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I'm in my 60's.
The memory fades a bit , but I think it's in the mid 70's.
Mostly Blacktails, followed by Mule deer and one lone Whitetail.

One mule deer ,and 30-40 whitetails.

Mule Deer --More than a FEW

Whitetail---More than a Few


Rio7

counting button bucks?

Only a couple... vast majority of my deer have been does. Antlerless tags have historically been cheaper and more plentiful 🤷‍♂️

I have no idea. For the last 20 years, my hunting has been pretty constant, varies between 3-5 bucks per year while hunting 3 states....most time only spent in 2 of those states. I don't know how many before that. Ratio is usually one "good" buck to one "cull" buck that should be removed. Occasionally I'll screw up, especially in the woods, and shoot one I didn't age or judge well and be pissed at myself.

One thing I can say for certain about myself, I need to shoot more does. I should at the very least take 1 doe for every buck I take...but I usually only take a doe for every other buck or every 3rd buck. I need to get serious about it.

40 - 45 or so bucks over the years in PA and NY.
Don’t care to kill deer anymore.

1. I'm picky.

Lots of mule deer and pronghorn, but not one whitetail.

I've been hunting deer for 60 years with exception of two of the three years in the service. Some years I shot 6 Whitetail. For years I shot bucks because they tended to be bigger deer. Lately I've been shooting mostly does because I like to eat deer meat and they tend to be better eating. I have no idea how many bucks total. I've shot coues, whitetail and mule deer - mostly whitetail. I have never shot a blacktail. Answer = more than a few.

Have never kept track, wish I had. Growing up the general belief was that you tagged mule deer, white tail were kind of varmints & you shoot as many as you or someone else could use, even knowing that mule deer bucks typically taste awful. Fast forward, my son is crazy for big or unusual whitetail. Not sure where I went wrong…..

At least 37 Whitetails. One every year since I was 14. Some years two though. Six mule deer in Wyoming. So 50-55 ?

No idea but in my experience folks tend to way over estimate the number of deer they've taken.
Most deer in a year for me was 13, I think 3 were bucks.
Most bucks in a year would be 4 I think, most years 2.
Started hunting 30 years ago, take a few years off while in the navy. Growing up and college years often it was 1 buck a year and then a bonus doe or two.

A few years I opted for elk instead or didn't draw deer so I'd say conservatively 40 bucks, likely a few more than that but I bet it's pretty close. No idea how many does, probably double that.
I'm only counting hunting, not depredation or putting deer down after someone hit them with a car or any thing like that.

I have taken around 100 deer in my life. I'm guessing 30-35 have been bucks including mulies, blacktails and whitetails. I normally shoot does for the meat so I haven't targeted a buck in many years.

I have 18 racks in the house and one at the taxi.. a few in the garage and a couple have been lost over the years. I’ll say 25ish…

No idea how many slickheads. But I’m guessing I’m around 3:1 ratio to the bucks all except the last few years when holding out for antlered set and letting the kids kill does kept my extra tags in my pockets.

Been hunting 32 years. Not bad odds and damn good teachers

Never thought about and really don't care. I don't think any of my friends know how many they killed either. I think "the number" is more important when you are only a decade or so into hunting. When it's many decades, "the number" is irrelevant - it's the memories that matter.

I’d have to check my notes for accuracy but approximately 85-90 bucks, one muley and the rest whitetail. About as many doe too. Some of those bucks came from Pennsylvania over the years.

Since 1971, 46 muley bucks and more whitetail bucks than that. Call it 100+/-. Killed way more whitetail does than that, but never a mule deer doe.

I think I shot 16 . I have likely shot the same amount of does. That is surprisingly low for the hunting I do since I started at 12 and now almost 60. I hunt with gun and bow.. However, I only hunt public land . It is either S.E. Wis public and very high pressured with hunters everywhere, or I am way up in N.W. Wis. where there are so few deer that I have not seen a buck during gun season since 2009 and I hunt there every year. I have never payed a die to hunt , or leased any land. I have 7 ac. with river frontage though and payed $3,000 for it. I believe it is about the hunt, not the kill. However, many people say that ,,, till they go a long time without getting one, then is really is about the kill . I pass up a lot of marginal shots with my bow on deer. I dont like to miss, but I hate wounding them, knowing I might have had a better shot in a few minutes. I love deer hunting for whitetails, and I hunt them. By that , I scout 7 months a yr. on 7,000 ac. of public land, and know about 5,000 ac. of it very well. When I hunt , I look for beds, and hunt trails coming from them by sitting in trees with a climber and ambush them. I like that. I would like to go out west someday, but I am more of a fisherman .

Ain’t no telling, here are the 8 and tens, gave away this many once before, had 8 in the house, sold the mounts, got tired of dusting them. No telling how many small bucks. Gave all of these away except for 6 to a guy that uses the antlers building furniture