Finally a shooter

  • kooty
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    August 2, 2012 at 12:36 am #203159

    Our first definite shooter for us.

    kooty
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    August 2, 2012 at 12:41 am #121722

    A next year deer.

    My hit lst doe.

    bob_bergeson
    cannon falls
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    August 2, 2012 at 2:22 am #121729

    Both bucks are darn nice. I can’t wait to see how that 2nd buck finishes

    huntalot60
    wisconsin
    Posts: 559
    August 2, 2012 at 5:00 am #121745

    Quote:

    Both bucks are darn nice. I can’t wait to see how that 2nd buck finishes


    I was thinking the same thing.

    kooty
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    August 2, 2012 at 12:46 pm #121758

    Ya, that 2nd buck is something else. He’s no wider than his ears, but he’s got some good mass and character. Unfortunately, this is a perfect example of the deer that get shot each fall by our neighbors. Hopefully he gets smart and stays on our land. Dad and I have agreed to let him go one more year.

    lucas_zemlicka
    Montana
    Posts: 231
    August 2, 2012 at 1:41 pm #121761

    Like the split tine (G3 maybe) on the 2nd buck!

    kooty
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    August 2, 2012 at 2:00 pm #121762

    Yup, he should be easy to spot. Don’t see that trait much around our house. I think you’d have to kick a soccer ball pretty hard to get it in his horns right now unfortunately.

    bigbuckdown
    WI
    Posts: 216
    August 2, 2012 at 4:23 pm #121765

    The smaller buck in the pics has a LOT of growing left to do. You’ll be suprised where he ends up. I think that doe is still carrying a fawn rare but sometimes it can happen.

    kooty
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    August 2, 2012 at 4:27 pm #121766

    I don’t have any way to prove it, but I think she may be the mother of last year’s triplets. Just a theory I’ve got.

    bigbuckdown
    WI
    Posts: 216
    August 2, 2012 at 6:06 pm #121773

    Or if she lost her fawn/didn’t have one. Sure packing on the pounds!

    kooty
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    August 2, 2012 at 6:21 pm #121774

    We were pheasant hunting our place last fall on opener. I was standing with the other guys posting/blocking. I could hear something down in the tall switch grass, around the stock pond, just growling at me. I thought it must be a coon or badger. I was ready to run it down if it showed it’s face.

    This went on for quite some time, when all of a sudden one of the yearlings bolts. Then the shooting started. Another yearling bolts, then another. Not surprised, I’m just standing there waiting for Ma to bolt. Nope, the growling starts and the blowing. At this point I’m pretty confused. Sure enough, right where the sounds were coming from, less than 20 feet from me the old doe gets up and runs off. I could tell she was an older girl, but was in pretty tough shape from the triplets.

    Got me to wondering if she would even be in good enough shape that fall to conceive. Who knows, but I did sleep in a Holiday Inn once.

    bennyj
    sunrise mn
    Posts: 542
    August 6, 2012 at 11:49 am #121827

    Nice looking deer! Most of my hit list are what you have pictured in that last photo…

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