Kentucky Deer Hunter
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tyrajam - Looks like they grow 'em big in Indiana. My wifes family lives in Indiana, hmm....
07-08 Whitetail season success thread
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davlandrum
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Almost makes me want to pack up and move again to get back to a state where I could take more than 1 deer a year and hunt more than one season!!!!!
FirstFreedom
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What kind of restrictive rules do they have up there anyways.... yeah, Oregoners, when Capp reveals that location, holler at me and I'll come up and he'p you hunt em. And I thought blacktails were little cute deer. Great googily-moogily! 
davlandrum
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FF - Rules for Oregon - 1 deer tag per year - can only hunt one season. One elk tag per year, must chose season.
So If I decide to bowhunt deer, and do not get one, I can not go during rifle season and fill that tag.
That is why I usually bow hunt elk - because I love it, and rifle hunt deer, because the freezer needs stocking. Some day I am going to get my elk (fill the freezer) and be able to hold out for a big deer instead of putting the first legal deer down to make sure we get meat.
There are chances to get an extra tag in some units, but I have not been successful in getting drawn for one.
So If I decide to bowhunt deer, and do not get one, I can not go during rifle season and fill that tag.
That is why I usually bow hunt elk - because I love it, and rifle hunt deer, because the freezer needs stocking. Some day I am going to get my elk (fill the freezer) and be able to hold out for a big deer instead of putting the first legal deer down to make sure we get meat.
There are chances to get an extra tag in some units, but I have not been successful in getting drawn for one.
SavageSniper
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At the end of the first week, I have killed 3. One doe and two spikes. Very nice bag limits here in the Sunshine state
Rembrandt, what are you taking the pictures with? I took this on a little buck this afternoon at about 50 yards and you can hardly tell it is a deer.It's like find the deer in a child's book.All I have is a 4X optical zoom.It would be fun to take some pictures,but last time I checked before digital, a lense would have been $1000.
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MeekAndMild
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WOW! Congrads all you successful buck hunters (and photographers too!) I talked to my neighbor yesterday and he told me that he's gotten some nice pics on his deer cam. All I've seen have been does; I got a nice doe today and spent some time tracking her; even with a 45/70 bullet through the rib cage she ran quite a distance. It was amazing that there was no blood at all for the first 30 yards, then a sprinkle or two. But when I loaded her into the pickup truck all the rest came out. So much for blood trails.
Have a little farm in southern Iowa that all the photos were taken. Population is out of control right now, critters ate about 500 bushels of corn or about $2000 in damages. Combine yield monitor showed all the damage was in the outside 20 rows. Beans didn't take quite as bad a hit.
Camera is Canon Rebel EOS digital with 300mm lens. Taking pictures of deer is almost as much fun as hunting them. I know of a couple of big ones out there that make it difficult to settle for anything less. Got about another 40 days to hunt before the season ends. Here's a few more....
Camera is Canon Rebel EOS digital with 300mm lens. Taking pictures of deer is almost as much fun as hunting them. I know of a couple of big ones out there that make it difficult to settle for anything less. Got about another 40 days to hunt before the season ends. Here's a few more....
Thanks Rembrandt. The 300 MM Canon is doing a fantastic job. We have the same problem on deer population.Unfortunately, about 160 inches is as big as they get around here. I have had 14 little bucks within 50 yards of me in the last 10 days.Ten were probably yearlings. One was maybe 120-130, just not quite big enough. I would like to have had a good picture of him.
Those are some great pics, the only good pictures I get are on my trailcams. The limits in Indiana are 1 buck per year, but each county has their quota for does, usually between 2-6. If you travel a little, you can shoot as many does as you can. But I'd give up shooting lots of does and one buck to move back to my homestate of Oregon where I can hunt deer, elk, bear, cougar, and draw for sheep, goat, antelope...even though when I lived there the only thing I was succesful for was deer
Rembrandt, with that much of a problem, I wonder if the [your] state would grant you permission to "thin the herd" a little and maybe take more deer than normally allowed? Who knows, maybe you could even sell some of the extra meat to compensate for your loss? Just a thought, I know farming is a business, and you have the right to protect your investment.
kingudaroad
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Four days before the Missouri opener I blew out my right knee and that put me on crutches. I let somebody else have my stand on the first Sat. That is his 8 point (Mo. count) in the pic.Finally on the last Sun. I got so down I just had to get out, so I dumped my crutches and rifle the ATV and headed out about 2:30PM. Got to the back fence and there stands a little 100 lb yearling looking at me. A 175 gr. Sierra put her on the deck. I managed to get her field dressed and in the back. I was back home by 3:15.
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gedenke, the guy who farms my place also farms about 7000 acres. The state gave them 250 depredation tags to thin out the deer population. Tags are only good for doe's and can be taken starting August first. Deer meat cannot be resold because it's not USDA inspected. I like venison, but 250 deer is more than I can eat.
Shot this buck out behind my house on Monday 11/19 at 7:05am.
Saw him running up the cornfield when I woke up.
Ran outside wearing my PJ's and slippers.
Dropped to one knee and nailed him with a double lung shot.
Not a bad 9 point for my backyard here in New York.
Man was I psyched!
Saw him running up the cornfield when I woke up.
Ran outside wearing my PJ's and slippers.
Dropped to one knee and nailed him with a double lung shot.
Not a bad 9 point for my backyard here in New York.
Man was I psyched!
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as previously mentioned in another thread, worst opener ever in terms of deer numbers seen - however, this was the only guy that gave me a decent shot inside 200 meters. if you're only getting one, it's not a bad one to get.
wish i could get a better angle on the rack to show off more but the taxidermist's got him now. first buck ever, no less, i'd been passing on smaller ones and shooting does for the past few years waiting for one worth hanging up.
backstory:
second morning of the season, about 0645 he comes bounding in tail up but slows in the corner of the clearing. he seems to be heading up the hill at a slow walk after that to other folk's property and out of range. i'm in a fairly high tree stand with some branches obscuring shots out that far, so i wait until he comes into one of my holes and figure i'd better shoot or somebody else is getting him on the neighbor's property. little shaky from my perch but now or never, i shoot and he goes down. however, because of the tall grass, i can't tell whether i hit him (i figure some bucks are wiley enough to duck when alarmed), and especially not if any wound is mortal. i decided not to wait and see, but rather to be closer for any followup shots, unhitching and laddering down quickly. takes me a minute to find him in the brush, he was a bit further out than i'd initially estimated. paced it at about 175, i forgot my rangefinder on this trip so it's the best i can do. shot was high and left, hit neck and the bullet deflected inside somehow, coming out behind the outboard ear. 30-06 remington premier accutip 165gr out of a charles daley mauser. the draw i was in was steep - way too steep for my gator, even for the neighbor's ATVs - and it took 3 of us to get him up the final near-vertical edge to the crop field. butcher guessed him about 210 field dressed. 6 points on left side including the split brow tine, 4 on the right, with some nice mass. pretty happy, and will hopefully be happier with some does this weekend.
wish i could get a better angle on the rack to show off more but the taxidermist's got him now. first buck ever, no less, i'd been passing on smaller ones and shooting does for the past few years waiting for one worth hanging up.
backstory:
second morning of the season, about 0645 he comes bounding in tail up but slows in the corner of the clearing. he seems to be heading up the hill at a slow walk after that to other folk's property and out of range. i'm in a fairly high tree stand with some branches obscuring shots out that far, so i wait until he comes into one of my holes and figure i'd better shoot or somebody else is getting him on the neighbor's property. little shaky from my perch but now or never, i shoot and he goes down. however, because of the tall grass, i can't tell whether i hit him (i figure some bucks are wiley enough to duck when alarmed), and especially not if any wound is mortal. i decided not to wait and see, but rather to be closer for any followup shots, unhitching and laddering down quickly. takes me a minute to find him in the brush, he was a bit further out than i'd initially estimated. paced it at about 175, i forgot my rangefinder on this trip so it's the best i can do. shot was high and left, hit neck and the bullet deflected inside somehow, coming out behind the outboard ear. 30-06 remington premier accutip 165gr out of a charles daley mauser. the draw i was in was steep - way too steep for my gator, even for the neighbor's ATVs - and it took 3 of us to get him up the final near-vertical edge to the crop field. butcher guessed him about 210 field dressed. 6 points on left side including the split brow tine, 4 on the right, with some nice mass. pretty happy, and will hopefully be happier with some does this weekend.
Nice deer bclark1, I would take a shot at it if I saw it in the woods. After getting a 9 point with the muzzleloader I went back for rifle season and got three does. I have seen 60 to 70 deer so far since NOV. 3. I have hunted hard though, but I have not seen much rut action other than the 9 point that had just made a scrape and was after a hot doe when I shot him.
More to come in December whn I get some time off to go back.
More to come in December whn I get some time off to go back.
Here are a couple of pics of the 4x4 I took this year.For the most part of the season it has been very windy seen about 11 deer in 3.5 days which is better than the 3 deer I seen last year in 10 days.A bigger one had went by 15 minutes earlier treestand was swaying too much to get a shot.Then this guy came out.Got him with my new Browning micro hunter in 7mm-08 150gr federals.Some very nice pics and bucks so far,good luck all.
