Hey 1shott, do you have a dust collector like this?

I hope you hold guns steadier than you hold a camera! lol Come on man steady as she goes!

Nope, I hav enever had the chance to take a big buck. Normally about all I ever see are does, and I take my fair share of them when others will not. Maybe one day all this doing good and right will pay off but I doubt it, but thats ok.

I got a set of antlers simular to those, got'em on top of the chicken pen, and 1shott if living right and doing good is the payoff, then I should be a multi-millionare.

Quoted: I hope you hold guns steadier than you hold a camera! lol Come on man steady as she goes!

Yep, I hold guns pretty steady! Took this picture with a 5 mp Canon and it didn't turn out worth a damn. That's OK, you got the idea!
I've got twp racks bigger than this. This one was taken about 25 years ago and I just had to have it mounted. I haven't mounted one since. Not worth the money.
Like I said, big racks usually make for really bad meat.
I am lucky when it comes to finding deer. I would say it involves lots of skill - it does! - but luck is a large part of it also.
With a hipower rifle and good scope, killing a buck in the wheat is pretty easy unless some one comes along to screw it up. One of my best friends of 30 years is someone I WON"T hunt with.
Simply because he is so damn unpredictable. A good heart and great friend, but ain't worth a damn to hunt with.
The big bucks are in places you wouldn't believe. I've seen them laying out in grass that is waist high. I've seen them disappear into cedars and plum thickets. They don't get big by being dumb!

Corrected the picture for 1 shott's benefit. That way he could see what a NICE set of antlers looks like!

Quoted: Corrected the picture for 1 shott's benefit. That way he could see what a NICE set of antlers looks like!

You are a heck of a great guy........

Quoted: Quoted: Corrected the picture for 1 shott's benefit. That way he could see what a NICE set of antlers looks like! You are a heck of a great guy........

Glad to help you out there, R.!
I've always wanted to be an inspiration to others!

You know, you are really starting to remind me of someone, niether one of us likes very much....

IM sent.....

Here is my small contribution to your knowledge of what to shoot!

Another view....show the 8 point side (his left) to go along with the 6 point side!

Patrick, that is a NICE one! A friend mounted a 14 pointer - atypical rack - back around 1983.  Shot not too far from where I got the one that is pictured.
I've killed a nice 12 pointer but not near the spread or mass of the one I did mount. And two eight pointers that have my "dust collector" beat in mass, spread, and length. Somehow having a wall full of deer heads doesn't appeal to me anymore. I never even mounted the 5x5 bull elk I shot. I have one mount, and two sets of antlers hanging in my office. One is the biggest deer my dad shot, the other a nice 9 point my son killed with a bow in 2000.
And two rainbow trout that my wife and I caught almost at the same instant.
One strutting tom that Matthew shot in 2004, 11 in beard, also resides in the house.
And beacoup of antlers, some in the garage, some in attic, and a few in my son's closet.
But the one thing I do most cherish about my "dust collector" was the smile on my father's face when I came back with the truck to get the deer. He was standing over the deer with a huge smile on his face, just as proud of me as he had ever been. For that reason alone, my "dust collector" is a precious belonging.

DAMN, yall should consider yourselves lucky as all get out, very nice.

Quoted: DAMN, yall should consider yourselves lucky as all get out, very nice.

Geez, R., I am beginning to feel your pain! If you want a dust collector like these, have you tried some estate sales?
Or you might be able to find some matching sheds this spring and attach them to a doe mount!

Or buy a spotlight for those alfalfa fields!
Just kidding, of course!