How is everybody's white-tailed deer season going?

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It's been a tough hunting year.....weird weather and rut activity. Hunting in pouring rain one day then 10" of snow the next. Got this one with bow, girth measurement puts him at 325 lbs live weight. Not the biggest rack, but he had plenty of "beef" on the bone.

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WARNING^^^^^^^^^^^^MONSTER BUCK ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

REMBRANDT, Good shot man! 325 lbs!!! an artist alright, with a rifle, BOW I mean to say!


Mark, esquire
 
Got my first deer in 11 years yesterday. Nice 9 point buck (160-180 pounds). First I've ever taken with a scoped rifle (230-250 yards).

I'll post more about it tomorrow, or later tonight.

My job(s) for the past 10 years have really limited my hunting time, but after I got laid off in 2010 I was out in the field A TON last year and got absolutely nothing, and saw nothing but does for which I had no good shot. This year I've been out a total of 4 times, I was sitting on my stand for 30 minutes before this sucker ran out of the woods into the field I was sitting over.

Where you at hoof?


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Mark, esquire
 
Where you at hoof?

Killed him in Powhatan County Virginia.

Not a monster buck my any stretch of the imagination, but considering I've been deer hunting for 23 years and have only killed 4, 3 of which were bucks (no I am not a prolific hunter) he is a pretty good one in my eyes. I am taking his head to a taxidermist tomorrow to see if it is worth mounting. I killed an 8 pointer who was smaller in body, but had a larger spread when I was 14, but didn't have the money to mount it. With an 11 year drought, who knows if I will ever kill one this nice again. Also shot him with a Remington 700 BDL passed down to me by my grandfather. As far as I know it is the first deer that gun has killed

The inside spread of the one I killed yesterday is nothing special, but his rack is tall, seems to shoot up right out of his head. He has a pair of brow tines, one the first branch off the main trunk on both sides, it has the main tines for that branch as well as reverse tines pointing off the back of that branch. Then on his right side, the main truck branches off for two more tines, on the left it doesn't branch.

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Nothing yet. However, my best friend got a nice sized doe out of my stand.
 
Saw 5 deer along my backyard fence this evening... If I had wanted to harvest one, all I would have had to do is stand out there with a baseball bat... No challenge...
 
Saw 5 or six this morning.....didnt bring any home with me though.

Hopefully, and with MORE patience on my part, Saturday will be the day
I think that the type of deer that you have up there is a larger species than we see down here in my part of Texas... I was in Iowa a few years back flying my plane around some of the rural areas somewhat low and saw a few deer grazing... They definitely looked a lot larger than the ones I see around here... Must be all that corn they are feeding on...
 
I dont know about being a differet species, I understand that they do indeed get a tad bigger in this part of the world, however, for the real monsters, you gotta head even further North
 
One of "those" years. Hunted hard with no luck. My daughter got a nice 8 point white tail during the "family hunt". My three buddies got white tails at "man-camp", including the two biggest 10 pts in the last 13 years. Me, I couldn't quite get a decent 8 pt in the crosshairs. Next year...:)
 
I dont know about being a differet species, I understand that they do indeed get a tad bigger in this part of the world, however, for the real monsters, you gotta head even further North

same species, Odocoileus virginianus different sub-species though. There are about 40 subspecies from Canada to South America. Canada (Alberta) is where the real monsters live. Even in Virginia the farther West you go, the bigger the deer get body wise, the racks seem to stay the same size no matter the body size. The Mule deer is the only other species of that genus (blacktail deer are considered Mule Deer)
 
same species, Odocoileus virginianus different sub-species though. There are about 40 subspecies from Canada to South America. Canada (Alberta) is where the real monsters live. Even in Virginia the farther West you go, the bigger the deer get body wise, the racks seem to stay the same size no matter the body size. The Mule deer is the only other species of that genus (blacktail deer are considered Mule Deer)
Well, the one thing I can say about all the does that walk along my backyard fence area is that they are larger than the key deer down in the Florida Keys... Just about as tame too...
 
Here in Suburban Maryland it has gone well. This Saturday is my last day, as I don't use a bow, but we have one last "weekend" on January 7th & 8th. I got my second doe yesterday, with a 45 yard shot, offhand, with my .54 flinter. We have one other hunter out here on the vineyard who is an Iraq War DAV and loves that crossbow..., he should..., he took three this year. :D Good for him!

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Off to a rocky start for me. first time hunting though. Opening day was pea soup fog, and a fella sunk up to his tailgate in a puddle on the only passable way into the woods. As the fog wained i saw one doe but heard shots all around. came back in the afternoon got in with the truck so no three quarter mile hike. I had a doe pass within ten feet of me, watched her walk from about fifty yds behind me to off into a thicket well out in front of me, later one other doe off in the distance. The second day was dodging rain drops, saw one buck way off in the distance, 250yds plus through a cut in the trees. hard to make out exactly but was at least a four pointer. Then the rain came and washed me out the next day. waiting on the January shot gun season. Almost a month long. can shoot a buck or does. hopefully my luck will turn better in the pine barrens in january!
 
I hunt on a very buck restricted ranch in south Texas so no trophy but I did get a nice fat spike and did eliminate six hogs this season so all in all I am a happy hunter.

Edit to add....Rembrant,that's a helluva buck!!
 
I shot this doe 2nd day of the season in Southern Ohio. Lot's of meat in the freezer now. :) I never did see a buck to pull the trigger on, oh well.

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My buddy shot this buck on the same property on the day before the season end. I won the trophy for the smallest of our party and my buddy won the trophy for the biggest LOL.

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Didn't fire a shot this year! However I have much to be proud of, wife got a nice fat blacktail doe first day of winter season, son tagged a nice whitetail on his first year of hunting.
 
The Swiss Miss didnt...



Didnt miss that is!!

Switched from the SKS to my K-31 as I was tired of missing.

Took a small doe this morning.

One of the few times the deer I have hit dropped and didnt run.

Meat in the freezer :)
 
Well season is over for me....1 nice buck (posted on page 2) several does. Not bad since I missed all last year due to being in afghanistan.

On to turkey season! 3 months of waiting and prepping for it
 
Still on here until the 15th, then doe and spikes until end of January. Look what my neighbor got:)
 

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2 doe and a big buck.

I would not have shot him but his rack was messed up on one side.

Had already picked out a nice fat doe when he came in. Thought it was an abnormal rack so I popped him. Sadly after I got to him I saw that it was broken, not grown that way. Wish I had left that big boy to improve the herd.

Another week so maybe that porky doe will come back.
 
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I got my first deer (doe) in 2 years since having a hand crush injury 19 months ago.
It is the extended season and I'm in a special regulations area that limits firearms to shotgun or muzzleloader only for doe and either buck or doe with a bow

One shot with the 20" Ithaca Deerslayer using Rem copper solids at about 50 yds. We guessed it to be about 125 or a little better ( avg deer for this area).

I was hesitant to hunt knowing I might have to clean a deer mostly left handed.

Luckily, 4 guys were pushing the area with muzzleloaders. 3 were friends of mine and they cleaned the deer and drug it back to my truck. That was just cool. I would have been there a long time by myself.

Nice buck pics from you guys
 
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