JasonLester

First I hope your 100% sure you missed. I've talked with people who "missed" only to find the deer was hit but ran off. I'm not saying you did this I'm just bringing up the possibility. Even gunshot deer run sometimes. Probably not the case in your situation. But I figured I'd mention it. So my question is how do you do when target practicing? are you consistant? If not you need to get that way before going out. If you are consistant I think it may be more of a "buck fever" thing. The reason I say this is that you said one time you shot some tree limbs or something. You should take your time for your first shot at a deer. If you have to rush a shot you need to pass on the shot. Slow down and breath. A shot at an animal gets you blood going and you just want to make the shot. However, you still have to MAKE the shot. So take your time relax and do it just like at the range. Even it you have to visualize a target on the animal. Then squeeze the trigger. If it is a matter of flinching you can do one of several things. loading a blank round is a good practice to see if your having a problem. But you have to continualy do it to work through it. The other problem may be your hurting and flinching before the shot. This is common if you gun kicks hard and your not used to it. Practice helps but you may have to go with lighter loads etc. What gun are you using? BTW

Dang I need to mow my grass. LOL Thanks for the link. I like the birds eye view. I also like the distance key. Swithing between birds eye veiw and satellite veiw gives you a pretty good look at an area for sure.

If you don't pass the small ones its hard to get these

ok I forgot the pic.

Who needs a truck.

Very nice Congrats. 5 deer in five years and a nice buck too... I'd say he's off to a pretty good start!

Awesome now thats a day you both remember. Congrats to both of you.

Like others have said its a risky shot ...to risky to take. Bleat, wistle, yell 'hey' .. sometimes they will stop in thier tracks. But be ready they won't usualy stop for long. Leading on a running deer isn't worth pulling the trigger. 99 percent of the time you'll miss or wound an animal and never recover it. One of the biggest mistakes people make when they shoot a deer to make them loose it is not to really pay attention after pulling the trigger. You need to be sure of where you hit the animal. You need to watch and listen and see exactly what happens with the animal. where it goes how it acts etc. If the deer is already running things get blurred realy easily. Did I really hit it. Did it go down because I hit it or did it loose its footing because of being scared by the shot? Blood isn't always evedent at the place you shot the animal. How good of a tracker are you. How long do you wait before trailing the animal. All these things and more depend on what happend the second you pulled the trigger and the seconds after. A gut shot or wounded deer can go a long ways. Eventualy dieing a long painfull death. I figure I owe it to the animal to be a better hunter than that. No matter how big the animal is and how much I want to shoot I have to make myself think before pulling the trigger. Not to mention when a deer is running you have less time to know what is behind your intended target (other people) To risky for me. Any yes I have passed on these shots before on some really nice animals. I might have gotten lucky but I had a better chance going home knowing I wounded one only to let it suffer and die. Make your own decitions. But be aware of all the posibilities. Being a hunter requires alot of resposibility. To the animals, and to other hunters. Just my 2 cents worth.

I just got done green scoring him. 153 gross nets 150 1/2 only 2 1/2 inches of deductions. That will work I guess LOL :D

Congrats to you son and you. Nice first buck!

Thanks all. I caint wait to get him back from the butcher

Yep, Ohio. Warren county. the eastern side of it anyway. I've seen a few good ones in the past but this is the first time I've had a gun in my hand.

Southern Ohio. Rainiest day we've had in a long time. I just had to go out. I posted the story under the deer hunting forum.

Hey anything to take the focus off me. LOL I killed him yesterday. He was big and heavy. Can't wait to get him back so I can measure him. My biggest for sure.

I am a bowhunter at heart but gun season started yesterday and the neigboring land is hunted hard. In fact its hunted hard enough I have only seen 6-7 deer this year in all the days I have bowhunted. So opening day I decided to go gun hunting instead of going to work. It was pouring down rain when I walked out the door. I almost stayed home. I figured I'd go ahead and see if it would slow down in the early morning. No such luck. I got in my stand well before daylight over looking a good sized overgrown feild. I got soaked! I hadn't grabed any rain gear as I didn't figure on it raining the whole time. Anyway, I had only seen a couple birds. Nothing else seemed to be moving. I decided, at 8:20 am or so, I'd wait for fifteen more minutes and then pack it up. A few minutes later on my left out in the feild I caught movement. 3 deer. Moving fast. Two headed away from me. Looked like a small buck chasing a doe. But it was fast. The other deer, an average sized doe, circled in front of me. My binos were so wet and I had nothing to dry with I couldn't get a look with them. So I used my shotgun scope but it still was blurry. Deciding to shoot a doe or not I looked for the other two out in the feild. Farther to the left this 10 point was standing pretty as can be broadside. No need to decide if he was a shooter. I quickly got turned and made a 80 yard shot. He went right down but I did not kill him right away. I had broken his back and ended up having to walk up and finish him off with a shot to the lungs. He's my biggest deer and I am excited to have him. Thanks for re-living the hunt with me.

Here is my ugly mug. But the deer is pretty aint it.