My 2nd buck for this season:

Nothing special, but he died happy.

My son was the deer killer this season and bagged two bucks on tribal lands in SD. The first was a young 4 point mule deer and the second was a 7 point whitetail. Both clean kills through the kill zone. I am good with it as he is old enough to practice what I have been teaching him all these years.

The rifle by the mule deer is my Ruger .308 but my son shoots a Savage .243. This one was taken about 3 weeks ago.



This whitetail was taken a couple of weekends ago.

Happiness is a freezer with lots of venison in it.

So true

Been going out in the woods all season finally had this doe come in this evening.


.300 Blackout
200 gr prototype low velocity expander
935 fps

Hit her up high and broke her spine had to finish her off with my .45

Recovered the bullet just on the other side

10 a.m. this morning with my muzzle loader. I also got a doe on Dec.17th but no pictures.

Ya'll are killing me with all these bucks. I got several coming in but only in the middle of the night. caught several spikes a couple of 4 and 6 pointers, a large 8 pointer and a huge 10 on the game cam, not to mention several does

Had to settle for her this evening, all by herself


same load as before
.300 blackout
200 gr prototype low velocity expander
935fps

here is some blood and guts
entrance


exit


Lungs

We had a rainy front move through overnight on Monday and it stuck around until about 1:30 on Tuesday, then it cleared completely out. Wind was crazy with gusts up to 45mph, but I decided to cut out of work a couple hours early and hit the woods. I saw the tiniest bit of movement about 40 yards out behind a bush, and saw literally just about 3" of tail sticking out from behind the bush, but the tail only seemed to be about a foot off the ground, so I wasn't sure if it was maybe a fox or something. I kept an eye on that spot, and she finally stepped out from behind the bush. Marlin 336 30-30, Federal Fusion. Look at the blood streak and you can see the entry wound just behind the shoulder. She didn't take another step - got the lungs for sure - lots of thick, bright red blood from the mouth.

Stunning. What kind of rifle is that?

I thought posting our success photos from 2011 would be a good way to introduce myself. All of these deer were taken in 2011 during the archery, rifle, and muzzeloader seasons of 2011. We fought a mild archery season and a rainy rifle season, but still had a great year.

I took this eight point on Nov. 5 during archery season. I took my fiancee bow hunting and had set her up in a spot where I figured she would have a good chance and I setup 150 yards back down the trail we came in on. Well she did see the buck, but he walked out of her range and came straight for me.


My dad took this 11 point during archery season as well. We had a few trail cam photos of him, and I had a couple close encounters but never got a shot. He ended up taking it from a stand I had given up on.


My fiancee's dad shot this whopper on the opening day of our rifle season. It came out on the middle of their hayfield at 11:30am chasing a doe. I gave it a rough gross score of 147, not too shabby for a wv buck and an especially good score for a main frame eight.


He then proceeded to take this buck Thanksgiving evening. It's a main frame eight with three stickers coming off of it's brow tines. I think it was around 19" inside the antlers.


My dad took this buck the second day of our rifle season. It followed a doe out into a field at the break of daylight. This picture doesn't do the deer justice, it had a huge body was a very mature buck.


I finally scored again during our muzzeloader season. I saw this buck on opening day and had to let him walk due to him being right in line with some houses, but I got out earlier the next day and got a better angle. He came out behind with a group of about 15 does, and I got a shot at 125 yards.

Very nice white tails!

It's a Ruger Gunsite Scout that she got me for Christmas. Great little rifle!