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Thanks GuyM
He measured 20" inside. Several of my friends told me I screwed up by killing him first because there's a good chance he'll be the biggest I'll ever kill, especially around here in North MS!
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Haven't topped it yet. Ended up scoring 179 and change. Was quite a hike. Great day, saw several bull elk and bighorn sheep. Shot with a Remmy 700 270 I bought at a pawnshop with money saved up from my summer job.
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This is working out to be a GREAT thread. Thanks to all who took the time to respond and post pictures. Great stories of great memories.
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not really a deer but my first at 15
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1st deer ever 1983 Rem 870 1st deer with bow 1984 Oneida Eagle 1st good buck Rem 870 1st Turkey taken 2nd day I ever turkey hunted gotta love the mullet!
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Thanks again to everyone for the stories and pictures. I had my first hunting license at age 16. I had hunter with my father as long as I can remember. I was ALWAYS the "dog". I shot AT many deer before I got my first on on the ground. My father was the kind of a guy that never shot unless something died. 99% of the time, when he shot, it wasn't legal. Never ever "wasted" a shell on a paper target. He was a depression hunter and killed for food, not sport. Times are somewhat different now, but I still feel that I hunt because I like to eat what I shoot. Thanks again to everyone for posting.
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I'd post one but can't seem to master the task of posting pics. Regards, Woody
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I'd post one but can't seem to master the task of posting pics. Regards, Woody Woody, I just sent you a PM.
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Haven't topped it yet. Ended up scoring 179 and change. Was quite a hike. Great day, saw several bull elk and bighorn sheep. Shot with a Remmy 700 270 I bought at a pawnshop with money saved up from my summer job. I like this... My first one was the day before cameras were invented.
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1949, I don't have a pic....I know we had a camera because Dad brought one home from Germany...along with an 8mm mauser, 6X binoculars from a german officer and a 22LR single shot. A desert mule deer, six marvelous points with a .257 Roberts. Seven years old and for those who say seven year old children won't remember...well I do and can tell you what I had for breakfast that morning. And thats 200+ ungulates and two continents ago. bear
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Don't have a picture, just great memories !! The year was 1967 and we had a Blizzard the day before season with almost 18" of snow on the ground. My Dad had just returned from town & had spotted a nice buck in the woods near our farm. I volunteered to push the woods to him down the ridge, being only 16 & just legal here in NY. But I had been hunting everything else since I was 7 so I couldn't wait to get a deer.
Well pushed the woods & a nice buck out, but Dad was not there - the snow had flooded the creek & he could not get across. I decided to go up the hill about 200 yards or so to sit & stew about a lost opportunity. Suddenly I heard pounding hoofs & a decent 6 point came running up the hill following my tracks, scared out by Dad. He stopped about 15 feet from me looking down the hill at Dad. I aimed for his neck, closed my eyes & Shot. Well, when I opened my eyes, the buck was doing a backflip, landed on his back & was sliding back down the hill with his hooves pawing the air. He went about 50 yards down hill with me running after him, until he got hung up on a barbed wire fence. I caught up with him just in time to see the big buck looking at me from about 40 yards away - he was standing broadside & was just looking to see what the commotion was about. Having one deer on the ground & one tag, I obviously could only look at him until he decided to scoot out of there.
Probably one of my fondest deer hunting memory. Dad & the farm are long since gone, but those memories live on.
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Man, that's a GREAT story. Thanks.
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Man, that's a GREAT story. Thanks. YES that is a GREAT story.
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Not a lot to tell. I was ll yrs. old. This Blacktail forked horn came out of a lodgepole thicket near Deadwood Jct. on the Dead Indian Road in So. Oregon. Dad and a family friend posted me where the lodgepole thinned out a bit, circled around and still hunted toward me. This guy came out ahead of them and I popped him at about 60 yds. Rifle was/is a Winchester '94 eastern carbine in 30-30 of course. Thinking back on it, I think Dad may have been more excited than I was and I was plenty excited. Didn't get around to taking a photo until the next summer. The tree I'm beside in the photo is now only a rotting stump. Regards, Woody
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There are some great photos in this thread! This was 1987 or 1988 but I can't remember which. I was either 9 or 10 years old and it was a button buck at 100yds or so. Shot it with Dad's M600 Mohawk .308 as I sat on his knee in a box blind. We were shooting the reasonably new 150gr Ballistic Tips. This was near the middle of my ten year or so "awkward stage". LOL....
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I got a bit of a late start. The first season I deer hunted was 2010. This is my first buck, 11pt at 25 yards with single shot H&R 20ga. I killed a doe a couple weeks earlier.
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I got a bit of a late start. The first season I deer hunted was 2010. This is my first buck, 11pt at 25 yards with single shot H&R 20ga. I killed a doe a couple weeks earlier. That is a neat looking buck. Congratulations !!! Let us know how you do this coming year, too.
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"I got a bit of a late start. " Better late than never! I envy you guys with opportunities for multiple deer. Regards, Woody
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