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doggy

Ps you bring one in around here and all your hunting buddies will start barking!

It's more fun to talk about how you taunt your buddy that shot him!

Dinks or Bambi get tossed about here.

Blamby

Eatin size deer.

You bring up an interesting point. I'm going to risk sounding like a regional snob, but here in the Ohio Valley I have not heard such a word. For large deer, I have heard "monster", "hog", "bruiser". However, the antithesis is nameless.

"Dink" comes about as close as it gets in my mind, but that's a word I heard online. I've been hunting up and down the Ohio River with Cincinnati as a center for over a quarter century. Now that you mention it, I never heard anyone use that term or any other.

That is not to say that I have not seen small deer. They have all been fairly young, but all had lost their spots. The smallest was a doe that probably went about 40 lbs that I passed on back in 1996. She looked about the size of a boxer. The smallest I shot was a doe back in 2002. She was so small that the processor knocked $10 off the bill.

140 class

Little deer.

babies

Fryin' size

pepperoni deer

Rabbits - as in "Hey, looks like you've been rabbit hunting." - Usually followed by snickers.

A sammich

Dogs or fawns.

Of course, a Minnesota dog is a Texas bruiser.

Bout 6 or 7 years ago a buddy of mine said, "he's still got milk on his lips!"

Everyone laughed. I don't know where he got it but that one kinda stuck, gets used a lot around here.

I told a buddy that shot a little doe couple years back to carve out the backstraps and I'd get a couple hotdog buns. That one has kinda stuck, too.

I started calling spike bucks a "one x one" some years back. For really small ones that evolved into 'nub x nub". I even measured a nub x nub once for a buddy on an official score sheet. He wasn't impressed, which of course was the point to begin with

dinks

A bite to eat.
My wife said I brought Bambi home one time but I don't think so, I'm still married and Bambi is always protrayed with long blond hair and a nice rack...........

Crockpot deer.

+1

Mike

Im in Texas, we call it normal...... hahaha Bottom line though, we have what we have and you have what you have. I've shot em here live weight from 45 pounds to 238 pounds. Good enough for me. THe 300 plus pounders would loose some weight during the summer here.

We've actually used the suitcase term a lot and the wipe the milk off its lips a lot.

puppy