Pictures of your favorite deer harvests

[fly]

It's been a while since I've seen a post on this (sure as I write this I'll get a link to the exact thing one month ago when I was busy hunting and not posting -LOL).

Let's see you're favorite deer harvested... (buck, doe, whatever is special to you).

[msman825]

few years ago, but came home from work early, grabbed bow, and my youngest and ran jumped in a ground blind. 30 minutes later shot this guy at 20 yards. 238 pounder lol

[wtnhunt]

Man talk about putting a feller on the spot. Tough picking one for sure Frank, lot of special hunts/kills for different reasons. No doubt the deer Christina(our oldest daughter) has taken top the list. Kills of my own though, could be my first deer, or the one I took closing day of the 2002-2003 season after spending half the day at the hospital with our middle daughter.

Gonna have to think on this one a bit.

[magnatecsteve]

[ATTACH]6697[/ATTACH]Would have to be this years buck. Oct 29th I hunted out of an old oak tree by the CRP. I meant to replace the ladder rungs this past summer but never got to it, so I barely made it in the tree. Not very responsible on my part..I know. Well there was a buck in on me before daylight, he was real close but could only make out the outline of his body at times. Finally it got light, so I ranged all of my lanes. Then I hit the rattle bag and grunt for a quick sequence. Just after I finished, I heard a deer coming from the CRP. Then I see this guy coming. He came to about 50 to 60 yards out and was trying to see what the racket was about. He was lip curling and looking, I've had deer come in like that and hang up after seeing nothing, so I decided to snort-wheeze at him. Man that did it! His ears laid back and he was coming! He started circling out a bit and came in to a tree at 35 yards. I was at full draw as he hit the branch, pawed the ground, and I released as he was urinating on his scrape. Perfect heart shot, he was tripping up as soon as he took off. Only went about 50 to 60 yards. best deer for me..gonna score him when back from the taxidermist but Im guessing 130 or maybe pushing 140.

Edited December 23, 2010 by magnatecsteve
another pic

[magnatecsteve]

Another angle

[Prairiepredator]

This was my biggest deer I ever got and it was my second year of hunting. He scored 145 and 2/8. He still really isn't that huge but I like how tall he is, and I keep trying to beat him every year! [ATTACH]6700[/ATTACH]

[need2hunt]

I have bigger deer and I have had more exciting hunts than that day, but this buck has more deep meaning than any other I have taken.

This deer was taken on the farm I grew up on. The deer didn't live on the farm they would just pass through and you could sit for days and not see anything. We had various people hunt deer on the farm over the years but no one ever took one.

So not only is this the first deer ever taken off the property but in the background of the pic you will see a food plot. It's the first one I ever put in, my two girls at the time ages 9 and 6 helped clear the plot and plant it. They also came out to drag him out and help gut him.

The new owner is a great guy and still lets us hunt there, my brother Eric (who's birthday is today) shot his very first deer ever this year out of a tree not 20 yards from where I shot mine.

[Tetro]

Got this 11 point in 2008. We weren't having a spectacular week, with only one doe to share between 10 of us. Till I got him on Thursday eveing with 20 min left of shooting light.

[mikebohio]

oldest buck ive ever taken. first buck i had trail cams of and killed. spent three seasons chasing him. may not be the biggest buck taken in ohio but is definitely my favorite deer ever.

[Tominator]

Biggest buck to date.

Recovered with the help of my 3 sons.

Buddy Tom was in his truck and on his way over before I could even ask for help. He also took the picture.

[Goinghuntin]

Shot this fella five days ago. Not a big boy by most anybody's standards but with as tough a season as it was and how everything finally just fell together perfectly, I'll remember this hunt for a while :cowboy:

Nathan

[USAFbowhunter]

it is a toss up between 2

biggest buck to date harvested on Nov 4th 2008

or my first pope and young deer I got just 12 days after I got home from Iraq in 2007. what made this one great was seeing the excitement my son had when him and my wife tried to help drag it out and take pictures plus this picture was also published in the 2008 Tru-Fire catalog and seeing my sons face light up when he saw his picture in the catalog

[Shaun_300]

I took this big boy in 2004, my biggest deer to date. Only 6 points but huge beams with webbing between the tines. This was my first year of college, was able to come home for 3 days to hunt, got this buck the first day I was home. He came flying down a dry creek bed and stopped at 18 yards, smoked him with the .300 Win Mag. Wish I would have got more and field pics of him.

On my wall. I ran the tape across him just to see what he'd score, suprisingly 115" gross. 20" inside spread and 5" bases.

[msman825]

very nice bucks . nothing like seeing the little ones faces, todd did you get those 2 bucks in Florida. wild looking brow tines on that first 1

[USAFbowhunter]

no i got both those deer in Illinois on my farm there. The deer down here in FL aren't that big. I wish they were though.

[Stone Cold]

Mine would have to be the buck I killed on 12-9-10 with bow and found shed same day! Here they are!

[m gardner]

Here's the first buck I shot after an 8 year layoff due to injuries. I shot him while stillhunting at 40 yards. I have migraines since I was hurt and you can tell by the picture I'm just recovering from one the day before. All I can remember is I felt alot better than the picture shows. I thank God I recovered at all and it's more of a miracle I can draw the bow and hunt again. A real blessing. Merry Christmas.

[Ohiobucks]

I've always loved this pic of my 2 oldest kids with my buck from '06.

[Ravin R10 man]

This buck was one I watched and saw several times during the fall and finally caught up with him in late bow season. Not the biggest buck Ive killed.

[fly]

Great pictures and stories! Keep them coming.

I'm with William, several deer I've been fortunate enough to harvest have some amazing stories and associated emotion to them. I've taken some big deer with one making B&C, but the deer below is my favorite. It was the largest deer I'd taken in my first 12 years of hunting and remained the largest racked deer for another eight. The deer was taken in 1998. I had not harvested a deer since 1992 (6 years)! I wasn't a serious deer hunter yet, but I was REALLY REALLY wanting to get a deer at that years deer camp! Antlers were a bonus and an 8-pointer seemed out of the question. At the time everything I new about scoring was simply counting the points. I had no idea what P&Y or B&C was. I still remember hauling my ladder and stand out to a field edge 1 mile out on public ground in S. Illinois. I had just started using tree stands and didn't know about climbers. The shot and drag to my truck seemed like a fairy tail. When I got him loaded into my truck I cranked the radio. Tim McGraw - where the green grass grows was on. I had always been a head banging hard rock music fan, but at that moment I changed to a country music fan. Can you relate an experience where music intensified the excitement of harvesting an animal? When I got back to camp and told my dad and grandpa I had an 8-pointer in the truck. They said, whatever and didn't believe me. When I finally convinced them I was not joking they looked and were all smiles. I was hooked on country music and big game hunting for life. From then on deer hunting was no longer something to do, but a passionate religous experience. Little did I know at the time but that deer camp also marked the end of a chapter in my life. My gradfather passed away a few months later. He had lung cancer and didn't tell anyone until after the Holidays. Currently the deer head hangs in my daughters room. A little 1.5 year old buck that will never be scored.

[fladawg]

These two i'll remember for sure,the first one (with green shirt on) i got two Christmas Eve's ago.Got off work early that day and went to stand,was'nt there 15 minute's when he came in behind doe.This guy had a lil horn start'n to grow right between his base's,about a 1/4 inch.And yes he is a Fla deer...The second one i got this past Thanksgive'n up in Ga,this was the first time i've accually witness'd a buck hard on a doe.They zig zag'd in hardwood's out in front of me 3 or 4 times before she bust'd out and went right under me with him in tow.If i had'nt of put some code blue doe P on a bush out in front of me before get'n in stand i dont think i would have got'n him.Stop'd him in his track's less than ten yard's in front of me,an him hard on a doe.

[VermontHunter]

He's not the caliber of the deer posted here, but he's definately a solid VT deer. 7pt. 163lbs. He waited until very last light to make an apperance. He made it even more special by making himself a birthday present to me ..

[m gardner]

I'm originally from Vermont and that's a good deer from a state that has few deer. I like the cow too.

[hoosierhunter]

This guy is very special because he was shot at 10 yards from a stand I hung the weekend before based on trail cam information and sightings while hunting. It was the 3rd sit in the stand and the 3rd time I saw this buck while hunting. I got to watch him go down in sight and I have a memory of him turning a corner and jumping a downed tree and I saw his rack turn while he was in mid air. Even though I already knew what deer I had just shot and knew about how big he was, it still was a wall of tines that I will never forget!

I have better pictures of this deer, but I have my pup in there with me sharing the moment!

[woolybear]

This is by far my favorite and most memmerable from way back. My first bowkill with the bow my father had bought me as an early birthday pressent that year along with all the accesories so I'd be ready. I spent the summer and early fall practicing like it was my job. Double lunged my first shot ever on a whitetail with a complete pass through @ 42 yds with total confidance.

I could never have afforded to get into bowhunting on my own back then. Even though my ol' man was not a bowhunter, he realised my passion for the whitetail and made it possable for me to grow into the sport and extend my time outdoors.