Official 2009-2010 Deer Season Photo Thread (Page 1 of 4)
Posted: 8/26/2009 4:31:57 PM EDT
It's probably about that time for deer season to open in some states, so here is a thread to post photos of the deer taken during the 2009-2010 deer season. Good luck, guys and gals. 
Please post all photos of deer taken in previous seasons in the other dedicated threads, and NOT in this one. Thanks. |
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TAG, first in...Pics to come....
Tomorrow is opening day for bow, hopefully I will have pics of a kill. Has to be a doe first though. Wish me luck. 9/11/09 
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This spot saved for picture. 
Well ......Looks like no pics from me.  The place I hunt.(out back in the woods behind my house) has been over run by everyone in the neighborhood.I have shotgun blasts going off constantly,,I'm half scared to walk out into my back yard right now.And I can't find another place to hunt...So I will loan my muzzle loader to a freind that has never hunted before.Because he has a place to hunt if and he gets one I will post pics.
F#^&K!!
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Originally Posted By ArmyofOne:
Saw this guy last year. First to post pics. Not like all those before me that just grabbed a spot. They're reserving a spot to post photos of DEAD deer. 
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Originally Posted By M4Madness:
Originally Posted By ArmyofOne:
Saw this guy last year. First to post pics. Not like all those before me that just grabbed a spot. They're reserving a spot to post photos of DEAD deer. So im now reserving a before and after spot. |
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Originally Posted By ArmyofOne:
Originally Posted By M4Madness:
Originally Posted By ArmyofOne:
Saw this guy last year. First to post pics. Not like all those before me that just grabbed a spot. They're reserving a spot to post photos of DEAD deer. So im now reserving a before and after spot. HA HA HA 
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Spot reserved for pics...............November 14-29 Kentucky zone 1 modern gun.
Edit: Nothing for me this year. I came up with a goose egg. Congrats on your deer guys. Happy Thanksgiving arf. |
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Spot reserved......
Last years before and after 
This years before....... 
Downed around 9:30 on October 24th.....Ironicly the same day I killed the one I mounted above last year. I am about 90% certain it's the same deer I have in the picture of the "before" above. The tines are shorter than last years but the inside spread was right at 17 inches. The deer itself was HUGE, had a body like a steer and the neck was at full swell. Now for the rifle season.....sorry about the pictures as well, cameraman is NOT a professional. 
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Originally Posted By ProCharger:
Spot reserved...... Last years before and after
http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o101/xtreme4pt3/ICAM0011.jpg http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o101/xtreme4pt3/DSC00321.jpg http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o101/xtreme4pt3/2008bowkill2.jpg This years before....... http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o101/xtreme4pt3/deercamagain144.jpg Why did you paint his mouth all red? Looks like I need to relocate. Those are some damned fine deer!!
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Originally Posted By SVGA-1:
This may seem usless...but I have to say it. Why "reserve" a post spot? Is there going to be a limit to the size of this thread?  My guess is that they want their deer photos on page 1. Me? I'll just put mine wherever the thread is at the time.
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If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. -- Albert Einstein
Indiana's archery season opened today, and I worked until 3:30 PM as usual. I arrived at my hunting location, suited up, and left my vehicle at 4:02 PM. I walked down over the wooded ridge, selected a tree for my climbing stand, and then proceeded on down the hill to trim a couple of low-lying saplings. I then climbed the tree, attached my safety harness, put on my gloves, ranged a few landmarks, and pulled my bow up. I then nocked an arrow, and sat back. A few minutes later, I noticed a mature doe and her offspring 25 yards below me on the ridge next to a small stream. The doe acted nervous, then started walking up the hill towards me. Due to the safety harness, I could not shoot her off to my left without turning a complete rotation, so I had no choice but to do so, which meant turning my back on her as she's walking towards me. I managed to turn around okay, then once she got up alongside me, I pulled my head back behind the trunk of the tree. I could see her ear, and tell that she was looking right at me. After a few tense moments, she continued her stiff-legged walk up the hill. She paused in a quartering away position about 20 yards away. I drew, anchored, and placed the pin back a little on her torso, so that I was aimed at her opposite foreleg. The arrow struck with a resounding crack, and she sprinted off, with her offspring in tow. A glance at my watch indicated 4:32 PM –– I'd left my vehicle exactly 30 minutes before! I was unsure of the shot after watching her run out of sight up the other ridge. I sat there a few moments, then silently climbed down. I found my blood-covered arrow lying on the ground. For a second, I wondered if maybe it had bounced out instead of passing through, since it wasn't stuck in the ground. There was a lot of blood at the shot location, but with my colorblindness, I couldn't discern a bloodtrail. I called my brother, and he and a friend drove the Polaris Ranger right to my stand. He also brought along his dog, which is some sort of hound mix. While we were looking at first blood, the dog started smelling around, and took of in the general direction the deer had went. For some reason, I didn't think that the doe had went through where the dog was messing around, but at my brother's insistence, we decided to check it out. Walking up the trail that the dog had just climbed, I saw decent amounts of blood pooled on leaves. I then noticed the dog messing around in the undergrowth, and my brother said, "There's your deer right next to Lucky." Sure enough, that dog had went right to it. What's funny is that we tried him on a bloodtrail last year, and he showed zero interest in it. The arrow's entrance was back on the left side, center-punched the liver, passed through the lungs, and exited the right side a few inches behind the foreleg. No damage to the paunch at all, which was a good thing, as I thought that I may have clipped it due to the shot angle. The Rage 2-blade broadhead left a huge slit through both sides of the doe and the liver. |
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Placeholder for when my son gets his first deer this year. Either it will be a or a  for him if he doesn't get one.
Putting it all on the line. 
ETA: Yes, this was a shameless way to get on page one.
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No pics.. I won't even give an excuse because I just don't have a good one.
I saw my first piebald doe while in the stand. Decent sized, went white behind the front shoulders with a few brown splotches along the sides. My arrow went right underneath her. At least she had no clue I was there. I decided not to just lob arrows at her until I figured the proper range. Apparently my 45-60 yard range estimation sucks. Hopefully I get another opportunity at her. If not, it was still happy to have actually seen one. |
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Originally Posted By Longboat:
No pics.. I won't even give an excuse because I just don't have a good one. I saw my first piebald doe while in the stand. Decent sized, went white behind the front shoulders with a few brown splotches along the sides. My arrow went right underneath her. At least she had no clue I was there. I decided not to just lob arrows at her until I figured the proper range. Apparently my 45-60 yard range estimation sucks. Hopefully I get another opportunity at her. If not, it was still happy to have actually seen one. 45-60 Yards?? Damn Byron Ferguson....don't believe it to be completely ethical at those ranges unless you really know what you're doing! And then gives deer too much time to react and screw up shot placement!! |
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I put an arrow through one today decent size doe....my friend shot at a group of 4 on one side of a pond, they ran towards me...and i hit her at about 30 yards on the move...
I followed the blood trail for about 3 miles through some heavy brush...saw her jump up and run once, hit her through the mid section...but she went into some really dense stuff and i couldnt find her after that... i can post pics of blood trail and arrows though...edit...blood trail pic is kinda fuzzy need to ms paint some circles in it 
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Originally Posted By staringback05:
...hit her through the mid section...but she went into some really dense stuff and i couldnt find her after that... If you hit her back far enough to gut shoot her, there is zero doubt that she'll die. All gut-shot deer die –– it may take as long as 24-48 hours though (usually quicker.) If you hit her a little more forward than the guts, you probably got a liver hit, which should prove to be fatal within a few hours tops. Go back and look for her later today and you should find her, assuming you didn't run her into the next county earlier. Good luck.
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I just shot this one.
He got hit by a car and I had to finish him off.  Why can't I get one like that when I'm hunting?
eta Here is a daylight picture (the blocked out face is the guy that came and picked it up, not me) 
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Originally Posted By M4Madness:
Originally Posted By staringback05:
...hit her through the mid section...but she went into some really dense stuff and i couldnt find her after that... If you hit her back far enough to gut shoot her, there is zero doubt that she'll die. All gut-shot deer die –– it may take as long as 24-48 hours though (usually quicker.) If you hit her a little more forward than the guts, you probably got a liver hit, which should prove to be fatal within a few hours tops. Go back and look for her later today and you should find her, assuming you didn't run her into the next county earlier. Good luck.
i should have taken a picture of the stuff she went into....shot her in thick maple saplings...ran into pine/palmetto's...blood trail into hardwood swamp, then back to palmettos, and then into thick saplings/vines...i hit her behind lungs, in front of hip area...like i said she was on a quick hop...this WMA is about 60k acres, and lets just say i had to walk three miles just on the county road to get back to where i started...i felt i exhausted all means to get to her, but i was upset i couldnt get her....oh well, ive got another week or so of the season left...gonna go out in another few days |
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Originally Posted By ski_dog:
My first Eastern Oregon Mule Deer, taken 10-10-2009 with a .30-06 at about 75 yards. http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/3535/buck09g.jpg Sure is nice hunting out there. I miss it from the depths of my soul!! |
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Originally Posted By ski_dog:
My first Eastern Oregon Mule Deer, taken 10-10-2009 with a .30-06 at about 75 yards. http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/3535/buck09g.jpg Dude - nice Muley |
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Shot this muley on sunday, 7mm Rem mag, rangefinder said 398 yds. Sorry there is no field picture, my camera got left in the truck. I added the dark pic of our trailer after we got the deer out of the hills and back to the truck.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/mtjk/1027091000.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/mtjk/P1000479.jpg |
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I don't think this years before and after pics are of the same deer. Look real close at the brow tines, the dead one's tine on the right in pic is curved, trail cam pic isn't. Trail cam pic looks way heavier mass too. Get back out there and get the one on the camera!!
Good luck Originally Posted By ProCharger:
Spot reserved...... Last years before and after
http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o101/xtreme4pt3/ICAM0011.jpg http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o101/xtreme4pt3/DSC00321.jpg http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o101/xtreme4pt3/2008bowkill2.jpg This years before....... http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o101/xtreme4pt3/deercamagain144.jpg Downed around 9:30 on October 24th.....Ironicly the same day I killed the one I mounted above last year. I am about 90% certain it's the same deer I have in the picture of the "before" above. The tines are shorter than last years but the inside spread was right at 17 inches. The deer itself was HUGE, had a body like a steer and the neck was at full swell. Now for the rifle season.....sorry about the pictures as well, cameraman is NOT a professional. http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o101/xtreme4pt3/2009bowkill-1.jpg http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o101/xtreme4pt3/2009bowkill.jpg |
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These aren't the same deer either. You guys are slipping
Originally Posted By J563:
Shot my first ever deer this Morning, plus it was the first year I Bow Hunted too! Friggin Psyched! Roughly 30yds out of a stand.... 7 pointer, 151lbs dressed Had my eye on him for about 6 weeks on my trail cam. http://salvalzo.us/photoalbum/bv000003.jpg http://salvalzo.us/photoalbum/bv000004.jpg |
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Damn it you know you are correct. I never seen any other bucks cruising this area and I just thought it was him!
I confirmed this today when out muzzle loading and ran into the one on the trail cam! I was about to go home , got down out of the tree and de-cocked my gun for safety. Well as I am walking out the woods this guy pops up and is 15 yds, doesn't see me either. I put a bead on him and pulled the trigger and it sounded like I through a fire cracker at him as the hammer was not cocked back and it barely hit the primer. Deer heard that and was gone...Man was I pizzed off...still am. |
Good job guys...I took this deer on 10-19-09 during Tn's bow season..Had a rough season starting out,but this made it up.He only had nubs like a button buck,but you could see where he was a spike and broke his horns off,don't know if he did it while they was growing or what,but he wasn't a normal button.He was to big to be a button....Anyway,gave him a 100gr 3 blade muzzy at 19 yds quartering to and he only went 20 yds and I watched him go down from my stand,I like hunts like that..Only my 2nd bow deer ever..He's in the freezer and is eating very well,which reminds me,I need to get upstairs and cut some jerky up..
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Here's mine for this year taken with my M1A. Taxidermist said he should score an easy 170, 25 1/2 wide and he weighed in at just under 200 lbs dressed out. I had to drag him 1.5 miles back to my truck but worth all the effort.
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