WestVirginiaBrent

Huh?? Are you always this cynical or am I special? The deer was big, I'd say it was probably 250 on the hoof, and I've seen and weighed plenty of deer in my life, I think I am pretty good at judging a deer's weight. And yes, the + may have been a stretch, but the ~250 guess sure isn't.

Of course, what do I know, I only saw the deer up close in personal, cut it's stinky head off, had a game warden issue me a non-kill tag for it, and prepped the antlers for a wall mount. You on the other hand saw a 5x5 inch pic of the head I posted, so everyone should defer to your expertise. Although you missing my sarcastic humor in my reply to you is a hit on your astute judgement.

JoshKeller

I'm also from martinsburg, but hunt closer here to home.

Here is a WV killed (just across the interstate from the mall) buck that was 219 lbs field dressed.

truehitter

nice buck josh got him on his way to the mall shopping for all his does lol congrads

WestVirginiaBrent

Nice buck, I see a lot of deer in that field over the course of the year, never a buck like that though. There is no farm land in the area I hunt, and we don't have food plots up yet because we lack the time and we're worried about poachers. I'm hoping that within 5 years we'll start managing it.

crokit

Bet you had to jump out of way real FAST when you took your foot off his antler!!

DougMD

Hey Brent, those are some fine bucks! Sorry to hear about the blue tongue. Here in Maryland, it has about wiped out herds, so I feel your pain. I've imposed a 6 or better rule on my place in WV. Got my first shooter buck in several years this fall, but no monster: 8 point, 15 inch spread. Good luck to you!

WestVirginiaBrent

Thanks, we found 2 dead on our land, our neighbor had a couple more, but an area 4 miles down the road of us had 143 dead deer. Prior to this season I had never even heard of that disease.

My kids are 2.5 and 3.5, when they are both 5+ I will be going back there a lot and planting crops, making a few secure food plots away from the roads and ATV trails, and will try my damndest to get my hunting party not to shoot little ones. I already take heat for letting the young deer pass me by though, I hear "You can't eat the antlers..." about 50 times per season.

The Game Warden in that county is my dad's best friend since they were toddlers and for the last few years he has helped us keep trespassers out by making a continual presence for us, but prior to that we'd stumble upon 5-10 poached deer per year, it was bad, and of course they were laying there sans head and backstraps, the rest were there. [>:]

What county is Gambrills in? I used to hunt Comus, Md in Montgomery county and I saw several bucks that could have got me on the cover of a few magazines, but I was young and could never close the deal. That piece of property is now a high end development.

Steve F.in MD

I grew up in Doddridge County. I haven't hunted back there since 1968. I still have some family in Buckhannon.

botechboy

Im just the oppositeI grew up in P G county until i was 15 and moved to wva my family or some still live in md always wanting me to hunt up there but never have they say there are some nice ones up that way

Doe Dumper

I have some land in Wetzel County pretty close to Marion County. theres some pics of some of the deer I have killed there on my myspace page. Killed my best yet up there this year on Thanksgiving Day in that wind and rain storm. Almost 18 inches inside.....dont know what the weight was but he damn near killed me dragging it. Shot him a little past noon and got him to a road for hauling him out at almost 5 [:'(] Som eof the deer on there are from Wyoming but the majority are Wetzel County bucks.

http://www.myspace.com/red28wv