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VA, USA
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Posted: 9/27/2021 10:22:08 AM EDT
[Last Edit: xwinder]
Please include method, round type and a brief description of the shot with your pictures below. Have a safe and successful season everyone!
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Posted: 9/27/2021 11:06:08 AM EDT
[#1]
Last year's thread was pretty epic. 'scribed to this year's thread.
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Posted: 9/27/2021 11:25:38 AM EDT
[Last Edit: buck19delta]
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In ! Saving my spot here early !
 I'll be hunting on and off from the middle of october, to the middle of january, muzzle loader, rifle, muzzle loader again then crossbow. Expect to take 6 deer myself, plus my womans one or two, and my brother and sister in laws 4. Going to really put my new deer processing gear to work this year ! 
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Posted: 9/27/2021 12:27:51 PM EDT
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Archery opens oct 2nd this year which is my birthday unfortunately I work
 I’ll get out Monday before work though
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Posted: 9/27/2021 12:36:51 PM EDT
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Subscribed. This is only my second year hunting. Hopefully I get a bigger one than last year. I'm going to try archery and muzzleloader this year. Main goal is to get more time in the woods.
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Posted: 9/27/2021 1:34:26 PM EDT
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Need to finish up building two new stands this week for Saturday Archery opener.
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VA, USA
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Posted: 9/27/2021 6:07:37 PM EDT
[Last Edit: whitetailnut]
[#6]
This past weekend was Va's youth hunting weekend. My son got this guy Saturday evening. He was shooting an M24 with 168 grn matchkings. The shot was just under 300 yards and he dropped him in his tracks.
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Posted: 9/28/2021 8:29:29 AM EDT
[#7]
Great looking son and deer! Congratulations to son AND dad!
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Posted: 9/28/2021 9:02:19 AM EDT
[Last Edit: DesignatedMarksman]
[#8]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By whitetailnut: This past weekend was Va's youth hunting weekend. My son got this guy Saturday evening. He was shooting an M24 with 168 grn matchkings. The shot was just under 300 yards and he dropped him in his tracks. https://i.imgur.com/xvmWYS5.jpg |
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VA, USA
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Posted: 9/28/2021 10:32:20 AM EDT
[Last Edit: whitetailnut]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 1245xx: Great looking son and deer! Congratulations to son AND dad! Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 1245xx: Great looking son and deer! Congratulations to son AND dad! Thanks he's a good kid ,I'm very lucky Originally Posted By DesignatedMarksman: How did the smk perform? Last deer I hit with an otm at 100yd went about 80yd in a half circle. The bullet had fragmented right about at the heart and only a splinter exited the back side. Very little blood. The frag beat up a lot of meat on the exit side but almost nothing made it through the ribcage. He hit the deer a little high behind the shoulder and it exited the ribcage on the far side. We where up on a hill that overlooked a bunch of different fields and he was actually above the deer shooting down. The entrance wound was nothing special and the exit wound itself looked about equal to deer I've shot with ballistic tips. If you look closely at the pic just past the end of the rail about 3 inches around 10 clock you can make out a circle I touched up where the bullet exited. As for blood there wasn't much but the deer went nowhere at the shot, his back legs folded and down he went. It messed up no meat other than made a mess out of the ribs on the exit side about the size of a grapefruit. This was the first deer I have been involved with shooting with a SMK. I had read where people had success with them on whitetails and it's all I had loaded for the M24 because it really likes them! He has a Steyr ProHunter in 308 and does well with it, but we hunted that morning in the woods and I knew if we went to the fields he may have a shot that was on out there. He had been shooting the M24 during the summer and was doing very well with it. I also knew the hill top would offer him the chance to lay down and shoot prone at about anything we saw, so we with went with that mostly because he was familiar with it shooting at longer ranges. He did complain about how heavy it was  |
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Posted: 10/2/2021 10:56:04 PM EDT
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This is our first season with this ranch in N.Texas
There are a lot of bucks out there, with more standard antlers. This nontypical has been showing up on camera. For a Texas deer he is pretty big bodied, and the rack is cool. But, I am not sure I should let him go another year, or take him if the shot presents itself. What do y'all think? 
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Posted: 10/2/2021 10:58:34 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By whitetailnut: This past weekend was Va's youth hunting weekend. My son got this guy Saturday evening. He was shooting an M24 with 168 grn matchkings. The shot was just under 300 yards and he dropped him in his tracks. https://i.imgur.com/xvmWYS5.jpg Great deer! An M24 would be a lot of fun to hunt with! |
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Posted: 10/3/2021 8:01:56 PM EDT
[Last Edit: SpeyRod]
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Proud of my 15 yo son. His second deer in two years. On our companies property. Spotted two bucks 800 yds away. We made a move on them and bumped this one. I started cow calling while my son manouvered for position. The buck stopped and my son put the 127 LRX out of his 6.5 PRC in the perfect spot.
 Attached FilePerfect shot!  Attached FileThe pose.  Attached FileThe work!  Attached File |
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Posted: 10/3/2021 8:02:59 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By whitetailnut: This past weekend was Va's youth hunting weekend. My son got this guy Saturday evening. He was shooting an M24 with 168 grn matchkings. The shot was just under 300 yards and he dropped him in his tracks. https://i.imgur.com/xvmWYS5.jpg Nice! |
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VA, USA
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Posted: 10/4/2021 11:06:11 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By SpeyRod: Proud of my 15 yo son. His second deer in two years. On our companies property. Spotted two bucks 800 yds away. We made a move on them and bumped this one. I started cow calling while my son manouvered for position. The buck stopped and my son put the 127 LRX out of his 6.5 PRC in the perfect spot. Awesome job!! I really enjoy seeing pictures of kids out hunting. 
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IL, USA
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Posted: 10/7/2021 5:50:40 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Bucktail_Bob]
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The grandkid and his dad both connected on the NC opener a few weeks back, I’m flying both grandkids up for a taste of the Illinois Youth gun season.
Hopefully there will more pics to add.  Took out the grand kid last Monday on the last day of the Illinois Youth Gun Season. It was rainy he had a 102 temperature (which I did not know at the time) 43 Yard shot with the Browning A-Bolt 12 Ga. Federal 1oz. Barnes Expanders dropped it in it’s tracks.  My buddy got it done earlier this week. Tenpoint, 100gr. Rage Hypos.  |
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NJ, USA
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Posted: 10/9/2021 4:26:11 PM EDT
[#16]
finally got my first deer. only took me 48 years LOL.
25' up in my summit viper SD, basically right below me. Bowtech Realm SS, sent one right through her lungs and heart. Her friend didn't even stop eating LOL. 
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Posted: 10/12/2021 10:44:27 AM EDT
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Looks tasty! Good job!!
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Posted: 10/12/2021 4:59:33 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By jvhuse: This is our first season with this ranch in N.Texas There are a lot of bucks out there, with more standard antlers. This nontypical has been showing up on camera. For a Texas deer he is pretty big bodied, and the rack is cool. But, I am not sure I should let him go another year, or take him if the shot presents itself. What do y'all think? https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/276591/TSC_0694-2115798.jpg Unless you have zero hunting pressure around you and droptines are common in the local gene pool, you'd be crazy not to crack him if given the opportunity |
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Posted: 10/12/2021 11:02:40 PM EDT
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Posted: 10/13/2021 1:55:42 PM EDT
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1st year lease property and have these 2 guys coming in. There is one that’s a little bigger coming in that seems to be a shooter....just need to set eyes on him 1st. Trying to keep these 2 around for next year. If we put some time in and get them eating better...I think they should be some pretty good bucks next year. This year they are just lacking some mass.
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Posted: 10/13/2021 5:21:16 PM EDT
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Posted: 10/13/2021 7:24:26 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Iowaredneck]
[#22]
Not a deer but still a rare sight in my neck of the woods
Potato quality    Iowa Bobcat |
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Posted: 10/16/2021 3:41:18 AM EDT
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Posted: 10/23/2021 2:44:14 AM EDT
[#24]
First deer on our new land. 12pt if you count the little guy trying to poke out the front of the left main.
Had him on camera hitting a scrape near my stand every evening. Showed up just in time yesterday. Archery season here. Matthews Heli-M at 25 yards.  Attached File Attached File Attached File |
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Posted: 10/23/2021 8:10:13 AM EDT
[#25]
My 10 year old Sons first deer. He took her on youth hunting day a few weeks back
AAC Model 7 300blk 110gr Barnes Black tip 19.2gr H110   10 year old first deer  10 year old finds deer he shot |
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Posted: 10/23/2021 8:22:18 AM EDT
[#26]
This is gonna be an Epic Thread!
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Posted: 10/24/2021 11:21:24 PM EDT
[Last Edit: BIgDAM]
[#27]
I got my second deer with a crossbow today. I was in such a hurry to get everything done, this is the only picture I took.
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Posted: 10/25/2021 9:32:56 AM EDT
[Last Edit: gtpness]
[#28]
 Attached FileShot this buck bout 2 weeks ago. I'm 36, and it's the first deer I've shot in 22 years. I'd been hunting a handful of times since my last deer at 14, but never had a shot opportunity. This one walked out of some thick trees that surround one of our 5 acre fields(this one planted with soy beans), and walked straight to my stand(elevated shadow hunter blind). As soon as he stopped about 80 yards away I hit him in the shoulder with my suppressed 6.5 grendel. I can't believe I took as much time off from hunting as I did. Trying to make up for it now. ETA - All the little black dots all over the deer are mosquitoes. They were lighting our asses up - never should have turned the thermacells off.
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Posted: 10/25/2021 7:20:01 PM EDT
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This AM, meat for the freezer.
Mature doe about 110#. Shot ~125 yards Round: Hornady 6.8SPC 120gr SST Ran 30 yards and piled up. Tenderloin consumed and was delicious.  
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Posted: 10/27/2021 12:36:38 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Iowaredneck]
[#30]
Didn't have real high hopes for my best spot just not near the sign I usually see guess I got schooled a little tonight few does came out in the field that I couldn't see well kept hearing a buck grunt so I grunted back nothing.
Finally rattled a little immediately a small buck came right to me . Not long after he went past I looked behind me to see this 12 just thrashing brush he came right to my tree probably 10y shot he ran out to 40 hard angled away and I put a 2nd one behind his on side ribs to the fetching right up in the goody. It was an unnecessary double tap first shot took the arteries off the top of the heart.    My youngest son(turned 8 in sept) first deer taken during yourlth season with a 350L has his own thread but thought I'd add it in here. 
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Posted: 10/28/2021 8:11:33 PM EDT
[#31]
Took this goofy thing out of the gene pool today.
Happy with him considering I haven't been able to hunt at all the past 2 years.  Attached File |
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Posted: 10/29/2021 8:18:17 AM EDT
[#32]
Some nice looking deer in recent posts! Heck, even the "goofy" ones taste good
 I love seeing the kids getting their deer. Good parenting! 
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AR, USA
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Posted: 10/29/2021 3:47:35 PM EDT
[Last Edit: 762hunter2]
[#33]
Watched a decent 8point for a while, ended up tagging this guy. Placeholder for upcoming weekends
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Posted: 10/29/2021 4:23:12 PM EDT
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Posted: 10/29/2021 5:14:11 PM EDT
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MO, USA
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Posted: 10/31/2021 12:10:29 AM EDT
[#36]
I took this young man from my church on his first hunt of any kind. 10 point, 243 yards, one shot through the heart, .223 Remington, Sierra 65 grain GameKing, 25.2 grains of W748. The bullet went completely through the body. The scope is a Vortex Crossfire II 1x4.
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Posted: 10/31/2021 8:17:35 AM EDT
[#37]
 Attached FileI am a guide (free range and of course no high fences). This was part of my customer haul yesterday afternoon. |
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Posted: 10/31/2021 10:23:52 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ozarkgunrunner: I took this young man from my church on his first hunt of any kind. 10 point, 243 yards, one shot through the heart, .223 Remington, Sierra 65 grain GameKing, 25.2 grains of W748. The bullet went completely through the body. The scope is a Vortex Crossfire II 1x4. https://thumbs2.imgbox.com/d2/2b/l15IGZY3_t.jpg That is awesome! |
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Posted: 10/31/2021 7:23:40 PM EDT
[Last Edit: jeadams]
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AR, USA
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Posted: 11/1/2021 2:30:21 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By whitetailnut: This past weekend was Va's youth hunting weekend. My son got this guy Saturday evening. He was shooting an M24 with 168 grn matchkings. The shot was just under 300 yards and he dropped him in his tracks. https://i.imgur.com/xvmWYS5.jpg *liked* |
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AR, USA
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Posted: 11/1/2021 2:34:06 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Sc0tt: finally got my first deer. only took me 48 years LOL. 25' up in my summit viper SD, basically right below me. Bowtech Realm SS, sent one right through her lungs and heart. Her friend didn't even stop eating LOL. https://i.ibb.co/Z29KW1c/20211009-073352-Copy.jpg MANY CONGRATS, sir! |
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AR, USA
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Posted: 11/1/2021 2:37:03 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By garyd: My 10 year old Sons first deer. He took her on youth hunting day a few weeks back AAC Model 7 300blk 110gr Barnes Black tip 19.2gr H110 https://i.imgur.com/lZ4MDrU.jpg  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikdTyBwVmTo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0MzYuKXwzwI know I'm taking up a buncha posts in a row, but I love seeing all this good stuff! Too cool, sir! |
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Posted: 11/6/2021 10:06:42 AM EDT
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Posted: 11/6/2021 10:18:49 AM EDT
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I scouted my ground blind yesterday evening and this pussycat came within two feet of me.
 
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Posted: 11/6/2021 11:18:21 AM EDT
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Hill country 10pt.
152 yds. FNSPRA1 .308 
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Posted: 11/6/2021 7:41:36 PM EDT
[Last Edit: bradpierson26]
[#46]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Iowaredneck: Not a deer but still a rare sight in my neck of the woods Potato quality https://i.imgur.com/ygErrlq.jpg That looks like the photos my drunk uncle sends me from his Nokia    Attached File Attached FileI’d love to shoot a deer this year. Back to your regularly scheduled program |
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Posted: 11/6/2021 11:15:41 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By bradpierson26: That looks like the photos my drunk uncle sends me from his Nokia https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/184182/05EF335C-D427-424E-A75D-27C683A23ED4_jpe-2157410.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/184182/41D21BE0-5519-4708-AF2E-0A4F42B772EE_jpe-2157408.JPG I’d love to shoot a deer this year. Back to your regularly scheduled program Lol you ain't wrong |
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Posted: 11/8/2021 10:10:18 AM EDT
[Last Edit: ENGCPT]
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My boys first deer.
Some may not consider it hunting because we are on the back deck but he was pretty stoked. You can see the deer just over his right shoulder.   The spot just in front of the ear is where he shot it. Dropped without a kick.  Rifle is a Ruger American Ranch in 5.56 with a cheap Nikon tactical p223 scope. |
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TN, USA
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Posted: 11/8/2021 3:34:40 PM EDT
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2nd of the year. 1st was archery, this one was muzzleloader. 295 gr .50 cal at about 35 yards.
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Posted: 11/9/2021 12:36:03 PM EDT
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Filled my MN firearms tag late saturday morning, which was opening day for MN firearms season.
Had my 10 year old daughter with, we were hoping to get something inside 50 yards for her to shoot (we hunt in the shotgun/slug zone in MN). Watched this guy breed a doe on the neighbor's property around 9:30 am. 10:30 am he jumped the fence onto our property following the doe after some hunters bumped all the deer off the ridge line to the south. Shot him straight on facing me, slightly downhill, just shy of 100 yards. .50 cal CVA optima, 290 grain barnes TMZ copper over 100 grains of blackhorn, federal 209 primer. Dropped him in his tracks. Between sits on saturday morning, saturday night, and sunday morning, we saw just under 50 deer. Next fall we'll only be shooting does during gun season. I didn't draw a doe permit this year.  Attached FileUp next I've got a SD black hills any whitetail tag, a double whitetail doe tag for SD east river rifle, and a SD muzzleloader doe tag. |
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