2024 Deer Season

[thriller]

it is rifle season eve in Alabama! Congrats to you all and good luck to those who haven’t gotten one yet and those whose season is just kicking off!

 

[Inkgardener]

Ok I’m scheduled in to have a crack on Saturday evening/sunday! Told em no care about a trophy just a deer to get my first run on the board.

Excited and nervous. Using a 30-06 so that’s pretty classic.

Lot of good deer near Bartlesville. That’s where I got my start many years ago. Good luck!

 

[Elkeater]

Been chasing coues deer here in AZ. Got this little buck with my daughter last week. Good times.

 

[Field28]

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Those dark chocolate antlers are beautiful!!! What part of the country?

 

[dchum]

Those dark chocolate antlers are beautiful!!! What part of the country?

This is a coastal south Texas buck. Chocolate is a trait down here. These deer don’t grow very big. This 5 year old was “big” bodied and dressed out 136 pounds gutted”

Live oak trees and powder sand on the coast is their habitat

Taken on the ranch that has a trim model with ford motor company

 

[Field28]

dchum, we have very similar habitat here in coastal SC, live oaks and sand. The deer along the coast are definitely smaller bodied than just 45-60 minutes inland. The deer that live on the barrier islands are even smaller body wise.

Very cool to see chocolate somewhere besides Saskatchewan!

 

[Certus]

it is rifle season eve in Alabama! Congrats to you all and good luck to those who haven’t gotten one yet and those whose season is just kicking off!

Tomorrow for you too? Woo!

 

[chuckwellington]

Tomorrow for you too? Woo!

MS as well!

 

[WildWill]

My sons first buck.

 

[Whitworth375]

October 28th, 33yd shot from the ground while following a doe. Largest deer body wise and probably antler wise also, should have the mount back in 6 weeks or so. Excalibur Mag 340 with 150gr boltcutter broadheads.
SW Ontario
Waiting on gun season to open Dec. 2nd

 

[mdwest]

Bagged what I believe is the fattest doe I’ve ever seen this morning. I’m pretty sure she’s been on a twinkies and ho-hos diet for the last 3.5 years…

Wife then dropped a nice (more normal) doe this afternoon…

Freezer is filling up nicely this year…

 

[Certus]

Meat on the table - Also my first deer. Try for a Buck tomorrow. Little doe

Hit high and spined her but died instantly it seemed.

 

[K-man]

Opening day of gun season got this buck and my grandson got his second. One more grandson to go!

 

[bohannon]

Here in Georgia I gave my 375 h&h some action this week with this 8 pointer.

I'm still chasing the ghost buck though - hopefully he'll slip up.

 

[cash_tx]

Bagged what I believe is the fattest doe I’ve ever seen this morning. I’m pretty sure she’s been on a twinkies and ho-hos diet for the last 3.5 years…

Wife then dropped a nice (more normal) doe this afternoon…

Freezer is filling up nicely this year…

One of my coffee buddies in McKinney just took a buck down near Freer that he said had the most fat he had ever seen on a whitetail.

Side note: this same buddy has a guy near the Galleria in Houston that makes some incredible venison tamales. I've already got 10 dozen on order.

 

[CZDiesel]

Not mine but I thought I’d pass it along… Taken last week off the Arizona Strip!

 

[BJH65]

Taken out back this morning during opening day rifle. I like to use one of my vintage rifles. This year I used my first year 1962 Remington 700 ADL 7mm Rem Mag and Weaver K4.

 

[Mort Hill]

My youngest son with his first TN buck and our friend Mr Tom who let us come hunt opening morning. He’s taken deer in KY and Michigan with bow and gun, but this was his first in his home state.

 

[Fatback]

For @Bob Nelson 35Whelen. First real cool morning of the season so me and my son in law went. I took the new to me 35Whelen that worked so well last weekend. Took a full grown doe at 158 yards, bang, flop. She went straight down. Really enjoying this rifle so far.

 

[Altitude sickness]

Field28, those SC deer are some of the weariest deer I’ve hunted anywhere. When I hunted there they still hound hunted them on large private clubs. I was a member of two private hunting clubs in SC. I think the generations of hound hunting them made them nocturnal and spooky.

We killed a lot of deer using hounds. But sitting in a tree stand with bow and killing one was a challenge. They jumped the string like a warthog can do.