2005 Deer

[NE_Hunter]

Pertty good year. Got enough to keep the freezed full for a wile anyway. More corn being out this year helped.

[NE_Hunter]

Need to stop here, freezer is full. :D

[Sniper]

Looks like a real good day huntin'. There's nothing like a full freezer. ;)

:sniper:

[marksz71]

Nice deer year...I got skunkced for deer, but I really only hunted 1 full day, and two half days the last weekend. I might try again during the december (missouri), and I think nebraksa has a late season as well in January, but we'll see. I have a bit of bad news for deer season though. My uncle...mom's brother aged 52, was killed this year deer hunting. We don't know exactly what happened, and never will, but he fell out of his tree stand and landed on his face! He died last Sunday 13 November...and his funeral was the following Wednesday. I oriiginally took some time off that week to go deer hunting, but this kind of spoiled it. We all know he wouldn't have wanted us to stop, since deer hunting was what he loved to do. It was rough and unexpectted, but when it is your time...you must go home to the promise land. Take care all, and happy hunting. I am thinking of blasting a yote this weekend if I get my new scope on my mini sighted in. :D Mark

[stooxie]

Originally posted by NE_Hunter@Nov 17 2005, 01:33 PM
Pertty good year. Got enough to keep the freezed full for a wile anyway. More corn being out this year helped.
Care to tell us about how you got them?

I'm a newbie hunter and don't really have a source of leadership here (so much for dear old dad in this regard).

Maybe I can glean some info.

I went hunting this morning, 4000 acre plot of VA forest (whatever). Got into a position I scouted out around 5:30 and waited. Right by a creek where I saw a zillion deer tracks before. I heard like 7 shots in the distance between 7 and 9. Nuthin around me.
Oh well, it's all good, right?

I got some books on the way but I dunno how much they can really teach me.

Thanks,
-Stooxie

[Indyarms]

WHy does the deer in the top pic have an ear tag and a collar???

Is that a game farm deer? or what??

From CNY, I have never seen such a thing... so I ask because I am very curious...

:lol:

[NE_Hunter]

The University of Nebraska is doing a deer habit study and I just happened to find one. They are studying a lot of different aspects like, movement, habitat, behavior, mortality and so on. They put a article in the paper that told all of us hunters that if we were to see a deer with a collar on it, we were to act like the collar wasn’t there and kill it if we normally would and also not to kill it just because it had a collar. They asked us to hunt as we would with out the study going on. When I checked the deer in the guy told me there was another buck they had tagged, but it got hit by a truck about two miles from there and there are a few does in the same area. I’ve saw some of the does that are tagged wile I’ve been coyote hunting around there. I told the guy I’d be more then happy to help him tag another deer in that area if he’d like, I think it would be fun. This was all a first for me to, but no it wasn’t a game farm. There’s no way I could bring my self to hunt on one. To me, that would be like hunting at a zoo, or fishing in a bucket with a 12 ga. :blink:

But I agree, it does look pretty funny. I almost didn’t even post the picture. I’m glad I didn’t see the ear tag tell after I shot. I don’t know if I could have shot if I did, I wouldn’t have been able to get the idea of a cow out of my head. :lol:

As far as how I found them. It’s just a sweet spot. It’s a natural funnel for the deer to come through due to the soundings. It’s not a very big place that we hunt, but it has a lot of cover right there for them and it’s surrounded by open fields, and two highways, and a feed lot for cattle. There’s a creek in the bottom with lots of brush, trees and tall grass that they bed down in for the day. So I just scout out what time they are moving to there bedding area and set up an ambush for them on the funnel to it. Just like bow hunting. Works great every year as long as the corn fields in the area have been cut.

[NE_Hunter]

I did my own European mount this year. Thought I’d give it a try since it was just a little buck. I think it turned out pretty good. And he looks way better with out the tag in his ear. :D

[NE_Hunter]

Close up.

[NE_Hunter]

Close up side view.