2025 Whitetail Meatpole

[Upstateram]

Son shot his best buck last night behind the house. Western PA. Crossbow. 13 scoreable.

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Congrats!

 

[Truaxdw]

My son killed this buck in a swamp in Virginia, he was up moving at four in the afternoon right before that northeastern hit last weekend.

 

[cruizer]

2nd day of ML season in zone 1 of SC. Came in alone on an Oak flat at 7:30am.

 

[Fabel.52]

Got my first. A friend from church gave me a old Savage 30-06. 150 grain federal powershock (muzzle velocity 2930 7 shots yesterday). He was 50yards away in a treeline walking when I shot. He did a 20 yard death sprint and dropped. No blood no exit.

 

[Dr.Spaniel]

Way to go yall!

 

[Thess87]

My youngest got her pb last night!!

 

[huntcookwrite]

On the board with my Florida archery whitetail.

Was on the road for business, which took me right by my hunting lease. Popped into the woods for an afternoon/evening sit, and arrowed him a little before 7pm.

Quartered him up and threw him over my shoulder, to the work vehicle, and into the cooler, and proceeded to drive him all over the state of GA for the week on a sales trip (head left at camp in a cooler per CWD regs.)

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Finished up the euro last weekend
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Looks great! How do you do your Euro mounts?

 

[huntcookwrite]

Doubled up pre-rut the other night. Had a doe come flying out of the woods and stop under my stand. Put an arrow through her, and then 10 minutes later, this guy followed her out hot on the trail! I had already lowered my bow and was about to climb down when he came, but he was so distracted, was able to bring it back up and get a great shot on him, too! Easy blood and they ended up dying about 20 yards from each other.

 

[Deerfield]

First whitetail of the year. PA early antlerless muzzleloader season with a .50 cal Flintlock.

 

[ctfxd3]

Was blessed to have a good start to the season so far. Public land in MA.

 

[MO00]

Last night in MO archery
80 pound Nexus 4 with Grizzlystik 250. Total arrow weight is right at 500gr. I bet the Grizzlystik guys would hate to know one of their arrows is tipped with a Grim Reaper Whitetail Special lol. 5 yard slightly quartering away shot. Angle was steep enough the broadhead implanted in his sternum which kept it from passing through. Watched him go 40 and fall over.

 

[iwearshorts]

Pa public land.

 

[Sooner]

A few Ok deer from this weekend for my boy and I.

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[FLS]

SE NC 8 pointer. Came out in a peanut field chasing a doe. Stopped broadside at 289, and a165 gr Tipped Game King out of my .308 Tikka did the job.

 

[Kenny Hart]

Looks great! How do you do your Euro mounts?

I appreciate it! I honestly just follow the Whitebone Creations guy on Youtube:

Generally boil the head in water with some Dawn until the meat looks pretty cooked and splits across the nose, then get to blasting. Hardest part is getting the water up to temp and at a stable rolling boil.

It usually takes one more boil and cleaning this way, then put in new water with about 1/2 gallon of Aquasilk or Baquacil from the pool store. With the skull put in from ambient temp, a fresh batch will get the skull about as white as it can just after it starts to boil.

Pressure wash one last time and let dry for a day. Seal the skull (only) with Mop-n-Glo (I'm sure a satin top coat would also work) and hang.

Just go easy, the pressure washer can really beat the skulls up if you try to rush, especially after being boiled.

My buddy does it the same way, but he never lets the water get to a boil, and just simmers for 3 hours instead. My brother makes the plaques that I use on everything.

 

[SirChooCH]

Well I got to track and gut my target buck the other night. However it was for my wife's 91 year old grandpa! Put it down from his old gun shack edge of the swamp at last light with his crossbow. 65 years he has been bowhunting and still going. This was his second buck of the year and he still got out the next day to try filling doe tags before it gets too cold to sit out there. Weighed 201 dressed on the scale.