Thread: Good start for deer season

Today was the best opening day of deer season I ever had---bagged a fat doe this morning and got a stud eight-point this afternoon (182 lbs which is big for a Clarke County piney woods buck). Will post a photo later.

Now, if I can just make it through Thanksgiving with the grandkids, I'll be O.K.

Happy turkey day, everybody.

The closest I've got to shooting a deer so far this season, was having a doe run across the 100yard rifle range at Gun Port aka First Class Arms this afternoon. It was a beautiful day for a Range Day with the Family.

Talk about a bunch of itchy trigger fingers. >

congrat's

That was a GREAT opening day !!!!! Way to go !!!!!!!!!

Thanks, guys, the buck was a really good one in that he ran about a hundred yards after I shot him and died right by the side of a logging road. I have a pulley rigged up for the roll bar of my old Wrangler and I hoisted him right in and gave him a ride back to camp. Had to drag the doe up a steep hill (a few feet at a time, resting frequently---there's no use in me and the doe being dead at the same time out there in the woods.)

it is a rarity I ever drag anything now..... unless down hill for a short ways....I have hundreds of feet of rope and many snatch blocks to help change direction of the pull with the atv if I can't just get there with it....my place is kinda steep :boohoo:....that's why I hunt on the top of it....everything is down hill :headbang:

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Now that's doing it in style!

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Haywire are u near coffeeville?got some friends that live there,they catfish commerically.

I'm out east of Grove Hill, about 25 miles from C'ville. If you've ever heard of Orange Hill, you know where I am.