Donnie's big buck

[Chaos Ranch]

Donnie was so excited to get this big guy. For our area this is a pretty exceptional buck. Donnie said he had just been praying 20 minutes earlier asking for a deer...then he seen a big ol buck running down the hill towards him. Donnie had on regular brown over-alls, just a green shirt and an orange cap. No deer urine, no deer stand, no deer feeders, nothing but him and his gun. He said the buck went down into the creek and came back up right in front of him about 30 feet away.

So, he pulled up and shot him through the lungs. He couldn't get a chest shot in because there was a tree in the way.

The buck went down and he got so excited. We drove around and showed everyone his big buck. He was an 11 point 165 lb. buck, around 4 years old.

 

[Bassett]

Nice. I'd be proud too.

Congratulations to Do9nnie.

 

[mad for mini's]

Wow ! That is a very nice trophy buck ! Definitely a wall hanger. Congrats ! We don't see those kind of bucks around here very much either, I know that my husband would be tickled pink to just see one that size.

 

[Laura]

That is a VERY nice buck!!! Congrats Donnie

Mia and Steve went out about 6 am today, but saw nothing

 

[laughingllama75]

Nice! I better not show my hubby, he hasnt gotten his yet this year. I bet your hus is so proud, and you got a lot of nice freezer meat.

 

[afoulk]

Tell Donny congratulations What a nice buck

 

[Brandi*]

He was probably much nicer alive lol

Sorry I know I'm silly. Not much of a hunter here

I'm still worried about when the time comes to butcher my beef cow

I don't have much of a stomach for this kind of stuff

He is very pretty though

I will admit that I very much enjoy looking at trophy heads. But the whole time I am looking I am also feeling VERY guilty for enjoying myself lol

 

[Keri]

How neat!!!! I'd be bragging too!!!!

The first time I went hunting with hubby (we were dating at the time), I got the wonderful job of brushing.

I actually pushed out the coolest looking 4 pt. Hubby shot him and now he's mounted on our wall. Its a fun expereince that we got to share together. We bragged to everyone for years!!!

 

[Bunnylady]

Nice buck!

I came uncomfortably close to running into one almost that big, coming home from feeding my friend's horses tonight. I saw something moving on the left-hand shoulder of the road, and slowed down, not sure what it was. Good thing I did, he wasn't paying any attention to me at all, and meandered right across the road in front of my Explorer! I got a rough count of about 8 points before he moved far enough onto the right shoulder to be out of the range of my headlights. They can be so dopey at this time of year!

BTW, is that a mule deer? My natural history is getting a bit rusty, I can't remember if y'all have white-tails in your neck of the woods or not.

 

[Lucky-C-Acres-Minis]

Congrats to him!!

Friend of us just got a very nice 8 pointer the other morning by bow, perfect rack

My brother goes hunting when he's home from college, really hoping that this is his year to nail a good one, he got a 4 point a couple years ago, his first buck...

 

[minimule]

Congrats! Nice buck!

 

[Sonya]

Nice, congrats to Donnie! That is a deer of a lifetime!

BTW, is that a mule deer?

I'll answer for her, nope, it's a whitetail, a huge whitetail!

My hubby got his deer of a lifetime about 4 years ago, he is hanging on the wall. He said in a way it's kind of disappointing because he knows that he will never get one bigger than what's already on the wall. Of course he still hunts, hoping that one will come along bigger plus to put meat in the freezer.

cute story:

about 2 weeks ago (during archery season), I told my husband I wanted to go out to dinner. He said he wanted to go hunting in the evening first. I said I didn't want to wait until he got back and showered so that if he was going hunting, we wouldn't go out to eat, I'd just make something. He said OK, we'll go out to eat and he wouldn't go hunting that evening. The next day he checked his trail camera (you know the cameras that take pics by motion) that is right beside his treestand, wouldn't you know it....there was a monster buck (not bigger than what he already has mounted, but close) that walked right under his stand around 5:30...while we were at Applebees...he was so mad! And of course, it was ALL MY FAULT!

I don't gun hunt anymore, but I do love to archery hunt.

 

[whitney]

NICE BUCK!!

I don't deer hunt but I love to go sit in the woods and track and drag them out.

I let my neighbor hunt my property he got a small 8 point during bow season. I was getting kinda worried tracked it for 45 minutes before we found him and another BIG 8 point saturday which will go in my freezer.

Anyone have any GOOD venison recipes?

 

[Chaos Ranch]

Thanks everyone for the kind comments. Donnie was so excited... it was good to see him that tickled. He hadn't gotten to hunt for a few years, so getting this big guy was a real thriller for him.

I wanted to have his head mounted (the deer, not Donnie lol..) and was asking different ones who they would use... I have some money saved up for my Peruvian horses and I was going to use that to mount the head but Donnie wouldn't let me and he cut the head off too short for me to get it moujnted. He's going to keep the rack and a portion of the skull and mount them on a plaque.

 

[gimp]

I ride a motorcycle, so I will say that I think they look pretty darn nice in the back of a pickup rather than darting across the road

As a kid I thought hunting was a bit barbaric. Now I wonder why hunting season can't be year round

 

[Bess Kelly]

Nice one!!

We aren't into season yet, well -- maybe bow....not sure as I don't hunt. But we usually have bow first, then the guns.

My son doesn't hunt but loves to grill the venison with a homemade BBQ sauce. Personally, I like to cook the tenderloin! Usually, slice thin, use olive oil, salt, garlic...pan fry, well done. Son makes a mean venison stew .... and I've had some really nice venison sausage from another person.

In my area we have white tales that are is wonderful condition/flesh. This section raises a lot of grain corns, soybeans, winter wheat -- plus cotton and PEANUTS were just harvested. We have some very, very well fed deer

My tales....

... we all have a fav hunting tale, right?

Son in Law went out late afternoon....had a tree stand at the back of his property, near some woods...his CAT went along

They're both on the stand, trying not to doze, and Mark said he was thinking he'd go in as it had been an hr and nothing. Just as he thinks this, the CAT stands and looks intently into the opposite direction they were facing. In a very few minutes, here come some two pointers........it was bow season!!........Mark said he was thrilled, raised his bow, aimed and let go. Saw it fall. Climbed down and went over to be sure it was killed, and BOTH were laying there!!! The arrow had gone thru one & into the second one. Both dead. So then, he panics as you can't get two

during bow on his license. My son was summoned and they removed them, spent the evening gutting, etc. Two freezers supplied.

We still kid him about his "deer cat" being as good a many of the deer dogs!

 

[tigeresss]

That is a NICE buck!!! We are meant to be on a big mule deer and moose hunting trip at the moment but life happens and the trip was cancelled. Most weekends we go out hunting for whitetails, it's just nice getting outside and walking around!

My view is that if you can't hunt then you shouldn't be eating meat because it's very hypocritical. That's why members of my family and friends of ours are vegetarians...they know its hypocritical that they couldn't kill the animal themselves so they don't eat it. An excellent way of thinking!

 

[Jessica_06]

Very nice buck!!

Opening day of the firearm season was Saturday for us in Michigan. It rained all day long, at noon I had to go to a horse club meeting, trust me I love my horses, showing is a blast, but it's hunting season lol. Anyways I got back in the woods by 3 and by 4:30 I shot my second buck ever just a 5pt but I'm mighty proud it helps that my dad is a taxidermist so of course he'll be mounted. It's fun not just for the kill but being out in the woods and watching squirrels play and have time away from home to just think about stuff. I enjoy it I know I've never shared it, I shared about it once to a neighbor who I thought was going to be a friend and they never spoke to me again, I guess that why I've kept it to myself.

Congrats again Donnie!

Jessica

 

[Lisa]

What a beauty! We don't have a lot of whitetails in this area, the majority of ours are mulies. My father shot a video of a gorgeous 5 point mulie buck in his back yard a few weeks ago. He had branches in his antlers even! A real monster! Big, handsome guy! I'm dying to go hunting for big game, but I haven't had the chance yet! I've only ever gone for birds.

 

[RENMACMINIS]

My husband killed a big 10pt on Saturday 11/15 with his bow. He is extremely proud of it.. and yes its going on the wall with the 11pt he killed 2 years ago with his bow. My 10yo daughter killed her second deer(first being last year)on 11/1 a big doe as that was all she was allowed to kill that day because it was youth gun day. She says she is going hunting with her daddy first day of gun season here and this time she is going to kill a buck bigger than daddy's... I have a feeling if she kills a buck no matter how big it will be hung on the wall next to my husbands and that one will have more meaning then any of his hanging there.