Another Va buck from my woods!
12-02-2008, 07:20 AM
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RE: Another Va buck from my woods!
ORIGINAL: DropTine249
Thats a really cool deer !
All you guys from VA always say that there are no big bucks, but I'm not seeing that.
Apparently VA is COVERED UP IN DEER. So, there has to be some pigs floating around and you've kinda shown evidence of that.
Thats a really cool deer !
All you guys from VA always say that there are no big bucks, but I'm not seeing that.
Apparently VA is COVERED UP IN DEER. So, there has to be some pigs floating around and you've kinda shown evidence of that.
There are some really big deer in VA.
The key/difficult part of actually taking those deer is getting them to move during legal hunting hours. The rut to a certain extent will move some big bucks, but this time of the year after the hounds have hit the woods, natural buck movement is mostly at night. It will often take a drive, dogs or some other 3rd party source of disturbance to kick one up. We don't have the weather the guys in the midwest have, and VA is so full of food sources for deer, that they can live almost anywhere. Its tough to find a good concentration of bucks in one spot... or even just one spot a buck prefers to use.... because they can literally survive anywhere... its like looking for a needle in a stack of needles.
Thats a brute Landon. Y'all do much at Brandon last week?
12-02-2008, 07:54 AM
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RE: Another Va buck from my woods!
ORIGINAL: Vabowman
he wasn't injured but the left side is smaller for some reason.. Andy we killed a nice 8 on sat, and a few smaller bucks..
he wasn't injured but the left side is smaller for some reason.. Andy we killed a nice 8 on sat, and a few smaller bucks..
We had about 35 standers on the morning hunt Friday.... and we killed 43 deer... just in the morning! Had one little 9 year old boy shoot 4 does sitting with his granddaddy... he was running around smiling talkin about how he had to shoot like 12 shells! He was all pumped and fired up! Thats the one thing I love about hunting with hounds is the kids... almost every single member down there Friday had at least one youngin' with them, and of those 43 killed, probably 25-30 were shot by hunters under the age of 15. They shot a friggin' brute on Thursday and they shot a decent sized 10 pointer on Friday. The guy who shot it gave Rebecca the horns... which was pretty nice of him... he said he's killed 40 that size in his life and all he'd do is let the dogs chew on 'em anyway. Might make her some rattling horns.
The season was 12 days old... and the deer Rebecca shot was #174 for the year... and they broke 200 by the end of the day... they've been killin' a few!
I'm still pumped for Eric getting another chance at that deer. Thats a pretty rare thing in Virginia, especially post rut and post hounds. Thats a great buck.
12-02-2008, 08:25 PM
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RE: Another Va buck from my woods!
Thats an awesome buck! It's bigger than people may think...If you got a front side pic of him I'd be wanting to yell 120+ or 130.
I love to hear stories about bucks missed during bow but taken during gun.
I videoed a 120 class 9 pointer in August one year while scouting...I shot him on October 18th and the video added a sweet piece to my memory. I have the DVD of him next to my photo and mount on my wall.
I love to hear stories about bucks missed during bow but taken during gun.
I videoed a 120 class 9 pointer in August one year while scouting...I shot him on October 18th and the video added a sweet piece to my memory. I have the DVD of him next to my photo and mount on my wall.
