Best VET day I have ever had

Well today I shot the biggest buck deer I have ever shot gun or bow. At 5PM tonight I shot a 9 point buck with my cross bow. Yes I have the permit to let me shoot crossbow during bow season. This buck has 4 inch brow tines and the longest was 7 inches. Boy what a great day other then now my back is killing me. Ya had to brag a bit. Oh by the way if any body says you can not smoke or take a pi$$ from a stand well there only about 1% correct. I had just taken a pi$$ and had a cig in my mouth when I shot him. He was around 250LBS before field dressed
Hobby farm

Congrats! Deer in my area are about the size of a German Shepherd and no real racks, just spikes that fork.

Dave

Glad you had good luck. You must be from the EAST, where the deer are corn fed[ the best, I grew up in the corn belt myself] But you guy's still don't know how to count horns in that part of the country.

We must be neighbors cause the deer round here in the piney wood flats are the same!

Hogs now are quite another matter.

great lets see a pic. of the rack or whole head I am sure you got some. Here in Ga. if you have the primitive hunting license it includes crossbow and black powder with the bow. I was getting aim on a really nice buck 2 Sundays ago and my cousin's step son shot at a doe about 300 yards away and I never saw the buck again (he missed) it was his first time hunting and I think he is hooked. I told him I was more dissapointed that he missed his than I was that I never got the chance to pull the trigger on the biggest deer I had ever seen while hunting. I got a spike this last weekend It was running and I got a good neck shot. The fact that I hit it in the neck while running amassed me because I was aiming for the neck and judged when it would be there. almost missed though any sooner and he would not have went down about 125lbs.

That's a nice weight for a whitetail, or at least here it would be, not too many seem to get old enough or maybe it's genetics or who knows what. The only ones with large racks are usually found in more remote areas, though there are always larger ones around, we don't seem to concentrate so much on that, getting some venison in the freezer etc. is the important thing. After observing the herd, we try to take the mature ones, so many fawns and yearlings, lot of small ones to avoid. There is several hundred acres in crops nearby, 60 acres of oats that have come back up since early august, topped out and just turning tan. 7 acres here was the best yield and they have been hitting it hard not long after it was harvested, a dozen or more have been feeding in there. I put some scent out by some rubs and got a 6 pt buck, (maybe 175 lbs) to come over 3x to my stand. Still could not hold that pin on him and take a good shot, got one 2 years ago with the bow, thought I'd have been able to hold on him long enough, sometimes that does not work. Saw about 5-6 bucks so far, all way too young, no doe permits in this wildlife management unit.

How is that cross bow, for accuracy and range? They are not legal here, and should be though, probably less injured deer, I can only reach 20 yards with the bow, accurately that is, repeat bulls eyes, any further and well I'll need to work on that, never seem to be able to sight in for 30 yds.

The crops of oats are impressive, I've got a 75 x 200 patch of no plow planted with a heavy population, up about 4" fresh and green, they still go for the oats, thinking as it tans out, they'll be in the patch more. Rifle season opens saturday here.

Here in Ohio, Crossbows are standard for bow season no special permits required.

I start the Mon. after Thanksgiving.

Crossbow like a normal bow is only good for about 50 yards but the way my crossbow is set up it will hit true all the time. Having that scope on it helps a good bit. Some how with a bad right shoulder I can't shoot a normal bow any more and even the cross bow is all I can do to shoot it because it is around 8-10lbs and hard to hold up for very long

Not east or west I'm mid states in Missouri
Hobby farm

Old has proven that human unine around the stand as I have proven to be an old tale. Our group uses a ground blind that will set 5 and guess what we do behind the blind for both seasons?? Have a 160 point rated from the blind and shot at bigger ones.

David2 have seen the full body mounts of your deer in central Germany. Maybe the size of a day old white tail in the states.

Best I have done OLD is a 10 pointer. Have a nice 8 point with inside measurements of 19 inches.

Best warden story I shot a basket rack 8 point running in an open cut bean field. Dropped at full speed in tracks. Slugs only in IL. Walked out and tagged it my last tag for the season. Very short time later the warden who had been watching from a willow thicket on the hard road showed and shook my hand on the nice shot and for tagging the deer. Standing by the down deer I used bio nock to spot his warden type vehicle in the thicket before he walked out.
Rest of the story we had throwned with a group related one one of our group for the drive on large drainage ditch in central IL. When the warden and I walked up to my truck the other warden had the other two guys tags in had. Had no habit stamps and unsigned tags. She sent then to town for the stamps no tickets. Never hooked up with that group again. Found out they were high on the wardens watch list. Getting too old for over the shoulder hunting. Deer wasting has come to northern central Rockford, IL area in the last few years. So within 150 miles of our hunt area. The hunting group ends up with my corn and beans feed deer. Super fat more than one inch of fat above the hind qtrs on the back.
Season opens 21st.

Yeah, shoulder issues are a real problem, have that to deal with myself, but it sounds like those have some extra range capability, and sure are less bulky, would work nice from the scaffold I have set up as a stand, which is right up against a double tree for added cover, they never detect me up there, but the cross braces kind of get in the way of a bow, can still get a decent shot, but you need room. One of those crossbows if legal sure would be nice. The D.E.C. here probably outlawed them because they are much more effective, more deer would be taken during archery, a regular bow takes more practice and skill, but then again, you will get a lot more wounded deer by those idiots who do not take it seriously, you do see wounded ones every year. Too bad they just don't see it that way, I like the challenge of archery, but even a seemingly simple shot can get botched, and I've done it once, after hitting dead on bulls eyes and heart shots on dummy targets from this stand, it's all in that hold until you place that sight pin where it needs to be, age don't help either !

That's amazingly honest Dave,

"Deer in my area are about the size of a German Shepherd and no real racks, just spikes that fork."

There's many people that would describe those same animals as weighing 250 - 350 lbs, dressed! AND having a rack that you could comfortably lay in, taken with a shot close to the same distance as the current longest recorded sniper kill of 2430 meters..........I think these same individuals are afflicted with the equivalent of "fishermans" syndrome I believe? Best described as a husband gesturing a measurement approximating two to three inches with his hands while asking his wife "that's six inches, isn't it?"......................

Ya a couple weeks ago a friend made a bad shoot at a deer with his bow and we tracked blood for more then a mile before we lost the trail he siad it was a 12 pointer but you know how that can be when your out hunting 10 look like 14 some times

(quoted from post at 10:23:31 11/12/08) That's amazingly honest Dave,

"Deer in my area are about the size of a German Shepherd and no real racks, just spikes that fork."

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Big one may hit about 3 ft tall +/- an inch or two and 75-80 pounds. I always see a buck and his herem as I make my loop for the horses and he's just as proud as a 300 pounder.

Big antlers are big $$$$ Had a road kill deer land in my dads yard . Antlers scored 208 gross,enough deductions to were it Netted 198 3/4 . Guy offer me $1300 for them and I gladly took it ,,,may have been worth more,,but cash in hand !!! < i did have salvage tag for it >

Got three of mine while smoking. was told one time the deer will look before running as to where the fire might be. and since a cigarette or cigar doesn't actually have a smoke screen like a forest fire they investigate the smell.