Deer hunting BS thread

We have a baby, no momma. It’s been out here for 10 minutes.

 

I believe he is ready to smack one down...squeeze, follow through and try to see the bullet hit the deer before you let the trigger up young man

 

city deer

 

Sunset was beautiful, the baby came to about 25’.

 

Well, the WMA was a success. Unfortunately we only hunted the morning hunt. Dad was in the hot spot. He had a “good buck” run in on him just after daylight but he couldn’t get a shot. We weren’t 100 yards apart but I couldn’t see anything he could see and vice-versa. I heard something running the ridge behind me about 10:30 then he text me and said something ran 3 does down to him. Never saw what was running them. At 10:50 he said something was coming my way in the creek. I saw something limping around. Finally got about 50 yards and stopped behind some holly bushes so I didn’t have a shot. He was limping bad. He tried to jump out of the creek and I thought he was about to fall over dead he was so wobbly. He headed back toward dad to I text him and told him to get ready, I didn’t have a shot. Dad put him down. Nothing big, but it’s a free WMA deer. There was a shot close by this morning and were thinking it may have been him that got shot because his back leg was snapped in half with a fresh hole/compound fracture...hence why he was limping and couldn’t hardly get out of the creek. 2.5 year old deer that weighed 67.5 lbs dressed. Tiny thing.

it was 52° and we were afraid he’d spoil in the bed Of the truck (no cooler), so we made the 2
Hour drive home. I was hoping to get to stay for the evening hunt since we know there’s a decent deer in there, but, oh well. Not worth a deer possibly spoiling.

 

Backstraps will still be good

 

Absolutely. Since it was a WMA Hunt I said i was shooting anything with horns. Was definitely gonna shoot him just to get him out of his misery. Glad one of us could put him down.

 

Very good congrats!

 

This was his back leg...

 

Had the same situation in WI this year. I was in a double stand with my buddy's 13 year old son when a nubbin buck came out on us. Back leg was snapped. I told the kid to do the right thing and put it down. He didn't want to at first because it was so small, but I told him it was the right thing to do for the deer so he did. Someone had shot it in the back leg.

 

Yikes, def needed to be shot. Looks relatively fresh

 

tender vittles Congrats!

 

Yes and yes. Nice job!

 

Well, THE big one didn’t come by this morning, but another good buck came through. He didn’t give me a great shot. Had a really small window with him quartering away at about 125 yards. No blood, no hair. Something took off running when I was looking for sign but I couldn’t tell if it was him or not. Couldn’t see his head. If it was, he was running just fine. Only got a few more days to hunt before season ends. Maybe he’ll come back sometime.

 

Got the deer head on the plaque.

 

I ended up not getting a deer this last weekend. We still had fun. We had 9 guys hunting in the group on Saturday and six on Sunday. We harvested six deer on Sat. and four on Sun. The only one worth sharing a picture of is a 9 pointer (should have been 10, but one broken tine) that Darren got out of the first section we hunted on Sun. morning.

 

Haha

 

Looks good!

You had a great time with friends, that's definitely all that counts.

 

Doe season opens back up this weekend so I topped off a feeder and put another up by the shooting house in hopes to get my daughter on one soon