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11/11/2011 10:00:09 PM EDT
[Last Edit: stryker6][Edited] [#1]
8 Point I killed and my son showing him off.
11/12/2011 3:22:15 PM EDT
[#2]
nice buck and nice picture.  my boy refused to pose for a pic like that.  he's 4 and has an issue getting his hands dirty.  one of these days i'll have to break him of that.
No peace without hope. No hope without liberty. No liberty without integrity.
No integrity without virtue. No virtue without enlightenment. No enlightenment without truth.
............
Tim
11/12/2011 10:51:03 PM EDT
[#3]


Took this 6 pointer the first day out. The road had ripped a bolt off my front control arm on the truck and the ensuing wobbled cause the exhaust to fall off. Wasn't really in the mood to hang around forever.

There were 5 does in a little group across this canyon I was watching. My son thought that the does were looking to our 8 o'clock; lo an behold this guy was standing there. I maneuvered around his right flank, crouched into a good kneeling position and shot him from about 100 yards away. He walked about 10 feet, fell over and died within 5 minutes. I shot him with a 168 gr Hornady TAP  in .308 out of 26" Remington 700 bull barrel with a Leupold Mark VII.

This was the first solo hunt for my son and I. He helped out a lot on the butchering. I think we got about 125 pounds of meat. Cooking one of the roasts in my Dutch Oven Bean Hole tomorrow. Maybe I'll add some pics after the meal is cooked.

Does anyone have a good recipe for a European mount?
When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty.

Benjamin Franklin
11/12/2011 11:07:45 PM EDT
[#4]


Small 8 point.

Most of the deer were looking pretty skim on opening day. This was the only one that I didn't see ribs on.
Originally Posted By swingset:
I feel like printing this thread out on some quality paper, so I can go wipe my ass with it.
11/13/2011 8:34:47 AM EDT
[#5]
My girlfriend got her first deer yesterday. Only a small doe, but it was her first time hunting.

"Owning a gun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician." - Jeff Cooper
11/13/2011 1:08:17 PM EDT
[#6]
Originally Posted By ralph70bjj:
My girlfriend got her first deer yesterday. Only a small doe, but it was her first time hunting.

http://i779.photobucket.com/albums/yy75/ralph_70_bjj_pictures/e5698296.jpg


Good job Wish mine would give it a try

I hope you made her do the field dressing
"It's like a pile of wire coat hangers inside of my mind" CCR

"Stop political correctness and start racial profiling. Six year old kids and ninety year old grandmas are not the ones trying to blow shit up" Iowaredneck
11/13/2011 2:26:02 PM EDT
[#7]


Doe killed Saturday morning. Winchester model 94 .30-30 at 10 yards ( deer walked within 15 feet of me at one point), iron sights.

11/13/2011 2:34:02 PM EDT
[#8]
Originally Posted By Iowaredneck:
I hope you made her do the field dressing


Builds character, I remember my first Deer, 135 lb doe, field dressed it myself (with supervision obviously). Blooded cheeks and all.
11/13/2011 2:59:30 PM EDT
[#9]
Got a 7 pointer this morning pics to fellow.
11/13/2011 6:29:05 PM EDT
[Last Edit: sanman28][Edited] [#10]
Come'er deer!  Was so f*n windy this day.  Warm too.  Didnt get a shot at anything on my side.  There was a large 9 point and a good sized spike taken this day on this 180 acres of property......just wasnt in my area.

11/13/2011 9:41:22 PM EDT
[#11]
Mine for this year.  

11/13/2011 11:08:10 PM EDT
[#12]
Today around 3pm. Rifle is a 300 whisper I put together myself using my handloads.
I am really digging this rifle.
11/14/2011 7:56:03 AM EDT
[#14]
Texas doe. Taken outside of Porter, TX with a Remington 700 in .30-06.

http://i1080.photobucket.com/albums/j332/teamer22/AR15/IMG_0234.jpg
11/14/2011 9:03:23 AM EDT
[#15]
I'm jealous of you guys that can shoot does.  NM doesn't have any doe hunts and we always see a ton of them when we hunt.
11/14/2011 9:58:05 AM EDT
[#16]
Originally Posted By Iowaredneck:
Originally Posted By ralph70bjj:
My girlfriend got her first deer yesterday. Only a small doe, but it was her first time hunting.

http://i779.photobucket.com/albums/yy75/ralph_70_bjj_pictures/e5698296.jpg


Good job Wish mine would give it a try

I hope you made her do the field dressing


She helped... A little...
"Owning a gun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician." - Jeff Cooper
11/14/2011 4:46:07 PM EDT
[#17]
Originally Posted By castiel:
I'm jealous of you guys that can shoot does.  NM doesn't have any doe hunts and we always see a ton of them when we hunt.


We are allowed 10 a year here in Georgia.

11/14/2011 5:22:24 PM EDT
[#18]
Originally Posted By CletusRoundbelly:
Originally Posted By castiel:
I'm jealous of you guys that can shoot does.  NM doesn't have any doe hunts and we always see a ton of them when we hunt.


We are allowed 10 a year here in Georgia.



We are unlimited up here in Zones 11 and 12 in CT. You have to shoot them in a certain order, but you can take as many as you want.

11/14/2011 5:51:39 PM EDT
[#19]
up in Wisconsin where I hunt it's unlimited antlerless tags for $2 each, not all units in the state are that way though, only herd control units.
11/14/2011 6:24:56 PM EDT
[#20]
Left the Keys and headed up to North Central Florida for opening day of Firearm Buck Season on November 5.  My stepson’s have a nice 25 acre chunk of land that is located in a travel corridor.

The AM hunt was uneventful with the exception of an army of squirrels who kept me entertained rather than falling asleep in the tree stand.  We left the woods for some lunch and returned about 4 PM for the evening hunt.

Just before the end of shooting time I caught some motion down the trail from me at 50 yards or so.  It was a deer moving out into the small opening on the trail.  I instantly scoped the head and saw enough horn to put the crosshairs just behind his shoulder and squeezed one off.

The deer actually ran towards me about 35 yards and dropped.  This is the first year I decided to hunt with my AR-15.  I shot some hand loads that I brewed up.  I used Sierra Game King Bullets in the 65 grain size over 22.2 grains of H322.  The bullet did its job and destroyed the interior of the deer while exiting under the hide on the ‘passenger’ side. I recovered the bullet and found that it retained 71% or 46 grains of the original weight.  This load is exactly what I had wished for in that it expended all of its energy in the deer and did not punch a hole through.  The end diameter mushroomed to .420 at the widest point.

The deer is actually a 6 point as the “crab claw” on the right main beam does not count as a point as it is less than 1” in length.  I green scored it and was surprised it scored 109 3/4”.  Not bad for a Florida deer!

So here he is.  Enjoy.





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"The good sense of the people will always be found to be the best army. They made be led astray for a moment, but will SOON correct themselves."..............Thomas Jefferson

11/14/2011 7:58:08 PM EDT
[#21]
First gun opener first buck.  I walked up on this guy about 30 yds. away. I was on a slight ridge he was below out of the wind. 30-06 did the trick.
http://i1114.photobucket.com/albums/k535/phillyscars/img1321315720712.jpg
http://i1114.photobucket.com/albums/k535/phillyscars/img1321315740758.jpg

Here's my first bowkill. Doe 11/21/11
http://i1114.photobucket.com/albums/k535/phillyscars/img1321318427448.jpg
11/14/2011 10:05:22 PM EDT
[#22]
This has been an odd season here in Indiana. Not seeing as many deer as I normally do. I decided that meat was more important than "bone" so I took a little crab-claw 5 point this evening. I took him with my CVA Wolf using Barnes Spit-Fire TMZ bullets. He was standing broadside at about 85 yards just staring at me. His mistake!

Guns don't kill people. Dads with pretty daughters do.
11/14/2011 11:55:26 PM EDT
[#23]
My new friend, that I brought home with me.  I found him, lost, wandering in the woods. Isn't he just cute?

Probably tasty too...

6 pointer

I didn't get out until yesterday morning.  He walked by me in the morning; he was at my 4 o'clock,  I wasn't about to take a "Texas heart shot,"  as that's what he'd left me with by the time I got turned to face him.  He slowly disappeared into the brush with no clear shot.
After going in for breakfast, I went back to the same spot.  He came from another side approaching a scrape line.

I needed some meat in the freezer, so I sent him an invitation in the form of a 140 gr Barnes TSX.  That 7mm-08 is rather persuasive.



I definately made sure he was in no condition to make an escape with my rifle mounted, before I took the pic.
11/15/2011 11:21:46 AM EDT
[#24]
Got him Saturday morning, a good ole Missouri 10 pointer. I unofficially scored him at 138 3/8"... Despite warm weather and crazy wind I still saw a lot of deer and passed up some great 2.5 year olds... and it payed off!





11/15/2011 4:27:26 PM EDT
[#25]
Originally Posted By ChaseSS:
Got him Saturday morning, a good ole Missouri 10 pointer. I unofficially scored him at 138 3/8"... Despite warm weather and crazy wind I still saw a lot of deer and passed up some great 2.5 year olds... and it payed off!

http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f119/chaser81885/photo-1.jpg

http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f119/chaser81885/IMG_0093.jpg

http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f119/chaser81885/IMG_0089.jpg


good one
11/16/2011 9:24:35 AM EDT
[#26]
My Western Colorado public land deer. Montana Rifle company mdl.1999, 7mm WSM built by me.






11/16/2011 9:36:07 PM EDT
[#27]
Nice looking buck. Congrats!
11/17/2011 4:18:23 AM EDT
[#28]
my vetrans day buck with the 6.8
"Interest rates were lowered to stupid levels and lending requirements abandoned in order to ensure that some schmuck who couldn't realistically afford a 27 year old single wide trailer could now move into a quarter million dollar home." FROZENN
11/17/2011 6:03:06 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Bye_Felicia][Edited] [#29]
Just got back from this years hunt. I once again went to Nebraska and hunted on a 6,000 acre ranch owned by a family friend in the Sandhills of Northwestern Nebraska.

This was the first time my wife has ever hunted Deer, she did a great job, she killed, gutted and skinned the Deer herself, my brother did most of the processing for her, while showing where to cut, etc:
She shot the deer in the rear leg and then the neck.
(In Nebraska a male deer with spikes less then 6inches is considered antlerless)


How much damage does the 7.62x39 with SP ammo do? This is were the ball end of the leg bone should be.




My Deer. I took my shots with the deer on the run, first one cripled the front leg, second hit was a shot at the rump as she tried to run up a draw, that put her down but not out. Took a long while to die even after cutting the throat.


Both of us used a Sig556R with a YHM 7.62 SS suppressor mounted. Optic was a millet 1-4 circle dot. Ammo was S&B 123gr SP
11/19/2011 1:39:29 PM EDT
[#30]
11/19/2011 2:13:44 PM EDT
[#31]
nice muley ynoelk looks like the little dude wants to get his own.
"Interest rates were lowered to stupid levels and lending requirements abandoned in order to ensure that some schmuck who couldn't realistically afford a 27 year old single wide trailer could now move into a quarter million dollar home." FROZENN
11/19/2011 2:36:38 PM EDT
[#32]
Originally Posted By overkill375:
nice muley ynoelk looks like the little dude wants to get his own.


Thanks. And yes he is chomping at the bit to shoot a deer. Kid is more gun and hunting crazy than me
11/19/2011 4:14:14 PM EDT
[Last Edit: SIGFORALL][Edited] [#33]
I took this deer at 10:00 this morning with the 45 Colt at 35 yards.

11/19/2011 5:00:16 PM EDT
[#34]
What was your load?
11/19/2011 11:49:01 PM EDT
[Last Edit: highwaystar13][Edited] [#35]
My first deer ever!  She's a bit small but it was the only deer I saw all day here on opening day of gun season in Alabama.  72 lbs after being field dressed.

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u265/highwaystar13/FirstDeer.jpg

Shot with a Remington 770 7mm Rem Mag from about 70 yds 15 mins prior to sunset.
11/20/2011 8:01:25 AM EDT
[Last Edit: SIGFORALL][Edited] [#36]
Originally Posted By safemover:
What was your load?


250 grain Barnes Expander bulllet with 24 grains* of Winchester 296 powder.
Magnum load for Ruger Blackhawks or Contender pistols.

*  I don't have my load data at the farm.

!!!!!! CORRECTION 22.5 grains of Winchester 296 powder!!!!!!!
11/20/2011 6:14:39 PM EDT
[#37]
Our season opened yesterday. At 830am this feller gave me a shot. I was shooting a Browning A bolt micro hunter .243 100 gr federal sp. 150 yds...



"I have found no cure for the black rifle disease...only prescriptions"
11/20/2011 10:16:02 PM EDT
[Last Edit: 30Caliber][Edited] [#38]
Kentucky.  Passed up a bunch of pug-nosed little does this morning, and then the weather turned wet.  Did good though (shit, best ever for me)  15pt, 180lbs @ 100yds.







 
11/21/2011 7:28:31 PM EDT
[#39]
Originally Posted By 30Caliber:
Kentucky.  Passed up a bunch of pug-nosed little does this morning, and then the weather turned wet.  Did good though (shit, best ever for me)  15pt, 180lbs @ 100yds.

http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm160/30CalTy/P1000737.jpg  


that is one cool looking deer
"It's like a pile of wire coat hangers inside of my mind" CCR

"Stop political correctness and start racial profiling. Six year old kids and ninety year old grandmas are not the ones trying to blow shit up" Iowaredneck
11/21/2011 9:37:17 PM EDT
[#40]
WINNER IS
11/22/2011 4:31:10 PM EDT
[#41]
My 10 pointer

Wicked windy, super far, a buncha mils, send it!

While you are reading this, your enemy is training.
11/28/2011 12:54:14 PM EDT
[#42]


My six and my dad's ten.  I took the six on a patch of land that has had deer taken off it by my father, uncles, grandfather and grand uncles for over 50 years. Felt good.
"If you're going to stick it in someones ass, do it hard, fast, rough, and then wipe the blood/semen/shit off in their hair as you walk out the door...but not before you drink their tears. "-Evil_ATF
11/28/2011 1:28:17 PM EDT
[#43]
First deer ever....

Mathews Drenalin LD
DOA Arrows
Muzzy Broadheads

30 yard shot

11/28/2011 6:49:47 PM EDT
[#44]
Originally Posted By sicknick:
First deer ever....

Mathews Drenalin LD


That's pretty cool that your first deer ever was with a bow.

Congratulations to everyone! Those are some great-looking deer, and will be some good eating. I used my last tag on November 10, so I'll have to get my excitement from this thread until next season.
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
11/28/2011 10:58:52 PM EDT
[#45]
Took this 10 pointer on 11-21.





11/29/2011 8:30:29 AM EDT
[#46]
Killed this little 8point at 3:45pm the first day of rifle season......


"Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"
Julius Caesar


11/29/2011 7:43:07 PM EDT
[#48]

Daughters first deer
12/1/2011 10:25:00 AM EDT
[Last Edit: bhappycattle][Edited] [#50]
Opening day Western Kansas Mulie
Remington 700 in 308 - 165gr Fusion

UPDATE - I scored him twice last night with tape and official cable - 201 3/8 gross non-typical. I am excited!

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