HSO Deer Photo's

[certified jumbo]

Our season got off to a slow start. It was our worst bow season as far as seeing deer in a long time. Possibly since the bucks only years of the mid 90's. Then the late Oct. bow hunt was equally as poor. Then around the Nov. 9th the deer came out of the woodwork. Bucks rotating through scrapes one after another all day long. However, there was only one buck we wanted to shoot this year. Wacky Rack he was. A 4.5 year old heavy bodied 5 pointer.

Only my uncle was to hunt this farm and the rest of us hunted a different farm. He was only going to shoot Wacky. After hunting opening rifle opener Saturday and Sunday he passed on 7 different bucks. But on Monday night Wacky came out about 4:45 and met his match. My uncle got him. He field dressed 225 pounds and his widest inside spread was 18" which was his tip to tip. Cool thing is we have a trail cam pic of him from another food plot a half mile away at 3:15 the same day. An hour and a half before he was shot.

As for the rest us we shot does and another farm to fill our tags. We have about 6 or 7 different 2 year olds that survived rifle season on our main farm that we shot wacky on. So next year should be good.

Here's a few pics of Wacky. One just before he was shot and one from earlier in the week. Check out his neck and front shoulders in this first pic.

Here he is just prior to getting shot working a scrape over.

The big 5 point

My happy uncle!!! We were happy too, as it was definitely his turn to get the big one. Even if it was only a 5pt...

[analyzer]

Love the Scrape photo CJ!

[analyzer]

Ya know, NOwiser, I absolutely loved that photo you posted a couple years ago, of you paddling your brute out of the boundary waters, on a snow banked river. It was one of the best screen savers I've had.

I've casually considered hunting the boundary waters, but have been a little concerned about getting "iced-in". I'd love to hear your frozen river story.

By the way, I bought a Viper Climber this year from a guy who only used it once. I did not use it at all. I'm not sure I will. I bought it with one particular hunting spot in mind, but when I pre-scouted someone else picked out the same tree. 2 mile walk. Go figure.

I normally hunt from Ground blinds and tend to prefer that.

I'd love a repost of your snowy river pic.

Garrett.

[johnsd16]

After never having shot a decent buck in my life I scored twice in 2013 (nice symmetrical 8 in MN shotgun). I hunted with a good friend and a sort of mentor to me for trapping and deer hunting. We used to work together and he has some really nice property, though small, he's killed tons of super bucks off of it. I had worked 41 of 48 hours and slept 6 in the last 60 but climbed in the stand at 9 am on saturday for WI opener. I saw a ton of deer and mid day had a bunch of deer bed down about 80 yds upwind of me. One was a 100" or so 8pt that literally flopped down like a dog after a hunt. It proceed to fall sound asleep for 15 min or more off and on all day. At times it had its nose in the dirt and others it was laid out flat like a dog in the living room.

I froze my tail off all day 20' up in a tree and with 5 min left I couldn't stand to shiver any more like I had for the last nearly 8 hours so I got down a few minutes early to hunt my way back to the road. I saw a bunch of deer working their way into standing corn and one that just stood and stared at me around 80 yds away looked big, I quickly checked him with the binos then in the scope all in a matter of less than two econds and pulled the trigger on a really cool deer. He fell where he stood. Not sure what you call his frame 4x5 maybe with a split G2 and an 8" drop tine with tons of mass. I saw the drop tine right before I shot.

244lbs on the hoof with part of the rack still touching the ground. An amazing experience with a great friend, tough conditions and a unique buck. My buddy had never seen this deer, ever, and we think he is pretty old. We later found out the neighbor had it on a camera earlier in the fall that was actually on another property 3 or so miles away.

[tunrevir]

johnsd16, That is a great trophy with a heck of a story to go with it!

Tunrevir~

[paceman]

Great Bucks Guys!

[MahtowaDave]

Even without the drop tine, that is one cool buck! Add the drop tine and it is amazing! Nice job! Congrats!

[KNIGHT]

Got this guy Saturday afternoon of slug opener in SE MN. My biggest to date.

[Abndoc]

My 10 year olds first deer tonight in Wisconsin. 6 pt, busted off left side. Best moment for us together in the woods ever. 81 yard shot. Double lung!

[jdog]

now thats awesome good one for the kid

[fishuhalik]

Great deer guys & gals!!! Congrats on the first deer. Can't wait to share that moment with my son, hopefully next year!!!

[certified jumbo]

Nice pics!!!

[CANOPY SAM]

Great buck Knight! Love those heavy split browtines. He was a big old swamp bruiser.

Congrats to you and your boy Abndoc! That's good stuff right there.

[eyeguy 54]

oink oink KNIGHT! NICE!!

[phorn]

Got this one on Saturday evening.

[96trigger]

Nice job phorn.

[Fever]

Phorn, is that the 8 point in your avatar pic? looks very similar.

I absolutely love checking cameras, getting pics of multiple bucks / deer then having encounters with those deer. Even better if you can harvest "the" one you want and put him on the wall and put a nice framed picture of him next to the mount.

[phorn]

I believe it is. I had so many pictures of different bucks. He wasn't the biggest I had. Those dam deer are so darn smart.haha I think checking the camera is part of the fun..I should really sit down and go through my pictures and count how many bucks I had pictures of. Even though you don't see half of them when the season starts its still fun taking there pictures. I'm a hell of a deer hunter with a trail camera.

[certified jumbo]

phorn. nice deer!!! congrats.

I agree on the trail cams. Almost every buck we shoot we have pics of, very cool. Trail cams really dictate where we hunt, no doubt.

[slimngrizzly]

Nice buck phorn!

I couldn't agree more! Multiple years of pictures AND SHEDS is the ultimate! Going full circle with a whitetail buck! Nothing better to me!

[jeff127]

Here is a pic of a great buck my 7 yr old shot in Missouri on the 2nd weekend of their gun season. He came in chasing a doe and stopped 18 yards and he made a perfect shot. Funny thing was we literally rehearsed the scenario just 10 minutes prior as I kept telling him no matter how boring it can get things can change in a hurry so always be ready. It was his first deer and was a moment I will never forget!!

[DonBo]

That's awesome Jeff! A moment that will be remembered forever. Congrats to that young man and to you for sharing the outdoors with him.

[paceman]

That is awesome Jeff127! What kind of a gun/caliber did the youngster use?

[jeff127]

Its in the photo....AR-15 .223 I wanted something with light recoil and adjustable stock for him as most youth model rifle stocks are still a bit too long for him to get a good shooting form. I thought it was better to be able to move up in calibers than force him into something he would struggle with. He LOVES shooting that gun.

[Stratosman]

That's awesome Jeff! Lucky 7 year old! for sure.

Congrats to everyone else as well!

I was able to shoot this deer the 16th. I had him on camera in august in velvet and hadn't seen him all season either in person or camera, just goes to show that they will come around eventually. Same thing as last season, had him in August and didn't see him again until the day I shot him. Passed a ton of immature bucks through bow season and the first weekend of shotgun and the patience finally paid off again... I spotted him working a ridge about 120 yards out and grunted at him to get his attention and hit the can call and he came on a string, shot him at 20 yards as he was still coming. Pretty exciting.... not sure who all uses the "can" or who has luck with it, but this is the 3rd buck I have shot out of this tree in the last 3 years and the 5th out of 6 years that I have called to my tree with the grunt/can combo.