2024 OFFICIAL WHITETAIL MEAT POLE

[Machingeaneer]

My Uncle's buck from this weekend. Nice big MN deer too

 

[blakefromtx]

By far my biggest buck to date! My dad and I measured him at 160 3/4” when I got home. I was out there by myself, so the photos were taken off of my glassing tripod with my phone leaning on my bino adapter… Harvested in Texas on 11/16/2024

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[NDGuy]

Nothing better than bowhunting the rut

 

[Primal-Understanding]

Nebraska Public Land Archery Whitetail
I hadnt bow hunted since 2014, only rifle/ muzzleloader. Bought a new bow in August and put in the work. It paid off in a big way. Was up to 15-20 sits this year and things were starting to turn into a grind.

Woke up last Friday and decided to sit in the stand for a short time before work (boss was probably not pumped). Around 8:15 a.m. this guy appeared at a 100 yards. I pulled him closer with several grunts and snort-wheeze eventually coming to about 35 yards with a hard quartering-toward shot. I loosed an arrow as this was going to be my only opportunity.

I got down and checked my arrow, had a little bit of everything on it - meat, light blood, dark blood, hair, and a lot of tallow. I pulled out to go to work and gave him 6ish hours to succumb to what could have been a less than ideal shot. Went back out with a few buddies and trailed a scant blood trail for a few hundred yards before finding him piled up by a spring fed creek.

My biggest whitetail to date and to have done it with a bow on public land makes this one so much more special. I haven't scored him yet, give me your guesses!! Hes a 5 x 6 with a good sized additional point by his right brow tine (12 total points).

I love whitetail!!

Edit: He taped out at 170 7/8" Gross

 

[Broomd]

Nebraska Public Land Archery Whitetail
I hadnt bow hunted since 2014, only rifle/ muzzleloader. Bought a new bow in August and put in the work. It paid off in a big way. Was up to 15-20 sits this year and things were starting to turn into a grind.

Woke up last Friday and decided to sit in the stand for a short time before work (boss was probably not pumped). Around 8:15 a.m. this guy appeared at a 100 yards. I pulled him closer with several grunts and snort-wheeze eventually coming to about 35 yards with a hard quartering-toward shot. I loosed an arrow as this was going to be my only opportunity.

I got down and checked my arrow, had a little bit of everything on it - meat, light blood, dark blood, hair, and a lot of tallow. I pulled out to go to work and gave him 6ish hours to succumb to what could have been a less than ideal shot. Went back out with a few buddies and trailed a scant blood trail for a few hundred yards before finding him piled up by a spring fed creek.

My biggest whitetail to date and to have done it with a bow on public land makes this one so much more special. I haven't scored him yet, give me your guesses!! Hes a 5 x 6 with a good sized additional point by his right brow tine (12 total points).

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Damn, that's a great deer and a great hunt too. Leaving him out there on public while you worked had to make for some day-long anxiety. Congrats! 146"?

 

[huntngolf]

That’s a great deer, I’m guessing 171

 

[Skerhunter]

Nebraska Public Land Archery Whitetail
I hadnt bow hunted since 2014, only rifle/ muzzleloader. Bought a new bow in August and put in the work. It paid off in a big way. Was up to 15-20 sits this year and things were starting to turn into a grind.

Woke up last Friday and decided to sit in the stand for a short time before work (boss was probably not pumped). Around 8:15 a.m. this guy appeared at a 100 yards. I pulled him closer with several grunts and snort-wheeze eventually coming to about 35 yards with a hard quartering-toward shot. I loosed an arrow as this was going to be my only opportunity.

I got down and checked my arrow, had a little bit of everything on it - meat, light blood, dark blood, hair, and a lot of tallow. I pulled out to go to work and gave him 6ish hours to succumb to what could have been a less than ideal shot. Went back out with a few buddies and trailed a scant blood trail for a few hundred yards before finding him piled up by a spring fed creek.

My biggest whitetail to date and to have done it with a bow on public land makes this one so much more special. I haven't scored him yet, give me your guesses!! Hes a 5 x 6 with a good sized additional point by his right brow tine (12 total points).

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Great buck! I would say it’s pretty close to 160” - hope he beats it!

 

[Tegr0429]

11/11/24 I set up on a hot dropping white oak in south GA. 8 yard shot and a quick recovery. Can’t beat it.

 

[TheWhitetailNut]

Nebraska Public Land Archery Whitetail
I hadnt bow hunted since 2014, only rifle/ muzzleloader. Bought a new bow in August and put in the work. It paid off in a big way. Was up to 15-20 sits this year and things were starting to turn into a grind.

Woke up last Friday and decided to sit in the stand for a short time before work (boss was probably not pumped). Around 8:15 a.m. this guy appeared at a 100 yards. I pulled him closer with several grunts and snort-wheeze eventually coming to about 35 yards with a hard quartering-toward shot. I loosed an arrow as this was going to be my only opportunity.

I got down and checked my arrow, had a little bit of everything on it - meat, light blood, dark blood, hair, and a lot of tallow. I pulled out to go to work and gave him 6ish hours to succumb to what could have been a less than ideal shot. Went back out with a few buddies and trailed a scant blood trail for a few hundred yards before finding him piled up by a spring fed creek.

My biggest whitetail to date and to have done it with a bow on public land makes this one so much more special. I haven't scored him yet, give me your guesses!! Hes a 5 x 6 with a good sized additional point by his right brow tine (12 total points).

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This is a great buck! Public land and archery? I'm not even going to give you an internet score, I've already done too many this year and it's a slammer anyway..

 

[Big Flounder]

We bought 15 acres here in Indiana three years ago, and this past weekend I shot my first buck from it. Something special about hunting your own land.

 

[MT_Fin]

With the warm season we have had so far, it’s been slower than normal, but was able to get take this buck on a fun little morning hunt with my kids along.

 

[Stache Attack]

Opening day whitetail, watched from June on had two other bucks with him in June two different bucks in October too fun in the prairie to pass up

 

[ArcherAdam]

11.4 was a very active morning for me. Ending up seeing 6 bucks and got this guy. My home state of Pennsylvania.

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[Primal-Understanding]

That’s a great deer, I’m guessing 171

Youre actually wildly close. Had my taxidermist score him. He scored 170 7/8” Gross


[mention]TheWhitetailNut [/mention]
[mention]Skerhunter [/mention]
[mention]Broomd [/mention]

 

[snag11x]

My MT archery buck and his gf

 

[CatskillsBorn]

I brought my friend James along to my family's annual trip back up to the Catskills in NY where my brother and I are third generation hunters. James and I both got does. He wanted to carry his down the mountain on a pole... all the older guys loved seeing that.

 

[Doc Holliday]

Been a couple of years since I shot a buck. Thankful this guy came cruising through the hardwood edge of some 2 yr old planted pines yesterday afternoon around 5:15pm. If you look closely you can see where he had a wound under his ear, I assume from fighting. He had another matching one on the other side, and one on the back of his skull just below the base of his antlers.


Looking forward to putting some meat in my empty freezer.

 

[Trial153]

 

[Primal-Understanding]

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Been a couple of years since I shot a buck. Thankful this guy came cruising through the hardwood edge of some 2 yr old planted pines yesterday afternoon around 5:15pm. If you look closely you can see where he had a wound under his ear, I assume from fighting. He had another matching one on the other side, and one on the back of his skull just below the base of his antlers.

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Looking forward to putting some meat in my empty freezer.

Sweet buck! Congrats


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[CenterPunch]

KS archery private land 11/06