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Earlier this month in my native CO they held the annual late plains deer season. I had a couple of doe tags for the season for units 102 and 103. The unit 102 tag was good for either mulie or whitetail and the unit 103 was whitetail specific. As a native son of the state I have access to a couple of good ranches in those units so I made a few calls and headed out. Here is the result:


A good heavy mature mulie doe, probably 170 lbs live weight.


A nice whitetail doe, probably about 140 lbs live weight.

So, I hunted 2 different ranches owned by 2 family friends, fired 2 shots out of my old 7mm Mag, killed 2 deer of 2 different species. I ended up with about 150 lbs of prime meat in the freezer. Let winter come, me and Mama will eat good this year!

A 7 Mag is the poor man's 280 Ackley Improved.

Looks like those mami deer went and did the "7 Mag Flop".

You did good. Enjoy the eating!

Is there any difference in the taste of the venison ?

Congratulations. Looks like you had a good hunting season.

Not really since both came from pretty much the same area and the food sources are the same. Lots of native browse and some corn fields. Both species hit the corn.

Nice job with the 7, a great cartridge.. Then we have the 280 want a be..

Nice nanny deer! Good eats indeed.

The picture of the whitey's head makes it look like she has a leetle jersey milk cow in her!

Cool that you can head home and get groceries when you want; nice work! I love those kinds of trips where antlers matter not but just a nice time in the outdoors gathering sustainance for a long cold (or maybe not so) winter!

Cool story, congrats on the freezer fill. I agree with the others- always a good time when you accomplish a worthy goal and it is about food on the table.

I like antlers like the rest of them, but there are very few things that can top eating a venison/elk/antelope steak from something I harvested after working hard to get it done.

My favorite thing in the summer is to grill up a few elk steaks with friends, drink a few cold ones, and recount the story.

May you enjoy the same this summer with your deer.

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