2025 Whitetail Meatpole

[Flben]

 

[iwearshorts]

Archery button buck and rifle doe. Pa public land.

 

[cktraider]

Target buck down! Broke off a crab claw, 11 pts.

 

[Subs]

Pocono Mountain buck. PA

 

[MannyMedeiros21]

Full freezers over here. It’s been cool having my son along with me for a bunch of hunts this year. He absolutely loves it

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[Timbers]

My 13 year old son iowa bow buck

 

[MannyMedeiros21]

Another one this morning


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[tylobear52]

After still-hunting the ridge I knew he was bedding on from sun up to about 1:00pm, he stood up with his girlfriend at 40 yards. My biggest VA public land buck so far.

 

[ColPenguin]

I hadn't seen much deer activity the first week of WV firearm season until the evening of Black Friday. Seemed they started post-rut feeding more aggressively that evening and were hitting acorns. Had really thick fog the first morning, and had a miserable rainy sit second day. Only saw smaller spikes and does through Thanksgiving.

It was 22F at 7 AM on Saturday. The sun was not risen, but it was legal shooting time. I heard heavy pawing at leaves, I assumed to get at acorns, on the knob behind the tree stand. It was too dark to see what was making noise in the woods.

Eventually, a deer stepped into the overgrown jeep trail and I could see its body profile. I tried to get binos on it, but they were half steamed up from the cold. I was eventually able to see his head gear and confirm it was a buck.

He stopped to browse acorns about 20 yds from my stand. Waited for him to step out from behind a tree and took my shot. He ran down the hill and heard him stop and crash. Waited until sunrise to trail him.

I found a very unique heavy bodied non-typical 2 x 4. It appeared his right tine has split off and has metallic residue embedded in the antler break. Possibly someone shot at, and broke off an antler.

 

[OXN939]

 

[SirChooCH]

MI "Muzzleloader" season buck. They opened it up for straight wall as well in my area and worked out. 34 yards with the new 400 legend RA gen 2 and he flopped maybe twice.

 

[Bigboone1988]

IL 11/02 came in following a few does.

 

[TopherDave]

a torn ear.

Game Farm!
(joking)

 

[TopherDave]

2025 Hunting Highlight!
I got my 8 yo niece of these two. She harvest 4 deer opening day, 3 does and the buck. Snuck her out of school middle of the week and got her another doe!
I use to trash talk my brother’s 6.5 and competition shooting rifles, but they have now found a place in my heart. Pretty special day and memories I will take to my death bed.

 

[Bowhunter46]

Montana Mountain Whitetail. Cool old warrior. 3 Broken tines and a torn ear.

What trijicon is that?

 

[rileybassman]

What trijicon is that?

tenmile - 3-18

 

[Q_Sertorius]

I took my friend and his son, Jack, out whitetail hunting on the farm yesterday. As we got to the pasture in the center of the farm, I spotted a very nice buck in the middle of a hayfield about 375 yards away. We immediately got down off the crest of the hill, crossed a creek, and used the rolling terrain and fence lines to get Jack within 220 yards of the buck, who was still standing in the middle of the field. The buck was watching us, but for whatever reason his protective instincts deserted him. Jack went prone, using my backpack as a rest, and dropped him with a single 6.5 PRC 143-grain ELDX from his Tikka. The buck was slightly quartering to us. Bullet entered his neck, breaking it completely, clipped a lung, and exited the far shoulder.

A great specimen of whitetail for our part of the world, especially for a first buck.

I was super happy for my friend and his son, who is one of those kids who gives a cynical old veteran some hope for this country’s future.

 

[North of 60]

A little 10 point:

 

[Patrick Duffy]

10 pointer out of the Adirondack mountains in NY. 11/21/2025