Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Kalamazoo, Mich.
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Have some success in the deer woods this year? Share your pictures and a short story about your kill in this thread. Let's restrict to '08 photos only please. Congrats to all !

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O.K., I'll start, lol. My family and I are lucky to hunt a really nice farm that we have to ourselves but part of the deal is, we are expected to harvest 10 doe off of it. First morning for me was Saturday. 1 down, 9 to go! Hope to get the doe killing done before the rut starts. Then we'll get serious!

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Posting this one for Dick Brothers. Kinda hate to put this monster up right behind mine but oh wel...lol. Nice deer Dick!

Todd,
Would you please post this picture of my deer .
He is a main frame 10 point w/ split brow tines making him a 12 point
killed in Indiana on 10/09/08 with a bow.
Thanks,
Dick Brothers

Hi Todd,
Thanks for posting my deer!
Yes, Id been watching this deer for about a month, and had him patternd real well
dont know what he is going to score yet, will let ya know.
He is 22 inches inside spread!
See ya later......I 'm heading to Nebraska!!
Dick

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If we're not suppose to eat animals, then why are they made out of meat?

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good doe , todd. good luck everyone!!!!

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Dick, I beleive he is even bigger than you told me he was ?? Nice one CONGRATS !!!

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Good buck Dick !!!

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If we're not suppose to eat animals, then why are they made out of meat !!!! Thanks a good one I like that .. nice deers guys

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HOLY MOAKS that a BIG buck!! good going Dick!!

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I finally drew a bighorn sheep tag this year after applying for 25 years. This is as close as Wyoming has to a lottery. Hunted for 12 days and got this one September 12th. He was at 11,700 ft. in elevation. The air is pretty thin up there.



I shot this deer on October 14th, the next to the last day of the season. It had been hot the first 10 days of the season. Then we got an early winter storm with several inches of snow. The first major storm of the season really gets the deer stirred up and I was able to get on this one.

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Congrats Bill ! Those are some awesome animals. Looks like you better start a taxidermist donation fund ! lol

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Got lucky down here this weekend.

He dont look quite as big as Dicks up there but close...

He was only 20" wide and weighed 198lbs.

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Thanks Todd!

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Nice animals Dick, Bill and Jeremy. Hunting sheep in that kind of terrain has got to be a blast. Beautiful. I'm like Kellam. Tagged a nice doe two weeks ago. Nothing to brag about other than the grilled backstraps rolled in cheese, onions and bacon this weekend were fantastic!

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Yeah....Jeremy....you might should have let him go another year and grow a little. lol Nice buck.

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Bill that is just plain awesome.

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Thanks Jeremy. And congrats on the whitetail. I sure wish they grew that big around here.

Allen, you're right about the terrain. I think that's a big part of what makes sheep hunting so special. There's something about glassing them two to three thousand feet above you on those rocky slopes that make them almost magical. The picture of mine is a little deceiving with the relatively flat grass plateau. For most of the hunt I was in terrain more like you see in the background of the picture. And frankly, it can be pretty intimidating. These are a couple of pictures taken from the valley floor looking up at what you would be glassing for sheep.

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Bill thats just cool. Hey I noticed the Browning hat but I have to guess here but it looks like a rem BDL in a McMillan stock maybe 300 win mag wearing a leupold scope? Gotta lay the equipment on us.

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Good eye Jeremy! Early in the season I met a man from Meteetsee, Wyo ( I was hunting about 30 miles west of Meteetsee) and after some conversation learned that he builds long range hunting rifles. His name is John Burns and his company is Greybull Precision. The rifle I used was one of his. He builds them off a Remington 700 action. He has some company build his stocks for him. I'm not sure which company but they're John's design and he's always tinkering with the design. The scope is also his design but Leupold makes them for him. He builds the gun in .243, .264 and 300 mag. I used his .243.

I spent an afternoon shooting with him. His system for long range shooting, or precision shooting as he refers to it, is truly amazing. After just a little practice I was able to consistently hit a 12" x 16" target at 970 yards. I never would have even imagined ever being able to do that before this experience. Of course he was the one making all the calculations for windage and trajectory and telling me how to set the scope, and that's the most difficult part of long range shooting. I shot my ram at 300 yards.

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So, your pretty much saying your not going to forget that trip in a while, huh? That is all incredible.

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what country to hunt in , nice ram,also nice muley, talked to dean he said you had blaster pups, any for sale? kathy and i will be in your area around nov. 1. if i can talk her into it may try and stop and look at hounds. jim

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Thanks Jim! I sent you a pm.

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Fine by me Hes on our back 40, 2nd young buck and still looking for the one doin all the big tree scraps....

Could have jumped on him....


funny antlers....like to see him in two years...

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Bill,

What? No, bow?????? That is a nice looking ram.

Dang guys those deer are dang fine whitetails. I haven't been out with a weapon in my hand yet for the whitetails, but my oldest boy has added some meat to the freezer.

Maybe, this weekend.

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aint hardly even seen a deer,
in the daylight at least

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you aint seen any deer cause you aint stayed in the woods longer than a half hour. lol.

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