed up some does this morning, but got a 6 point this afternoon. I may call it quits for the year, got my meat. I haven't trophy hunted in 4 years, no time.

[Toyota_Jim]

16 point non typical, field dressed at 290lbs

[Big Hoss]

Here's the monster my sister shot yesterday morning! :flipoff2:

She's just getting into hunting. It was her first deer.

[CINCH]

Here's the monster my sister shot yesterday morning! :flipoff2:

:eek: my gawd that thing is huge :flipoff2: :flipoff2:

I have yet to see shit

[Rhys]

Here's my first mulie i ever shot last month, about 5 hours north east of Vancouver BC. Same scenario, I was tying my boot, heard some noise about 200 yards away then i saw a Doe, and out of the corner of my eye i saw this buck. Hopefully he had finished spreading some of his genes around before i got him. On the hook at the butcher field dressed, skinned and no head he weighed in at 190lbs. up here we call it a 5x6 point irregular, not sure how the American system works though. ! shot through the lungs with a 30-06 pushing 185 grain bullet.

http://www.members.shaw.ca/rhysmccormick/Rhys%20and%20buck.JPG

Rhys

[Crawlin120:1]

Yes I know I misspelled copy anyways here is a picture of my brother-in-law's 14pt 154#. See if I ever take him hunting on my lease again.
This deer was taken south of Bartlesville, OK. This is a big deer for Oklahoma. That drop tine measures 10 1/2".
I can't forget to mention this was his FIRST buck ever. He shot it with a 30-06 first shot just about took off the left front leg and wounded it badly on the second shot. After we gutted the 86# doe he shot directly below his stand we found the buck laying down with his head still up one good shot to the heart finished him off.
I will try to add a better picture later this evening that gives a little perspective on the actual size.

http://tinypic.com/oky2e

[glfredrick]

No bragging for me - just two does this year - but at least I got to go out hunting - my first time since living in Kentucky (8 years) and my first Kentucky deer. I get to add another state to my list... Wisconsin - Wyoming - Montana - South Dakota - South Carolina and now Kentucky.

I was mostly meat hunting to cover the cost of the tags here ($40!). I would have been grateful to take a nice buck, but with only a couple hours on 3 different days to hunt, I'm happy.

[SilverZuk]

Nice bucks Brian.
I didn't see any quality bucks this year, so I went to fill my freezer.
I bow hunted 3 times with no shots.
Here is how last week went for me.

Cowboy action deer hunting

I took last week off and deer hunted. Dad and I went to property we lease in the central part of the state. The deer quality isn’t great there due to years of too many deer and poor genetics. We usually kill several deer a year from the property and enjoy being in the middle of no-where togther.

I have killed many deer there, so taking my rifle lost its thrill. Last year I took a buck with an SKS. So this year I decided to take my Dad’s Marlin 1895 lever action 45-70.
He didn’t have any jacketed bullets loaded for it, so I used a 300 grain lead bullet that we use for cowboy action shooting long range rifle events. It shoots a bit slow and a 100 yards is about max range.

I got into my stand before daylight. About 7:30 I saw a small buck at about 125 yards. This is a long shot for that rifle, open sights, being foggy and in the woods. I rested off the tree stand and waited for a shot. He stopped in an opening and I squeezed the trigger.
The deer jumped straight up, kicked and ran.
I thought it was a good shot by the reaction. The deer ran about 15 yards, stopped and went back to a normal walk – not even nervous.
As the deer walked away, I cranked 3 more rounds down range and the deer never even flinched. I figured it must have been hit good since it didn’t run off. I was going to give it about an hour to lay down and die and I was going to go looking for it.
The deer went over the hill out of sight, but it couldn’t leave that hollow without me seeing it.
About 5 minutes later the deer appeared at about 70 yards and snorted at me. It ran about 5 yards and looked directly at me as I raised the rifle. I squeezed one off at the base of the neck. It ran, so I let another one go but missed (shot in front of it). As it ran buy at about 30 yards, I put another one right through its shoulders. It went down and stayed down.

I examined the deer and noticed some peculiar wounds on it. It had a shrapnel wound on its back leg and a whole right in the shoulder. It had a lead mark on the hair of its belly, but no skin damage, it had a hole at the base of its neck, and one through each shoulder.
As I gutted it, I could see where the bullet went through the neck and exited the rear ham and the bullet through both shoulders that took out the heart.
Upon skinning it, I noticed that the one hole in its shoulder was just through the hide, and very little tissue damage.
So I figured that the first shot must have shot through a tree limb or sapling and the bullet broke up. The big piece hit it in the shoulder and a smaller piece in the back leg. One of the following shots must have been low and grazed the hair on the belly. One shot at the base of the neck through the whole deer, and one through the shoulders.
I shot seven times and only had two good shots. I had fun, but the 300 grain lead bullet is not optimum for killing deer. It essentially makes a clean hole in and out and does very little damage. It was fun, but I used my 7mm-08 for the rest of the week.

The following day I snuck up on a bedding area. I saw a single deer leaving. I picked out a hole and waited. I saw an ear, and then the deer walked through. I squeezed the trigger and it went down.

The third day I took a coworkers 16 Y.O. son hunting. The Coworker doesn’t hunt, but his son loves it. I had taken him last year but he didn’t get a shot. He was safe and responsible with a firearm so I felt comfortable that we could get one.
It was raining and nasty. We started into the woods and jumped a single deer and it ran off but there wasn’t enough light to see to shoot.
We waited until about 8:00, and I told him to sneak down the creek to the end of a point and get to where he could see a lot of area.
I eased through the brush for about 1000 feet and heard a deer grunt 3 times. I backed off and came in from a different angle to push the deer off the point. About a minute later I heard a shot.
I thought, “Good, he got one.” I figured it was a small buck due to the sign in the area and the fact that it was a single deer by itself.
I heard another shot, then a third, and then a fourth.

I came off the hill about 10 minutes later and he was standing on the opposite bank.
He said, “I got him. We aren’t going to have to gut him either.”
It was a 1.5 year old 6-point buck (3x3 for you westerners).
The first shot was too far forward and barely hit the deer.
He said he knew he missed the second shot. The third hit in the left ham and exited the gut wall, taking most of the entrails with it. The fourth shot was heart and lungs.
We gutted the deer and headed to the house. I showed him how to skin and cut the deer.
That afternoon I asked if he wanted to shoot another one. You are only allowed to shoot one a day, but I was going to let him shoot one for me and fill my tag.

We hadn’t seen anything, and it was getting dark fast. I pulled out a critter call and started squealing. After the third series, a gray fox came around the hill. The 16 YO raised his gun and let a shot go. The fox growled and took of running like a run over dog – growling all the way out of the hollow. We looked for it, but never found it.

I took the day off Thursday and visited with family.
Friday I hunted at a buddy’s house nearby. They were on the hill when I got there at 7:30.
I knew they would push the deer back toward the house. I went straight up a very steep hill and started slipping across a point. The deer were coming at me. I ducked and waited, hoping to see a buck. As the lead doe got to within 60 yards, she perked up and was looking at me. I knew it was now or never for that bunch of deer. I raised the gun, squeezed the trigger and she dropped.
So now I had filled all my tags.
I loaded the deer and left at 8:30.
I hung the deer, loaded the ATV and headed back over to help push some deer to the less experienced hunters. My buddy and I pushed a doe toward two of the hunters that hadn’t killed one yet. I heard a shot, and one of the guys had taken her down.

I hunted with the other hunter, but never saw anymore deer.

The guy that shot the doe had been in the Navy for 3.5 years and missed the last 3 deer seasons. He was glad to have one for the freezer. I skinned and butchered the deer for him because he didn’t know how. He offered to pay me, but I told him “That’s my payment to you for serving our country and keeping us safe. Thanks”.

The total for the week was:
A 3-point buck
A button buck (yearling)
A doe
My dad shot two does, he didn’t see any bucks.
The 16 YO shot a 6 point.
All the others I hunted with shot at least one deer except for one guy.

My freezer is full, so I’m probably done for the year. I will probably spend the rest of the seasons taking people hunting and trying to get them a shot.

[MossMan]

I've only been able to hunt 1/2 a day on Fri. so far and I didn't see anything but people :( I've decided that before next season I will have lease somewhere. That way I can scout, prepare, run people off, etc.

I hope to be able to go a couple days this week but I don't know yet.

[WireGeek]

These four were all from opening day near LaCrosse WI. Mine is the 160# 8 pt that is 2nd from the left. I shot it on private land that my family leases with some friends. We have about 600 acres of fields and tree filled valleys to poke around in.

I was the lazy bum at camp and got going (out of the cabin) at 9:00 AM. everyone else was out in the woods by 6:15. I had to wald about a mile and a half to get to my 12' tree stand at the top of a knoll. I had just gotten up my stand, with my gun sitting behind me as I strapped a rope seat to the tree. Within 10 minutes of me getting there, the 8 pointer somes rambling up the near slope to my right. Of course I wasnt ready for him to show up, but I pulled my .44 around and waited for him to clear a couple of trees. One shot later he was on the ground, dead. My sone got the doe a short time later and then the other small 8 pointer was shot by a friend about an hour after that. The bigger 8 pointer (18" spread) dressed at 195#.

Scott

[WireGeek]

Forgot to post the pics...

http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=159797&stc=1

http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=159796&stc=

[txjimbob911]

My dog made out pretty good in bow season....

http://www.berfield.net/images/deer/buck/lexbuck.jpg

[BUZZISCRAZY2]

WIREGEEK, You too come all the way up here to go hunting ?........Cool

[WireGeek]

WIREGEEK, You too come all the way up here to go hunting ?........Cool


Yup,
I am originally from the La Crosse area, so driving home to kill bambi is something that just has to be done. The drive is a bit long (~1200 miles) to do in one sitting, but driving overnight makes it go fairly quick. This year I even had my wife drive an hour!
Its great to come back home every year. This year I drug the trailer and 4 wheeler up so that I could take some antique furniture back with us. Now I just need to find a place to put it in the house.

Next year should be fun because my youngest son gets to come to camp. He will be 12, so old enought to get picked on by the other 10 guys.

BTW, that buck was the first deer I had taken in 13 years. I thought I might be a little rusty, but I guess not.
Scott

[southernfriedcj8]

I killed a nice 10 pointer opening day of gun season, and a nice 9 pointer a week ago Saturday. I started letting the small bucks walk a couplke years ago and it has been paying off. This year I have seen over a dozen 8 point and better bucks that have been in the 8" to 16" inside spread range and let them walk(short tines or no mass). I hope it pays big dividends next year. The 9 pointer I shot this year came in to my grunt call about 2 minutes after a 16" 8 pointer chased a doe by my stand. The only downside to my hunting land is that we are going to develop it starting in '05. Hopefully I'll get a couple more years of choice hunting before we get all 810 lots developed.

[Idler]

Here's a link to a buck I got in Colorado this year, I also got a nice 3 pt in so cal during D19, missed a 6 pt bull elk at ridiculously close range, missed a big buck during D16 and let 3 small forks walk so they can grow bigger.

http://www.monstermuleys.info/dcforum/DCForumID6/8822.html

[0ILBURNER]

On the way in to work this morning the wife & I saw a nice wall-hanger about 75 yds. off the highway in plain sight :eek: He was at least an 8pt. in the ~16" spread range. Ya just don't see those every day :D

[Big Hoss]

Just to keep this thread going. Here's one that my brother-in-law took from our place down south. Its the biggest buck we've taken off of our place ever. Not too bad...just too bad he shot it and not me! :flipoff2:

[Chemical442]

Nice! That's probably one of the biggest Texas Deer I have ever seen aside from on outdoor TV shows. :eek: Do you know what it field dressed out at? Hard to tell how big the body is in that pict.

Nothing better than fresh meat in your freezer that you put there yourself. :D

[AlfAlphaMale]

Nothing better than fresh meat in your freezer that you put there yourself. :D

Got to agree with you there Brian.
All my old hunting places are blown, due to 'sudden oak death', assbite motorcycle/quad riders (no offence to the motorcycle riders who bite ass' )
I didn't even get to draw a bead on one this year, I saw nuthin but ghostly tracks and shiiat either just ahead of us or just behind us.

I thiink that's called, SIGN.....

[Franklin]

Here is one I shot 11/29 in NC. Dressed at 150 15" spread.

http://www.supermotors.org/getfile/163106/fullsize/002_02.JPG (http://www.supermotors.org/registry/vehicles/showmedia.php?id=163106&original=1)

http://www.supermotors.org/getfile/163107/fullsize/001_01.JPG (http://www.supermotors.org/registry/vehicles/showmedia.php?id=163107&original=1)

[Big Hoss]

He said around 160 or so...field dressed but he didn't have a scale or anything. Wasn't the biggest bodied deer we've taken but definitely the biggest rack. Supposedly about 30 minutes after he shot that one, he saw another bigger bodied, bigger rack deer when he was walking back to camp.

My uncle took this one at his place over outside of Uvalde, the one I mentioned earlier.

[Franklin]

Damn Hoss thats got some mass to it. Nice deer my man.

[SilverZuk]

I shot a doe this weekend.
I had a buddy that wanted a deer and doesn't hunt.

[Big Hoss]

I shot a doe this weekend.
I had a buddy that wanted a deer and doesn't hunt.

Don't we all! :D I'm taking a list right now of guys here at work that want a deer but won't go out and hunt. Don't really get it. Hunting them is 75% of the fun. 25% is enjoying the kill afterwards.

[bigblack75Chev]

Well thinking back to the first part of September.......I didn't get shit! I spent the whole season(month long) chasing a few bulls including a 7x7 bull and a 6x5. Every damn time I would try to work in on anything(bugling) some assface had to come in attempting to bugle or cow call (making an attempt to call and scaring everything off); for those of you that don't elk hunt, elk aren't like a damn deer, they won't stay in the imediate area, when they get scared, they'll run for miles. Then you try to guess where they ran off to and start again in the morning. :flipoff2: We're getting sooooo many out of staters now it ridiculous. This is the first year with this many people bowhunting. Oregon has changed it's rifle laws soo much this year that everyone I think who's ever bow hunted decided to this year(TOO FAWKIN' CROWDED). Oregon's season includes elk and deer at the same time for bow. Now I know how you Colorado hunters feel about out of staters.

[Big Hoss]

Well, since there is only one last weekend down here for bucks (we've got an additional 2 weeks for doe and spikes lasting until Jan 30th), I thought I would revive this thread to see what anyone else has gotten.

Here are some pics from this past weekend at my uncles place. The Big Boy is not to be shot...which is why I got so many pictures of him. The other one with the blue tarp over him is a 10 that my other Uncle shot. Too bad I don't have a frontal picture of it.

http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=166781&stc=1
http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=166782&stc=1
http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=166783&stc=1
http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=166784&stc=1

So has anyone else done good?

[Berg]

:d

[spoolnaround]

Left the house at 0930 I never even made it to where I was going to hunt. I shot him at 1130. he is a 3X2 weighed 100# hanging in the locker, not a bad California buck.

http://coloradok5.com/photos/data/500/48462004_buck.jpg