Thought I would share a few pics of our 2015 Whitetail Hunt. My Brother (Terry8MM) and I have worked Hard on Deer management on Our property in East KY and it is starting to payoff...We had six Hunters in camp this year and all tagged out but one and he has 3 more days to get it done with a Rifle.
the crew
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my buck
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View from my Blind
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He gets a free pass this year.
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Very cool thanks for sharing
Very good bucks! Congrats! Looks like a very neat piece of ground.
Congrats
The beauty of management, is in 5-10 more years, you'll have bucks like that all over, and wont' be shooting em waiting for larger/older bucks to show and shooting trash in the meantime.
Good job all around!
Jeff
I took a nice 8pt. buck from the Lexington area near the Buffalo Trace Distillery a few years ago, nothing like the bruisers you guys harvested though. I have hunted that area twice now and would like to return, there is also excellent turkey hunting in the area. I saw several huge gobblers on my most recent three day hunt, got an unusual pic from the window of the hunting blind. Three mature gobblers, one with a 12" beard, one with a double beard and the third with a triple beard. How I wished it was turkey season and I had a shotgun rather than a high powered rifle.
Congratulations to all! Those are nice bucks.
He didn't tell y'all, he took his with a bow. A very impressive shot, 45+ yards, in 4' tall crown vetch.
I've taken a crap load of older, bad rack deer over the last 10 years. When this one showed up this year he was one we had watched 3 or 4 years, no improvement. So, in a way he was a Ky. cull.
Our cousin's husband, Irvin took this one Saturday at last light. He is disabled and got it from his yard.
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Clearly, you guys have got it figgered out. Good work.
Nice bucks! What did yours weigh out?
I'd say that the avg. of these 6 is right at 200. Some of ours go 220-250.
Looks like the crew did pretty well...some nice deer you got there.
Thanks for the compliments guys.....We have come a long way since Deer season was closed in 1990 for lack of Deer in the area..It was closed for five years...This season we were seeing up to 30 deer a day....I could not keep track of all the Bucks I laid eyes on this year...Next year should be even better if we have a Mild winter. I would say my buck was in the 225 to 250 live weight range. We will be weighing them all next year I just picked up a set of scales...
here is a pic of Terrys Buck last year.
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Here's a pic of Jeffs buck the week before he suddenly came down with lead poisoning.
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