How'd deer season go

[Turkeykiller12]

Killed a doe during bow season, killed an 8pt on Nov.7 with my 243, and killed the biggest deer of my hunting career so far on Dec.13 with my t/c omega.50 cal muzzleloader it was 10 pt. All deer were killed in western ga

[davisd9]

Nice bucks Canyonhunter!

[WNY Bowhunter]

WNY Bowhunter,

The drop tine deer looks to be a 2.5 year old maybe 3.5. If he makes it another 2 years he might go over 180". The turkey pic's you posted all looked huge as well.

He's a 2.5 year old.  I call him "Little Feak Nasty".   Here he is in 2010 as a yearling 10-pt...

I would not have guessed NY had deer like that. I've met a few guys from New York and New Jersey while hunting in the mid-west and none of them ever killed critters like you've got at home.

The thing about NY is that it is a huge state with many diverse habitat types.  Here in western half of the state  180-200"+ deer are taken every season.  The terrain is reminiscent of Ohio .  It's perfect whitetail habitat with lots of agriculture.  The only thing holding us back from producing more "mid-west caliber" deer is lots of hunting pressure.  The potential to grow giants is here.

Case in point: these  three bucks were all taken within a mile of one another.  The first one was taken by a friend in 2010 and would have grossed upper 190's typical if not for a busted up right antler...







A 15 year old boy killed this one...



Buddy's 170 bowkill...






Here's another old bruiser of a buck from the same area.  Look at the size of his neck and it's only Sept!!!



I picked up one of his sheds this past spring and hope to get lucky and stumble onto this years sheds in the near future.








Few more NY bucks over 200 inches...

[WNY Bowhunter]

Those are some big ole slickheads you got.  Congratulations!

This is "Big Mama", the big matriarch doe that I've been after for three years now.  She outsmarted me again but she's going down this fall!!!





Enough of this deer talk it's almost TURKEY TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   

[Bustabeak]

I didn't get any horns either. I let a lot of small ones go and one 10 pointer. He was actually the biggest deer i have personally seen in the woods but the guy that was letting me hunt on his property does trophy management and he was sitting with me that morning........ So.. he said we needed to let him go for another year.

But, i did kill 4 does and one with my bow. So all in all I had a pretty good season.

[dirt road ninja]

Congrats to you and your son on his first deer. I hope he stays with it. Mine likes the hunting, but can take or leave fishing. He seemed to enjoy offshore fishing more then inshore, I like the inside fishing more.

Are you going to carry him after turkeys this year?

[WNY Bowhunter]

Nice find from yesterday's shed hunting adventures...

[Turkeykiller12]

Congrats! Those sheds are always fun to find. I got pictures last week on my TC and all the bucks still had all thier head gear here in Georgia.

[trkehunr93]

Congrats to you and your son on his first deer. I hope he stays with it. Mine likes the hunting, but can take or leave fishing. He seemed to enjoy offshore fishing more then inshore, I like the inside fishing more.

Are you going to carry him after turkeys this year?

Plan on it, he's been out before in the spring with no luck so far.  Had a couple of opportunities this fall to kill a bird with his crossbow but it never worked out.  Hopefully this spring it will change.

[trkehunr93]

THere is nothing better than seeing a child with their first deer.  A big CONGRATULATIONS!  Good sized doe.

What bullet did he use in his .243 win?  I shoot the Barnes TTSX 85 grain when I take my .243.

We sighted it in with Remington Express in 80 grain, I got him the lightest bullet I could at Gander Mt.  The recoil is very manageable for him.  Funny thing is when he killed the doe the way he had to turn in the stand he ended up with a nice goose egg on his forehead from the scope.  It just adds to the story