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Post by retiredmn1 on Feb 27, 2008 9:31:03 GMT -5
Accidentially deleted previous post.  Hope this picture isn't to big. Shot this button buck my first time hunting. It was this past December here in Michigan during muzzle loader season. Wsa in the shack with my neighbor for about 30 mins when we saw it come out of the woods and come down the tree line to where some sugar beets were laying. He was about 80 yds away, and still looked like a doe to the both of us. I shot and he dropped like a ton of bricks. We didn't realize it was a button until we went to retrieve it, and that's when my neighbor told me why it dropped so fast. I had shot him in the head. Not the way I wanted to kill my first deer, but I guess it was better than wounding him. |
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Post by dbd870 on Feb 27, 2008 9:54:57 GMT -5
Hey, buttons happen - congrats.
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Post by hornharvester on Feb 27, 2008 10:01:27 GMT -5
The first one is always the hardest! Congratulations on your deer. No excuses needed here for a button buck. They all eat the same any way.
Heres something to remember, usually just before the rut the doe will kick out the button bucks or run them off, so if you see a small deer, by itself, in the latter part of the season wondering around looking stupid, its usually a button buck. Button bucks are usually by themselves during and right after the rut. h.h.
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Post by Bowbo on Feb 27, 2008 10:26:35 GMT -5
Congrats on your first! It's great, ain't it?!?  In the future if you would like to prevent shooting buttons.... use some good binos to help determine what it is first. |
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Post by retiredmn1 on Feb 27, 2008 10:32:17 GMT -5
My neighbor had the binos and still couldn't tell, and he's been hunting for the last 40 years.
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Post by indianahick on Feb 27, 2008 11:03:14 GMT -5
Do not worry about not being able to tell, unless they are less than 30 yards it is extremely hard. Use H.H.'s rule of thumb, lone deer walking around looking lost and alone is lost and alone, it is a button that was recently kicked out of the family unit. Another thing to try is not to shoot the second largest in a 3 deer family, it may be a button that has not been kicked yet because the doe hasn't started to feel the urge. Buttons eat great. Congrats on your deer.
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Post by DEERTRACKS on Feb 27, 2008 13:12:57 GMT -5
Congrats!
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Post by SSNFA on Feb 27, 2008 14:34:26 GMT -5
I would be more worried about my wife finding me with a whole deer in the kitchen!!!!
Congrats on your first deer, I hunted 8 years before I killed my first. I then went on to kill 8 in the next four years.
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Post by beehunter on Feb 27, 2008 17:12:15 GMT -5
Congratulations
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Post by Mark T on Feb 27, 2008 19:25:40 GMT -5
Yea my wife would have my head mounted on the wall if she seen a pic of me with it inside!! Congrats bud!! Mark T
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Post by racktracker on Feb 27, 2008 19:56:45 GMT -5
Congratulations on your first.
Don't worry about the BB part. It is deer season and that BB is a deer.
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Post by retiredmn1 on Feb 27, 2008 20:10:03 GMT -5
My wife is the one who took the picture
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Post by jim1966 on Feb 27, 2008 22:54:07 GMT -5
lmao Very understanding wife. I've done alot of things but I know better than to drag a deer in the house.
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