That’s a slob Poomunk! Congrats 
Hank is sitting with me this morning, just had two does come flying by 8 yards in front of us! Then they stopped at 75 yards on my side of the blind
Waited a few seconds to listen for a buck, then pulled the trigger on one of them, mule kicked and saw her go down 
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Crawled into the same stand i shot my bow buck in this morning. Not an ideal ‘gun’ stand but a good starting point and easy to slip into for a morning hunt. Nothing but squirrels from daybreak till 10 AM and then all hell broke loose. What started out as a buck fawn that snuck in on me turned into 6 deer in total, 4 adult bucks, the fawn and one unknown. Somehow they came in without me hearing their footsteps (this area has a lot of leaves on the ground and I usually can hear them walking in), which the way I set this stand up (for bow) you can’t see them till they are nearly on top of you (when they come from the south, same way my bow buck came) so in no time flat it went from no activity to having 6 deer in under 40 yards. Something spooked the buck fawn and they all scattered. About 20 minutes later i catch sight of a nice buck coming in at about 60 yards. Looked wide as all get out and decided I would try to shoot him if I could, wasn’t a buck I recognized but it’s not uncommon to have travelling bucks in November. He gave me a clean shot at about 40 yards, and he dropped right where he stood. This was the first deer I’ve shot with the 6.5 creed moor, while he never took another step I will say the exit hole and would channel wasn’t all that big so shot placement is definitely key (bullet broke the shoulder and blew out the lungs, just missed the heart). This rifle will be my sons once he fits it so thinking I may test some heavier bullets to try and slow it down to give bullet more time to expand (currently shooting 130gr hornady interlocks).
This is the first time in 30 years of hunting in WI I have filled both my bow and rifle buck tag.
Good job bud, both good bucks to. What a great season.
I didn’t realize Wisconsin issued a bow buck tag and a rifle buck tag. Not sure how I never knew that.
^^^^ And you don’t need to buy a special additional tag for muzzleloader. Your gun tag covers it.
Congrats poomunk! That’s a dandy buck.
Good job bud, both good bucks to. What a great season.
I didn’t realize Wisconsin issued a bow buck tag and a rifle buck tag. Not sure how I never knew that.
I didn’t know that either. They have more deer than Mn does though too.
If you want to see a serious collection of Wisconsin heads, take a drive to Alma and stop in at the Red Ram bar right on the highway downtown.
If you want to see a serious collection of Wisconsin heads, take a drive to Alma and stop in at the Red Ram bar right on the highway downtown.
If I find my self in the area I will have to do that.
Hunting new ground this afternoon hopefully with better luck horns, no horns.. don’t care.
Here’s the one we got this morning, it looked a little bigger when it sprinted by and was in the scope for two seconds when they stopped 
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very nice!!
Hunting up at the family farm was pretty good for our crew. We filled 2 of 4 buck tages. My brother inlaw and niece both got 3.5 year old bucks. Best part of the weekend was my niece and nephew. They hunted together for the first time on opener. 7:25am they had her deer laying in the field ready for us to pickup. Was great to see them work together and sure they will remember it forever. I head back up on Wednesday and hope to bring a doe home if a mature buck doesnt show up.
This deer with the goofy rack was so beat up from fighting. It was incredible how many wounds he had on that left side of his face, ears and neck. Its hard to see in the photo but he looked like a pin cusion when we took the hide off.
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