opening day of gun season in IN. trophy pics for deer. - The Firearms Forum

fleetwood1976 · 11-13-2010, 05:31 PM

Here are picks of my first buck in ten years. I let the last one go because it had a broken antler and it has been ten years since i have seen another. this one was about 150 lbs field dressed. not a wall hanger but at least I am over the Curse of the Broken antler. Its a nice little 2 year old 8 pointer for eating.

fleetwood1976 · 11-13-2010, 05:37 PM

I was hoping to start a thread of everyone's kills this season. if there is one allready just move this to it.

Big ugly · 11-13-2010, 08:58 PM

Good looking Buck, If you dont mind me askin' where ya got it. Been Kickinaround the Idea if goin out over to Brookville Ind. before Turkey day.

jim summers · 11-13-2010, 10:36 PM

That one will taste mighty good, congrats on a nice buck.

fleetwood1976 · 11-13-2010, 10:58 PM

big ugly,

Brookville is on the direct other side of the state from me about a 3 hour drive. But I am sure there are plenty over there too. I got this one in pike county, the wife saw a monster buck with a doe when we first got there about 250 yards away and she could still see the massive wrap around antlers. he followed the fence row instead of going through the woods were my stand was. I can get 5 more does with my life time license so she is going back for the big buck.

woolleyworm · 11-13-2010, 11:39 PM

Should be a great eating deer and plenty worthy enough to hang on the wall too. The Memories and the stories are; 99% of the time, bigger than the rack anyways !

fleetwood1976 · 11-14-2010, 12:21 AM

I kept the skull cap for the memorys. He weighed 165 headless and naked at the processer so he had a little more mass than i had first thought. must be why i felt like having a heart attack every 10 feet dragging him up hill.

Zane71464 · 11-14-2010, 01:15 AM

That's a nice Buck and should make for some good eating! Congrat's on your 8 point!

Crpdeth · 11-14-2010, 02:06 AM

Nice!

jack404 · 11-14-2010, 02:57 AM

Nice Indeed , no season here but its start of spring so let em fatten up a smidgon and i'll see what i can post for you from this side

Roadkil · 11-15-2010, 08:18 AM

Congrats on a fine looking buck.

fleetwood1976 · 11-15-2010, 08:30 PM

just got back from processor. a little over 86 lbs of packaged meat. I did a normal process no added meat or fat and no sausage. I saw 3 tonight nothing close enough. the wife has a 70 lb doe that is coming up within 10 yards of her and literally talking to her. Wonder if she is hunting from the spot the momma doe was shot in or something.

hope to post picks of her monster buck. we have one spot in the house for trophy antlers and the gun it was shot with on display. I have the spot but she could boot my rack out to the garage.

old semperfi · 11-16-2010, 07:05 AM

yum........nice deer,i have only went once so far and did not even see a deer.i hunted the same spot last year and seen thirteen.this year i plan on shooting the smallest deer possible because im going to roast it on a stick/rotisary.good luck all,i hope to post a picture or two soon. old semperfi

Zane71464 · 11-16-2010, 07:22 AM

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Originally Posted by fleetwood1976

just got back from processor. a little over 86 lbs of packaged meat. I did a normal process no added meat or fat and no sausage. I saw 3 tonight nothing close enough. the wife has a 70 lb doe that is coming up within 10 yards of her and literally talking to her. Wonder if she is hunting from the spot the momma doe was shot in or something.

hope to post picks of her monster buck. we have one spot in the house for trophy antlers and the gun it was shot with on display. I have the spot but she could boot my rack out to the garage.

Good to hear! 86lbs of meat, man, that must have been a huge buck...pictures never does justice on the real thing. Not saying it doesnt look that big in your picture because it does. That's alot of meat...congrat's!!!

fleetwood1976 · 11-16-2010, 09:31 AM

I used a calculator link on another post and it checks out. I estimated it about 140 150 after I field dressed but he was 165 on the meat hook with no head or skin. so i was low on my estimate. it had 2 neck roast about 5 pound a peice. He wasn't rutty so he wasn't using all that energy chasing girls. neck roast stew is on the menu after hunting this evening. we are hitting grandmas river bottom ground this afternoon. I got that buck on the other side of the family's wooded farmland ground. I am thankfull I have access to good places to hunt. But first, We are going to my oldest girls school for lunch at the mexican resturant field trip. you have to order in spanish. I will propably end off with 2 light bulbs and a toilet seet on my plate. Don't know much spanish here.

fleetwood1976 · 11-16-2010, 09:38 AM

[ Not saying it doesnt look that big in your picture because it does. That's alot of meat...congrat's]

Just to put in perspective that is a full size chevy bed and Since we started our diet I am probably a tic under 400lbs right now. I havent been to the feed mill to get on the scales lately, so I don't know for sure.

CampingJosh · 11-16-2010, 11:18 AM

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Originally Posted by fleetwood1976

But first, We are going to my oldest girls school for lunch at the mexican resturant field trip. you have to order in spanish. I will propably end off with 2 light bulbs and a toilet seet on my plate. Don't know much spanish here.

Pointing at the menu is the same in any language.

My wife speak Spanish enough to hold a conversation, but I mispronounce words on the Taco Bell menu, so she gave me a good ribbing when we vacationed in Rivieria Maya. I just started pointing at things, and the wait staff all knew what I wanted.

22shot · 11-16-2010, 12:13 PM

A couple of days before the opener..
Where there is smoke; there is a fire..
Their Pappy aint so stupid!

huston_farms · 11-16-2010, 02:45 PM

congrats on your buck! I appreciated the pic with your girls, as my kids were always in my hunting/fishing pics as well.

Zane71464 · 11-16-2010, 08:20 PM

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Originally Posted by fleetwood1976

[ Not saying it doesnt look that big in your picture because it does. That's alot of meat...congrat's]

Just to put in perspective that is a full size chevy bed and Since we started our diet I am probably a tic under 400lbs right now. I havent been to the feed mill to get on the scales lately, so I don't know for sure.

That's what was on my mind when I was looking at your buck and forgot to ask you about that. Your buck is/was a BEAST!
I shot a big doe last year during bow season and didnt have it weighed as I done all the processing myself. When I hung it to skin and cut, me standing beside it (i'm 6'2") it's back hoves were over my head and it's nose was touching the ground. The secone biggest doe I'd ever taken

You got you one big buck fleetwood, NICE and enjoy the good venison!

fleetwood1976 · 11-16-2010, 10:49 PM

dragging him out by the hind legs he was easily 6 foot streached out. That is what is wierd, usually around here big bucks are rutty nasty old tuff deer. this one was more like a big doe, good meat bueatifull soft fur. kind of the fat couch potato of the buck world. I would like to shoot a trophey buck someday, but the meat is usually pretty nasty, and the meat is what we are after. around here the doe are what get big. 250 is not uncommon at all.

Zane71464 · 11-17-2010, 01:50 AM

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Originally Posted by fleetwood1976

dragging him out by the hind legs he was easily 6 foot streached out. That is what is wierd, usually around here big bucks are rutty nasty old tuff deer. this one was more like a big doe, good meat bueatifull soft fur. kind of the fat couch potato of the buck world. I would like to shoot a trophey buck someday, but the meat is usually pretty nasty, and the meat is what we are after. around here the doe are what get big. 250 is not uncommon at all.

Hey Fleetwood, where you hunt, do you have many cropfields around? I know in my area, there are some cropfields such as corn and beans (mainly corn) and the bucks around (and does) these spots get more nutrients and the racks are much better. But off in the "backwoods" you get the big deer with not much in the way of the nice racks.
But I'm with you on the meat aspect of it...I'm not much concerned about the size of the racks these days. I'm after the meat mostly when I'm out. I shot a nice 11pt in the "07" bow season and it was a wall hanger for sure, and it takes a lot for me to want to have to want a head mount. Unfortunately, I didnt even get to do a head mount on it...(that's a long story, and I thank Mr. G Warden for that!)

fleetwood1976 · 11-17-2010, 05:56 PM

Zane,

yep farmland all around. we hunted at the family farm today in the river bottoms with cornfields on the other side of the levy.

The wife wounded a doe at 60yrd with a 357 lever in the leg, followed a blood trail of 1 drop every 5 yard for about 150 yards and it quit, so I would say she is fine.

I had a nice eating size 4 point buck walk 10 yards away from me and never saw me, but unfortunetly indiana only allows one buck per year and I had to let it go. very frustrating.

All in all we saw a lot of dear in there so we will go back Friday.

Had some neck roast stew from my buck and it is awesome.

fleetwood1976 · 11-23-2010, 05:09 AM

this is the first day I have not seen a deer. Cold front moving in so we will see what happens. I am a one shot one kill guy. but the season goes out sunday, so I might have to beat the bushes this weekend. my buck needs a doe to keep him company in the freezer.

fleetwood1976 · 11-25-2010, 10:09 AM

got a thanksgiving doe. about 130 field dressed. Kinda small compared to the buck but still good eating.

11-13-2010, 05:31 PM	#1
fleetwood1976 Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Southern Indiana Contributor Posts: 1,333	opening day of gun season in IN. trophy pics for deer. Here are picks of my first buck in ten years. I let the last one go because it had a broken antler and it has been ten years since i have seen another. this one was about 150 lbs field dressed. not a wall hanger but at least I am over the Curse of the Broken antler. Its a nice little 2 year old 8 pointer for eating. Attached Images -->

11-13-2010, 05:37 PM	#2
fleetwood1976 Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Southern Indiana Contributor Posts: 1,333	Re: opening day of gun season in IN. trophy pics for deer. I was hoping to start a thread of everyone's kills this season. if there is one allready just move this to it. Last edited by fleetwood1976; 11-14-2010 at 07:16 AM..

11-13-2010, 08:58 PM	#3
Big ugly Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Knoxville Tennessee Contributor Posts: 2,603	Re: opening day of gun season in IN. trophy pics for deer. Good looking Buck, If you dont mind me askin' where ya got it. Been Kickinaround the Idea if goin out over to Brookville Ind. before Turkey day. __________________ "You say the Devil made do it with a smile. Raisin' hell and howlin at the moon. Well I'm gonna put your @$$ back in line. I'm gonna scare the Devil out of you." BlackBerry Smoke Song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R513dA4peMg Nothing is "proof" against a truly talented fool. Swanshot

11-13-2010, 10:36 PM	#4
jim summers Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: I reside in southern Indiana, you can almost step out of my back door and be setting on Patoka Lake Posts: 1,056	Re: opening day of gun season in IN. trophy pics for deer. That one will taste mighty good, congrats on a nice buck. __________________ To Whom Much Is Given, Much Is Required.

11-13-2010, 10:58 PM	#5
fleetwood1976 Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Southern Indiana Contributor Posts: 1,333	Re: opening day of gun season in IN. trophy pics for deer. big ugly, Brookville is on the direct other side of the state from me about a 3 hour drive. But I am sure there are plenty over there too. I got this one in pike county, the wife saw a monster buck with a doe when we first got there about 250 yards away and she could still see the massive wrap around antlers. he followed the fence row instead of going through the woods were my stand was. I can get 5 more does with my life time license so she is going back for the big buck.

11-13-2010, 11:39 PM	#6
woolleyworm TFF Moderator/Host Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: SW Fort Worth Contributor Posts: 4,881	Re: opening day of gun season in IN. trophy pics for deer. Should be a great eating deer and plenty worthy enough to hang on the wall too. The Memories and the stories are; 99% of the time, bigger than the rack anyways ! __________________ . What are you gonna do, talk the alien to death? -- (on Sigourney Weaver's worry about Guns in Aliens) "Safety is something that happens between your ears, not something you hold in your hands." "I carry a small gun to compensate for my huge Blue press." .

11-14-2010, 12:21 AM	#7
fleetwood1976 Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Southern Indiana Contributor Posts: 1,333	Re: opening day of gun season in IN. trophy pics for deer. I kept the skull cap for the memorys. He weighed 165 headless and naked at the processer so he had a little more mass than i had first thought. must be why i felt like having a heart attack every 10 feet dragging him up hill.

11-14-2010, 01:15 AM	#8
Zane71464 Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Ohio NRA Member Contributor Posts: 5,350	Re: opening day of gun season in IN. trophy pics for deer. That's a nice Buck and should make for some good eating! Congrat's on your 8 point! __________________ Two Words; "Simple Man", song by Charlie Daniels sums up my thoughts on a "few things"!

11-14-2010, 02:06 AM	#9
Crpdeth Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Location: Location Contributor Posts: 8,247	Re: opening day of gun season in IN. trophy pics for deer. Nice! __________________ Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there. ~Eric Hoffer

11-14-2010, 02:57 AM	#10
jack404 Former Guest Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Australia Contributor Posts: 17,622	Re: opening day of gun season in IN. trophy pics for deer. Nice Indeed , no season here but its start of spring so let em fatten up a smidgon and i'll see what i can post for you from this side

11-15-2010, 08:18 AM	#11
Roadkil V.I.P. Member Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: SW Ohio Posts: 183	Re: opening day of gun season in IN. trophy pics for deer. Congrats on a fine looking buck.

11-15-2010, 08:30 PM	#12
fleetwood1976 Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Southern Indiana Contributor Posts: 1,333	Re: opening day of gun season in IN. trophy pics for deer. just got back from processor. a little over 86 lbs of packaged meat. I did a normal process no added meat or fat and no sausage. I saw 3 tonight nothing close enough. the wife has a 70 lb doe that is coming up within 10 yards of her and literally talking to her. Wonder if she is hunting from the spot the momma doe was shot in or something. hope to post picks of her monster buck. we have one spot in the house for trophy antlers and the gun it was shot with on display. I have the spot but she could boot my rack out to the garage.

11-16-2010, 07:05 AM	#13
old semperfi Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: i live in southern indiana,old country boy at heart Posts: 1,506	Re: opening day of gun season in IN. trophy pics for deer. yum........nice deer,i have only went once so far and did not even see a deer.i hunted the same spot last year and seen thirteen.this year i plan on shooting the smallest deer possible because im going to roast it on a stick/rotisary.good luck all,i hope to post a picture or two soon. old semperfi

11-16-2010, 09:31 AM	#15
fleetwood1976 Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Southern Indiana Contributor Posts: 1,333	Re: opening day of gun season in IN. trophy pics for deer. I used a calculator link on another post and it checks out. I estimated it about 140 150 after I field dressed but he was 165 on the meat hook with no head or skin. so i was low on my estimate. it had 2 neck roast about 5 pound a peice. He wasn't rutty so he wasn't using all that energy chasing girls. neck roast stew is on the menu after hunting this evening. we are hitting grandmas river bottom ground this afternoon. I got that buck on the other side of the family's wooded farmland ground. I am thankfull I have access to good places to hunt. But first, We are going to my oldest girls school for lunch at the mexican resturant field trip. you have to order in spanish. I will propably end off with 2 light bulbs and a toilet seet on my plate. Don't know much spanish here.

11-16-2010, 09:38 AM	#16
fleetwood1976 Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Southern Indiana Contributor Posts: 1,333	Re: opening day of gun season in IN. trophy pics for deer. [ Not saying it doesnt look that big in your picture because it does. That's alot of meat...congrat's] Just to put in perspective that is a full size chevy bed and Since we started our diet I am probably a tic under 400lbs right now. I havent been to the feed mill to get on the scales lately, so I don't know for sure.

11-16-2010, 12:13 PM	#18
22shot V.I.P. Member Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: U.S.of A. Posts: 376	Re: opening day of gun season in IN. trophy pics for deer. A couple of days before the opener.. Where there is smoke; there is a fire.. Their Pappy aint so stupid! Attached Images Last edited by 22shot; 11-16-2010 at 12:25 PM..

11-16-2010, 02:45 PM	#19
huston_farms Member Join Date: Nov 2010 Posts: 17	Re: opening day of gun season in IN. trophy pics for deer. congrats on your buck! I appreciated the pic with your girls, as my kids were always in my hunting/fishing pics as well.

11-16-2010, 10:49 PM	#21
fleetwood1976 Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Southern Indiana Contributor Posts: 1,333	Re: opening day of gun season in IN. trophy pics for deer. dragging him out by the hind legs he was easily 6 foot streached out. That is what is wierd, usually around here big bucks are rutty nasty old tuff deer. this one was more like a big doe, good meat bueatifull soft fur. kind of the fat couch potato of the buck world. I would like to shoot a trophey buck someday, but the meat is usually pretty nasty, and the meat is what we are after. around here the doe are what get big. 250 is not uncommon at all.

11-17-2010, 05:56 PM	#23
fleetwood1976 Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Southern Indiana Contributor Posts: 1,333	Re: opening day of gun season in IN. trophy pics for deer. Zane, yep farmland all around. we hunted at the family farm today in the river bottoms with cornfields on the other side of the levy. The wife wounded a doe at 60yrd with a 357 lever in the leg, followed a blood trail of 1 drop every 5 yard for about 150 yards and it quit, so I would say she is fine. I had a nice eating size 4 point buck walk 10 yards away from me and never saw me, but unfortunetly indiana only allows one buck per year and I had to let it go. very frustrating. All in all we saw a lot of dear in there so we will go back Friday. Had some neck roast stew from my buck and it is awesome.

11-23-2010, 05:09 AM	#24
fleetwood1976 Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Southern Indiana Contributor Posts: 1,333	Re: opening day of gun season in IN. trophy pics for deer. this is the first day I have not seen a deer. Cold front moving in so we will see what happens. I am a one shot one kill guy. but the season goes out sunday, so I might have to beat the bushes this weekend. my buck needs a doe to keep him company in the freezer.

11-25-2010, 10:09 AM	#25
fleetwood1976 Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Southern Indiana Contributor Posts: 1,333	Re: opening day of gun season in IN. trophy pics for deer. got a thanksgiving doe. about 130 field dressed. Kinda small compared to the buck but still good eating.