Hunting and Fishing ***Picture Warning*** - Page 53

olds45512 · #**521** 12-02-2014, 10:23 AM

I think you guys that hunt will have an easy time getting bucks this year, its been a few years since I've seen a buck hit on the road but this year I've probably seen 100 bucks hit on the road and they all have the same sized antlers, I guess there must have been a ton of bucks born about 2 Yeats ago judging by there size.

IliketheRedcubs · #**522** 12-02-2014, 02:09 PM

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Originally Posted by kostendorf

IliketheRedcubs,
Nice score, they should fill the freezer up for the year. I saw lots of bucks that size here in Missouri but we've got a antler restriction. They must have 4 points on one side so they would have to be a 7 pointer to harvest.

Absolutely!! Can't wait to get them back from the processor so I can fire up the barbi!

Two of the bucks fit that qualification... the 8 point (obviously) and the 6 point, it had 4 on one side... really goofy looking!

zippy1 · #**523** 01-04-2015, 03:10 AM

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Originally Posted by IliketheRedcubs

Absolutely!! Can't wait to get them back from the processor so I can fire up the barbi!

Processor? A couple knives and a steel and throw in a couple buddies and you'll be a full blown processor. Plus that's where the fun is, and the satisfaction of doing it yourself gives you more appreciation for your accomplishment of harvesting the deer.
The bonus, you know your deer got cleaned up to your satisfaction, no hair, stomach content that may have slipped through during the process. Plus you know it's your deer, not someone's that hung out in below optimal conditions.
Then you can have the "barbi" going while your cutting slabbage

clint larson · #**524** 01-04-2015, 11:22 AM

One of my rifle deer this fall

clint larson · #**525** 01-04-2015, 11:24 AM

Another rifle deer from this fall, got him right at dark so didn't get very good pics

clint larson · #**526** 01-04-2015, 11:26 AM

Here is my December muzzleloader deer, he has two broke off points on his left side that I did not see as he was running with his good side towards me, I will fix them though, first deer I ever shot with a muzzleloader.

clint larson · #**527** 01-04-2015, 11:29 AM

And a few pheasants my buddy and I shot. I guided over 60 days for pheasant hunters this fall but these are the first ones that I shot myself this year, pretty sad.

PaulS · #**528** 01-04-2015, 12:35 PM

Sorry no pics but I am an avid flintlock deer hunter and yesterday I scored on one in the worst weather conditions for this type of hunting. PA has a several week primitive firearms season that only allows hunting with a flintlock ignition and no scopes. I have been hunting with a flintlock since the mid 70s and love it. Yesterdays deer was a few firsts for me. This was my first deer at our hunting camp, my first deer of the 2015 season, my first deer with my 1/48 twist barrel using 370 grain TC maxi balls, and my first deer with so much willing help to get it back to the truck. I was a watcher on this first drive of the day. Got up on a two person ladder stand with shooting rail and just settled in with the weather turned very bad for a flintlock. It started to rain and sleet. I heard a noise behind me and saw 3 deer coming into the area of the of the drive. They stopped about 60 yds away and I only had a clear shot at the head and neck of the antlerless one. The rifle performed very well and the deer dropped instantly with a perfect neck shot. One of the deer was a spike buck that ran just below me and stood there for nearly 10 minutes while I reloaded and sat there to make sure the one I shot was not going to get up. I finally got down and my deer was very dead. The weather was steadily going downhill and stopped any more drives as we would have become soaked with the moisture on the heavy brush. I love deer hunting with archery, modern firearms, inline muzzleloaders but the most satisfying deer is one hunted with the primitive flintlock rifle. Woo Hoo I am a happy hunter.

nikster · #**529** 01-04-2015, 12:42 PM

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Originally Posted by clint larson

One of my rifle deer this fall

That's a hum - dinger

Nik

zippy1 · #**530** 01-05-2015, 02:05 AM

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Originally Posted by clint larson

One of my rifle deer this fall

Nice buck Clint

holly smoke that dudes got some decent mass and great G-1's, 2's, 3's and fours! Is that a split G-1 on the left side? Did you run a tape over him?
What, about 16 1/2", 17" inside? Be great to see a side view of that joker. Sorry for all the questions but I love scoring whitetail antlers, there so interesting, being no two are alike. Gross score really tells the size of a buck, net's for fishing

Oh, and congrats on the others also