Archery Hunting Photos

[BuckmasterG]

Outstanding buck jnwb!!! It just fuels the fire for this weekend. Haven't seen a buck with that girth and width in quite some time, what day and month did you get it? Looks like a beautiful fall day.

Deerfishin, you're not a Joe are you? Look like a buddy of mine but it is hard to tell.

[deerfishin]

nope not a joe

[offdagrid]

Heres a mid west bruiser from the 2010 archery season…

[paceman]

Nice Deer ofdagrid!

[mrklean]

great lookin deer

[B-man715]

Great deer guys!!!

I forgot to post our unusual opener in Wisconsin in the photo dept.

Heres a short story with a few pics!

Usually myself and a few friends hope to take a couple does for some meat to begin the season. A nice buck seems hard to come by until the rut kicks in.

This year was a whole different story!

I'll keep this short; gotta get up early in the morning.

I lost my 80 acres that my future mother in law has let me hunt for the last 7 years. I have a few other private properties to hunt as well as a decent amount of public land in the area.

Looking at google earth I found a good spot of public land that borders a corn field. Some ground time found a beaten dirt path leading out of the public land into the corn. I figured it would be a good spot to take a doe heading into the corn before dark.

I took my climber into the woods around 2pm yesterday. Figuring it would be a fews hours or more until the deer started to move I was taken off guard when a small buck worked his way past my stand foraging on leaves. He was soon followed by 2 more small bucks doing the same. I thought that was the end of the action until I heard a fourth deer behind them.

I was already standing with bow in hand and caught a glimpse of antlers. The deer was 20 yards away, but I still had no idea of his size. He soon stepped out at 15 yards. I debated on shooting him, since it was only opening weekend and he wasn't the biggest deer I've ever shot; but work is again limiting my amount of time in the woods.

After a good shot on him and he didn't go far

An hour later he was in the back of the truck headed to the registration station when I found out that one of my best friends hit a nice buck too!

His didn't bleed much, though he made a perfect quartering away shot on it. He left him alone until dark and started tracking. By the time he found his deer (it only went 80 yards) I had mine caped and deboned.

We finished the night with a few beers and were very thankful for our time in the woods, and our time with friends.

I'm on the right and Nate is on the left

[Ohboytimmy]

I've been bowhunting for three years and never had the chance to take down a buck. I just shot this city 8 point buck at a 10arce private land in Minnetonka. The joy of shooting my first buck with a bow is something I never want to end.

[reinhard1]

Congradulations on that fine buck. good luck.

[DHost21]

Congrats on the deer! Thats great!

[NIBOWMAN]

Congrats on the great deer.

[mrklean]

congrats on your deer

[paceman]

Very nice buck! Great photos! The smiles say it all.

[bigbucks]

Great job, not a monster, but a very nice deer. I would think he's a 2.5 year-old.

[Rippinlip]

Nice deer guys!

[MattL]

I finally put a nice buck on the ground yesterday. I have a bunch of trail cam photos of him from last year and a couple from this year, but this was the first time I saw him in person. Only one of the photos was during daylight hours.

I hunted a stand near a bedding area that I usually let sit until late October-Early November. He came in right where I figured he would, but then he stopped and went straight downwind behind me. His nose came up and I figured he was out of there as he trotted back to where he came from. Then out of nowhere he decided to turn and come right past me in front. I hit him perfect at 20 yds and he ran about 50 yds over the ridge and expired by a creek.

He is a main frame 10 with split brow tines and an extra crab claw. I measured him a couple times with a few inches of variance, but I am expecting him to come in between 155 and 160 gross. As you can see from last years photo he didn't put on much height, but he added a lot of mass and width from last year.

This buck was nose to the ground the whole time rubbing up every tree in his way. It won't be long now and big things will be happening out there!

[paceman]

Great Buck MattL!

[BuckKiller]

Deer from oct. 8. I shot it thinking it was a doe turns out it was a botton buck. It came in by itself I know it was by itself because I watched him for 30-40 minutes before I got an open shot. Mother is MIA. Oh well its meat in the freezer

[Bear55]

Great Buck MattL

[certified jumbo]

Solid deer mattL. a true monster.

nice button buck as well, those inside tenders must have been good.

[Stratosman]

Very nice!

[james_walleye]

Shot this guy this morning.

[Andrew Erickson]

nice buck!! glad you found him! congrats

[BuckKiller]

nice button buck as well, those inside tenders must have been good.

Thanks it was the biggest bodied button buck I've ever saw, must have been an early fawn... and yes it was very good

[96trigger]

nice job everyone. Jamie, looks like you had him pretty well patterned. Great buck.

[Scott M]

Great deer guys!