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Bonus stickers! And that heavy WT above it---geez

Mass and trash do it for me--screw the score.

No sir!




Scott nice buck from Randy's!

My daughter's "first deer". Went out with me the 2nd saturday of rifle season. 45 and sunny. She witnessed stunt shooting.



My biggest yet from this year also. 260 Rem.



Wisconsin trophy pic

Tatelaw/260: Great bucks!

The young gals deer is special, too!

Looking through this thread, I am reminded of something that I'm sure we are all aware of...

That is, for me,(although the big deer are sort of special because they come less frequently and require a combination of effort and good luck), as years role by you think back and it occurs that it isn't about the size of the deer,but the places you get to visit, the hunts themselves and the people you meet along the way,some of whom become fast friends for years to follow.

All of this transcends the size of the bucks, which are really momentos of the experiences that brought you to them. In that respect,all deer,and all deer hunts,are special. This makes them all really big deer in our minds beyond the size of the antlers.


Love to see more picture posted. Keep them coming.

This is my biggest muley; not so big score-wise as he was on the down hill side of life's walk but he was pushing three hundred pounds. A grand old, western monarch. For some scale, I'm 6'0" and 215 lbs. He had 9" bases.

The second is my biggest whitetail of about thirty with traditional archery equipment. He also was a very big bodied deer.

The last was my biggest Nebraska whitetail taken at five hundred yards just after a blizzard.

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George he makes you look little LOL! Fabulous!

The whitetail is obviously a toad. Congrats on both!

My biggest body Whitetail. Field dressed at 247# down at the local feed mill.



Mounted

Not bad for a first deer.

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Bob, the Muley as shown above was taken in SW Colorado down in a stream bed thick with cottonwoods and dead falls. Saw him go in about 9AM , came back about 3:30 and stalked into the wind until his rack was spotted above the brush and deadfall. Waited him out at about hundred yards until he got up facing us. 140-gr TTSX from stem to stern out of the .284.

Is that a pic of your place with those nice deer?

Round oak, a Camero?

Camp Handwerk puts out some big bucks.....

George, no that was a Corvair, if memory serves, 1961.

Yep.

Pards get more important...and fewer...

I'd like to say I remember what rifle I used when I look at a set of horns, but I guess that's one of the downsides to being a rifle slut...small though...:)

Indeed.

We need to see the whitetail your wife took a couple of years ago in CO!

As is the case with so many big buck encounters, the big ones sometimes live charmed lives. This buck had it all. His G2s and G3s were easily 15" and possibly 17" each. His G4s were the weakest part at around 5-6". The left brow was around 8" and the right was possibly broken at 5". Main beams wrapped.

This picture was opening morning of rifle season at around 300 yards. Unfortunately 250 of those yards were on the other side of the fence we didn't have permission to hunt on. Saw this buck 2 times and to my knowledge he was never taken. How big would he go score wise I don't know, but I think he was only 5 or 6 in this picture.

I always remember him when I am training and need motivation, not that plains hunting takes conditioning, he just fires me up.



We've taken bucks some nice bucks along the way, but it is always the ones that got away that seem to stick with me and I mean that in a good way. Always makes watching the sunrise fill me with thoughts about what could come popping over the hill.

I've posted these before in other threads, but here goes....

My youngest daughter (13yo.)got her first deer this year, with a custom Mauser VZ24 in 6.5x55


I "borrowed" her rifle, and took this guy. Not bad for a Georgia deer. Live wt estimated at 225lbs. Biggest deer killed on our lease in 40 years

Fine deer there. Cool your daughter used the swede. Big ole GA buck.

Ah! Of course; that's what I meant. had one too -- one of the worst cars Iv'e had.

Excellent post Bob, by far the best one I've read on the forum.

There are some absolute hogs pictured in this thread.....just amazing.