pjzwtl
.308 Win
He’s just cranky because some bow hunter keeps tagging what he thinks should be his buck.If you feel that way, why do you hunt at all?
Big Game Season 2018
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phatfarmerbob
.223 Rem
Meh I’ve recovered lots the second day and the meat was fine. I’ve also picked up lots of road kill and eaten it. If you don’t want to leave em over night just hunt mornings...
Ive only lost 1 deer in 30+ years.
A big buck that ran into a swamp and disappeared under the water.
That was regular season in 2009.
A slug through the lungs.
A 6 foot wide spray of pink foam and snorting pink foam from his mouth.
He was just too close to the water and really wanted to get away.
Ive recovered 100% of my bow kills.....6 to be exact.
A big buck that ran into a swamp and disappeared under the water.
That was regular season in 2009.
A slug through the lungs.
A 6 foot wide spray of pink foam and snorting pink foam from his mouth.
He was just too close to the water and really wanted to get away.
Ive recovered 100% of my bow kills.....6 to be exact.
pjzwtl
.308 Win
same here I have never lost a bow deer but one with my 30/30 outside of Lake Luzzern about 12 years ago. It was quartering towards me at first light and I misjudged the angle and I believe just put it through the shoulder. There was a good blood trail for about 100 yards then it slowly tapered off to a drop every now and then. Once I saw it turned and went up the mountain were a goat would have trouble I knew it was gone. The blood trail went cold and odds are it licked his wounds and carried on.
Robin
.475 A&M Magnum
Many, most, of the deer wounded by a broad head will heal up, even a one lunger. It is a nice clean wound, unlike a gun shot wound that is ragged and ripe for bacterial festering. I and some other hunters I know have taken deer with arrow scars. I don't like it but its part of the deal, thats why they don't call it shopping.
Robin
Robin
phatfarmerbob
.223 Rem
I lost two in 20 years. Both with muzzloader. Both bad shots. One front leg and one brisket. Didn’t sleep either night cause I felt so guilty. Wounding and not recovering sucks, but it happens to everyone
True.
I have always made sure I have a clean shot.
I have passed up the 3 biggest deer ive seen around here.
All 3 were in range, just never got in the perfect place.
I rarely take a gun shot over 20 yards and 15-20 yards with a bow.
Ive been with guys who take hail mary 200 yard shots with a shotgun.
I hunt alone 100% of the time now.
phatfarmerbob
.223 Rem
I only hunt with my father, brother in law, or my one good friend. That’s it no one else, too many cowboys out there and I’m pretty strict.
Shadow rider
6.5 Creedmoor
I tagged a nice doe yesterday. I had a black cat walk out of the woods about 40 yards from my tree stand and once he spotted me he froze and stared at me for a good 15 minutes. All of a sudden this doe comes around the corner ( about 50 yards out) and spots the cat. She stopped dead in her tracks and started stamping one foot. The cat held its ground and the doe took 4 or 5 aggressive steps towards the cat and began stomping its foot again. The cat sat motionless about 30 feet from the deer. At that point the deer started circling around the cat as if it was trying to gain advantage. Well this circling around the cat brought the doe to within about 35 yards of my stand...The deer flinched at the shot and I struck the rear hind quarter. The doe took off snapping my arrow in half. She made it about 500 hundred yards before loosing the fight. I found her (best blood trail I've ever had to follow) right about sunset. She was a good hundred yards down a hillside. I was able to field dress her as it got dark and luckily there is a dirt road at the bottom of the hill so I was able to drag her down instead of back up. I was able to drive to her at that point. I thought black cats were supposed to be bad luck! The cat took off as soon as the deer did so I didn't get the chance to thank it personally!
They are bad luck.
You didnt even see the 300lb, 14 point typical following the doe.
Carlos Hathcock
.450/400 Nitro Ex
Sounds much like mine.
Twogunwilly
6.5 Creedmoor
Crows and Ravens will find dead deer pretty quickly, listen & watch for them if all else fails.
Had a nice eight point (2 1/2 year old) in back yard yesterday,tried posting video off my apple phone but its like 47MB and says to big to send to email to get to my computer.Its a nice one but the 9 point last year that I havent heard anyone get "im hoping" is still around,that's the one I want.Going to be huge this year if it is!
Got a picture of the buck in my email finally.I usually catch them passing through checking for does this time of year,they live on bordering property.But usually see scrubs first,nice one for first buck I seen this year they are chasing.Picture taken off my home security camera not trail cam.
ManrisFrack
6.5 Creedmoor
So where do you live exactly? I've got a bow tag I need to try and fill before gun starts.
Me and my father sighted the guns in today. I shot kind of blah definitely need more trigger time. The first shot was high to the left. Second is the one on the left. Then adjusted the scope and shot in the black and the last round far right I pulled.Try a game farm,heard doe are kind of cheap and cant escape there fence when you place a bad arrow wound.Perfect for ya!
ManrisFrack
6.5 Creedmoor
I don't shoot doe! I only shoot the biggest bucks because I know it'll make all the other "hunters" cry when they dump $20 worth of ammo into the woods and only get a spike to show for it.
I dont shoot doe or scrubs either,deer meat is not my goal of hunting.I want a huge free range buck,and a scrub or two year old cant grow up to be a monster if its already in someones freezer.I stay out of my woods (no stinking it up with human scent),no interaction but checking my tree stand once early season.Give it my best shot to actually get a monster by not kicking it over the hill or wounding it with an arrow before season even starts.
Twogunwilly
6.5 Creedmoor
It takes skills and patience to harvest any deer with a bow, all are trophies, you have to be connected to nature way more than any gun hunter will ever understand.
Robin
.475 A&M Magnum
Doe are way more wary than bucks, especially this time of year. You get one with a bow, its a trophy, good going!
Robin
Robin
whauburger
6.5 Creedmoor
A truly mature doe is one of the hardest animals to hunt....Do you have a good recipe for those antlers @Yeti ? You are probably one of the genius people who favor the antler restrictions.
Yes I do favor antler restrictions and you know why?We could actually have the best hunting around then having to watch it on TV.
Carlos Hathcock
.450/400 Nitro Ex
Knock it off already.
Robin
.475 A&M Magnum
I have hunted when just to see a deer in NYS was big deal. I have truly hunted them, trying to understand the woods, whether it involved deer specifically or not, I wanted to be a good hunter and try to understand the whole picture and limited myself to primitive equipment of my own making, forcing myself to adapt to the environment outside of where we people live. Even today I am in the woods looking studying, knowing that some guy that is only concerned with fulfilling his ego may drop into my bailiwick once a year to take that which is unearned.
Robin
Robin
GOYABEAN
.950 JDJ
NYS has a over abundance of deer I myself hunted for meat and deer control what ever legally tagged doe or buck 
whauburger
6.5 Creedmoor
Riddle me this, you want big bucks but want let the "scrub" spike and forks pass to grow up and be 6 or 8's. But in reality you are passing smaller antler Gene's on. The young 6's and small 8's get popped and do not get to mature and pass the genes.
BDinPutnam
.475 A&M Magnum
Personally, I like to eat.
Age is what you want to start with,as it is right now sure a small buck could be breeding as there is not enough trophy's out there to breed all the doe.I would start with let them get to 2 and a half before they are legal to take,give them alot more chance to get 3 and half or more.Then you can really see the strongest bucks passing on there genes.As of right now its a free for all for everyone,even a fish has more size regulation than deer right now.
Blimey
.450/400 Nitro Ex
The genes from a 1.5 yr buck are no worse than when that same buck is 5.5 yr