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With some, it takes a while to get there.

I think it's cuz they've got little wieners.

Lol!

Been out twice. Shot a doe the first time, grabbed her front legs in one hand, her back legs in the other, and tossed her in the back of the truck. And I'm not the incredible hulk. God, what a delicious creature! Second time out, shot another fat doe. This one, I nearly threw my back out dragging her over the tailgate. I liked the first one better. I'll be ecstatic if I have a freezer full of fat yearlings by the end of season. Everybody says predators prey on the young because they are weak. No, we don't. We like 'em 'cause they're tender!

Scott,
Guilty as charged from the Maine buck post,wasn't qualifying him in my mind just making a statement,I've also killed smaller ones and been just as happy.
So I'm ready for sentenceing(I can't spell)
Flogging at the town square seem fair?

Ron

Worse yet is "I was hunting in such bad timber, etc I would never shoot something in there" Is there anything more stupid than hunting somewhere you would never shoot the animal?

Too much tv. (in this case hunting shows) People seem to forget that tv isn't reality.

reality TV is.....

I donno. I sent a picture of the buck I shot to a few friends and two of them called and asked "why the hell did you shoot that?" Pissed me right off both times but I don't care because I'm happy.

It's a nice buck, I was with my dad, and I have tenderloins in the fridge.

Have you entered it in the DINK-O-THON yet? It's in the running.

Tom...Shhhhhhh...Don't tell him that...he could kick all our azzes with that one.....

Every year I am happy with the deer we take. On our own ground, no high fence, fair chase and all that. I have seen bigger deer sometimes, but not during the season or no chance for a shot or whatever but I am happy with any deer. Same for my hunting buddies. One guy at our camp had gone 0 for 9 or something like that, but he was looking for a decent buck, not necessarily a wall hanger but not some 2 1/2 year old. So, that was his choice every year and he was happy with that as well.

is not...

which is "why" I don't watch hunting shows on TV.

I love to watch deer, can sit and watch them for hours in a stand, had a doe under my stand last night came out at sunset, stayed until I ran it off at end of legal hours. I really do not shoot anything anymore without good reason. I just like being in the woods seeing animals its better than new rifles, magnums, fancy binoculars, expensive hunting togs or shopping for the latest gadget.

This year I had to settled for a 19 incher. He wasn't a monster but I'm happy.

I couldn't afford a big 24 incher this year. I'm saving my extra cash for one those trophy monster bucks next year though.

do you pay "by the inch" this sounds like they pull them out on a rope for you to look at before you shoot?

Kinda.

Scott...for the same reason you see the monster 4x4 truck all tricked and lifted so you need a ladder to get in and out and when the driver gets out he is the size of Napolean! Then he shows you his S&W .500 side arm and his new .375 H&H rifle for dink huntin'. Awwwww, you get the picture!

I had an awesome show on opening morning this year. I was watching a doe and 2 fawns feed in the headlands of a cornfield that was above the neighbor's CRP. They started to come towards me (and the property line), but stopped and were looking at something in the really tall switchgrass at the bottom of the hill. I started glassing the grass and saw a huge rack sticking out of it. I watched him for an hour or so, not seeing anything but the rack. As he was appearing and disappearing in the grass, his rack seemed to grow and shrink. Eventually, I saw that there were actually 2 smaller (but still big) bucks in there with him. Heard some rattling, but couldn't see any of them at the time, so I don't know which 2 were fighting. The 2 smaller bucks moved off towards out property line and about 6 deer blew out of the ditch and headed for the CRP on the other side of our pasture, one of them being one of the smaller bucks. Nothing seemed to be happening after that, so I went back to my parent's place, cut and split some wood, and went back about 5 hours later. I walked up the ditch on our side of the fence and got this guy at about 10 yards in a willow thicket in our ditch. He looks like one of the bucks got run off.



Had some round steaks cut off of him last night. Had good flavor and were still easily chewable without taking any tenderizing measures other than not overcooking it.

Ha! I've been that guy more than once, elk hunting. Was also on the radio with a hunting pard and once I realized where he was on the map, told him dude gtf out of there 'cause I'm not sliding down into that hole to help you pack an elk out <g>.

As to happiness with what you've killed... I've been mad at myself a couple times just because a yearling doe or button buck is a TINY animal around here and we only get two tags these days... and I like venison... so I've killed a couple where I felt like I cost myself a lot of meat as compared to holding out for a mature doe. They were tender though.

With bucks I've killed one tiny fork that had me feeling like I gypped myself but it was halfway through the last day and I'd already decided anything legal was going down.. generally, as a relatively new hunter, with only 10-odd seasons and 20-odd deer, any decent forkie or bigger makes me happy.

I was pumped with this year's toad, as much for the meat as the horns though. Lots of it. The head/horns are just hanging from a tree for the winter; I'll keep them but I'm just not that into the whole "trophy" thing.