Any Harrison/Marion county WV hunters here?
 

I live in Martinsburg, WV but my family is from and owns land in Harrison County and I was just wondering if anyone else from that area is a member? I hunt in Big Indian, right on the Harrison/Marion county border near Joetown. If anyone is out there give me a shout out and post some deer pics. [8D]

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I know they are no monsters, but they are browse deer which have been overhunted and underfed over the years. We plan on managing the land in the future but until I can get back there more often any food plot I make would be a garden of Eden for poachers.


This fine 8 point was a victim of blue tongue this year. Gnats managed to do something I haven't been able to do in 21 years of hunting, kill a 250+lb deer back there. [:'(]

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What is the deal with my photbucket images not showing up? What's the trick?

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**edit number 53** Finally figured it out.


If anyone is from back there, this should clue them in to EXACTLY where I hunt.

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Welp, so much for that idea, lol.

I figure in a decade or so we'll have a few more online. [8D]

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I live in Harrison, own farms in Lewis & Dodd. Co's

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Cool, do you live in Clarksburg? I haven't been to Clarksburg since my taxidermist passed away. John Casto, right off Buckhannon Pike, he was a great taxidermist. Do you ever go to the Wyatt/Joetown region?

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if that deer went 250+ lbs i'll eat my bow

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I live in Clarksburg, knew John very well along with his family. Actually it's right at 2 years since John passed. John was a good man & raised a good family.

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The picture is just of it's head, none of the deer pics I have shown were claimed by me to be 250+ lbs.

The top 8 I posted was ~200 lbs live weight, it had a 19 inch neck, a 7 x 19 form, the2 eight'sin the pic below it were about 165 live weight (120 dressed and verified with a scale). The 8 point head I posted's neck was easily 23 inches and it's body, even decomposing, was the largest deer I have seen back there ever. I didn't take pics of the entire deer because I was tired as hell from dragging a 6 point 400 yards, walking back up the mountain to retrieve my ATV, and then going down the most dangerous trail I have ever ridden. Believe me, that buck was topping the scale anywhere from 225-250 on the hoof. Don't let the small spread fool you, I've never seen anything back there with over a 16" spread.

So send me your address and I'll send you some hot sauce to make that bow go down a little easier. [8D]

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Yeah, he was great, when he had told me his age I was shocked, he looked so much younger than he actually was. He was kind enough to mount 3 Caribou heads for my father within 3 months and drove them down to his house in Maryland, now that is service. Funny thing about John was that no matterwhat pose youordered your deer head he would do what he thought looked best with it, LOL. :D

Here's a little sample of John's work, we must have about 15 more things he mounted for us over the years.

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you proved nothing so put ya hot sauce on ya keyboard and maybe that can help ya come up with more you state 250+ now ya saying 225 to 250 make ya mind up hold on i'm sorry forgive me lord not everone sees big deer like we do in the south brent if ya say it i'll beieve it its yoursto tell good luck next season

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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. :eek:

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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!

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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. :eek:

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.

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

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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

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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

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I live on the Mon/Marion county line. I hunt mostly in Preston county I have just recently acquired land in Mon county to hunt. I also hunt in Pocahontas County.