well, this year is my first year ever seriously deer hunting. I got in a lease, bought a rifle, camp, etc. etc.... well Friday evening I was on stand and had a spike walk out, thought it was a doe, but in the late hour I couldn't see the horns.... 112 lbs., not too bad.... but it gets better....
Sunday our modern rifle ended and we went to primitive on Monday... yesterday evening I was back at the same spot (camera showed a doe in there 30 minutes after we recovered the spike), this time with a muzzle loader... popped what looked like a doe, turned out to be a button buck that you had to touch it to be sure, but either way, 75 lbs should make some tender eating.
Where we are there is a big buck program, my first deer ever was the spike, I shot late but it's forgiven and they were estatic that I killed my first deer and could care less about it being a buck. The second one was a button buck, but with the 4x scope on the muzzle loader I couldn't see the lumps, might have with the 9X on the .30-06, but button bucks as an honest mistake are automatic forgivens.
Sunday our modern rifle ended and we went to primitive on Monday... yesterday evening I was back at the same spot (camera showed a doe in there 30 minutes after we recovered the spike), this time with a muzzle loader... popped what looked like a doe, turned out to be a button buck that you had to touch it to be sure, but either way, 75 lbs should make some tender eating.
Where we are there is a big buck program, my first deer ever was the spike, I shot late but it's forgiven and they were estatic that I killed my first deer and could care less about it being a buck. The second one was a button buck, but with the 4x scope on the muzzle loader I couldn't see the lumps, might have with the 9X on the .30-06, but button bucks as an honest mistake are automatic forgivens.