Last Year's Deer (pic)....Updated with more pics!!
 

Hey all!!! I can finally post again after some issues with my computer...so I can finally show you guys the deer I harvested last year. Nothin spectacular, but I still love 'em.

Here's my first buck ever!! Shot second day of archery. 3 pt;150 lbs;15 yd shot
He was also my first archery deer.


Pics of the mount on page 2.

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whoops still cant get the pics of the other two deer, but i now have a pic of the mount of my buck

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congrats I hope there are many more!!!!!!

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Congrats 308hunter, onyour first!!We all hope there will bemany more to come. No matter how long in the tooth you get, you'll always remember this one.:D

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What type of bow is that? Is it an older model? Looks like you had a complete pass through with the bloody arrow in the quiver. What poundage is it set for?

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Yea, I don't think I will ever forget the mental image of the arrow leaving the bow and hearing that ever-so distictive "thud" as it strikes home. That is definatley something that I don't even think Alheimers (sp?) could take away from me.

Duckmastor2- Yes that is my old bow (grew out of it)...it was a PSE Nova set at 62 lbs. That right there is the entrace hole (quartering away) and it was a complete passthrough. The bow was shooting 2016 at 202 fps w/ Thunderhead 100 doing the dirty work.

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Great job!! Best feeling in the world.

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Good job!! Congrats!!!

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Congrats!!

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308 congrats on your first deer with a bow, its the best feeling in the world!!

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no better feeling than the first one.

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Congratulations on your first buck. That is a beautiful deer and a great pic.

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congratulations

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no better feeling than the first one. -rybohunter :eek:

unless people(kids) make fun of you rather than congradulate you:eek:

butits all motivation

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Nice job, 308! That's something to be proud of!

Huh? :eek:

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i shota deer last yr and people saw the pic and they said it was like a dog [:@]

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Hey you guys, I got the european mount back on this guy. Here is a quick pic of it, but if you want to see more detailed one of it you can go to the taxidermy forum where there are more pics of it.

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Congrats!

Good to see you use a safety harness as well.

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Congrats on your first buck and with a bow that makes it even better. :)
How far did he run after the shot?

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Thanks you guys.

Losthorn--that buck went about 175 yds. after the shot because I thought he was quartering away more then he was and i hit to far back....ended up hitting one lung, the liver, and the esophogas.

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i like the mount :D

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Again, congratulations on deer. Just out of curiosity, how did you hit the esophogas if you thought he was quartering away more than you thought he was? Doesn't that mean that you'd hit further back that you originally thought?

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Jimbo--yes I did hit furthur back than I thought. What I believe to have happened was that I hit just infront of the diaphram. I never touched any of the guts in the back. When I opened up the chest cavity however, there was chunks of food in there. The only way I can think of as to how I got there is that I sliced through the esophogas (remember the stomach is behind the diaphram so the esophogas runs all the way from the mouth, through he thoracic (chest) cavity and into the abdominal ("the guts") cavity where it attaches to the stomach) in the thoracic cavity somewhere. I did not see a cut esophogas in there anywhere but that is the only logiccal explanation I can come up with. I think that since he ran for quite a while after the shot, the food must have worked its way up from the stomach, into the esophogus and into the chest cavity through the cut in the esophogus.

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Interesting, .308. That could have happenedI guess. Congrats again on your kill.

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Nice Buck .308 ....Here is my 2004 165lb 7pt shot last day of Vermont Blackpowder season. Shot @ 137yards with TC hawken 50cal 240gr XTP bullet

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Nick buck Little Magnum.

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I've seen it happen even in straight on broadsides. If you sever the esophagus and the deer upchucks while it's in it's death throes it can make a mess of the chest cavity.

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Great deer. That is one hefty 3 pointer weighing in at 150lb!!! Congrats. Nice looking mount. Certainly something to be proud of...