The official Deer Hunting thread.

[MustGoFaster]

Killed my first deer Tuesday evening! Zone 213 just south of 94, between Osakis and Alexandra.
I was on my Grandpa's land, just North of my uncle's land which I hunted the first 3 days.
This was a hunters choice area this year, so "if it's brown it's down" was in effect, minus horses, cows and dogs.
This is as I found her, about 50 yards from where she was when I took the shot.
http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/data/682/medium/20131112_170109.jpg
I'm missing the standard issue picture of me, the deer and gun. I was hunting solo (all my cousins working like a normal week).
Met up with them an hour or so later and skinned her.

I'm happy say I took care of the tracking, dragging, field dressing and loading onto the 4 wheeler all on my own.
http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/data/682/medium/20131112_180513.jpg
Took me about an hour all said and done. First time for everything.

The hunt itself was kind of straight forward. About 2/3's of a mile south on my uncle's land it's was all about catching them between bedding
and feeding. Up on my Grandpa's land, I caught them on the soybean field and literally had my pick. 5 young doe (no spots, but not much older)
and 3 bigger. The biggest never got close enough to have a good shot at, the other two where very similar in size. I took the one close enough for
a good shot, about 40 yards from me, using a smooth bore shotgun with "rifled" slugs.

At this point she's cut up, in the freezer and ready to eat. Haven't told my mom yet so I' guessing she'll be surprised to find a deer head looking at her in the morning when she lets the dogs out. :rollinglaugh:
http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/data/682/medium/20131113_231802.jpg

Head in the freezer just for fun.

[mike55112]

Congrats on your first deer.

[goodhart]

Getting skunked here and its pissing me off. Went to my brother's land up in rush city last night and still haven't seen a thing. I don't understand all these farmers leaving standing corn up through the winter. Makes no sense.

[A//// Guy]

Nice job on your first deer!

[MustGoFaster]

Corn is standing because it's not drying in the field like it normally does. My uncle is spending $$$ on propane to dry his so he can plow his fields before they freeze.

[goodhart]

Corn up here was tassled and brown by august and its been nothing but windy the last 3 weeks, its plenty dry. My brother had his out weeks ago. A lit of tards up here just leave it up all winter and I don't know why. At that point they are losing so much its hardly even worth the fuel to make it into sileage.

[A//// Guy]

Anybody get anything this year?

I was only able to get up north to hunt gun season this last weekend. One hour into Saturdays hunt I spotted a deer around 100 yards in front of me, very thick forest. I waited till it moved left a bit and saw antlers, it was down after that. 10 point buck, I was thrilled. Hauling it out of a ravine and out of the woods by hand a mile was not fun. We were on national forest property up by grand rapids.

Doing the processing this week, about halfway done already.

http://i67.tinypic.com/eg37gm.jpg

Circle is where it was, scope ftw.

http://i66.tinypic.com/29qntys.png

[goodhart]

Wow nice buck! I'm taking the year off. Skunked the last 2 years, gonna try to find a new spot next year.

[dsmDolney]

Very nice looking deer. I have a little over 95 acres up in mcgregor anx we have also been getting skunked the last 2 years. Nothing but small does but lucky if you see them even. Going to head up and bow hunt in a couple weeks since i havnt bow hunted my land before im always bow hunting in st francis. But just to see if the deer are moving more later in the season up there

[4seasons69]

Nice buck! I got mine 7:25 opening morning of the firearm opener. A decent 9 pointer. Im Going to be doing some bow hunting down in the Rochester area the next few weekends to see if we can put some more meat in the freezer.