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Saw the biggest deer I've ever seen yesterday
10/3/2011 6:35:51 PM
We were out at one of our spots and it was David's turn to hunt so I was running the camera. We've got pictures of 5 different bucks coming out at various times. Yesterday, all 5 came out in a group and they came from a weird direction that we've never seen them come before and the came into the stand head on. That is the absolute only direction they can come from where they can see the stand before they're already shot and dead.
Two bucks came in ok but the biggest one spotted David. It's a 170 maybe pushing 180. Awesome, awesome buck. I was excited to just be getting footage of it. The next biggest one will got 150-160 and the other two are around 140 with the fifth being a very young 6 point.
The two biggest ones are shooters, the others are too young and will be monsters in the future.
I can't wait till we get these things on the ground and the video gets put together, it's some awesome footage.
ETA: Here's one of the deer we've taken off the hit list after we got some better looks at him and determined that he's too young. Bullwinkle gets to live until next year.
Two bucks came in ok but the biggest one spotted David. It's a 170 maybe pushing 180. Awesome, awesome buck. I was excited to just be getting footage of it. The next biggest one will got 150-160 and the other two are around 140 with the fifth being a very young 6 point.
The two biggest ones are shooters, the others are too young and will be monsters in the future.
I can't wait till we get these things on the ground and the video gets put together, it's some awesome footage.
ETA: Here's one of the deer we've taken off the hit list after we got some better looks at him and determined that he's too young. Bullwinkle gets to live until next year.
10/5/2011 10:39:58 AM
Well, another guy I know that's hunting a couple of miles away wounded the one in the picture above and lost it.
Pisses me off. I don't care if he kills it but now it's lost and he's probably just going to gut shoot another one.
Pisses me off. I don't care if he kills it but now it's lost and he's probably just going to gut shoot another one.
10/5/2011 10:42:31 AM
Do you think he panicked and screwed the shot up? That's a tough buck to lose!
10/5/2011 10:51:55 AM
Originally Posted By esa17:
Do you think he panicked and screwed the shot up? That's a tough buck to lose!
Do you think he panicked and screwed the shot up? That's a tough buck to lose!
He just bought a bow two weeks ago. Yesterday he was complaining that he could barely draw it when he was sitting in his stand. He screwed up the shot because he doesn't know what he is doing. He doesn't know where he shot it, where it ran, nothing. He spent about 30 minutes looking for it then went to the bar.
Complete waste.....
10/5/2011 11:13:34 AM
Thats a tough buck to lose. And if his attitude is really like you say it is, it is indeed a waste.
I have had the misfortune of losing 1 deer in my life. I spent the first 3 hours at dark trying to
find her. I spent the next entire day looking. I also spent the morning after that looking. I KNOW
I tried my best to find her. I didnt push her. It was a series of small mistakes that lead to a no
recovery. I did concentric circles, grid patterns, searched water lines and looked everywhere (or
so I thought). I was satisfied that I exhausted my search. Sadly, my friend found her slung in a
brushy patch (off the ground no less) dead and bloated. She had travelled less than 50 yards
from shot impact.
There were 2 deer there (I only saw 1) and the one that ran away fast was the one I did not hit -
thats why there was no blood on the tracks I followed. Who would think that a deer would die
mid-leap only to come to rest 4 feet off the ground. I always looked for the big white belly patch
on the ground in finding downed deer.
It still bothers me to this day and it happened almost 20 years ago. Sucks to have neighbors that
dont care about ethical harvest and exhaustive searches. We owe that at least to such a great
resource as not to waste it.
I have had the misfortune of losing 1 deer in my life. I spent the first 3 hours at dark trying to
find her. I spent the next entire day looking. I also spent the morning after that looking. I KNOW
I tried my best to find her. I didnt push her. It was a series of small mistakes that lead to a no
recovery. I did concentric circles, grid patterns, searched water lines and looked everywhere (or
so I thought). I was satisfied that I exhausted my search. Sadly, my friend found her slung in a
brushy patch (off the ground no less) dead and bloated. She had travelled less than 50 yards
from shot impact.
There were 2 deer there (I only saw 1) and the one that ran away fast was the one I did not hit -
thats why there was no blood on the tracks I followed. Who would think that a deer would die
mid-leap only to come to rest 4 feet off the ground. I always looked for the big white belly patch
on the ground in finding downed deer.
It still bothers me to this day and it happened almost 20 years ago. Sucks to have neighbors that
dont care about ethical harvest and exhaustive searches. We owe that at least to such a great
resource as not to waste it.
10/5/2011 11:33:55 AM
Originally Posted By Zoomer302:
Thats a tough buck to lose. And if his attitude is really like you say it is, it is indeed a waste.
I have had the misfortune of losing 1 deer in my life. I spent the first 3 hours at dark trying to
find her. I spent the next entire day looking. I also spent the morning after that looking. I KNOW
I tried my best to find her. I didnt push her. It was a series of small mistakes that lead to a no
recovery. I did concentric circles, grid patterns, searched water lines and looked everywhere (or
so I thought). I was satisfied that I exhausted my search. Sadly, my friend found her slung in a
brushy patch (off the ground no less) dead and bloated. She had travelled less than 50 yards
from shot impact.
There were 2 deer there (I only saw 1) and the one that ran away fast was the one I did not hit -
thats why there was no blood on the tracks I followed. Who would think that a deer would die
mid-leap only to come to rest 4 feet off the ground. I always looked for the big white belly patch
on the ground in finding downed deer.
It still bothers me to this day and it happened almost 20 years ago. Sucks to have neighbors that
dont care about ethical harvest and exhaustive searches. We owe that at least to such a great
resource as not to waste it.
Thats a tough buck to lose. And if his attitude is really like you say it is, it is indeed a waste.
I have had the misfortune of losing 1 deer in my life. I spent the first 3 hours at dark trying to
find her. I spent the next entire day looking. I also spent the morning after that looking. I KNOW
I tried my best to find her. I didnt push her. It was a series of small mistakes that lead to a no
recovery. I did concentric circles, grid patterns, searched water lines and looked everywhere (or
so I thought). I was satisfied that I exhausted my search. Sadly, my friend found her slung in a
brushy patch (off the ground no less) dead and bloated. She had travelled less than 50 yards
from shot impact.
There were 2 deer there (I only saw 1) and the one that ran away fast was the one I did not hit -
thats why there was no blood on the tracks I followed. Who would think that a deer would die
mid-leap only to come to rest 4 feet off the ground. I always looked for the big white belly patch
on the ground in finding downed deer.
It still bothers me to this day and it happened almost 20 years ago. Sucks to have neighbors that
dont care about ethical harvest and exhaustive searches. We owe that at least to such a great
resource as not to waste it.
David and I were in the stand up the road at the same time last night. He was hunting and I was filming (we trade off when we don't have anyone else around to film) and some deer were coming in but the hogs ran them off and David shot a big pig, around 200lbs. We tracked that thing for several hundred yards over about 1.5 hours. The arrow didn't pass through and it stayed in so the blood trail was sparse. Between the tracks he left running off and the small amount of blood we kept looking until we his some really thick brush and the property line and we gave up.
We looked for that hog for an hour longer than he looked for the deer. Had that been a deer David shot we would have stayed out all night until we found it.
It just irritates the shit out of me because I know it's just going to happen again if another one walks out in front of him. We also have permission to hunt the place he's on and have some stands out there. We've been trying to run some of the hogs out of there and he had the nerve to tell us the other day that we shouldn't be out there killing hogs because we're going to run the deer off. We're using night vision and suppressed rifles to shoot at the hogs so that we'll have more deer over there. That really pissed me off as well because somebody that doesn't have a clue what they are doing is trying to tell us what to do then he goes off and does this shit.
He saw the video of the big bucks we filmed the other day and was asking why David didn't shoot when they were about 60 yards away. David told him that he wasn't going to take some stupid shot on any of those deer and his reply was, "I would have at least tried". Well, he tried last night from 10 yards and we see what happened.
10/6/2011 7:50:57 AM
Have you told him how much of a dumb ass he is? I wouldn't be able to contain myself.
10/6/2011 8:47:01 AM
Originally Posted By clharr:
Have you told him how much of a dumb ass he is? I wouldn't be able to contain myself.
Have you told him how much of a dumb ass he is? I wouldn't be able to contain myself.
I haven't seen him yet but David already tore into him about it. He told him to stop telling everybody that he shot a big buck because he's tired of hearing it and if it's not in the bed of his truck or his freezer it's just another dead animal out in the woods.
With his ethics he shouldn't be allowed in the woods with a bow.
10/6/2011 2:34:42 PM
Originally Posted By Ponyboy:
I haven't seen him yet but David already tore into him about it. He told him to stop telling everybody that he shot a big buck because he's tired of hearing it and if it's not in the bed of his truck or his freezer it's just another dead animal out in the woods.
With his ethics he shouldn't be allowed in the woods with a bow.
Originally Posted By clharr:
Have you told him how much of a dumb ass he is? I wouldn't be able to contain myself.
Have you told him how much of a dumb ass he is? I wouldn't be able to contain myself.
I haven't seen him yet but David already tore into him about it. He told him to stop telling everybody that he shot a big buck because he's tired of hearing it and if it's not in the bed of his truck or his freezer it's just another dead animal out in the woods.
With his ethics he shouldn't be allowed in the woods with a bow.
Guys like that give the rest of us a bad image. Hell, I shot three hogs with my bow tuesday evening and never found them. It still bothers me, and they are just hogs. I've spent several hours the past few days looking for them. I would never brag about wounding a deer. I gut shot my first deer and swore I would never do that again, I wait for good close shots now, even with a rifle.
10/12/2011 10:13:20 AM
I watched a nice bruiser 8 about 65 yards out yesterday.. was a very enjoyable show. I didn't even nock and arrow...
I mentioned it to the kid across the street yesterday evening and he was talking a load of smack about "shoulda tried it anyway"...
Then he about had a fit when I told him about the fat doe 15 yds away in heavy brush.. I didn't take that one either.
If I can't make a clean kill shot.. I won't take it.
I bet you can guess who won't be going out hunting with me..
I mentioned it to the kid across the street yesterday evening and he was talking a load of smack about "shoulda tried it anyway"...
Then he about had a fit when I told him about the fat doe 15 yds away in heavy brush.. I didn't take that one either.
If I can't make a clean kill shot.. I won't take it.
I bet you can guess who won't be going out hunting with me..
