The Buck stopped here!
 

My brother in law bagged this guy this morning. 4 on one side 3 on the other. 19" spread.


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Poor bugger. He had just grown horn enough to get laid.

Looks like a good sized deer. What did he weigh?

I got laid long before I had horns...

Calling On-ramp.

I'd never personally have the stomach to kill it myself (unless I was starving), but damn fine shootin for the guy that did it.

Deer definitely starve to death where I grew up, and I'm glad there's guys out there culling the herd.

He weighed in at around 180 lbs. Now I'm not a deer hunter but for a 70 year old guy he was pretty proud of baggin' him. They are every where here although we have seen less this year because of the wasting disease. I'll shoot birds alll day but I couldn't hunt deer at all. I would have nothing to do with it. I'll eat birds. Too bad you can't "shoot and release" like fishing. Well maybe you could with a dart gun.

How appropriate. Was visiting my goddaughters' family last week and they handed me about 10 pounds of venison from a buck that had been taken down that morning. Ran home and made up deer chili until 3 am. Just enjoyed the last of it while reading this thread.

Nice Deer!

I got skunked this year, but we had some nice deer in camp.

Nice six pointer taken by one of our camp, Rick Haile of Crystal Falls, MI.

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My step mothers father, 84 years young took a doe with a single shot .30-30. I would post photos, but they skinned it, and it looks rough.

Nice buck. Have you seen any sick ones? There are quite a few here sad to say. We had a small herd on our land tonight. We live close to a no hunt zone and believe me they know it. Of course putting corn out tonight helped.

(What follows is just my opinion...)

If you seem some deer that are obviously suffering from CWD, you should definitely do your part and harvest them. Get them out of the herd. Same with spikes and other genetic undesirables. No, it won't help you to harvest the buck of a lifetime right *now*, but in the future, it very well could.

Living next to a no hunt zone is pretty good, I guess. At least gives them a place to hole up for a bit and take some of the hunting pressure off. My friends up north leave a patch of corn/winter wheat/soybeans standing each year between two hunting zones to allow the deer to relax. Also, it helps to funnel them up on to the other parts of his property that he actually hunts.

I didn't get anything this year (again), yet, but I'm hoping to later in the season, when I'm out of school for the month.

Not sure what you are saying here. Kill the spike horns and deer I consider 'ugly'? Spike horns grow up to be...spike horns? No. We pass on spikes.

If I saw a deer that was obviously ill, then yes, I might shoot it. More humane than what the coyotes would do that night.

Check out this Elk my uncle Dan took in Montana!!! I think I need to drive over to Missoula and visit next year...and just 'happen' to bring along my .30-06.

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The idea is to cull the population of undesirable genetic traits. Spikes only grow to be older spikes...Which is exactly WHY you take them, not because it'll look cool on your wall. It has nothing to do with "passing" on spikes; we pass on deer 90% of hunters would shoot in a heart beat. Happened just the other day, my hunting buddy saw a good dear, but it was a little young..2 and a half maybe so he let it walk to get older, larger and let it reproduce some more. Not 30 minutes later someone shot that EXACT deer.

I would definitely take a sick deer, no sense letting it spread. I'll gladly "waste" my tags this year on a sick deer or a spike to increase the likelyhood of growing better deer for later years.

QDM -- Quality Deer Management. Cull the undesirables, and get a better stock of good/great deer.

Pretty elk! Congratulations to your uncle!

Sweet Jesus! Take me with you...I'll buy the ammo!

here is my story. we ran across this buck. it was at 57 yards. past my comfort zone with a bow. so i elected to stalk closer. my buddy covered it from the 57. i got busted, it stood up, and my bud anchored it. my season went fruitless. but fun as hell. (1st archery only season)

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Wow! Now is that a mule deer? It looks different from the white tails I see around here. Still have velvet on that beautiful rack.

yup a mulie. my buddy, felt bad and we hunted hard for several weekends. we never got close to another buck.