my first big buck
#21
Typical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Virginia
Posts: 542
I am going to go against the grain here and say congrats and great story. Of course I hunt from and around my house as well. I am the only house in a 40 acre neighborhood and hunt the fields and woods around. I hunt elsewhere as well, but I can get home and hunt the last hour of light. I haven't gotten any great bucks here, but I do get one or two for the freezer and that is mainly what I am after.
I almost shot a deer from my front door a couple years ago but decided to go out the back door and around the side of the house. I shot him in my sock feet in the rain. I got a turkey in my PJs and slippers as well. I don't sugar coat it and I don't apologize for it. Most of my deer are taken from a stand or blind, but I don't look a gift horse in the mouth either.
Enjoy the deer and enjoy telling the story, you have every right too.
I almost shot a deer from my front door a couple years ago but decided to go out the back door and around the side of the house. I shot him in my sock feet in the rain. I got a turkey in my PJs and slippers as well. I don't sugar coat it and I don't apologize for it. Most of my deer are taken from a stand or blind, but I don't look a gift horse in the mouth either.
Enjoy the deer and enjoy telling the story, you have every right too.
#23
Spike
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: illinois
Posts: 48
i beat that i have been out 6 times this year most of them in November and have not had a deer come close enough to shoot unless completely obstructed for a shot. maybe muzzle loader season will be good to me. happy hunting yall
#27
I am going to go against the grain here and say congrats and great story. Of course I hunt from and around my house as well. I am the only house in a 40 acre neighborhood and hunt the fields and woods around. I hunt elsewhere as well, but I can get home and hunt the last hour of light. I haven't gotten any great bucks here, but I do get one or two for the freezer and that is mainly what I am after.
I almost shot a deer from my front door a couple years ago but decided to go out the back door and around the side of the house. I shot him in my sock feet in the rain. I got a turkey in my PJs and slippers as well. I don't sugar coat it and I don't apologize for it. Most of my deer are taken from a stand or blind, but I don't look a gift horse in the mouth either.
Enjoy the deer and enjoy telling the story, you have every right too.
I almost shot a deer from my front door a couple years ago but decided to go out the back door and around the side of the house. I shot him in my sock feet in the rain. I got a turkey in my PJs and slippers as well. I don't sugar coat it and I don't apologize for it. Most of my deer are taken from a stand or blind, but I don't look a gift horse in the mouth either.
Enjoy the deer and enjoy telling the story, you have every right too.
#28
Nice deer but frankly I wouldn't call it hunting..sorry. Going out for a smoke and seeing a buck in your neighbor's field, grabbing your rifle and shooting it??? then going to finish the job with your shotgun!?! It was just pure luck that you shot him and possibly not even legally considering how close you were to occupied dwellings. Go ahead and mount him if you want but....if that's the case I could have mounted a nice buck I got with my wife's Chrysler Sebring a couple years ago. Same thing IMO.
I shot a buck that big this year but after putting in 126 hours in my tree stand. Now that buck was hunted as he was one of the 2 I was after all season.
I shot a buck that big this year but after putting in 126 hours in my tree stand. Now that buck was hunted as he was one of the 2 I was after all season.
#29
V8Ranger, ya did good, and I'm proud of ya!!!! But I gotta draw the line on mounting the "RoadKill" Just not right!,, if everyone did that B/C would have to open a new catagory. Doc
#30
Lol, he would have to be a monster before I would have him mounted...lol..... Many many years ago, the biggest buck ever killed in this area was hit by a car. This was like 20 plus years ago. The thing was a monster. I would have proudly had that thing put on my wall. It was 20 plus points and just massive.... But like I said, It would have to be a monster like that before I would mount my own road kill...