[marksman13]

Okay. It's official. I am through hunting in the woods. The fruitless hours sitting in a stand or stalking are a thing of the past. This is too easy. One trophy buck, and this "trash head" that I culled today at 5:13 pm from the very same bathroom window. The freezer is full of meat and I don't even have any mud on my boots. He is a small buck, but needed to be culled because of genetic defects (note: he has no brow tines...not really anyway.)

Another note: He dropped to a neck shot from a Remington Model 700 chambered in .243, shooting a 100 grain remington Core Lokt bullet. It is quickly becoming my all around favorite rifle.

[Blackfork]

What kind of toilet paper are you using?

[marksman13]

Charmin ultra, don't need any excess friction

[gdvan01]

I prefer Northern quilted...

Nice buck, excellent shot! :D

[perpster]

Did you shoot off-hand or off-bowl?

[marksman13]

HAHAHAHA...off window sill.

[perpster]

Sounds like a silly shot to me!:neener:

[hoghunting]

Nice shooting. Were you coming in from hunting or do you camo up to go to the bathroom?

[marksman13]

I wasn't gonna deer hunt at all today. I was in camo to go coyote hunting tonight. Never got around to hunting those yodel dogs though.:)

[sm]

:D

<David Allan Coe voice>
marksman13 did not come up with the Perfect Hunting set up...

Sandy Ashcraft did. :p

Larry Ashcraft spies a critter outside, runs back in to get rifle ..."bang".
Sandy has shot the critter from upstairs bathroom window...
Sandy looks down at Larry " Honey, since you are outside and all - do you mind?"

Now if you can get someone to fetch and tote for you marksman13, you can match Sandy's skill and cunning.

:D

[griz]

You know you are a gun nut when....


your bathroom window has built in gun ports.:p

[marksman13]

sm, I'm working on the fetching part. Funny thing is, my wife fails to see how efficient that system could be.:D

[dfaugh]

I find this particularly amusing, as this year, I just set up on my back porch, for deer season. I'm disabled, and just walking out into my woods, and climbing into my stand is a serious effort. Figured with others (property on either side of me) out there, they'd get the deer moving/spooked. Routinely see deer in the back yard, although I came up empty this year But I didn't but alot of time into watching, either.

[springmom]

Congrats on the nice deer. Weird antlers or not, he'll be tasty.

And +1 on the Remington 700 in .243. Great gun! (I'm prejudiced:neener: ).

Springmom

[marksman13]

dfaugh, a little rye grass goes a long way. Our backyard opens up into a 25 acre pasture with a half acre rye grass plot right smack in the middle of it. With the addition of a small pond that sits beside the food plot, we are set up like McDonalds for deer.:D

Springmom, I think the .243 might be the second best all around cartridge ever made. I think the .308 has just a slight advantage because of the heavier bullet weights.

[mustanger98]

Regarding "genetic defects = no brow tines", this buck had a better rack than that lopsided spike that tried to be a 4pt I shot this last Thanksgiving. Sure, your 8pt's pedicles are a mite small to hope for a trophy rack to rival your other BR-Window buck, but that's still a bigger rack than many I see in my part of the country. I've gotten to where while I'm happy to see deer, I'm happy to shoot a smaller buck as opposed to not getting one.

I was talking with a retired game warden here... regarding little in-bred genetically defective deer, he said "kill every one you see". That said, he and I agreed on both sides... that the herd needs to be cleaned up but we also have to stay with the law regarding how many bucks we can shoot.

[marksman13]

Mustang, I agree with the "shoot all the ugly deer you see plan." I think next year the boys and I are gonna have a little contest to see who can kill the ugliest deer in the bunch. :D Meanwhile, I've still got one ugly five point to cull this year. The rut is in full swing in MS and as soon as we kill a buck another pops up in his place. Hopefully my wife will get the five point. It would make a good first deer for her. Gonna have to buy another freezer though.:D

[Larry Ashcraft]

Sandy Ashcraft did.
It was Super Bowl Sunday a few years ago. I spotted a coyote about 100 yards away, crossing over into our field. I yelled "Coyote!" and grabbed my Mini 14.

I ran out the front door, took position, and was just taking up slack in the trigger when:

BANG!

Sandy dropped him with her 22-250 from the upstairs bathroom window. :D

First coyote she killed. :cool:

[Blackfork]

Those are little 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 deer you are shooting. I've watched deer for years with deercams. Some of those pretty scruffy and wimpy looking little young deer can grow into much better racks by their 2nd and 3rd years. And not just much better....trophies.

But they really need to be 3 1/2 year old deer or older before you shoot them. 3 1/2 ought to be the bottom.

You may not be culling the herd. You might just be killing young and foolish deer.

[marksman13]

Don't you just hate when your wife out does you?:D If one of the boys ouot shoots you or catches a bigger fish, big deal. If you get tired of hearing about it you send him home. Wives get to brag 24/7.:D

[Snappy_13]

lol

[marksman13]

Blackfork, hate to tell you, but you are just plain wrong on that one. The smaller deer aged by the jaw bone was 3 years old. The other was a 4 year old. We have several old deer on our place with skinny racks and even a 5 year old spike. I'm not just randomly shooting deer and calling them cull bucks. I have let several good bucks walk this year. Game cams are fine, but they don't fill the freezer.

Ok: Just realized you were from Texas, Blackfork, come to Mississippi and find me a 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 year old buck that is the size of the two that I have killed. If you find them, let me know where, and I will jump right on that piece of real estate.:D

[chuckmo]

I'm with Blackfork. First of all, who aged your deer? I've had the check station people get it very wrong on many occasions previously. Secondly, we manage thousands of acres and have lots of food plots, game cams, etc. You can't say that because a young buck doesn't have brow tines, he won't later in life. Yes, there are bucks who just never grow big racks. You have to wait until they're old enough to make that determination, however. Nutrition matters. What kind of year did you have? Also, does supply 1/2 the genes, and we have no way of determining which does carry big rack DNA. Shoot the does for the freezer, get your ratio down, and let the bucks get some years on 'em. If you're worried about trophies. I think it's a nice deer and will be delicious.

[marksman13]

Two wildlife biology majors aged the deer. One is a student worker and has worked for a whitetail biologist for two years. The biggest part of his job consists of aging deer and scoring deer racks for research purposes. We are positive of the age. Deer in this partof the country just don't very big as far as body size is concerned.

[mustanger98]

That's sorta like in my part of the country; they don't get all that big here either compared to what they are in Wisconsin and Michigan. The one I told about earlier... he was older and big-bodied for around here... he was filled out real nice, but he just didn't have the genetics to make much in antlers.

[Kimber1911_06238]

Not exactly "hunting"...nore like target practice, but whatever works and fills the freezer. Did you have ur pants up or down when u pulled the trigger? :neener:

[marksman13]

Up...both times...amazingly. By the way, I never called it hunting, Kimber.:D But, it does work very well.