Excellent hunting out here. Pheasant season opens Oct 18th so I am psyched for that. Tuning up the lab now.

Yeah, he is a Mulie, saw some nice young Whitetails, but a lot of the Whitetail had some disease (blue tongue) I think, and since I was feeding the dogs, I did not want to chance it at all.

Here is a non-typical that was taken here last year as well...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v666/bumper01/Non-TypicalWhitetail-LUCKYSHOT.jpg

Wicked isn't he?

Hmmmm, details huh? Well he was 10ft tall, 500lbs and it took me three days to track him.....ooops wait, that was bigfoot two years ago....

One shot, through the heart. Hit him just behind the left front leg as he was stepping off with that leg. 25.06 with a Leopold scope at mmmmm, 75 to 100 yds thereabouts.
He traveled 7-10ft because he fell and rolled into a washout on the other side of the hill.

I finally learned how to gut right there. YAY! Fed the heart, lungs and liver to the dogs after freezing for 30 days and the rest was left for the coyotes.
Then we brought in the pick up to where we were and hauled him to the barn to hoist him with the loader to skin.

Dogs thought I was the bestest ever with all the scraps and bones. Plus, we took a few choice cuts and fed the rest of the meat to them as well.

The hide was hung out in the trees and I used it as a proofing aide for the cadaver dogs and the skull w/ horns is now ready to be mounted in the kennels.

I don't think we wasted a thing.

Love hearing other's deer stories.:smile: So is this like a spot and stalk deal in the open plains?

I don't get to do any of that 'round here. All my deer hunting is done 25' up a tree.

How did we get by not feeding scraps to dogs? I love the feeling of knowing that I used absolutely everything that I could off an animal that I take.

How are you hunting whitetail in Florida, Howard? Ground? Treestand?

I know there have to be some more hunters on here.


Oh, forgot to mention turkeys a while ago. I haven't ever been before, though. Turkey hunters always talk about how addictive it is.

Check out this pic.

What do you think of when someone mentions deer fighting during the rut?

2 huge, regal bucks fighting for the right to breed. A battle of the titans. An epic struggle, right?

This is what I got........... http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2226/2082294167_ed580e932d_b.jpg

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This is what I got........... http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2226/2082294167_ed580e932d_b.jpg

Practice makes perfect.....

I'm taking my first attempts at bow hunting this fall for blacktail at my parent's place on the Olympic Peninsula. I'm not sure yet how pickings are going to be. The last wildlife camera attempts only caught pics of a very curious cougar.

Even though Florida boasts a population of about a million deer, I spend most my time in the woods of Georgia, West Virginia and Illinois. I don't have a private lease here and I don't like hunting public ground unless its during mid week.

I was on a private lease in Ga. for 10 years with just cops and firemen. Nice to have ethical hunters in camp. We lost the lease a couple years ago so I'm bumming hunts from friends on their lease until I get another.

Went to Illinois last year around Christmas and bow hunted for a week. All I killed was a 10 point oak. :-). Saw lots of deer but none closer than the 30 yard max I shoot when its really cold and I have lots of clothes on. Drew down on two fat does that wouldn't sit still. I finally went to let down on the bow and accidentally hit the trigger, thus the dead Oak. LOL.

During the whole trip the guy I hunted with kept sending me text pics of the deer walking under his tree while we were in the woods. He's already killed 2 deer in the 180 class so he was picky....I wasn't so the pics were aggravating.

Bow hunting for me is a comedy of errors. I've killed a few deer and hogs with a bow but every time bullwinkle comes along something happens.

Howard

Any body have any problems finding game should come to my part of the woods. Deer and turkey are like rodents...all over the place. I can't even work the dog in my own back yard off lead, she'd be gone like a shot.
LOL, when the dog was around a year old, I was taking her out for her last round before bed. We go out the front door and Holy Cow! somebody left the gate to her kennel open (I'm not admiting anything, I take the fifth) and there was a herd (at least eight) of deer inside feeding on the apples that had fallen from the tree her kennel encircles! Well you can imagine, the dog goes stupid, the poor deer start beating themselves to death trying to find a way out, they can't jump the fence so they're running blindly into what is basicly a wall, I'm trying to drag the dog back into the house, I get back inside, now I can't get back out, the dog is barking mad and won't listen to me, all I can do is watch thru the window as the deer try to find the way out as they tear apart the kennel. As an aside, I can say from experience it's easier to contain a 75# dog than a herd of 150 to 200# deer in full flight mode. Yeah it's easy to laugh at now. But I wasn't laughing real hard at the time, as it took me a little over two days to repair the damage.
Hunting is a misnommer in these parts. All you do is just walk out the back door.

Randy...where are "these parts"? Can you say road trip?

Howard

Nice bucks, Carol! Wow that non typical is really a stunner. I like the strange ones. Muley's are illegal to hunt here, for the most part. We have blacktail and I hope to get some nice shots .. err.. pictures of some bucks out by where I'm moving to. My brother saw an absolute monster 6 point.. that's 14 point to most others. There is also a nice 4 point (10 point) and a couple of spikes out there that should mature real nice over the next couple of years, they have nice thick bases.

Ah. Oh yeah.. we have elk, too There is a herd of 50-70 head that runs through the valley, right behind the house I'll be living in. Evidently it sounds like a freight train when the herd is on the move, they come in real close to the houses.

I haven't hunted in a few years but this year I will be. Lots of game in the area, small game mostly but there are cougars on t he property. My brother has his cougar tag, has been itchin to get himself a cat for years. I guess last year they had to have a professional come in with dogs to take out a male that was killing livestock. 160 pounder, and there is still a female in the area.

So yeah, my freezers will be very very full

Dammit man! I'm so jealous of you Westerners. I'd be happy just wearing out a prairie dog town and some coyotes. Elk, pronghorn, cats, turkeys, deer oh my!

Howard