Rembrandt
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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?
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...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 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
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...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)