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VA, USA
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Posted: 8/28/2023 1:51:26 PM EDT
Please include harvest method, round type and a brief description of the shot with your pictures below. Have a safe and successful season everyone!
All the best to this year’s first time hunters! |
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Posted: 8/28/2023 2:25:37 PM EDT
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A bit early for here (MI), but I'll be out in about three Saturdays.
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Posted: 8/28/2023 4:24:05 PM EDT
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19 days until WI archery season opens
 (Sept 16).Good luck to all. Hopefully I’ll get to post a couple pics myself. |
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VA, USA
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Posted: 8/28/2023 5:41:35 PM EDT
[Last Edit: xwinder]
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VA urban archery & early firearms opens Saturday!
Edit: NOVA Early Firearms - Ground blind from 100yds left side quartering away. Took a step forward just as the 150gr WIN Super-X.308 broke. Entered a little back but it all worked out. Went maybe 25 yds before piling up. Gotta love a Redneck Brand hoist for open field processing!  |
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Posted: 9/1/2023 5:21:26 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By xwinder: VA urban archery & early firearms opens Saturday! @xwinder Where is this early firearms season that starts tomorrow? |
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VA, USA
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Posted: 9/2/2023 3:37:45 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By vatopa: @xwinder Where is this early firearms season that starts tomorrow? Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By vatopa: Originally Posted By xwinder: VA urban archery & early firearms opens Saturday! @xwinder Where is this early firearms season that starts tomorrow? Early and Late Antlerless Only Firearms Deer Seasons During these seasons only antlerless deer may be taken. September 2 through October 6 and January 7, 2024 through March 31, 2024 (Black Diamond) In the counties (including the cities and towns within) of Arlington*, Fairfax*, Loudoun*, Prince William* (except on Department-owned lands), and on private lands in Carroll*, Culpeper*, Clarke*, Fauquier*, Floyd*, Frederick*, Madison*, Montgomery*, Orange*, Page*, Pulaski*, Rappahannock*, Shenandoah*, Warren*, and York* counties. |
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Posted: 9/3/2023 11:10:21 PM EDT
[Last Edit: d16man]
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Shot this 8pt tonight. Been trying to get my 11yr old daughter her first deer. This one was facing us, head down eating corn behind a doe. As doe season isn't in yet (sept 15) she got nervous and told me to take the shot. Used her savage 243win in muddy girl pink (I didn't take my 308).
Going again in the morning to try and get her one.  
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Posted: 9/16/2023 10:18:30 AM EDT
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My daughter's youth season lasted ten minutes into legal hours this year. .350 Legend, 180 grain Winchester Deer Season XP. great penetration. In the base of the neck, destroyed a lung and out the hindquarter. She thought she missed, we found her 25 yards away, out of sight because of obstructions.
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Posted: 9/19/2023 2:45:06 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By shack357: My daughter's youth season lasted ten minutes into legal hours this year. .350 Legend, 180 grain Winchester Deer Season XP. great penetration. In the base of the neck, destroyed a lung and out the hindquarter. She thought she missed, we found her 25 yards away, out of sight because of obstructions. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/146284/20230916_071629_jpg-2955693.JPGhttps://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/146284/20230916_071614_jpg-2955694.JPG Great job young lady!! |
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Posted: 9/28/2023 1:26:53 AM EDT
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My 10 y/o son got his youth season deer last night he spotted it himself and made a great shot with his lefty BCA 350 Legend
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Posted: 9/28/2023 9:25:37 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Iowaredneck: My 10 y/o son got his youth season deer last night he spotted it himself and made a great shot with his lefty BCA 350 Legend https://i.imgur.com/Too707i.jpeg Looks like a heavy bodied one, plenty of meat there!
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Posted: 9/28/2023 1:44:20 PM EDT
[Last Edit: NesralG]
[#11]
@Iowaredneck
Well done kiddo! As a WI kid, there's only 1 state I want to travel to for whitetails and you're in it. |
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Posted: 9/28/2023 3:16:52 PM EDT
[Last Edit: shack357]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By NesralG: @Iowaredneck Well done kiddo! As a WI kid, there's only 1 state I want to travel to for whitetails and you're in it. We've got plenty. Come get one! |
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Posted: 9/28/2023 8:05:19 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By NesralG: @Iowaredneck Well done kiddo! As a WI kid, there's only 1 state I want to travel to for whitetails and you're in it. Yeah our deer hunting is good but it's not like it used to be now everyone thinks it's the cool kid thing to do being a big shot deer hunter |
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Posted: 10/1/2023 10:11:59 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Iowaredneck: Yeah our deer hunting is good but it's not like it used to be now everyone thinks it's the cool kid thing to do being a big shot deer hunter Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Iowaredneck: Originally Posted By NesralG: @Iowaredneck Well done kiddo! As a WI kid, there's only 1 state I want to travel to for whitetails and you're in it. Yeah our deer hunting is good but it's not like it used to be now everyone thinks it's the cool kid thing to do being a big shot deer hunter Well you won’t have to worry about me, I’m just a guy with a wood stick and a single string. No cameras, no fame, I just love to bow hunt.
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Posted: 10/1/2023 10:27:30 AM EDT
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Posted: 10/1/2023 10:53:31 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By LoudLyle: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/493363/IMG_5065_jpeg-2972378.JPG Opening day crossbow 10 point Good hit! Nice rack too. |
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Posted: 10/1/2023 10:58:07 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By LoudLyle: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/493363/IMG_5065_jpeg-2972378.JPG Opening day crossbow 10 point Nice buck! Poor fella didn’t get a chance to shine em up 
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Posted: 10/2/2023 4:31:57 PM EDT
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No photo yet but yesterday was Michigan's archery whitetail season. I was sweating just checking my zero so I didn't bother to go out. Don't know how you folks that live in hot states do it.
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Posted: 10/2/2023 6:05:11 PM EDT
[Last Edit: shack357]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By explodingvarmints: No photo yet but yesterday was Michigan's archery whitetail season. I was sweating just checking my zero so I didn't bother to go out. Don't know how you folks that live in hot states do it. Tomorrow is opening day for me. Season opened Saturday but tomorrow is the first day I'll have time. ETA-Can't let the kiddo show me up.
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Posted: 10/3/2023 7:18:36 PM EDT
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Posted: 10/6/2023 7:22:06 PM EDT
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Just shot this fat boy (5pt)
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Posted: 10/6/2023 8:11:07 PM EDT
[Last Edit: shack357]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By d16man: Just shot this fat boy (5pt) https://global.discourse-cdn.com/palmettostatearmory/original/3X/b/c/bc204edab021f4786e16bd9198037052cc3432b7.jpeg Looks like a heavy one, good freezer filler. Small antlers like that are nice for craft work too-no great loss if you cut them up to make something. ETA- the only luck I've had so far.  Attached FileI'd have left it alone if it had tried to run away. Instead, it sat there, too inviting to say no. IA squirrel season is open too, squirrels taste good, and I'd never shot one with a bow before. |
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MO, USA
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Posted: 10/6/2023 8:24:42 PM EDT
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I got these two today. I used one of my ARs in .223. Scope is a Burris 1-6x RT6. I usually use handloads, but today I used Sierra factory ammo loaded with the 64 grain Game Changer. I shot one at about 80 yards and 100 yards for the other.
 
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Posted: 10/6/2023 8:29:32 PM EDT
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I’ve never even seen a velvet buck while hunting. This year, I was lucky to get two nice ones.
AAC Handi rifle, .300 BO with 110 grain Barnes Tac-tx  Attached File20” AR-15 with AAC 77 grain TMK  Attached File |
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Posted: 10/6/2023 8:44:18 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By rock71: I’ve never even seen a velvet buck while hunting. This year, I was lucky to get two nice ones. AAC Handi rifle, .300 BO with 110 grain Barnes Tac-tx https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/55995/IMG_7803_jpeg-2981626.JPG 20” AR-15 with AAC 77 grain TMK https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/55995/IMG_7688_jpeg-2981628.JPG The cape on that second one-wow. First one is nice too, maybe it's just the light but the color on the second looks awesome. |
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Posted: 10/6/2023 9:52:09 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By shack357: The cape on that second one-wow. First one is nice too, maybe it's just the light but the color on the second looks awesome. It is nice! I’m having that one mounted. |
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Posted: 10/7/2023 10:56:11 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Iowaredneck]
[#27]
My archery doe tag punched when hunting youth season we seen this pink nosed doe tonight she came too close
Eta it turned pretty white after she lost all her blood     
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Posted: 10/8/2023 9:33:59 AM EDT
[Last Edit: agillig]
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Got on the board yesterday. Not a monster, but the first deer I've taken when one of my kids was with me, so that made it special. She was running in through the woods, when I stopped her with a call. Shot didn't hit as high as it looks in the pic, took out the top of the heart and she dropped immediately. .450 Bushmaster with Hornady Black is undefeated when I do my part.
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Posted: 10/13/2023 7:31:55 PM EDT
[Last Edit: JLH3]
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Oldest shot his first buck. 80 yards off a shooting stick with a Remington Model 700 in .308
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Posted: 10/13/2023 7:57:42 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JLH3: Oldest shot his first buck. 80 yards off a shooting stick with a Remington Model 7 in .308 https://www.arizonahuntingforums.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,onerror=redirect,width=1920,height=1920,fit=scale-down/https://www.arizonahuntingforums.com/attachments/img_9130-jpeg.34977/ Good for him! Gotta love a first.
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Posted: 10/14/2023 3:18:49 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Iowaredneck: My archery doe tag punched when hunting youth season we seen this pink nosed doe tonight she came too close Eta it turned pretty white after she lost all her blood https://i.imgur.com/kgf9ayn.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/gku8L34.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/05Cet5M.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/ivkm9SH.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/RLgs5Eh.jpeg Please tell me you kept that delicious chunk ❤️.. nice shot btw |
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Posted: 10/14/2023 4:53:09 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Iowaredneck]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By NesralG: Please tell me you kept that delicious chunk ❤️.. nice shot btw Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By NesralG: Originally Posted By Iowaredneck: My archery doe tag punched when hunting youth season we seen this pink nosed doe tonight she came too close Eta it turned pretty white after she lost all her blood https://i.imgur.com/kgf9ayn.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/gku8L34.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/05Cet5M.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/ivkm9SH.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/RLgs5Eh.jpeg Please tell me you kept that delicious chunk ❤️.. nice shot btw Absolutely had it a couple night ago we slice it thin fry with cabbage sweet onion and applewood bacon. Put a little ketchup and Tabasco on top its our favorite Friday the 13th buck hollow victory only went 40 but his head was still up when it got dark so to play it safe left him over night came back today and coyotes had ate the hell out of him 
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Posted: 10/18/2023 9:34:54 PM EDT
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September velvet mulie. Utah. October 2nd tagged out in Wyoming. Both rifle. Gunwerks Clymr in 7mmSAUM.
 
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Posted: 10/19/2023 2:10:07 PM EDT
[#34]
First inline deer this morning
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Posted: 10/19/2023 2:19:35 PM EDT
[#35]
Youth hunt time in MN
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Posted: 10/21/2023 9:10:53 PM EDT
[Last Edit: hicap]
[#36]
 I got this 8 pt at dusk today, in Polk Co GA, I used a Savage 99 in .243, from a ladder stand 50 yds here is my 1973 Savage 99 
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Posted: 10/21/2023 11:03:20 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By hicap: https://i.imgur.com/qVOEhBx.jpg I got this 8 pt at dusk today, in Polk Co GA, I used a Savage 99 in .243, from a ladder stand 50 yds here is my 1973 Savage 99 http://i.imgur.com/rhSEkXkh.jpg That's a sweet rifle |
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Posted: 10/22/2023 4:21:53 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By hicap: https://i.imgur.com/qVOEhBx.jpg I got this 8 pt at dusk today, in Polk Co GA, I used a Savage 99 in .243, from a ladder stand 50 yds here is my 1973 Savage 99 http://i.imgur.com/rhSEkXkh.jpg Originally Posted By Iowaredneck: That's a sweet rifle And a nice buck! Congrats! |
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Posted: 10/22/2023 10:40:16 PM EDT
[#39]
EHD is extremely bad this year in our area not the way I want to find them.
 This was a stud picture does not do it justice 
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Posted: 10/23/2023 9:13:04 AM EDT
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Posted: 10/23/2023 12:03:42 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By MrMackey: First inline deer this morning https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/587392/IMG_5399_jpeg-2997198.JPG It was nice of you to wipe it's milk mustache off for the picture. Just teasing, that'll be some tender venison! Enjoy! |
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Posted: 10/23/2023 5:02:42 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By Iowaredneck: EHD is extremely bad this year in our area not the way I want to find them. https://i.imgur.com/Vr5Ei1L.jpeg This was a stud picture does not do it justice https://i.imgur.com/R5yb6SH.jpeg Are you allowed to keep the antlers from a found deer? I don’t know how each state handles this. |
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Posted: 10/23/2023 5:21:41 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By LoudLyle: Are you allowed to keep the antlers from a found deer? I don’t know how each state handles this. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By LoudLyle: Originally Posted By Iowaredneck: EHD is extremely bad this year in our area not the way I want to find them. https://i.imgur.com/Vr5Ei1L.jpeg This was a stud picture does not do it justice https://i.imgur.com/R5yb6SH.jpeg Are you allowed to keep the antlers from a found deer? I don’t know how each state handles this. In IA you call a conservation officer and he comes to look at the deer(or any antler with a piece of skull attached, meaning it's from a dead deer) to make sure it's not poached. Then the officer can give you a salvage tag for it. |
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Posted: 10/23/2023 10:26:04 PM EDT
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With my 92 y/o mom ill and my son home from the military on emergency leave, didn't think I'd get a chance to hunt the muzzle loader opening week. Well mom is doing good and Jr. is headed back to work so I found some time to get after it.
Hunted Sat am saw a bunch of doe, skipped Sat night to watch the FSU game with my son. Went back Sun evening, same thing, lots of doe. This am I managed to get a big body 3-pt, he's never going to be anything so why not. He was standing about 25 yards to my right looking at me, never saw him approach. As he trotted off I whistled and he stopped... big mistake. DRT.  A few minutes later, a large 4-pt was looking at me, I once again got caught not paying attention, when he trotted off he was a little farter out so I didn't risk a bad shot. This evening hunt was chalked full of deer sightings, about twenty minutes before legal quitting time, this buck came out into the field off to my right at about 125 yards. I am fortunate I saw him as there is only a foot or two width wise visibility and he just so happened to stop in the gap. DRT. He has a nice scar on his back I assume from a fence.   Off to a good start for the 23-24 season. |
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Posted: 10/23/2023 11:49:23 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By LoudLyle: Are you allowed to keep the antlers from a found deer? I don’t know how each state handles this. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By LoudLyle: Originally Posted By Iowaredneck: EHD is extremely bad this year in our area not the way I want to find them. https://i.imgur.com/Vr5Ei1L.jpeg This was a stud picture does not do it justice https://i.imgur.com/R5yb6SH.jpeg Are you allowed to keep the antlers from a found deer? I don’t know how each state handles this. I called the local conservation officer he said take it home ill drop a tag off at your house. That's pretty much how it works sometimes they come look at them but this year is so bad there are people calling them left and right |
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Posted: 10/24/2023 4:46:48 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By Bowhntr6pt: With my 92 y/o mom ill and my son home from the military on emergency leave, didn't think I'd get a chance to hunt the muzzle loader opening week. Well mom is doing good and Jr. is headed back to work so I found some time to get after it. Hunted Sat am saw a bunch of doe, skipped Sat night to watch the FSU game with my son. Went back Sun evening, same thing, lots of doe. This am I managed to get a big body 3-pt, he's never going to be anything so why not. He was standing about 25 yards to my right looking at me, never saw him approach. As he trotted off I whistled and he stopped... big mistake. DRT. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/640x480q70/922/kmqbSZ.jpg A few minutes later, a large 4-pt was looking at me, I once again got caught not paying attention, when he trotted off he was a little farter out so I didn't risk a bad shot. This evening hunt was chalked full of deer sightings, about twenty minutes before legal quitting time, this buck came out into the field off to my right at about 125 yards. I am fortunate I saw him as there is only a foot or two width wise visibility and he just so happened to stop in the gap. DRT. He has a nice scar on his back I assume from a fence. I wonder if that might have been an archery miss? https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/640x480q70/924/nzNHGB.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/640x480q70/922/v4BxEy.jpg Off to a good start for the 23-24 season. |
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Posted: 10/24/2023 9:35:12 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By loon_138: MN youth hunt, my son shot this one, .243 at 165 yards, ran about 30 and dropped https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/66713/IMG_20231021_165542914_HDR_jpg-3001330.JPG .243 is my go to hunting caliber. Nice job kiddo! |
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Posted: 10/25/2023 11:02:53 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Bowhntr6pt: With my 92 y/o mom ill and my son home from the military on emergency leave, didn't think I'd get a chance to hunt the muzzle loader opening week. Well mom is doing good and Jr. is headed back to work so I found some time to get after it. Hunted Sat am saw a bunch of doe, skipped Sat night to watch the FSU game with my son. Went back Sun evening, same thing, lots of doe. This am I managed to get a big body 3-pt, he's never going to be anything so why not. He was standing about 25 yards to my right looking at me, never saw him approach. As he trotted off I whistled and he stopped... big mistake. DRT. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/640x480q70/922/kmqbSZ.jpg A few minutes later, a large 4-pt was looking at me, I once again got caught not paying attention, when he trotted off he was a little farter out so I didn't risk a bad shot. This evening hunt was chalked full of deer sightings, about twenty minutes before legal quitting time, this buck came out into the field off to my right at about 125 yards. I am fortunate I saw him as there is only a foot or two width wise visibility and he just so happened to stop in the gap. DRT. He has a nice scar on his back I assume from a fence. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/640x480q70/924/nzNHGB.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/640x480q70/922/v4BxEy.jpg Off to a good start for the 23-24 season. Looks more like a bullet or broadhead graze, too straight for a fence. A 4.5 year old 9 point I shot about 10 years ago had a bullet wound that started on it's muzzle, took out his eye, and exited out it's ear. Damn thing was still dogging doe's even though it was obviously quite fresh. . . no scabbing. Tough animals. |
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MT, USA
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Posted: 10/25/2023 3:35:11 PM EDT
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Got a 2x2 mulie yesterday at 250 yards with my 308; Savage Model 10T, 18" barrel with a Sandman-K, and shooting Hornady Precision Hunter which is a 178gr ELD-X. He was facing me and the shot entered his neck and went into his lungs; he crumpled and died instantly. Bullet fully expanded in the chest cavity and did not penetrate into the abdomen. Almost passed on him but it was my birthday and seemed like a fitting gift for myself. I hunt to fill the freezer, not to mount on the wall so I didn't want to risk not running into any other deer the rest of the season. What is funny is that this hill is the same hill I shot a 3x4 mulie from last year.
 Untitled by Frisky Dillo, on Flickr Untitled by Frisky Dillo, on Flickr Untitled by Frisky Dillo, on Flickr
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Posted: 10/25/2023 4:02:16 PM EDT
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My 19 yo son, pure albino mature doe killed on Friday the 13th in October... let's see what the superstitions bring
Compound bow.  
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