Whitetail deer season 2023-2024

[Siennacoyote]

I took my first buck and it was my first deer with a bow last weekend . He’s not huge but it’s special to me

 

[IronRanger]

MN rifle season ended yesterday. Had to pass on this huge deer... no rifle with me. The small 8 pt was harvested after a long night shift, perfect for our freezer.

Browning BAR. 30-06 using 150g corelok bullets (junk by cheap)

MN, Lake Co, morning hunt from ground stool.

 

[Trophyhunter01]

Took early trip to S. Texas for varmit and pig patrol and do some scouting. Saw some nice young bucks but not really moving yet.

My son went with me and helped out pig patrol with 10 confirmed kills. While waiting on the next victim to show he found a huge bobcat that fell to the 308. It was a beautiful cat. Made for a successful weekend.

 

[Jondnov]

Wow that is a huge bobcat. I’ve never seen one that big.

 

[wesheltonj]

Very nice bobcat.

 

[DPHunter4570]

Me, my kids, and a neighbor have been chasing this buck for three years. We’ve had him on cameras each year but this morning was only the second time anyone has seen him in daylight. None of the kids wanted to get up this morning so dad took the shot. He was chasing a doe hard and would never stop moving. I have to admit to a little buck fever having targeted this buck for so long and finally having a scope on him. I ended up taking a 160 yard shot angling hard away as he was walking out of the green field back to the timberline. Not my preferred shot but the 300WSM and my Africa loads (180gr AFrame) performed perfectly.View attachment 570156View attachment 570157
I don’t know exactly how old he was, but I feel like this deer was bigger last year. Looking at this cam picture he was taller last year but maybe not as massive.View attachment 570158
The blind was a lot more crowded this evening!View attachment 570160

That's a beautiful buck!

 

[DPHunter4570]

We capped off the Illinois first gun season with somewhere around 15 deer in the cooler, from the total extended family that comes to deer camp. Had a great 3 days of hunting even with less than ideal weather. A lot of good rut action still going on. A good mix of does and some smaller bucks taken with two great stud bucks in the mix. We'll all come back together the Saturday after Thanksgiving to butcher them and prepare sausage meat and deer steak to divide evenly.

Both of these bucks were ones that I had some trail camera pics of but only a few, so I didn't have much to go on for them. They both just slipped up and daylighted in front of the wrong guys!

The one buck was very old, heck of a rack, and barely any teeth left in his mouth. I cut out the incisors to send in for aging, what was left of them anyways. I'm very interested to see what they say, I predict 8 years old or more. I suspect that's why he only weighed 166 pounds as well.

The season has really shaped up well from the slow October bowhunting, I got my 8 pointer, now these two bucks are in the salt, with a few more bucks left for me to chase into the later part of season.

 

[DPHunter4570]

Took early trip to S. Texas for varmit and pig patrol and do some scouting. Saw some nice young bucks but not really moving yet.
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My son went with me and helped out pig patrol with 10 confirmed kills. While waiting on the next victim to show he found a huge bobcat that fell to the 308. It was a beautiful cat. Made for a successful weekend.
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That's a heck of a cat! that's awesome.

 

[zip4644]

Virginia Thanksgiving morning....

 

[Rob404]

Beautiful Lumber on that Rifle

 

[Fatback]

I connected on a South Georgia buck this morning. I used my new to me Ruger M77/MarkII in 30.06. I was shooting Remington ammo loaded with 180 grain Swift Sirocco Bullets at 2700ft/sec. Shot was about 50 yards and the deer ran about 45-50 yards after the shot. Had my future son-in-law hunting with me this morning as well so I had good help dragging and getting the deer loaded up and taken care of. Hope everybody has a wonderful Thanksgiving.

 

[poco]

.270 WSM 130gr ttsx , took

out this lopsided management buck

 

[godwincp]

Got this nice buck on my Illinois farm opening evening. Shot him at 283 yards with my new 450 Bushmaster built by Bear Creek Ballistics.

 

[Caveman]

Got this guy with my bow just before dark. He’s my biggest with a bow to date.

 

[SS1]

A buddy of mine shot this 7-point whitetail with a rifle a couple days ago in MidCoast Maine, weighed just over 200 lbs. dressed.

 

[mcaustin]

I shot this KS buck 3 weekends ago with my bow, using 125gr Kudupoints at 13 yards. He went down within 60 yards.

The bigger news is my daughter (12), who shot her first doe last year with my 300BLK, and declared that she wanted to get a buck this year.. I told her that she'd probably have to put in more hunting time for a buck than a doe and she said that's what she wanted to do. After 6-8 hunts, she connected yesterday morning with her crossbow for her first buck! She shot him at 18 yards. He ran about 25 yards up a hill before he stopped, staggered, fell and rolled back to his resting place, about 20 yards from where he was shot.

She's good with her bow (recently upgraded to a Mission Hammr) but we're still building up draw strength before using it to hunt. She used a Killer Instinct Boss 405 with QAD Exodus broadheads. I'm so proud of my girl for sticking with goal and doing a great job when the time came!

It's been a great November in our bit of KS woods!

 

[Dawg2019]

Got some good quality family time at the deer camp (South Ga) with my 2 kids, daughter 11 and son 8. My daughter got her first deer, a nice doe, she made a perfect shot and she was down within 30 yards. The next evening I was able to get this 9 pointer, we have been getting pictures of him for a couple months (some are in a trail cam thread on here).

 

[Tucketed]

11 point Central Florida buck I took in September, middle of rut. Nice 5.5 year old 203 LBS. Florida deer are not known for great rack size but our 6000 acre lease works hard on supporting decent deer.

 

[Philip Glass]

My youngest got a nice one. This deer was 6 years old (about 218") and had not been seen since last year. He showed up during Thanksgiving and the rest is history! We are coming out of the drought it seems so we are hoping for a great 2024.

 

[R.M.C.]

Step daughter got her first buck today, Mossberg patriot .243 with 100 grain soft points, dropped him in his tracks at 75 yards. Funny rack, a weird spike on one side and a little claw shaped thing on the other side.