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Anyone get a deer yet during there opening season date?
I went out yesterday morning at 7:15 when we had freezing rain to take care of the birds and met up with an 8pt for yesterdays open gun/buck season here in WV.
Not a big 8, but like they say, you can't eat the horns. the label on my scale disappeared, but he felt like at least in the 150lb range. No fat all meat.
He was taken just on the left of the barn up on the side by the fence.
Rifle was a Winchester model 94 trapper, 44mag, with a 16" barrel and with one 200g hollow point.
We had the tenderloins lastnight dipped in egg rolled in bread crumbs and baked. The tenderloins measured in at 13"
mmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmm good. j2
Steve
Pheasant Hollow Farm
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Got a 125lb 6pt Sat. with the bow. Been shooting high all season. He would have been an 8pt but the g3's were broke off shorter than an inch.
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Congrats to you Steve. Nice buck. I filled my two tags on Nov. 1+2. The first two days of muzzle loader season.
Took a doe at 100# and a spike at 122#. Not as good as the 10pt I took last year but meet in the freezer.
The doe was going to run me over so I took her at 15 yards. The buck I took at eight feet. I was waiting for a broad side shot but he walked right to me for a look.
I've been out with the bow ever since.
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NH/pete,
The picture doesn't show up.
I got a 9 point that is also hanging around. Two nights ago we had 15 deer in the front yard, most of the 15 were yearlings and BB's. the 9-point and the 8-point were chasing the older does.
I still have 2 5-points, 1 4-point 2-spokes and a ratty 3-point. We are alowed 3 bucks and 4 does in our county. The 3 bucks is max. state limit.
I love my venison.
Steve
Pheasant Hollow Farm
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Got a 125lb 6pt Sat. with the bow. Been shooting high all season. He would have been an 8pt but the g3's were broke off shorter than an inch.
Congrats! to ya mobe on the Saturdays deer s98
Steve
Pheasant Hollow Farm
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Here is a picture of the 9-point I will be looking for next.
Steve
Phasant Hollow Farm
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Pictures up now Steve. 10pt from 2007
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Congrats to all you deer hunters.there is just nothing like it..I have been deer hunting since I was 15 years old and still get just as excited at that ol doe as that 160 I killed 10 yrs ago.. I also have put plenty of meat in the freezer this year 2 with the ML and 2 with the Win. 30-06 Mod. 70. that I bought in 1963.
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Nice buck Pete!!!!!!!!!!! s98
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Pictures up now Steve. 10pt from 2007
Congrats on the 10pt s98 looks nice.. People around here don't let them get that big.
Steve
Pheasant Hollow Farm
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Thanks guys. Dressed out 178lbs. The biggest I have taken around here dressed out at 202lbs , 8pt and 5.5 years old.
Most around here don't live that long.
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Thanks guys. Dressed out 178lbs. The biggest I have taken around here dressed out at 202lbs , 8pt and 5.5 years old.
Most around here don't live that long.
NH/Pete,
After butchering the 202lbs 8pt, how much actual meat usage did you get in lbs, also, how was the taste of the meat @ 5.5 years old, compared to a 2-2.5 year old?
The 8pt that I got yesterday was a perfect heart shot. the bullet went through the rib cage and missed the ribs entering, and missed the ribs exiting the deer. The deer went 100 feet and dropped on the sidewalk. Less then 3 minutes and it was hanging up to do the gutting.
The 9pt came down an hour ago, and now I have a 4pt by the backdeck with two mature does, a BB and a yearling doe.
I just love this state they call WV.. j2
Steve
Pheasant Hollow Farm
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WOW Steve that's great they pose for a picture and then stick around till you get your gun. c110
I don't have it quite that good. I'm about a mile off the road and 100 yards into a swamp for my deer.
I am always looking at a 2 or 3 hour drag to get them out.
I don't recall how much meat I got from the butcher on my 8pt. I will say it was one of the best tasting that I have taken.
Could of just been because of the effort it took to get him.
Couldn't tell the difference between this and a 2.5 year old. A lot depends on the way it's cooked
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nice deer Pete. and 2 to 3 hour drag is right. my best deer in NH took 6 hours to drag out. I always hoped to look out the back window of the camp and see a deer standing there.
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I'm not a hunter, but Robert is, as you all know by now.. He got this 10 point Oct. 19 here in Ohio...
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WOW Steve that's great they pose for a picture and then stick around till you get your gun. c110
I don't have it quite that good. I'm about a mile off the road and 100 yards into a swamp for my deer.
I am always looking at a 2 or 3 hour drag to get them out.
I don't recall how much meat I got from the butcher on my 8pt. I will say it was one of the best tasting that I have taken.
Could of just been because of the effort it took to get him.
Couldn't tell the difference between this and a 2.5 year old. A lot depends on the way it's cooked
Here is another pose of the 9pt.
Steve
PheasantHollow Farm
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.......and one more. I actually had to yell to hime to lift his head up. s020
Steve
Pheasant Hollow Farm
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Robert was not smiling like that when he was building you them cages.... s020 Hows the Limur ???????
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I know... Now you see what makes him happy... It's not spending quality time with me!! :cry:
Liam the crazy Lemur is good!! He enjoys his massages and cuddles up with the cats. Although, there are two gray ones that he apparently thinks are lemurs too, and he gets into little scuffles with them. Only those two... And when he sees his reflection in the grandfather clock he pins his ears and makes this screeching noise... Either he thinks he's ugly or that there is an intruder!!
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I haven't gotten him .......yet. :grin: But I've been watching. Gun season doesn't open here until monday.
He's 12-14 point, I'll be able to tell you for sure and have better pictures monday afternoon. ^-^
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......and one of his friends.........
c110 a29
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This one is kinda small, I'll let him go for the kids. :grin:
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NICE !!!!!!!! and good for you letting the kids hunt..my son killed his first deer and turkey when he was 11 yrs. old. He still has the picture of when we put the blood all over his face...
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Good looking deer CharlieHorse. How many tags can you fill?
What do you guess for weight? Never mind just post a picture on Monday when you have him on the scale.
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I haven't gotten him .......yet. :grin: But I've been watching. Gun season doesn't open here until monday.
He's 12-14 point, I'll be able to tell you for sure and have better pictures monday afternoon. ^-^
You should cull those runts as they'll continue to add bad genes to the Deer pool !
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NICE !!!!!!!! and good for you letting the kids hunt..my son killed his first deer and turkey when he was 11 yrs. old. He still has the picture of when we put the blood all over his face...
s020 Thanks! One is almost 16 and the other is going on 13. The daughter (21), doesn't do any hunting. They wear me down. But they know how the pecking order works and who can peck the hardest. ^-^
You should cull those runts as they'll continue to add bad genes to the Deer pool !
I agree, these puney deer get on my nerves! :x I didn't post the picture of the good one, it would be too much publicity this close to deer season, the woods would be nothing but orange around here. :grin: The darn things are well fed, I do know that!! s80 The corn fields still amaze me as to how much they are rooting around in there. I don't think I'll even need to plow next year, they've already done it! I'm thinking that I'll never be able to grow any corn around here............ or anything else. :-|
Good looking deer CharlieHorse. How many tags can you fill?
What do you guess for weight? Never mind just post a picture on Monday when you have him on the scale.
Thanks Pete! Fed the __ards with my own sweat and blood! :grin: I can buy six tags, but only one buck (antlered) per person, per year. I would have no idea on the weight on any deer, I've never weighed such a beast. I'll try to post pictures monday evening, but I may be too busy until later in the week with all the media coverage, phone calls and all.
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Didn't they write a sng about you ?
Something about it being hard to be humble ?
s020
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OK you got my interest up now...... Maybe you can get a spot on that hunting show with all them girls on it... s020
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I've been known to sing that tune to my wife and kids before, I think it's funnier than you know what!! They think I'm crazy for some odd reason. I tell them that I am......and look at who they're hanging with!! :grin:
s020 s020
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hmmm ???
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The Button Buck
An 8 pointer, 4 pointer and a button buck are standing by a field browsing on acorns.
The 8 pointer says, 'I'm happy with my 10 does, we're really getting along.'
The 4 pointer says, 'I'm happy as heck with my 5, they really take care of me!'
The Button buck says, 'My two are all right, better than nothing I guess.'
Then all of a sudden a GIANT 14 pointer walks out into the field. The three bucks had never seen anything like him before, they were in awe. The big buck made a huge scrape and ****ed in it, rubbed a tree the size of a telephone pole and snapped it off at the ground! The three bucks looked on in amazement.
The 8 pointer says, 'I could probably get by with 4 does...........Who really needs 10 anyway?'
The 4 pointer says, 'You know............. Come to think of it, I only really use one or two of mine!'
The button buck was silent, as the other two bucks look over to him in confusion. Suddenly the yearling runs out into the middle of the field! He rips and tears up some grass........ ****es all over the place, snorts & wheezes, rubs his head raw on a tree and chews a lickin branch clean off! Then he runs back over to his buddies.
His friends immediately ask him, 'What the hell are you doing!?'
'I'm just makin' sure that big sumbitch knows I'm a buck!'
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j45
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CharlieHorse,
Looks like you are going to be in for some cornucopia weather on opening day for Ohio. Are you hunting your property out of the barn?
Good luck on Monday. c110 a24 i9
I will be out back by the pens looking for the 9pt. This is the last week in WV for the Buck season.
Steve
Pheasant Hollow Farm
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Looks like you are going to be in for some cornucopia weather on opening day for Ohio. Are you hunting your property out of the barn?
Good luck on Monday.
Thanks. Hopefully it decides to be snow by midnight. :-| Don't need a repeat of last year. I've got a tree stand this year, barn is only for really bad weather.
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nothing yet only been out once. too busy. good thing I guess. regular season ended Saturday muzzleloader season opens Monday. and it is snowing tonight. I may have to call myself in the am and say I cant make it in. :grin:
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How did you make out CharlieHorse?
Steve
Pheasant Hollow Farm
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He ant talking so it must be good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! s020
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He ant talking so it must be good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! s020
Either that or he is still looking for it.
Slider, is Deer Search available by you? It's illegal here in WV to use them or any dogs for a downed deer recovery in this state. Kind of sucks.
Steve
Pheasant Hollow Farm
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http://apnews.myway.com/article/20081202/D94Q8P982.html
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Steve I will have to check on that from Wildlife and Fishiers. We do have a I think it is 2 weeks here in Louisiana that you can run deer with dogs. It is a big deal here with the old die hard deer dog keepers. They mostly use Walker hounds. Myself I do not like it..When I was in my teens I used to hunt behind deer dogs they will walk your A$$ off.
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Steve I will have to check on that from Wildlife and Fishiers. We do have a I think it is 2 weeks here in Louisiana that you can run deer with dogs. It is a big deal here with the old die hard deer dog keepers. They mostly use Walker hounds. Myself I do not like it..When I was in my teens I used to hunt behind deer dogs they will walk your A$$ off.
I've been behind dogs running coons, but never had the chance with deer. NYS didn't allow deer hunting with dogs.
I never understood the reasoning using dogs to run deer. Someone once mentioned (many many years ago s020 ) the need for the dogs was, the thick cover in the southern states along with snakes, and using the dogs was like using Beagles running rabbits. How true it is I don't really know.
They use dogs/hounds here in WV durning the Bear season to tree the bears. I guess they shoot them out of the tree like they do when treeing coons at night. To each his or her own I guess. If it is legal I say go for it.
I feel that Deer Search Inc. http://www.deersearch.org/ is a valuable tool in the recovery of deer that people can't find when all efforts have been made to locate the deer in a given time frame. But then again, WV seems to be way behind the times.
Steve
Pheasant Hollow Farm
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Hey CharlieHorse, are you still alive? What's the status? How about checking in...
Steve
Pheasant Hollow Farm
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As of 2007 leashed dogs can be used for tracking wounded deer in NH. Think you may need to be licensed also.
The best bet is still to just not let it run off c110
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CharlieHorse any update?
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I think that I saw him going through Louisiana today trailing that BUCK .......... s020
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c49
s2 j10
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c49
s2 j10
I take it you came out of the woods empty handed...
Steve
Pheasant Hollow Farm
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Maybe just a break from dragging
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s020
I haven't seen any live antlers all week. Some others in the hunting party got themselves a couple bucks and it's my rotten property!! j10 JFYI: Both bucks where still in rut and where huge bodied deer, we're going to get a set of scales for next year so they can be weighed.
I could say that I'm too picky, but that's not the case when I haven't seen anything to pick from!!! My youngest son and I never got a deer last year and it looks as if we're going to keep that trend going. I've about had enough myself, but I'll take my son out again this afternoon.
Here's a pic of one 9 point:
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Pretty nice.....
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s020
I haven't seen any live antlers all week. Some others in the hunting party got themselves a couple bucks and it's my rotten property!! j10 JFYI: Both bucks where still in rut and where huge bodied deer, we're going to get a set of scales for next year so they can be weighed.
I could say that I'm too picky, but that's not the case when I haven't seen anything to pick from!!! My youngest son and I never got a deer last year and it looks as if we're going to keep that trend going. I've about had enough myself, but I'll take my son out again this afternoon.
Here's a pic of one 9 point:
Nice one s98 and congrats to the hunter!
That's what usually happens, you get skunked on your own property, and the guests' get the nice ones.
My son-in-law got a 10pt in Ohio yesterday, not sure what area, could be in the Athens/Reedsville area.
Then again, he paid the price for the out-of-state license as well.
Steve
Pheasant Hollow Farm
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My son-in-laws 10pt yesterday from Ohio.
Steve
Pheasant Hollow Farm
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Good looking deer guys. I have until Dec 15th to fill my bow tags. I'll be in my treestand this weekend.
Will be 21* in the morning. I haven't seen a deer in three weeks. s80
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Good looking deer guys. I have until Dec 15th to fill my bow tags. I'll be in my treestand this weekend.
Will be 21* in the morning. I haven't seen a deer in three weeks. s80
Good luck to you!
Steve
Pheasant Hollow Farm
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I haven't seen any live antlers all week. Some others in the hunting party got themselves a couple bucks and it's my rotten property!!
You feed them your special corn all summer and let others take them out ?
s020
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Pheasant Holler, I think that's one of my deer!? I've got pictures of him. :grin: Nice deer.
You feed them your special corn all summer and let others take them out ?
Yeah, everyone benefits from me throwing money around....except me. ^-^ Actually, I'm tickled to death with what they got. We had a really good time. I still haven't seen the first antler in the woods. I think someone walked through my property spraying "Deer-B-Gone"! :-|
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You'll need to get your hands on some of that "Deer-Be-Gone" for your next planting season !
i9
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Nice one. We got a yearling doe today. Got four more days of gun season.
Then bow til Jan 10
My son-in-laws 10pt yesterday from Ohio.
Steve
Pheasant Hollow Farm
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Nice deer Steve tell him congrats.....I saw nothing but doe all weekend counted 14 at one time. Saw deer everytime I went to the stand 27* Sat. am and 31* this am. Sat. morning sprayed one of those Buck Bombs and while spraying it the wind shifted...Dam$ I hate it when that happens.... s020
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Nice deer Steve tell him congrats.....I saw nothing but doe all weekend counted 14 at one time. Saw deer everytime I went to the stand 27* Sat. am and 31* this am. Sat. morning sprayed one of those Buck Bombs and while spraying it the wind shifted...Dam$ I hate it when that happens.... s020
Will do slider. The WV Buck season ended Saturday 12/06/08 at 5:33pm.
Archery is still in effect until 12/31/08 and we still have a Doe season in progress. Then, Muzzle Load, then Landowners.
The max for bucks is 3 for the season, and in my county I can take up to 4 Does.
That 9pt that was around has vanished. Even the Doe's that have been coming around have become quite skiddish. I will more then likely take one Large Doe the last week in December.
Steve
Pheasant Hollow Farm
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Nothing for me over the weekend. I went out Sat PM and Sunday AM. The deer are around. Just not around me.
Gun season is over. One week of bow season to go. I have two bow tags that I just can't seem to fill.
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Maybe they are wearing their winter camo.
(http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh306/labmancan/Albino5bestone.jpg)
These two are hanging around my cousin Rick's place in B.C., they get hard to see when it's snowing c110
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Well thats neat......
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Seen that picture before Mark !
Didn't know it was your cousin though !
Browning fan....just like me ! :grin:
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It was taken in his neighbors yard, Rick isn't allowed to own guns, seems he caught his first wife with a fellow, he's got my temper, just no good at fighting.
Long story shortened, he got drunk, went to shoot them, pulled rifle across seat of truck, rifle discharged, he took the bullet. No Bladder, No guns, no wife!
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No good !
Now THAT is a string of bad luck !
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Maybe they are wearing their winter camo.
(http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh306/labmancan/Albino5bestone.jpg)
These two are hanging around my cousin Rick's place in B.C., they get hard to see when it's snowing c110
Are they true albino? From the picture their nose looks pink.
Steve
Pheasant Hollow Farm
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Reeves,
Did you get a deer this year?
Steve
Pheasant Hollow Farm
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Nope.
Maybe next year ?
I didn't even bother getting a licence this year.
Never home during the season anyway.
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cool picture send it in to the browning website. show us your buckmark contest. you might win a new rifle.
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What is that Browning thing in the photo?
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Nope.
Maybe next year ?
I didn't even bother getting a licence this year.
Never home during the season anyway.
Well that sucks! When was the last time you got one?
Steve
Pheasant Hollow Farm
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Last one had to be 5-6 years ago....and if memory serves, it was the year I got Moose as well.
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What is that Browning thing in the photo?
Slider , look in the top left : http://www.browning.com/products/catalog/firearms/detail.asp?value=001B&cat_id=035&type_id=024
It's on all (most ?) Browning products.
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Reeves I know that, I was wondering what the thing was in the pic a bench, chair maybe a shoe shine box.....I have a bunch of Browning stuff around here...guns, knives, clothing,boots etc..
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Oh :angel:
:grin:
Well, I know yer eyes are getting old, but to me it looks like a double seater bench sort of thing.
Also looks like some grain or something put there for the Deer.
However, I do not know which brand name of stain was used on the wood.
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However, I do not know which brand name of stain was used on the wood.
Good one Reeves, haven't seen any good SA remarks for a while.
s98
Sorry slider......but I'm keeping score. :wink:
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I guess he figured I was due.......the stain is WALNUT....MINWAX....
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I dont know if anyone or if everyone knows this but have you seen the doe in the buckmark logo?? a24
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Yes....
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yes s176
Steve
Pheasant Hollow Farm
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guess it,s old news then :sad:
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guess it,s old news then :sad:
Yes i9
Steve
Pheasant Hollow Farm
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27 point Doe.
http://www.kansas.com/news/updates/story/626780.html
Wife and I looked at the Buck Mark Logo and cannot see this Doe you guys see....
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The best way that I can discribe it to you is to look inside the center of the logo...its all AIR...
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see. not everyone knew it. i9
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I can/could see that. But I do not think it was meant to be/do this. It is mearly the inside of the Buck's head/logo.
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You guys got my curiousity going now. I've got a brand new Browning in the box that has never been shot, or put together for that matter. I'll have to take a look.
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27 point Doe.
http://www.kansas.com/news/updates/story/626780.html
A friend of mine shot one of those a few years ago, but it had one huge antler (about 4" at the base) coming right out of the top of its head. Was like rubber and looked like an upside tree stump. It shrank considerably when it dried out.
Another friends son got a nice 8 point buck this year that was still in velvet. Turned out that it didn't have any testicles.
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No balls that will make a sissy out of you....
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http://www.outdoorsmenforum.ca/showthread.php?p=229830&posted=1#post229830
Wow !
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I would be hunting that Son of a B#$%# at night.....
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I would be hunting that Son of a B#$%# at night.....
j45 the whole state of WV would be out at night spotlighting for that beast.
Steve
Pheasant Hollow Farm
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Don't think WV has seen a deer like that in a while... Not the part near me anyhow... I don't know what the big difference is between here in Ohio and right across the river, but the bucks here are MUCH bigger than those in Wheeling area of WV...
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I don't know what the big difference is between here in Ohio and right across the river,
Colder climate and food (agriculture) (my corn) :-|
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When I see exceptions, minerals come to mind
http://www.deerminerals.com/
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Last 4 days of the extended anterless season here in WV. Rain forecasted 3 out of the 4 days. Bow season ends at the end of the month.
Steve
Pheasant Hollow Farm
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My season was cut short by the ice storm. I had an enjoyable season overall.
Two deer in the freezer and some quality time in the woods away from the grind.
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My season was cut short by the ice storm. I had an enjoyable season overall.
Two deer in the freezer and some quality time in the woods away from the grind.
Pete,
I agree, a bad day in the woods, is still better then a good day at work.
Enjoy the day tomorrow c181
Steve
Pheasant Hollow Farm