Schpanky

I'll usually shoot 2 - 4 every year. My son will shoot 2 or 3 as well. As there's no way we can eat that much meat, we'll either give the deer away or let someone else sign for it and have it processed for themselves. That way, we are able to take our does every year without it costing us a fortune in processing.

Well....I for one am glad you did it. It's been a long week here at the office and got good laugh over it. Life's too short to take ourselves too seriously. schpank

I guess my longest drag was on a mule deer doe outside of Gillette, Wyoming years ago. I'm guessing I drug her 1/4 mile before help arrived and then the 2 of us drug her another 300 yards to where we could get the truck. Good thing it wasn't a big old buck. Schpank

You know, we didn't even weigh it. It hit the ground and then the freezer pretty quickly. If I had to guess, I'd say it dressed out about 140+.

This is a pic of the 5.5yr old+ 8pt my son culled this weekend. His right side is a bit off in that after the G2, the beam just extends outward about 8-10 inches with a small crab-claw at the end. Had this deer been symetrical, he'd be rather nice. We'd observed this deer earlier in the season and we all decided this would be a good cull, so we set our sights on him. He showed up right at dark on Thursday and my son dropped him at about 70 yards. It makes it that much better when you harvest the deer you are actually going after. The deer were rutting pretty hard in our area this weekend, so we all got a chance to see some nice bucks chasing. We had one deer that would have been a 20+ inch wide 10pt, but his left side was broken off just past the brow tine. He looked to be about 3.5yrs old so he'll be one we're looking out for 2 years from now. He should be very nice by then. Hope everyone else had a great Thanksgiving and a successful weekend's hunt. Schpanky