Thread: curious to as what people have killed so far this year deer hunting

1456785_10202042962547041_1056904206_n.jpgKilled a little six

No deer but I headed back out to Mobile Bay after the squall line passed through Saturday morning.
Once again saw hundreds of gadwalls but only had a couple of singles and one pair actually come into the decoys.
The rest landed 75-200 yards from the blind and formed huge rafts, hard to compete with a thousand blind-shy edjamacated live decoys swimming 200 yards away from the blind....
Duck hunting here sure aint no duck dynasty, it aint as easy as shown on tv....

Luckily I was shooting well, scratched down 3 of a kind, which is a decent hand in poker and in duck hunting:
Gadwalls011114A.jpg

I didn't ever take deer hunting serious in the twenty years I hunted (napped) but this weekend a friend talked me into going so I got all my stuff gathered up and finally killed my first deer. A small doe buy none the less my first deer.

still a couple weeks for me, maybe I'll get back out and fill the last land owner tag....last week got busted by the deer right before dark so gave it time to cool off....I have had a good season already with the 2....that was shared with a friend that didn't get any, but still may try a time or two

got the granddaughter a bow today she has been wanting to bow hunt....a happy granddad

I stacked the freezer this year with does (8 total). No bucks this year saw plenty of small bucks but couldn't bring myself to stick one. 5 of the does came by bow 1 by muzzle loader and 2 by rifle

I've put five does in the freezer and that's all I want. The prize so far was a black coyote. She came trotting in at last light and I thought I was seeing a wolf as she had her fur all fluffed up in the cold. I had to shoot quickly since she wasn't stopping, and got her too far back---she took off down the hill through some of the thickest stuff you can imagine. She made it all the way to the bottom before the Lord called her home, and between the blood trailing down and the drag back up in the dark, it like to have done me in, too. I do have photos, but not in a format that will easily let me post them---just so you know this ain't a fish story. She wasn't solid black like a Glock pistol, but had some brown mottled in---I thought about a mount until I found out the price equaled a new rifle. Would have looked sort of like I'd mounted somebody's German shepherd, anyway. She weighed in at just under fifty pounds, but that drag up the hill must have worn off a whole bunch of weight because by the time I'd tripped and fallen for the third time on the drag back, she was feeling like she was up around eighty. Hope y'all stack 'em up here at the end.

Originally Posted by CarlF

No deer but I headed back out to Mobile Bay after the squall line passed through Saturday morning.
Once again saw hundreds of gadwalls but only had a couple of singles and one pair actually come into the decoys.
The rest landed 75-200 yards from the blind and formed huge rafts, hard to compete with a thousand blind-shy edjamacated live decoys swimming 200 yards away from the blind....
Duck hunting here sure aint no duck dynasty, it aint as easy as shown on tv....

Luckily I was shooting well, scratched down 3 of a kind, which is a decent hand in poker and in duck hunting:
Gadwalls011114A.jpg

It's tough when they are rafted up like that on big water . Especially if it is a Bluebird Day . You did good to get he three !

Pitiful end to duck season. Once again, saw thousands of gadwalls but none would come close, most were rafted up in flocks of 50 to 250. No big divers.
Most frustrating duck season I have ever had since moving to Mobile in 1997.

The most exciting thing that happened to me was catching the skunk that had been raiding my bird feeder. I caught it in a live trap which I dragged off an appropriate distance before dispatching it. Phew!

I did pass up an eight point buck just before the big freeze. He was a decent size, but my freezer is adequately stocked and I didn't want to shoot him just because he had some mediocre headgear---decent but not impressive. He should be better next year if I can see him. He is one of those bucks that, if you were to see him in the back of somebody's pickup, you'd say, "Nice deer," out of politeness and think no more about him.

Actually, during this period of enforced inactivity, I've been thinking about a rating system for bucks and I'd appreciate all the help I can get. What I've come up with:

Little buck---usually somebody's first buck, a spike or forkhorn, or one for the dinner table.

Good buck---Six point or basket rack eight point, usually a two year-old buck.

Nice buck---Heavier horns or wider rack six, eight or so points that would look good on the barn.

Real nice buck---This is where we're thinking about scoring the antlers and for sure putting them where everybody can see them---probably a skull mount.

Crazy buck---From the conformation of antlers, this one looks like he rides the short bus. Unusual, An oddity that may warrant a mount of some sort just because it's so strange. May be surpassingly ugly.

Oh, sh!t buck---This is the one that everybody in the area has been trying to get a shot at for the late four years. Well formed, heavy, wide, even rack. The mount goes over the fireplace or the TV.

Ohmygodinheaven! buck, also known as a "Joe Darter"---This buck has been missed several times because when the hunters saw the rack it shook them up so badly that they just fired in the deer's general direction. This one will place in Boone and Crockett or Pope and Young---will not only require an excellent mount, but may need a whole new room for its display.

Ain't no such animal---Usually seen right at dark and the hunter describing him is seldom believed and when the tale is told, whiskey is usually involved. None have been killed so far as I know, or they are imported exotics.


O.K. folks, help me out with subdivisions and additions.

Without too much pondering we need to add an "Oh NO" buck... this is a buck that started out as the Oh,Sh!t buck but after I drive the 60 miles with my blood dog and find him he turns out to be a "Good Buck"... or "Nice Buck"

I did when I found him pull a brush top over his head throw my coat over the brush top and then hollared to the shooter...."I found him"...LOL