Rammer

Yep, I'm ready to put this all behind us. My biggest archery buck only scored 136 P&Y, but I just happen to manage my property for trophy bucks and I have not killed a buck with my bow or rifle in 2 years now just waiting. I could tag out with a 140" + deer every single day during rifle season, and I'd say once a week bow hunting. There is an absolute pig that I have only seen once so far this year, but he is pushing all of the upper 180" range. Last year I let one of my buddies hunt one of my stands and he tagged out in one nite with a 157" deer. That was my wedding present to him, couldn't afford to buy him anything at the time so I told him to come over to my place and hunt a few times, well it only took one time.

Here is my biggest archery buck to date. He was a main frame 5x5 and had split G2s makin him a 6x6.

Might Mite

Nice buck. This is one that I see everyday in PA. I have over 40 pics of him so far.

Might Mite

Here is one I have been watching in WV...Got some pics of him last year, and he is back again... sorry if it's big.

Rammer

Those are some nice deer. I've been reluctant to buy a trail timer camera (Mainly because where I live there aren't any trees) I've killed around 20 some deer with my bow, and only 3 of those have been from a treestand, the rest have been spot an stalk.

I did take my brother with me a few nites last fall taking pics of what we had running around.

Here is a 2 1/2 year old buck last year. He end up living through rifle season, which is kind of amazing. This year he is in the 150" range.





The deer in this pic was poached off my land opening day of rifle season. This was the buck I was hunting with rifle last year, and I witnessed the whole event. It was a main frame 4x4, and it is hard to see in that pic but he was around 22" wide, 15" G2s, 13" G3s, and good mass. He end up grossing in the upper 170s.



I have quite a few more pics of hunting/deer on a site I threw together to host my pics.

Feel free to check 'em out. http://s3.photobucket.com/albums/y74/ramboss429/

Oneshot7

i have pics but they arent that big plus i am trying not to kill anybucks around my place before i go to illinois for my hutn cuz it is the first deer killed format

Rammer

How does it work if you shoot a mule deer in this tournament? I looked thru last years entrys a few days ago and I never saw any mule deer entered.

Oneshot7

?? dunno have to ask rob

Rammer

Ok I looked atthe entrys for this year, and the first deer shot and entered was a muley buck. It looks like there must be some formula to where they deduct a certain percentage off of a muley to make them equivelant to whitetail deer.....

Rammer

OK I found what I was looking for.

. Will be using the Pope & Young Gross scoring system, no deductions. (See percentages below)

Whitetail (as norm):125/125 = score x 1
Columbia blacktail: 125/90 = score x 1.39
Sitka blacktail: 125/75 = score x 1.67
Mule deer: 125/145 = score x 0.86


I went out to do some dove bangin with my pup and didn't even squeeze the trigger. End up watching 12 deer come out of one of my corn fields, with 2 really nice bucks in the pack. I went back to my pickup and got my binos an spotting scope and watched them for about an hour. Looks to me they are on a very casual routine every nite, and they went to a waterhole. Might set the double bull up in a few weeks so they get used to it. One of the 2 bigger bucks was in the 150" range, the other was mid to upper 130s.

Oneshot7

wow did i do soem dove bangin the other day rammer i shot 12 and so did the other 5 that were with me great hunt that we had to suit 2 hours early due to a 12 man limit