Crappie_Slayer like you, having been well schooled in hunting, when the opportunity knocks your fiesty pup will know what to do and when to do it.

Your picture tells of a true hunting adventure, your story brings back many memories.

Your dad is proud. 👍👍👍

I was out and about yesterday, taking care of some things needing taken care of and on our way home just at sunset, we passed a field where what before our eyes did appear but, eight elusive Penna. White Tailed Deer. 😎

Didn't see any head gear and all were calmly grazing (or brazing🤔I can't remember which they do with no front teef) The deer I mean, the deer don't have no front teef.

No other traffic around so I made an exit from our vehicle to do a little C & R hunting.

All was going well and the animals acted like I wasn't even there as I peered through the sights of my camera..... err phone.

Then suddenly, the creatures bolted toward the underbrush along fields edge, only allowing for a blurred shot of two of the animals.

Guess I shouldn't have yelled "everyone look here and say cheese"

Stupid deer!!!

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Great story band experience CS.

I just bought carved deer piece of art because it reminded me of the last buck I shot hunting with my Dad.

Congrats CS,

Few years back, I hit a ten pt in the shoulder blade, while he was running away I watched him run past a tree busting off my arrow, the **** thing flew about ten yds away from the deer nowhere near where it ran, maybe the bolt started to work lose and did something similar? I got good penetration on that deer about 13 inches of the arrow was broken off and it only made it about 70 yds. No blood of course.

Beautiful calm, cool morning.  Didn't see a deer from the stand.  Stayed put until a little after 10, pulled a card (just doe), then did some scouting.  Only one small new scrape, one old one with leaves in it and only a handful of rubs.  Kicked out 2 or 3 UFOs on my walk and that was it.   Hopefully it starts to pick up.

Seemed like a good week to stick one in crawford county. Same night I shot my buck, a guy at work got a doe. He text me tonight and shot a buck out of the same stand. Had another friend smack a doe on Thursday.

Now that’s funny.

Boooo...lol

Never done any of the swirl paints on mine, but they do look kinda cool. I just enjoy the simple skull mount in my garage over sawing off the skull plate with the horns. Granted I don't have a lot of them, but honestly the time it takes to skin one, boil it, and bleach it gives me time to remember the hunt and all of the details that went with it.

ha haa....👻🎃

I never tried euro mounts. First, a guy needs to get a stupid deer to do that but other than that minor detail, euro mounts are cool.

Many moon ago and a few years past that, a friend of mine did euro mounts from deer to woodchucks.

Heads of birds and small animals like 'chucks' remained nailed to a tree, letting mother nature do her thing.

Deer and some farm animals were skinned and boiled or placed in an ice chest, maggots added and sreen placed over the cooler to keep hatched flys reproducing more maggots until the skull was free of the tasty stuff including the brain.

The part I found most interesting was the bleaching. Cold bleach vs hot bleaching and keeping the bleach from making contact with any part of the antler was always a challenge, especially at the base.

Anybody wanting to see 'swirl painting' euro mounts need only search Youtube. Younz may need to watch a few different vids to find the experts but, there is some interesting & very nice work.

Glands much lighter not in estrus.



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Glands very dark from rubbing together and peeing (urinating) over the glands marking the area.

Tarsals as well as area around the glands on both buck and doe become darkened.

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In my favorite hunting stand bright and early after sun up.

40 to 50 yds and darned if I could find my real tree, rubber coated, 10 x 20 power, anti-glare coated lense looking glass. Probably because I couldn't find my eyeglasses which is the reason I couldn't see the phone power button in-turn creating a smudge, on the camera lense from a finger print, causing a slightly less than, perfect picture.

From what I 'could' see, no sign of estrus but ain't they sooooo darned cute???😁



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Went out for a morning hunt. Even though it wasn't supposed to, it drizzled all morning in the SW corner of the state. For my 4 hour sit, I was rewarded with zero deer sighted. 

I hunted all morning on Thursday old man doe......zero deer...came back to my vehicle...and 4 does in the landowners front yard.... 50 yards from my van... at high noon lol.  I'm having a swell season....lol.    It's about time to pick up my .22 and start swacking squirrels....then I'm guaranteed to see deer...lol

Congrats. That is a dandy buck.

Hunted Friday evening bumped 2 bedded under my stand then nada couple of my buddy's have shot some hammers this week seen alot of deer moving today but it's Sunday maby tomorrow time to start these all day sits