How Many Deer Have You Harvested?
10-29-2008, 04:55 PM
#11
Giant Nontypical
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RE: How Many Deer Have You Harvested?
Over 300...
Now, I'm 53...We own our own farms and I started deer hunting by myself by the time I was 14...My dad would drop me off at one of the farms and tell me to protect the peanuts...My rifle, a 22-250...
I had killed 5 before I started deer hunting, with a .22 to the brain while squirrel hunting...We butchered our own cows and pigs and I had seen dad kill many pigs with a .22 to the brain from a .22 revolver...
Last year, we killed 46 on our 3 farms, I killed 8 does and 1 buck...I've never claimed to be a trophy hunter and hunting your own land and farming, you realize that the population has to be kept in check if you plan to raise a crop the following year...Frankly, I'd rather seen my hunting buddies kill a good buck then do it myself...
Now, I'm 53...We own our own farms and I started deer hunting by myself by the time I was 14...My dad would drop me off at one of the farms and tell me to protect the peanuts...My rifle, a 22-250...
I had killed 5 before I started deer hunting, with a .22 to the brain while squirrel hunting...We butchered our own cows and pigs and I had seen dad kill many pigs with a .22 to the brain from a .22 revolver...
Last year, we killed 46 on our 3 farms, I killed 8 does and 1 buck...I've never claimed to be a trophy hunter and hunting your own land and farming, you realize that the population has to be kept in check if you plan to raise a crop the following year...Frankly, I'd rather seen my hunting buddies kill a good buck then do it myself...
10-29-2008, 08:58 PM
#20
Nontypical Buck
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RE: How Many Deer Have You Harvested?
ORIGINAL: dvalliere
I came across a statement in another thread that caught my attention:
200?! I can't even fathom that. I've been hunting 4 years (not counting this year yet) and taken 5 deer. At that rate, I'd need to hunt for another 160 years to catchup to retrieverman! (I do know a few fellows locally who have large families and hunt deer as their major source of meat that would meet or exceed retrieverman but they're atypical.)
How many deer have you harvested and how many years have you been hunting deer?
I came across a statement in another thread that caught my attention:
ORIGINAL: retrieverman
I have killed nearly 200 deer in my life...
I have killed nearly 200 deer in my life...
How many deer have you harvested and how many years have you been hunting deer?
I hunt in Oklahoma and Texas, and on my place here in Texas, I get 7 extra management doe tags. I am allowed a buck and doe in both rifle and muzzleloader seasons, and that is 4 deer from OK. I am allowed a "cull" buck and another over 13" spread buck here in Texas, and with the doe tags I am allowed, that is a total of 9 deer here. At 13 deer per season, a body count of 200 is not a stretch.
I am predicting the next question being what do I do with the meat. My family eats alot of venison, but I give several deer a year to a friend who distributes it to low income people in his church.
As of Monday, the body count for 2008 is two, and Texas rifle season opens Saturday.