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Posted: 11/17/2014 9:46:01 AM EDT
Anyone bring home some venison this weekend?

Didn't see one deer all weekend in 16 hours of hunting.
Link Posted: 11/17/2014 10:22:36 AM EDT
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Link Posted: 11/17/2014 10:33:06 AM EDT
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Not this weekend. Didn't see shit Busted a nice doe last weekend and a button buck 2 weeks ago. Thought it was bigger but it probably weighed 40 lbs skinned out
Link Posted: 11/17/2014 2:13:32 PM EDT
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No, life got in the way of hunting this weekend  I've got Thursday through Monday of next week off work, so hopefully I'll have some venison in the freezer soon.
Link Posted: 11/17/2014 9:51:22 PM EDT
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Goodluck, it's tough out here in the Charlottesville area.
Link Posted: 11/17/2014 11:50:47 PM EDT
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Killed a 8pt the last week of black powder in  Fauquier and a 7pt opening day of rifle in Rappahannock and passed on a spike today
Link Posted: 11/18/2014 12:13:54 AM EDT
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Well done!
Link Posted: 11/18/2014 9:16:00 AM EDT
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Last weekend all I saw was does and zero bucks, too bad it wasn't a doe day.  BIL shoot a decent 17.5" wide 8pt.  
 
Last Friday I saw a spike, 8pt, 6pt and two does that snuck behind me.  All bucks got a "grow pass" but damn I wanted one of those does.  Tuesday of this week I also saw a real nice 8pt just on the cusp of being a shooter.  Tall, decent mass but only about 15" wide...... next year he'll be a nice one.

Rut as of last weekend doesn't seem to be in full swing yet.  I am hoping this Fri/Sat it's going nuts w/ chases everywhere
Link Posted: 11/18/2014 1:27:36 PM EDT
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Tagged out in bucks the first week of muzzleloader, two 8's. Have taken a coworker out a few times since, we haven't seen much.
Link Posted: 11/18/2014 1:34:22 PM EDT
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got 2 in Sept. back at it wednesday after work, and thompson wma on saturday
Link Posted: 11/18/2014 1:44:40 PM EDT
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Didn't kill one, but did have one run into the car the other night...

Saw them coming across the cornfield, stopped, f***g doe still ran into the
fender, somersaulted around, pushed in the fuel door, then ran off.
Link Posted: 11/18/2014 5:35:31 PM EDT
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I guess you are west side of blue ridge if you've tagged out already.
Post a pic of the 8 pointers. Love to see nice big bucks.
Link Posted: 11/18/2014 5:47:09 PM EDT
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I guess you are west side of blue ridge if you've tagged out already.
Post a pic of the 8 pointers. Love to see nice big bucks.
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Tagged out in bucks the first week of muzzleloader, two 8's. Have taken a coworker out a few times since, we haven't seen much.

I guess you are west side of blue ridge if you've tagged out already.
Post a pic of the 8 pointers. Love to see nice big bucks.




Link Posted: 11/18/2014 5:50:48 PM EDT
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Tagged out in bucks the first week of muzzleloader, two 8's. Have taken a coworker out a few times since, we haven't seen much.

I guess you are west side of blue ridge if you've tagged out already.
Post a pic of the 8 pointers. Love to see nice big bucks.


http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l53/blpjr77/9E16788A-1DDF-40E8-B2BD-390933DE74D5_zpsoaf8oygv.jpg

http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l53/blpjr77/F8237288-E9A1-4974-8AF5-07C6FDEA9DF8_zps6ty7r5s6.jpg


Nice.
Link Posted: 11/18/2014 9:03:15 PM EDT
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Thanks. Got both out of the same stand. The bigger one came out 10 minutes after I sat down, the other about 30 minutes after. Didn't know that either was that big when I shot them.
Link Posted: 11/18/2014 9:20:04 PM EDT
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Well done!
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Thanks but not sure why my pic's didn't show up?
Link Posted: 11/18/2014 11:29:32 PM EDT
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Definitely should have let that second one walk it's tiny and kill a doe instead ......  Sorry just thinking out loud.
Link Posted: 11/19/2014 1:39:24 PM EDT
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Got my meet back from the butcher today.

Venison vittles!
Link Posted: 11/19/2014 4:49:31 PM EDT
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That looks tasty! Who do you use for a processor?  I'm going out Thursday through Monday, and I really hope I'll have more luck with a shotgun than with a bow.  I'm curious who you might recommend near the Sterling/Ashburn/Leesburg area (I'm assuming I'll need to drive a bit farther west or north to get out of suburbia to find a processor).
Link Posted: 11/19/2014 5:48:54 PM EDT
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I never looked in that area but closest I know of to Leesburg is Linthicum Custom Slaughtering there is also one off RT15 & Braddock Rd but don't have any info on it, but will post it when I do.
Link Posted: 11/19/2014 6:23:57 PM EDT
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That looks tasty! Who do you use for a processor?  I'm going out Thursday through Monday, and I really hope I'll have more luck with a shotgun than with a bow.  I'm curious who you might recommend near the Sterling/Ashburn/Leesburg area (I'm assuming I'll need to drive a bit farther west or north to get out of suburbia to find a processor).
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That looks tasty! Who do you use for a processor?  I'm going out Thursday through Monday, and I really hope I'll have more luck with a shotgun than with a bow.  I'm curious who you might recommend near the Sterling/Ashburn/Leesburg area (I'm assuming I'll need to drive a bit farther west or north to get out of suburbia to find a processor).


Mark Leigh, Mark’s Butcher Shop, 16721 Aunt Lonas Lane, Hamilton, VA 20158, 540-454-4470
Link Posted: 11/19/2014 6:29:00 PM EDT
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Me?

Second deer was older and bigger bodied than the bigger racked deer. Smaller 8 was 5.5, bigger 8 was 3.5.

On my farm, you shoot em when you see them. Rare to see a buck in the open during the daylight. The smaller 8 was spotted in that field twice over the summer/fall.  No one had ever seen the bigger 8.
Link Posted: 11/19/2014 10:57:39 PM EDT
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No luck so far. I've not seen a buck on my food plot game camera in at least 3 years, day or night. I haven't seen a doe during daylight since I jumped two while heading to a stand during archery season-like an idiot.  Hunting on a tiny patch of land is unforgiving of mistakes. I doubt I'll see anything more on my property till next spring, unless the neighbors start running dogs through the dense forest across the road. There's too many houses around now, and they've cut off the paths that the deer used to take from the large heavily wooded cover areas to get to my tasty food plot (clover, mixed greens and turnips this year).
Off to the barren wasteland of the local WMAs for me....
Link Posted: 11/19/2014 11:18:50 PM EDT
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Passed on two smaller bucks,  waiting on a big buck or a big fat doe
Link Posted: 11/20/2014 7:18:32 AM EDT
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Link Posted: 11/20/2014 10:03:13 AM EDT
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Your link is unable to play because the file is corrupt. At least that is the message that I'm getting.
 
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Thanks VA-gunnut,  here is some screen shots then. If I still lived in Marshall instead of Reston I would be all tagged out.
Link Posted: 11/20/2014 7:31:43 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 11/20/2014 9:59:44 PM EDT
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Shot my first deer ever this morning!  About a 40 yard shot with a Hornady SST slug, and he ran 20 yards before piling up as you see in the pic. Lung damage was impressive.  



Link Posted: 11/20/2014 10:00:54 PM EDT
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Mark Leigh, Mark’s Butcher Shop, 16721 Aunt Lonas Lane, Hamilton, VA 20158, 540-454-4470
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That looks tasty! Who do you use for a processor?  I'm going out Thursday through Monday, and I really hope I'll have more luck with a shotgun than with a bow.  I'm curious who you might recommend near the Sterling/Ashburn/Leesburg area (I'm assuming I'll need to drive a bit farther west or north to get out of suburbia to find a processor).


Mark Leigh, Mark’s Butcher Shop, 16721 Aunt Lonas Lane, Hamilton, VA 20158, 540-454-4470


Thanks for the contact information.  I dropped off my deer with them earlier this afternoon.  Looking forward to some tasty venison.
Link Posted: 11/20/2014 10:10:29 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 11/21/2014 8:02:23 AM EDT
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Shot my first deer ever this morning!  About a 40 yard shot with a Hornady SST slug, and he ran 20 yards before piling up as you see in the pic. Lung damage was impressive.  
http://i1358.photobucket.com/albums/q779/geosynchronous_orbit/63E2ABC6-B7A5-43E4-981F-68348499FD9B_zpsh9vtawyw.jpg
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Link Posted: 11/21/2014 8:46:20 AM EDT
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Shot my first deer ever this morning!  About a 40 yard shot with a Hornady SST slug, and he ran 20 yards before piling up as you see in the pic. Lung damage was impressive.  

http://i1358.photobucket.com/albums/q779/geosynchronous_orbit/63E2ABC6-B7A5-43E4-981F-68348499FD9B_zpsh9vtawyw.jpg

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Congratulations!
Link Posted: 11/21/2014 3:15:10 PM EDT
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Killed in Smyth Co. Over 200".
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That's a monster! Congrats!

Evidently I have to start hunting down south.
Link Posted: 11/21/2014 6:43:01 PM EDT
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Not my deer, just all over Facebook.
Link Posted: 11/26/2014 9:05:42 AM EDT
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I looked at the initial picture and thought, Hey that looks just like the wrapping my butcher uses. Then you said it was Mark. He did my doe a couple weeks back too.
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