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Post by parrothead on Nov 29, 2020 6:58:59 GMT -5
We still have 36 days I believe.
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Post by MuzzleLoader on Nov 29, 2020 8:25:43 GMT -5
My standard never changes while hunting. I’m there to enjoy the sunrise, sunsets and nature. Time out from all the craziness in the world. I find myself staring up at the stars and the moon in the mornings and sun setting in the evening. More so than than before. It was always there, I just couldn’t see it.
Shoot what makes ya happy, I won’t judge ya. Spike, doe yearling. Last day of gun season for some and maybe they would just like some meat in the freezer. Got to remember a lot of hunters aren’t multi season hunters.
Enjoy your time out there. Look around. Maybe you will “see” the beauty of just being in the woods. You might even get to shoot a deer to top it off. Good luck to all on the last day of gun.
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Post by jjas on Nov 29, 2020 8:48:38 GMT -5
If it's getting late in the game and a person shoots a smaller buck when they may have been holding out for a chance @ a larger buck they saw @ some point during the season, who am I to judge.
As long as it's legal and ethical, I say fill that tag with whatever deer you choose.
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Post by Ahawkeye on Nov 29, 2020 9:35:07 GMT -5
I tend to wait for an 8 pt. Or better. Now I might opt for a smaller 8 pt. But I really try not to shoot anything smaller unless it's a freakishly huge 6 or albino. I will take a doe at any point of the season unless I already have one. My brother doesn't have very good eyesight so he doesn't hunt. I try to get one for him and his family each year. Those are my "standards" I feel I stick to them pretty well regardless what part of the year I'm hunting.
I find no fault if someone changes theirs for whatever reason though.
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Post by drfleck on Nov 29, 2020 11:12:49 GMT -5
I heard something the other day along the lines of "Never pass on the first day what you would be happy with on the last." I think I may have done just that this year and last. Now as gun season is ending I find myself wishing that maybe I should have shot a buck earlier when I had an easy opportunity. But then again maybe Im remembering that deer being better than he actually was. Going out this evening for either a doe or a 2.5 year old or better. Or both.
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Post by duff on Nov 29, 2020 11:58:55 GMT -5
Honestly depends on the day and location. I have passed up some dandy deer because of the effort to get it out.
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Post by bill9068 on Nov 29, 2020 12:32:06 GMT -5
Been hunting deer for about 45 years. Back then I didn’t see a buck for at least the first 3-4 years. I shot anything with a rack. Now I’m older and I like to believe wiser and let the small ones pass. If I was just starting out I’d probably kill anything I saw. I like the meat more than the rack.
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Post by Woody Williams on Nov 29, 2020 13:02:26 GMT -5
Been hunting deer for about 45 years. Back then I didn’t see a buck for at least the first 3-4 years. I shot anything with a rack. Now I’m older and I like to believe wiser and let the small ones pass. If I was just starting out I’d probably kill anything I saw. I like the meat more than the rack. In 1968, the year I started, if you killed any buck you were doing something. One year I killed a yearling six pointer 15 minutes into the opening day of the archery season. That killed hunting for me until gun season. I says the heck with that and started being more selective. I still do that but the area I hunt has never produced a Booner that I am aware of, so I’m perfectly happy with just a mature buck no matter what rack he has. The buck I killed this year is the very best one I had on camera.. |
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Post by beermaker on Nov 29, 2020 13:03:49 GMT -5
Honestly depends on the day and location. I have passed up some dandy deer because of the effort to get it out. Exactly! A former hunting friend of mine shot a decent buck and mature doe in the middle of a 500 acre plot of HNF on opening day several years ago. Six of us spent the rest of the day dragging them out and damn near died doing so. Three guys were 60+ and the rest of us were 40+. It wasn't the fact that he shot the deer and we had to help that made everyone so mad, it was how he always bragged about going in the farthest, going where no one else will go, etc. There is so much good area there that there was no reason for him to hunt where he did. This was not the first time either, just the first time he shot two. I told him that I was done spending my hunting time dragging his deer. He got mad and made some remarks. Then a couple other guys echoed my comment. He left and never came back to camp. |
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Post by beermaker on Nov 29, 2020 13:08:06 GMT -5
Been hunting deer for about 45 years. Back then I didn’t see a buck for at least the first 3-4 years. I shot anything with a rack. Now I’m older and I like to believe wiser and let the small ones pass. If I was just starting out I’d probably kill anything I saw. I like the meat more than the rack. In 1968, the year I started, if you killed any buck you were doing something. One year I killed a yearling six pointer 15 minutes into the opening day of the archery season. That killed hunting for me until gun season. I says the heck with that and started being more selective. I still do that but the area I hunt has never produced a Booner that I am aware of, so I’m perfectly happy with just a mature buck no matter what rack he has. The buck I killed this year is the very best one I had on camera.. Either Jimmy Houston or Roland Martin once said that "you can fish a lake non-stop with the goal of catching a 10lb bass, but if there isn't a 10lb bass in that lake, you will never achieve your goal." I often feel that many hunters have unrealistic expectation for the area they hunt. |
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Post by ukwil on Nov 29, 2020 13:13:32 GMT -5
I'm at the point I'll hold off for a mature buck or eat my tag. Now here in Ohio I hunt reduction programs 99.9% of the time so I try to do what I'm supposed to. Ill hold off for a mature deer, but my standards drop.over here as the season goes on.
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Post by bill9068 on Nov 29, 2020 13:32:47 GMT -5
Been hunting deer for about 45 years. Back then I didn’t see a buck for at least the first 3-4 years. I shot anything with a rack. Now I’m older and I like to believe wiser and let the small ones pass. If I was just starting out I’d probably kill anything I saw. I like the meat more than the rack. In 1968, the year I started, if you killed any buck you were doing something. One year I killed a yearling six pointer 15 minutes into the opening day of the archery season. That killed hunting for me until gun season. I says the heck with that and started being more selective. I still do that but the area I hunt has never produced a Booner that I am aware of, so I’m perfectly happy with just a mature buck no matter what rack he has. The buck I killed this year is the very best one I had on camera.. You may remember back in the 70s where a guy killed a albino buck. He was a friend of my dad’s, think his first name was Tony. Killed around Boonville stripper pits? |
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Post by treetop on Nov 29, 2020 13:55:16 GMT -5
I love horns as much as the next guy but I like eating deer more I’m in a one buck one doe area my goals would change if I could take two three does for meat one good size deer will last me a bit of time but have friends that always want some summer sausage. I make and give my mom a lot as she lets me hunt her ground I give my BIL some for letting me hunt his ground
I won’t take a yearling or a small buck passed on a few this year but I’ll gladly take a big body buck regardless of his rack
Back when I did park hunts I ate my buck tag here all the time I took every deer I could regardless of size so I always had meat to eat and share
But to me I’m in the woods for more than just killing a deer as said the sunrise and sunset time away from work and life a time to get to know myself again a time to remember what’s really important
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Post by Woody Williams on Nov 29, 2020 14:22:20 GMT -5
Bill,
Yes, I remember him well. He was part of our deer hunting “gang”. Tony Favor was his name.
It was a yearling buck but to us he was a “BUCK” and that’s all that mattered. He killed it out of what we called “The Handle Bar” stand. It was in the stripper pits spoil banks of Northern Warrick County. I still hunt that area today, just a 1/4 mile away. I haven’t seen a “white one” up there for over 25 years
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Post by bill9068 on Nov 29, 2020 14:28:24 GMT -5
Bill, Yes, I remember him well. He was part of our deer hunting “gang”. Tony Favor was his name. It was a yearling buck but to us he was a “BUCK” and that’s all that mattered. He killed it out of what we called “The Handle Bar” stand. It was in the stripper pits spoil banks of Northern Warrick County. I still hunt that area today, just a 1/4 mile away. I haven’t seen a “white one” up there for over 25 years Yep, that was him. By chance did you ever shoot in the archery leagues at Don Castrups under the Air-Way in Evansville? I shot in a men’s league there when I was 11 or 12. |
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Post by Woody Williams on Nov 29, 2020 14:38:06 GMT -5
Bill, Yes, I remember him well. He was part of our deer hunting “gang”. Tony Favor was his name. It was a yearling buck but to us he was a “BUCK” and that’s all that mattered. He killed it out of what we called “The Handle Bar” stand. It was in the stripper pits spoil banks of Northern Warrick County. I still hunt that area today, just a 1/4 mile away. I haven’t seen a “white one” up there for over 25 years Yep, that was him. By chance did you ever shoot in the archery leagues at Don Castrups under the Air-Way in Evansville? I shot in a men’s league there when I was 11 or 12. Yes I did... I know Don very well. Actually it was under the old ABC store. Ayr Way (where I bought a Remington 870 Wingmaster for less than a hundred dollar bill) was northof there a couple blocks |
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Post by bill9068 on Nov 29, 2020 14:46:16 GMT -5
Yep, that was him. By chance did you ever shoot in the archery leagues at Don Castrups under the Air-Way in Evansville? I shot in a men’s league there when I was 11 or 12. Yes I did... I know Don very well. Actually it was under the old ABC store. Ayr Way (where I bought a Remington 870 Wingmaster for less than a hundred dollar bill) was northof there a couple blocks Your right. You and my father knew a lot of the same people. I think we talked before where you worked with a couple of my uncles at Alcoa. |
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Post by Ahawkeye on Nov 29, 2020 16:31:33 GMT -5
Honestly depends on the day and location. I have passed up some dandy deer because of the effort to get it out. Exactly! A former hunting friend of mine shot a decent buck and mature doe in the middle of a 500 acre plot of HNF on opening day several years ago. Six of us spent the rest of the day dragging them out and damn near died doing so. Three guys were 60+ and the rest of us were 40+. It wasn't the fact that he shot the deer and we had to help that made everyone so mad, it was how he always bragged about going in the farthest, going where no one else will go, etc. There is so much good area there that there was no reason for him to hunt where he did. This was not the first time either, just the first time he shot two. I told him that I was done spending my hunting time dragging his deer. He got mad and made some remarks. Then a couple other guys echoed my comment. He left and never came back to camp. I've been on the other side of this situation. First let me say I have no dog in the "fight" you described. I too hunt DEEP in HNF I killed one late one year and told my friends I'd be late getting out. A couple insisted that I wait for help I said no and that I could get it myself. Again they insisted. I let them come help. Well long story short one got mouthy and I snapped back. We had an argument while dragging out, there were complications on top of the work being done. My rules going forward: I'm not letting anyone help me drag out unless they are fully aware of what the amount of work will be. Second, (AGAIN I AM NOT COMPARING YOUR SITUATION TO MINE) if you come to help no whining allowed. If it gets to this point I have already told you multiple times that I can do it myself and I don't need the help if you're here it's because you decided to be here not because I asked you. |
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Post by bill9068 on Nov 29, 2020 18:15:09 GMT -5
Exactly! A former hunting friend of mine shot a decent buck and mature doe in the middle of a 500 acre plot of HNF on opening day several years ago. Six of us spent the rest of the day dragging them out and damn near died doing so. Three guys were 60+ and the rest of us were 40+. It wasn't the fact that he shot the deer and we had to help that made everyone so mad, it was how he always bragged about going in the farthest, going where no one else will go, etc. There is so much good area there that there was no reason for him to hunt where he did. This was not the first time either, just the first time he shot two. I told him that I was done spending my hunting time dragging his deer. He got mad and made some remarks. Then a couple other guys echoed my comment. He left and never came back to camp. I've been on the other side of this situation. First let me say I have no dog in the "fight" you described. I too hunt DEEP in HNF I killed one late one year and told my friends I'd be late getting out. A couple insisted that I wait for help I said no and that I could get it myself. Again they insisted. I let them come help. Well long story short one got mouthy and I snapped back. We had an argument while dragging out, there were complications on top of the work being done. My rules going forward: I'm not letting anyone help me drag out unless they are fully aware of what the amount of work will be. Second, (AGAIN I AM NOT COMPARING YOUR SITUATION TO MINE) if you come to help no whining allowed. If it gets to this point I have already told you multiple times that I can do it myself and I don't need the help if you're here it's because you decided to be here not because I asked you. After dragging out just 100 yards a 260-280 pound buck I bought me a heavy duty sled. No more dragging by hand. Hook up to four wheeler and go to the truck or house. |
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Post by greghopper on Nov 29, 2020 18:59:40 GMT -5
If anyone still Truly drags a deer out you may want to update to a modern deer cart ... It’s 2020 not 1969
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