Pretty cool looking rack. Do you think it is genetic or does it look like he has been injured on both sides of his body in the past?
Congrats on the match.

Nice going. Are you growing these guys at work??

Great looking deer Kooty. I would love to have just one deer that big on my wall!
Congrats again.

I do have an android phone. I’ll have to check to see if Virgin caries any card readers made for their phones. I wasn’t able to tell if all readers were made for a model of phone or was that all marketing?

You have more willpower to fill a tag than I do when it gets as that far below zero.

What was the oldest age and est. score of the oldest or biggest deer you actually could have tagged out on this year but let walk? I’m behind your standards of what a shooter is to you 100%, I’m just curious. Better luck next year!

It sounds like you are wanting a high rise gazebo!

Good luck these next few weeks.

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I feel like the flat cutting plane of the 2-blade kind-of screwed me… because it depends on how the blades are aligned at entry which determines in which direction it cuts. Think about it… you could be a half inch from the heart… but if your blades are cutting parallel vs perpendicular to it… you won’t touch it.

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I like the Grim Reeper broadheads . The fly great an are deadly on deer . I have full confidence in them

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The blood trails are amazing…like going for a walk in the park. The sharper the blades, the more blook will fall.
Here is a link to the Razorcut SS that I shoot. After harvesting an animal and cleaning the dirt and fat off this head. I snapped it back closed and it was looking like it was ready to use again. Nothing was bent. It is fully functional.
http://www.cabelas.com/product/Hunting/Archery/Broadheads-Points/Mechanical%7C/pc/104791680/c/104693580/sc/104237280/i/103986180/Grim-Reaper-Razorcut-SS8482-Broadheads/727527.uts?destination=%2Fcatalog%2Fbrowse%2Fmechanical%2Fgrim-reaper%2F_%2FN-1100029%2B1000003560%2FNe-1000003560%2FNs-CATEGORY_SEQ_103986180%3FWTz_l%3DSBC%253BMMcat104791680%253Bcat104693580%253Bcat104237280%26WTz_st%3DGuidedNav%26WTz_stype%3DGNU%26gclid%3DCIqLu5r6k7sCFUsV7Aod5VEABg%26gclsrc%3Daw.ds&WTz_l=SBC%3BMMcat104791680%3Bcat104693580%3Bcat104237280%3Bcat103986180

Great job.

What a STUD!

WOW!

Wow, that is a some nice mass.

Come on Zack, I’m pullin’ for you….don’t forget to breathe.

Good luck to all 3 of you.

Head down. This allows the deer to cool quicker. The quicker you can cool the meat and the internal cavity of the deer the better off you will be. This is what I was taught.

Head down. This allows the deer to cool quicker. The quicker you can cool the meat and the internal cavity of the deer the better off you will be. This is what I was taught.

Great looking buck.

Great deer.

Great job. Way to go.

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Wasn’t opener in mid-September???

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Simply Awesome!

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Dino was on of my first IDO and Mn friends when I moved here. He is a good man!!

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One of the best.

I might not have the time, money or resources to do all the things in the woods that I want, but the desire to just be out there will never fade. I working very hard to start that fire in both of my kids.

The Buck Roar sounds as good blown softly as it does when you make LOUD grunts with it.

I have had the best luck when I mix tending grunts with can calling back and forth.

Great job.

Great job, what a nice looking deer.

I saw one doe early AM on Saturday and 8 doe and fawns in the last half hour of shooting light. I saw nothing on Sunday…but it did snow all day long. I happened across one small rub close to a shooting lane on one of my stands.

Great shot on a great buck.

I’m not sure if you have looked here already or not. Here is a link to a very informative camera review website. I hope this helps you out.

http://www.trailcampro.com/

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As the discussion has indicated, buck to doe ratio certainly changes the effectiveness and timing of scents, types of scent, and calls; as does temperatures/moon phases/hours or daylight etc. What do you think your buck/doe ratio is where you hunt? A general area of the state may help for others to chime in on what has worked for them. Are you looking to shoot the dominant buck on the property, a buck your happy with, or the best opportunity buck given the time you have to hunt the land? These are items that will definitely change how you can approach scents to increase your opportunity at success.

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I don’t have a trail camera to fall back on for solid buck to doe ratios. But last year I only hunted three weekends starting Halloween weekends through mid-December. I recorded seeing way more adult bucks and a couple of mature bucks than does. I would say 2 bucks to every doe. I won’t venture to say this is the norm, but it was what I was seeing on this property on those weekends.

I hunt 80 private acres in zone 156….near Finlayson. The deer have been very receptive to calling.

I have only been hunting (and bowhunting) for 6 years, so killing any adult buck is a major accomplishment. I have yet to shoot a buck to score over 100″. Each year I shoot a bigger one than the year before and I have been so thankful for each deer I have taken.