Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Deer Hunting Let's See some Really Big Deer

Nowhere near the size of you'alls but my best to date.
19" inside spread with two busted points on his left side.
Talking to my neighbor about him and he sent me this pic of him from his trail cam.
Late afternoon hunt last Nov. just grabbed my dads old 870 with couple Rem old school slugs and went for a walk. I smelled this guy 20mins before I ever saw him. He was ruttin' hard. Actually passed on him at first cause lots of brush/trees in way, but then he came back, his mistake, my luck. His back legs were soaked from him pissin himself. Just a nice healthy Illinois deer.

Not to bad for a TN boy, but nothing like a lot of you fellas!

Here's a few from over the years.













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Great deer RBO

+1.

RBO, I'll travel a short limb here and surmise you hail from Alberta.

Holy crap! I'd say!

Yes I do!

I have some land in north central Alberta where the prairies meet the boreal forest. I'm blessed with being able to hunt some land that holds some great potential. Back in 2007-2014 we had a string of hard winters that put a good dent in our heard numbers so it's been 4 or 5 years since I pulled the trigger on a whitetail.

We've had mild winters since then so numbers are getting better, I passed on quite a few in the 150"-160" last fall, I hope to see them again this fall.


Even in Alberta those big deer aren't behind every tree though. I have spent a lot of time in the woods finding them. Not many guys from around here have a collection like mine.

RBO Very Nice!!

Lots of big deer from all over on here. Impressive actually.

I hope my query to locale didn't give the idea I think they're easy. You obviously work very hard at it - and proof is in the picts.

It's rare for me to sleep at night and not dream about Canadian bucks like this:

That "bush buck" in particular is special to me, I was with both my father and my son (he was 5 at the time) when I shot that one.

I've only hunted up in your neck of the woods once but plan to do so again soon.
Have avoided AB and SK the last couple of years due to the previous severe winters.

Awesome bucks RBO! Dream worthy for sure!

Good call, I've been guiding here for almost 20yrs and the past 5 years or so have been work, with the exception of last fall.

In my part of the province we are finally starting to see better numbers of mature bucks, with last season being a promising indicator of what's to come for this fall. This will be the first time in quite a few years that I'm excited about the whitetail forecast. There is one buck in particular that I couldn't take last fall because I was guiding at the time, that I really hope to cross paths with again this fall.

Shoot me a pm if you plan on heading this way in the future, I'm just in the process of purchasing the outfitting business from the guy I've been guiding for for the past 17yrs and we might have an adventure you're interested in.

Had the pleasure of hunting Alberta last year, unbelievable place, great folks. I think about going back everyday....

Those are exactly the type of bucks that keep me awake at night.

New poster. Hopefully have the picture thing figured out. Nice bucks guys. Great way to pass the winter downtime. I added an elk called in for my dad as well.

Very nice bucks huntingd

Beautiful bucks huntingd!