Deer - lets see em

[Gr8bawana]

No it wasn’t still nursing!

Nothing wrong with that. Venison in eats much better than tag soup.

 

[nrpate05]

No it wasn’t still nursing!
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Gahh, you beat me for the smallest buck in the thread! Congrats!!

 

[Dwreckers]

Fiancé’s first mule deer buck

 

[Dwreckers]

My Montana deer

 

[LCH]

Montana today.

 

[0uTkAsT]

Man, I've gotta get up to Montana. I have a friend who lives in De Borgia, looks like it's time to pay him a visit.

 

[HuntTalk Freak]

Got this guy this morning. Over 20” wide but a short tined 10. He has lots of character and lots of meat.
I’m glad I had a buddy here to help me drag him otherwise I was going to quarter him up where he laid as it was all uphill to the road.

how I found him down in a draw.

 

[0uTkAsT]

Got this guy this morning. Over 20” wide but a short tined 10. He has lots of character and lots of meat.
I’m glad I had a buddy here to help me drag him otherwise I was going to quarter him up where he laid as it was all uphill to the road.
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how I found him down in a draw.
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I dig the glass, the buck and the beard (no homo)

 

[fulldraw]

My 2019 Iowa archery buck.

 

[HuntTalk Freak]

I dig the glass, the buck and the beard (no homo)

Thanks man. It’s actually the rifle my friend lent me months ago to practice with and take on my first western hunt to Colorado a couple weeks ago. He wanted me to hunt with it this morning, so I did.
I can say the 147gr ELD’s in 6.5 cause a lot of damage. I couldn’t salvage the heart and the lungs were jelly. I lost more meat than I would have liked despite shooting behind the shoulders.

 

[0uTkAsT]

Thanks man. It’s actually the rifle my friend lent me months ago to practice with and take on my first western hunt to Colorado a couple weeks ago. He wanted me to hunt with it this morning, so I did.
I can say the 147gr ELD’s in 6.5 cause a lot of damage. I couldn’t salvage the heart and the lungs were jelly. I lost more meat than I would have liked despite shooting behind the shoulders.

Unfortunately I think that's a characteristic of the ELDs... I took a good sized WY muley quartering away slightly at relatively short range with a .308 loaded with 168gr VLDs. The result was just about the same... practically liquefied the heart and lungs, completely destroyed the opposite shoulder and left an enormous exit hole.

 

[HuntTalk Freak]

Unfortunately I think that's a characteristic of the ELDs... I took a good sized WY muley quartering away slightly at relatively short range with a .308 loaded with 168gr VLDs. The result was just about the same... practically liquefied the heart and lungs, completely destroyed the opposite shoulder and left an enormous exit hole.

Yeah I don’t think I’ll use them out of my own 6.5 now. In fact for my little Texas whitetail I’m thinking about switching back to my 223 and 243.

 

[LukeDuke]

My wife’s MN deer. 5x6 and her biggest deer to date. Such a fun morning with her.

 

[Jorge400]

This is from last year, but I'm new.

 

[Firemedic92]

No sign of him for 3 weeks then he shows up this morning

 

[Lige]

ND 2019

 

[Wildcard12]

Got my first deer ever yesterday morning with that doe. Stayed in the stand and shot my first buck an hour later when I rattled him in. Broke both G4s fighting. It was an awesome day here in Tennessee.

 

[woodsman]

Nebraska 2019

 

[Nick87]

Got my first deer ever yesterday morning with that doe. Stayed in the stand and shot my first buck an hour later when I rattled him in. Broke both G4s fighting. It was an awesome day here in Tennessee yesterday.

That's a hell of a good day!! Congratulations!!

 

[Clzandstra79]

My second buck in IL.