Calling all you great white hunters

[fiver]

here we count each side so you end up with 2x3's or 4x5's and the eye guards don't count as an X, even if they are 6"s long.
they will be mentioned as 'with eye guards' though.
i have a little antler set on the wall that's a 3xo with 2 eye guards... both on the same side.

 

[L Ross]

I have found mature bucks to be less palatable than does, fawn, and bucks a year and a half old. I shot a doer one time that was so old the DNR's white tail specialist could not age it other than to say it was 13+ years old. Without being prompted he asked if it was shot in Price or Bayfield County. I told him Price, and he was nodding his head and smiling. He said those were the only two counties where deer lived to be that old. This was prior to the return of Timber Wolves to that area.
As old as that doe was she still tasted better than an adult buck in rut or near post rut condition. However she was tough.
My favorite venison comes from young deer and that is what I shoot.
There is a gigantic 16 point buck living on our property in the valley of the giants. Potentially over a score of 200. If it walked by me in the stand I may indeed shoot it. It appears that this buck has survived our lengthy bow season and gun season.

 

[Missionary]

They do not get old by repeatedly doing dumb unwary actions.
Another reason I like river bottoms. Most hunters are not willing to learn how to hunt and be a part of the river bottom. As the old saying goes,"if it was easy everyone would be doing it".

 

[Rushcreek]

I always had success hunting the creek and river bottoms on very windy days- the days the other guys stay home”because it’s too windy”….

 

[Tomme boy]

I have killed more deer off of fence rows that have shrubs and tall grass than in the timber. The smart deer here learn real fast not to be in the timbers after the first deer season. During second season they are hard to find if you don't know what to look for.

 

[L Ross]

I have killed more deer off of fence rows that have shrubs and tall grass than in the timber. The smart deer here learn real fast not to be in the timbers after the first deer season. During second season they are hard to find if you don't know what to look for.

Three years ago on the last Sunday of our 9 day deer gun season, Sue and I saw 27 deer in small scattered groups, sneak out of our neighbor’s woods and bed down in our 7 acre prairie. There is a lot of tall grass and they just bed down and disappear. And those were just what we could see from the family room window. They’d slip out of the woods and hit the brushy fence row, grab a drink at the spring, catch another fence row and slip into the prairie.

 

[fiver]

they'll do that down by the Lake here too.
they get out there in the tall timothy grass and cat tails then your lucky to see their ears.