2017 Deer Success

[Lheise88]

My 2017 Illinois public land buck. 5 yard shot straight down.

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[Broomd]

Tag filled....

After wife and I decided to pass on our planned mule deer hunt this year to hopefully let Idaho numbers stabilize, we decided to hunt whitetails right on our place.
I ended up tagging out relatively early compared to most years, and enjoyed one of my most memorable seasons in a long time. Every night included elk and deer; and the night I killed this buck he was battling it out with a bigger 4X5. Legal light was fading and I thought I had killed the bigger of the two, but when the smoke cleared I had killed the slightly smaller, but dominant 4x4 buck.
He kicked the bigger buck's ass, I killed him following his hard-fought doe in estrous.
The trail cam pic shows the bigger buck on that doe later that night! He moved right in after I took the dominant buck. Crazy stuff.

Wife is posing on the bike with my buck, hopefully she'll get a shot at that 4x5 next week when she hits the stand...
No monsters this year, but some solid deer.

 

[maninthemaze]

I shot this one with my 8mm Mauser my father gave me. A great uncle brought it home from Germany after WW2. My father sporterized it and I installed a new stock when I got it. Definitely puts the hammer on whitetails here in KY.

Just my 2 cents and worth the price charged.

 

[Lineguy7]

Some fine ones hitting the ground. This is my Kansas buck, November 6. Came in to a snort wheeze.


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[rooster440]

PA early muzzy


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[rooster440]

Ohio. So far a good whitetail year!


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[Griz34]

I know I said I was tagged out in South Dakota, but that was just for archery. I filled my gun tag today on public land. I'm not sure what is going on in the county that I hunt but I saw way more deer this year than I ever have.View attachment 61431

 

[AdamW]

7:24 am opening morning of Missouri deer season I saw a doe running east to west in the timber and reached for my rifle in case she gave me a shot opportunity. At this point in my life, long all-day sits for trophy bucks aren't for me, I'll take a fat doe and be happy as can be. Then I noticed behind her was a buck. After watching him rut her relentlessly back and forth for a few minutes, she turned north out of the edge of the timber toward me. I knew he would be right on her heels and that he was a great buck. He did as I expected and with one shot the freezer was full. Respect. Thanks buck.

 

[Glendon Mullins]

Not my biggest, but an average Virginia public land mountain buck

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[jimmy33]

little Idaho whitetail...my son saw a bruiser in this trip.

 

[Griz34]

Try this again.

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[Dewy]

Was watching a spike and a doe one evening last week when I saw them both turn their heads to look at something coming up from behind them, and to my right. This guy came trotting up to 25 yards, turned broadside and that was all I needed. Herd him crash about 40 yards away. Biggest 6 I've personally seen in the woods.
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[KurtR]

My son got it done this weekend his first buck.

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[Lheise88]

Second Missouri tag filed this morning with my late friends rifle. Made it that much better

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[mikear]

October 27th. Ouachita Mountains in Oklahoma. 9 yards. First archery buck.

Nice deer everyone. Congrats!

 

[PMcGee]

Pennsylvania buck

Ohio buck

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[R Davis]

View attachment 61674Indiana buck

 

[Hesseltine32]

Both bucks are from Maryland 11/8 and 11/14

 

[LitenFast]

Wisconsin Thanksgiving day.
It was the first time my 5 year old son went deer hunting with me and my dad was hunting a few hundred yards away.



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[AdamW]

Beautiful animals fellas, great work all around.