You guys are busting some nice deer! And "Congrats" on the new hunters and first timers out there. Glad to see you are being successful and getting out there!!!
http://www.foxnews.com/great-outdoo...-meets-friendly-8-point-buck-during-hunt.html
Beautiful pic in the story.
What part of Chatham if you don’t mind me asking. That deer looks a lot like the one I’ve been seeing on my way to work on silk hope gum springs rd.
This is my best deer ever. I was going to post in the deer contest thread but I forgot to include the rifle so it doesn’t count. Ruger American, .243, 65 yards, Chatham County.
pass the accuracy test.. put 3 rounds into a 6" bullseye @100.
With only a couple days left and my daughter burned out by unsuccessful buck hunts, I figured I better get back out if I wanted a "sausage" doe.
Here they come!
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There was something about the area they didn't like, so they decided to just wander away. I had to act quickly!
Line it up and POP! Through and through. Double lung. But, this little lady wasn't going to just lay there. She tore through the woods, putting maybe 50 to 60yds between points. She was DOT (dead over there). Lol. 300blk 187gr PNW polymer tipped subs.
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No bacon egg and cheese biscuit for me this morning. It was all heart.
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Thanks for the support and words of encouragement @11B CIB and @JustKeepSwimming . I couldn't have done it without you.
And I assumed one of you clowns would have. Lol.Always happy to help out a good friend [emoji14] Congratulations on #3! I half expected you to post our "encouragement" photo lol....
Line it up and POP! Through and through. Double lung. But, this little lady wasn't going to just lay there. She tore through the woods, putting maybe 50 to 60yds between points. She was DOT (dead over there). Lol. 300blk 187gr PNW polymer tipped subs.
First time ever. Full sweep this weekend .... got a good meat doe this evening. Was standing on the same spot I took that buck on yesterday. Just.... wow. Thankful to the powers that be.
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85lbs on the hoof.
I've killed a few like that. Some old guy at the club said it's called a homer Simpson mouth. He had said he had seen quite a few being like that in halifax county. Who knows?Popped 2 this morning. First came through just after daylight but never gave me a shot. Hit a can bleat after it went into the thicket. About 15 minutes later it was back and snorting and stomping. It stepped out from behind a tree just enough to see the chest. Shot it for a doe but it was an odd, scrubby spike. I think this is an old deer. It was standing in the root ball where a tree fell so I didn’t notice how big it was. Large body, both sides of the rack broken but small bases, and one heck of an overbite.
PFFFT whaths the phroblem?
While I was crawling through the thicket tracking him I had 3 circle behind me and popped another small one to go with it.
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yes for some reason there is corn all over my shooting range by the targets.... lol
It's called a 'Roman Nose'I've killed a few like that. Some old guy at the club said it's called a homer Simpson mouth. He had said he had seen quite a few being like that in halifax county. Who knows?
And again! This time a 115lb spike, 35 yards same gun and ammo as above
Ikarus1, looks like you are not hunting, but just taking pictures.
Every hunter goes goes thru stages. Evidently i am in the mentoring/guiding/photographer stage. Also the tree climber assistant, armorer, driver, dragger, butcher etc stage. Although our 17yr old was a hell of a dragger-cart fetcher last nightHe’s delegating
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My 13yo son's first ML harvest and the first when he was solo in the stand. Last year after getting his Hunters Safety Cert I put him on his own, yet still within earshot of me. He didn't get a shot at anything last year but this evening this doe walked out 40 yards to his left and met a 250 grain SST. She collapsed in place. No tracking. She's a good size deer, bigger than the first pic would make you think.
For reference my 13 year old is 6'2" and 205lbs....lol
That's why I had to get him out of a double stand with me. He's too dang big....
I know what you're thinking. "That boy has got to hunt every chance he gets. His hunting will help with the grocery bill."
Dang. I was about 5'5" when I was his age.
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Congrats!What a day!
Sat in the blind this morning. Got a late start and didn't sit down until about 7:30am. The deer were definitely moving. And by moving, I mean moving. Barely even standing in one spot for more than a minute. The couple that were standing for a bit were quickly ran off by pigs. Not being prepared to clean a pig myself and not having anyone in the area to do it for me, they got a pass. Not that it really mattered. They didn't stick around, either.
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I stayed until almost noon and saw 11 different deer, but none I was ready to take a shot at.
I went home and recharged and got back in the blind about 3:30. No pigs this time, but the deer were everywhere. Not at once, mind you, but just steady. One here, a couple there, then at about a quarter til 6, I had an absolute handful converge on my location.
They were on the left of me. They were on the right of me. They were in front of me. Then this guy joined the party and I lost it.
Time to check out, dude.
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Not a huge rack, but a good deer for me at 170#.
And to top it off, I drop him off at the processor (don't judge me!) and while the guy is cutting away at the head so I can get a Euro mount done, he absolutely filets his right index finger. He finishes the task (my hero) and I toss him in the truck and take him to my house where my wife (a RN) fixes him up, coz we all know ain't no man going to the ER for a flesh wound.
The finger is secured and we're heading back to his shop where we almost wreck because some dude two cars up hit a buck that was crossing the highway, directly in front of the local airport!
I was hoping to have a good night's sleep, but I think I still have a slight adrenaline thing going on here. Lol....
What a day!
Sat in the blind this morning. Got a late start and didn't sit down until about 7:30am. The deer were definitely moving. And by moving, I mean moving. Barely even standing in one spot for more than a minute. The couple that were standing for a bit were quickly ran off by pigs. Not being prepared to clean a pig myself and not having anyone in the area to do it for me, they got a pass. Not that it really mattered. They didn't stick around, either.
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I stayed until almost noon and saw 11 different deer, but none I was ready to take a shot at.
I went home and recharged and got back in the blind about 3:30. No pigs this time, but the deer were everywhere. Not at once, mind you, but just steady. One here, a couple there, then at about a quarter til 6, I had an absolute handful converge on my location.
They were on the left of me. They were on the right of me. They were in front of me. Then this guy joined the party and I lost it.
Time to check out, dude.
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Not a huge rack, but a good deer for me at 170#.
And to top it off, I drop him off at the processor (don't judge me!) and while the guy is cutting away at the head so I can get a Euro mount done, he absolutely filets his right index finger. He finishes the task (my hero) and I toss him in the truck and take him to my house where my wife (a RN) fixes him up, coz we all know ain't no man going to the ER for a flesh wound.
The finger is secured and we're heading back to his shop where we almost wreck because some dude two cars up hit a buck that was crossing the highway, directly in front of the local airport!
I was hoping to have a good night's sleep, but I think I still have a slight adrenaline thing going on here. Lol....