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    Quote Originally Posted by rking22 View Post
    I prefer small deer, tastier and we need to reduce the doe population. Dragging???? I just take a leg and flip her over into the tractor bucket...... advantages to hunting your own farm
    I don't have a bucket loader on my tractor, but I do have a cart that is only about 15 inches off the ground. It is easy to load a deer into it. I take them over to my neighbor where the electric hoist lifts them up while pulling all the skin off. When all the dressing is done they are moved 10 feet over to hang in the walk in cooler to age.
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    Deer numbers are down around here. A couple of years i have gone all 7 days of the season without seeing anything. I usually take the first thing that comes by. That said i did pass on a 9 pointer with my bow this year. The last big buck i shot just wasn't as tender as i would have liked.

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    I was wanting to scare that little feller away as I really needed to move about some. But just as I released my arrow he jumped ahead and took it right through the chest.
    In real life about 8:30am I did have small spike bed down on a ledge maybe 10 yards from my tree stand down in the bottoms. I needed to get back home so decided to zip a practice arrow above his head. So the first one went overhead 18 inches high. He lifted his head a short time and plopped back down. So #2 practice arrow was only 6 inches high. With that one he jumped up, looked behind and moseyed away to some other quieter spot.

    Was on a ladder stand another time and a fawn was standing below me licking the ladder rungs that had apple juice on them from my boot bottoms. So I dropped a practice arrow on top of it's head. Fawn made a quick dash over to mom who was about 30 yards away calling.
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    Quote Originally Posted by dale2242 View Post
    My great grand daughter got her first buck this year.
    Doe tags are hard to draw in our area and she said she did not want to shoot a doe anyway.
    She told me she wanted to shoot a trophy buck for her first deer. I said wouldn`t we all?
    Hunting season winds down with no trophy buck shot yet. No bucks period were seen by her.
    So the last weekend of our season is for youth only.
    She shoots a small forked horn because they are tender and this may be her last chance.
    She loves Grandmas' venison and corn fritters.
    I don`t think she could have been more excited about her first deer if it had been a trophy.

    I consider that a trophy in my book.
    You can miss fast & you can miss a lot, but only hits count.

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    This was the first thing that walked in front of me this year 22” outsideAttachment 272438

    But I had 5 2-3year does follow in the freezer after him

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    Nice tall rack!
    You can miss fast & you can miss a lot, but only hits count.

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    We have 10 hunters with deer tags this year.
    As stated earlier, we can only shoot bucks.
    Oregon made spikes legal this year.
    Of the 10 hunters we harvested 6 forked horns and 1 spike.
    As you can imagine, we are meat hunters but will take a trophy if he presents himself.

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    Never been interested in trophies on the wall but love the hunt and eating well. This past opening weekend took this small buck with my trusted 458Win using a Lee 450gn. 220yards and dropped right there, severed the neck. Tasty, tender eating.

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    We don't eat working bulls. Why would I want to eat a 6 y/o deer?
    CWD started in a penned deer facility.
    The pukes are complaining the border wall is preventing critter movement.....but so are high fenced ranches.
    Antlers are nice but not necessary. Most of mine are hung in a tree for the squirrels to chew on.
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    when were doing crop damage we try to avoid the fawns but about half way through it they loose there spots and its hard to tell if its a smaller doe or a fawn out at 3-400 yards. So we end up shooting a couple every year. I dont cry much about it. Fawn front shoulders make great roasts for two people and i give dad a couple hind quarters for camp roasts and keep one or two to smoke. Nothing better then fawn back straps on the grill. At fist my wife wasnt to keen on it but after she ate it she now asks me if i have any fawn straps when im grilling venison. Some may get out of joint over it but the farmer will tell you if anything those fawns are more brazen and destroy more potatoes then the big ones do. He said when the family used to do it the first ones they shot were the fawns. I dont even skin them whole. I cut the hind quarters off with hide on them. Open up the back and take out the back straps and cut the front shoulders off with the hide on it and dont even have to gut them.

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    Hiked over to my brothers stand to help field dress a deer after his shot. ( yes we only take chip shots and through the shoulders.)
    Sitting in his stand, he directed me to the fallen doe, though several missteps through shin high grass failed to locate it. Finally, behind a small cedar shrub, I stood aghast, spying his deer.
    Reaching with my free hand, I hoisted the quarry overhead... with one hand.

    Brother had little to say at my questioning expression:
    "It looked bigger in the scope, and hey... the spots are really faded... and it was in the shadow [of the grass]!!"

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    Quote Originally Posted by seetrout View Post
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    We were hunting deer on Kodiak island. My wife, me, and a friend. Wife doesn't hunt. The deer were at the top of the mountains. I was in better shape and got close to the top before they did. Saw a buck and a doe looking over the edge at me so I shot the buck. Climbed up and started working on it. A while later wife and friend showed up to watch. A cloud rolled in. I looked over to see what appeared to be a doe. Friend shot it with his .338 and tore it in two. It was a fawn with no spots. It looked like a larger deer in the fog. He picked it up with one hand, folded it in half and put it in his rucksack. Don't let fog fool you. I have heard of hunters stalking a bear in the fog, shooting it, only to find out it was a porcupine. Be careful.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jim22 View Post
    We were hunting deer on Kodiak island. My wife, me, and a friend. Wife doesn't hunt. The deer were at the top of the mountains. I was in better shape and got close to the top before they did. Saw a buck and a doe looking over the edge at me so I shot the buck. Climbed up and started working on it. A while later wife and friend showed up to watch. A cloud rolled in. I looked over to see what appeared to be a doe. Friend shot it with his .338 and tore it in two. It was a fawn with no spots. It looked like a larger deer in the fog. He picked it up with one hand, folded it in half and put it in his rucksack. Don't let fog fool you. I have heard of hunters stalking a bear in the fog, shooting it, only to find out it was a porcupine. Be careful.
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    This is a good reason to refrain from looking down steep hills while hunting when you are my age. I like to have gravity on my side.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jim22 View Post
    We were hunting deer on Kodiak island. My wife, me, and a friend. Wife doesn't hunt. The deer were at the top of the mountains. I was in better shape and got close to the top before they did. Saw a buck and a doe looking over the edge at me so I shot the buck. Climbed up and started working on it. A while later wife and friend showed up to watch. A cloud rolled in. I looked over to see what appeared to be a doe. Friend shot it with his .338 and tore it in two. It was a fawn with no spots. It looked like a larger deer in the fog. He picked it up with one hand, folded it in half and put it in his rucksack. Don't let fog fool you. I have heard of hunters stalking a bear in the fog, shooting it, only to find out it was a porcupine. Be careful.
    Hahaha !!!! I watched a buddy shoot a black bear across a canyon. He stayed where he was to mark the spot while I went over. The sagebrush was HUGE, over the top of my head. He guided me by hand signals until I reached down with one hand so I could pick it up and show it to him. I put the ENTIRE bear in my backpack to take it back to him.
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    My Dad always said, "You have to boil horns a long time before they are soft enough to chew...."

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    I have gotten crap for the button buck I shot last fall via a Texas heart shot. I hunted hard all week and after not getting the shot off at a big doe the first day before she bolted, this was the only safe shot that presented itself. Not complaints from me. And yes, vealison is tender.
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    Grew up hunting for the table......never found a recipe for horns.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Murphy View Post
    Packing out? A friend and I discussed this a couple weeks back. We ain't pups no more and dragging one more than 200-300 yards just doesn't make sense if we can find one closer to a road.


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