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and like doug said, i will arm wrestle you.... but dont expect to win

ernesto, your buckis bigger than mine lol congrats!

the spike i killed this year had some red/orange around his tail but i think it was because he was a young deer and nothing other than that.

Scott, turn ur dang cell phone on!

that a boy! cant wait till next monday! IT IS ON!!!!!! and you cant even make fun of me anymore, i got a real quail vest AND A BAD butt OVER/UNDER!!!!!! that a boy! nicely done!

hes at least 108, probably bigger excellant mass on both of the bucks!

redman, i am in the same boat as you. my little brother is turning 10 in feburary and will be hopefully hunting with my dad and i next year. he is the same size as your son and we are having a hard time finding him a gun. i am thinking of a model 7 in 7mm08 but i sure would like to shoot one before i let him shoot one. i also have a 22-250 and 243 in the back of my head but am not 100% sure yet

0alright, my little brother is going to start hunting with my dad and i here next year (this means my dad and brother will hunt together and i can hike a lot!!! ) but we need to get him a gun. i have decided on the rifle, a remingtin model 7 stainless synthetic, but i have not decided on the caliber. i know you are going to say .243 but i do not like that idea and will not be going with that. i have been looking at a .260 or 7mm-08. i really do not know anything about these two calibers. i have been comparing velocities in both and they are very close. i do handload and i figure i should be able to get about 3000 fps with either one. i like the 7mm-08 because it shoots a bigger bullet ( say for elk) my brother is a very small kid compared to my dad and i. he is very skinny and i do not thinkhe will handle recoil well. i was started out wrong with a gun that didnt fit and it was a 308 with 165s and no recoil pad ( OUCH) so i want to get him started out right as far as recoil goes. whitetail will be the main thing for this gun, with a pig hunt here or there ont he side. for elk he will shoot the 270.. thanks! but please stay with in 260 or 7mm-08!!!

benbrown, awful nice of you, i think i might have to take you up on that! thanks

that is an awesome buck! looks like you hit him right where i shot my buck, low in the shoulder! hes awesome! congrats!

doug, i have had him hold my 30-06, which as you know is the same gun as you mentioned and it did not fit him. i do not know what we are going to do for his as he is a little guy. i have a lot of exploring to do and i will be taking him to sportsmans wharehouse when i come home for thanksgiving to see what rifle fits him. my 30-06 was really close to fitting him, and our old 270 was also really close but still both a tad too long. bchoitz, i never said I was gonna buy it

at my young age i am mostly 1 and 2. i will start holding out now moving on to step 3 until later in the hunt, then i am step 1!!! for the most part i am step 1 and 2 as i will shoot anything legal on the last day!

i thinkn it defientaly has to do with experience. this was the first year i have shot at a spike and i will never do it again( unless it is a ATLEAS 18 total score spike!) now that i have 3 bucks under my belt, it is going to be easier and easier for me to let the forkies and little 3x3's go. however, i do not know if i will be able to let a 80-85" buck walk unless it is opening day of my december hunt next year 90" is always going down unless i have a bigger buck spotted and am stalking him. 100" always going down no matter what! and of course same applies to anything bigger.

1)shooter 2)shooter 3) shooter DONT MISS 4)shooter........ how many rounds do i have? 5)shooter.... miss, 10 feet high, miss 10 feet low... miss 10 feet left aw dang hes gone 6) man that things a monster!!! turn around and walk the other way!!!!

thats the biggest typical whitetail i have ever seen!!!!!!!! congrats!

107"??? i think hes bigger than that! awesome job!

i should be getting pictures of this monster and my dads dink this weekend.

went out for the last afternoon to try and find a buck. well, about 400 yards from the truck, a buck popped up. i heard them spook and they stopped 200 yards away lookin at me. i was sitting down and had the bipod out. missed the 1st shot, smoked him the 2nd, 4th,5th and last shot. i think heck go about 11"

i HAVE to hunt close to the road, my old man has bad hips and he cant really keep up with me. yeah i am a big overweight semi out of shape kid, but i can flat out get up and go if need be in the hills. if i had it my way, my dad and i would hike about a mile to a mile and a half away from camp and then start hunting. this could be done, but we would have to leave really early and the terrain would have to be some what easy or else he is in a lot of pain. we are not really head hunters so the closer we can find bucks the better!

HAHAHA so true! actually had to do that for my best friend once ( i hope Michelle doesnt read thie ) hahahah

i have been cathing a little heat on a different forum for shooting my deer so many times. like my story states, my second shot hit him low in the shoulde, catching the bottom part of the lung. i knew that he was hit there because my dad was spotting my shot thourgh his doctors and told me he saw the bullet hit. there was also blood coming out of his nose and mouth. my question is: i knew he was hit there, and i knew he would die from this shot but i kept putting rounds through him because he was not down yet. am i wrong in doing this or should i have let him die after the first time i hit him? thanks!

anything 80+ goes down in my book! UNLESS it is opening weekend of a december hunt!

opening morning of my deer hunt, i am sitting glassing when there is a guy about 300 yards away from me walking on a ridge exactly in the direction i was facing. he looked like a ya hoo ( open sight rifle, no binos, just a TINY fanny pack) so i waved my arms at him hoping he would see me and walk off. but no, this guy pulls out his radio, turns it on then starts talking in a regulare voice. he then YELLS at me to turn mine on and go on this and this channel. i just pack up my gear ang go find my dad. he made me mad!

like said before, i agree with all you have mentioned accept the quail hunters. yes they share the same habitat and yes many deer hunters like to hunt quail as well. now, the way those people handled it was not right, but it was not illegal either. if they KNEW u were deer hunting, they should have gone atleast a mile away. if they did not know then there is nothing wrong there and they were not doing anything illegal.

I wish that I could say my 2005 hunt started with a lot of scouting and having a buck for myself and my dad picked out well before opening day, but that?s not the case. I also wish I could say that we had glassed up tons of bucks picking out the ones we wanted. This also was not the case, we did find bucks, but we got them the hard way. On Thursday, the day before opening day, we rolled into camp at 10:00 am. When we got on the crest of the ridge with camp about 100 yards below us, we saw two deer jump up and run away. With my Zeiss in hand, I could tell they were both 3x3?s. After a little discussion, dad and I decided these would be the bucks we would aim for opening morning. That evening, we went out on a ridge to glass. My dad was glassing back towards camp and he glasses up these two bucks. They were only a canyon away from camp and were easily recognized by the very tall 3x3. We were just a little excited for opening day, thinking that we would have these two bucks tipped over by 8 am. Well, we looked for them all over the place but could not find them. We decided to go back on the ridge that we glassed them up at. The time was 9 am opening morning. We walked right through camp and got some water and a burro. We weren?t but 500 yards away from camp and just kinda walking and talking along when my dad looks up and says ? theres a deer, it?s a buck!? The deer ran across a little draw and then we saw him on the other side. This buck was running just as fast as his legs would take him. I decided to pass on the shot as he was broadside about 150-200 yards away from me. My dads 7RUM barked and I saw the deer changing directions. We didn?t know if he had hit him or not but I thought he had because of the way the buck changed directions. After about 5 minutes of discussing the shot, I headed over to where the buck was when my dad shot. I was about 40 yards from where the buck was when my dad called me on the radio, ?there he is, he?s hit, to your left, now your right, he?s below the rocks man he?s gone. I immediately took off my backpack and ran after the buck to see if I could catch him moving in the bottom of the wash. I could not find him and I told my dad to try and cut blood. He couldn?t find any blood and sat on a rock bluff and started glassing where the buck ran. When I picked up my pack, I found a piece of flesh and then some blood, then some more, then some more. I told my dad he had a tracking job to do. He started off down the hill to the bottom and I started glassing. He tracked this buck for about an hour, with some conversation here and there on the radio I found out he had stopped seeing blood but was on his tracks. Then, out of nowhere, I hear another shot. Then a call on the radio ?Bubba, Daddy got a buck.? He stepped out in the opening and I could see exactly where he was. I made the hike down to him and found his buck to be a pretty decent forked horn. I was pretty proud of my dad; he made a good running shot and did a damned good tracking job. After talking to him, he told me his second shot was not necessary, he said the buck was lying down with his head bobbing up and down, he said he looked like he was about minutes from dying. We, I mean I did the field work, then threw the buck on my back and headed back to camp. It did not take me long to cover the 2 miles, even with a buck and a backpack and gun strapped to me. Now: on to my hunt! Well, after my dad killed his buck, it was my turn! We spent that evening, and the next morning looking for a buck. We spotted very few deer, with no bucks amongst them. Saturday night had us at The Grubsteak thinking we were gonna meet a bunch of Coues folks. We were wrong, we did however meet Christian and Mike. Mike had came down to do some hunting and with no one else there with a tag, I told him I had one to fill. He did not waste a seconds accepting the offer. After the 11 mile dirt road trip, we were back at camp. The next morning, Mike and I made our way out ( dad stayed in camp as he was a little under the weather). Right away we started seeing deer, Mike glassed up 2 deer 821 yards away, and when I got my Zeiss on them I could tell the bottom deer was a buck. We developed a game plan and, as he says ?IT was on.? Things did not work out right and the buck kicked up still 500+ yards away. That was only the second buck I had seen in 3 days of hunting. We decided to head home that afternoon as we were not seeing deer and were running low on supplies (beer and water). On the way out, we were climbing a hill and caught a rock to the sidewall of my tire, there goes that tire! In world record time, I had the tire off and the spare on. The spare blew also but thanks to some buddies, we had fix-a-flat in it and were on the road again. Because of the two flats, we could not go out Monday morning because we had to get them both fixed. At 2pm, we rolled out to our place where I killed my last buck. Our plan was to get to the barrel cactus and glass until dark. We were about half way to the barrel cactus when I heard a deer blow in the wash below me. I told my dad to stop, look and listen. We could see the two deer milling around below us. When they came out, I got my gun on them. At first, I thought they were both does but caught a glimmer of light from the bottom buck. I knew he was a small, buck probably a spike. As soon as I saw the glimmer, I sat down, got my gun up and set the bi-pod set up. The deer stopped about 200 yards away broadside looking at me. My dad told me he was a spike and after a second of though, I told my dad I was going to take him. I had prepared all summer for this moment, a lot of days at the range and perfecting loads for my 270WSM had come down to this. I missed high on the first shot then nailed him on the second. The second shot went low in the shoulder, catching the lung. I knew I hit him well but I continued to shoot because he was not down yet. I hit him 3 more times in the same spot. He was not the good 3x3 I wanted to go home with, but I am happy with any buck considering the amount of deer we had seen. This is the first time my dad and I have ever gone 2/2 on deer, it was a fun hunt all though it was a little tough!