Can you remember how many deer you have killed ? - Page 2

bamaranger · October 16, 2012, 01:12 AM

I started a log, about age 25 or so. I could remember back to catch up, and have kept up the score card ever since. I also have kept a deer diary of sorts, though not every day of every season is in it. But kills, big deer, special circumstances are mostly written up.

So....I can give a score, date, describe deer, etc. Can also break it down into rifle, muzzleloader and bow. The bow data is kinda detailed. Distance of shot, the hit, dx tracked, the tackle info.

Thirty years later, the dx of bow kills has not changed, average shot, 14.5 yds. Most do not go more than 75 yds., many less than that.

I've done about the same thing with turkeys, but I only shotgun them.

Mike / Tx · October 16, 2012, 04:34 AM

I killed my first one at age 6, and have been dropping them just about every year since, and I am knocking on 49 pretty hard. I haven't got a clue as to how many, but it would be a pile for sure.

When I started out and up until about 10 years ago we really DID count on the extra meat to help get through the year. It was simply one of the small things that when added up at the end of the year saved us a little extra cash. We did all of our own processing except for making link sausage. It was just easier to have it made than to do the whole smoke house thing here in the city.

I have always hunted on my own property as well as being invited to hunt with friends, so there was no added lease fee. Most years we didn't put out feeders and if we did it was not for hunting, but either after the season to help them out when there was little mast, or just around fawning time to boost their protein.

As for memorable hunts, I have had a ton of them. Even years when I did not actually kill a deer I had encounters with them where I let them pass and could have but didn't shoot. A couple of those bucks have been some of the best I have seen in the areas I hunt, and I was just as happy to watch them trot off. Most of my best memories however are not actually of the hunts, but rather the time spent with family and friends who are now passed away.

Since the hog populations have ballooned in the areas I have been hunting I have concentrated my efforts on them rather than the deer. Heck I even have a half dozen does we now call the farm pets, as they drop their fawns within 50yds or so of the house. I guess I am just not as mad at them as I once was.

This all said, don't get the wrong impression, I am out there every season with bow, rifle and handgun looking for Mr Big. It's just over the years my criteria has changed and if I am going to drop the hammer on a buck, it is going to have to be something REALLY OUTSTANDING. In fact here are the last two bucks I have taken with a rifle both breaking 20+ inches inside,

Opening morning 04,

weekend before Christmas 09,

and I let these fella's go on about their business,

ZeroJunk · October 16, 2012, 09:59 AM

Nice bucks Mike. I'm like you in that my criteria for shooting a buck is that he has to be better than one I have already killed.

But, I really like deer burger and take enough doe to keep in stock.

You sure can't remember those like the nice bucks.

rickyrick · October 16, 2012, 10:09 AM

Exactly one, with a car.... Never hunted them.....yet

warbirdlover · October 16, 2012, 05:58 PM

I've been deer hunting now for 47 years. I haven't always got one every year but at least one every other year. Best I can guess. That makes about 23 (mostly bucks) and only one was a real wall hanger. Last two were pretty decent 9 pointers with about 17" spread. Not quite good enough to mount.

But really good to eat!!

Deja vu · October 16, 2012, 07:02 PM

I actually remember one my brother killed better than any I killed out side the first one.

My brother has a Ruger 77/44 bolt rifle. His was internally suppressed. He was shooting some heavy for caliber loads (I want to say 300 grain) at about 1000 FPS.

We came up on 5 deer (1 buck and 4 does) grazing. He took aim and dropped the buck. The does watched it kick for about 20 seconds then when back to grazing. We had to shoo them away to get the carcass. If there had been another buck he could of handed me the rifle and I could have taken it too.

That was one of the craziest things I have ever seen. That inspired me to suppress my Marlin 1895 SBL (45/70) With the right loads it is very quiet and shoots a 500 grain bullet. Has over 1000 Foot pounds at 100 yards even when subsonic from the barrel.

Hunter Customs · October 16, 2012, 07:33 PM

I don't recall for sure how many deer I've killed.
Killed my first deer in 1970, a nice 8 point buck.

When I first started hunting you were only allowed one tag, then they allowed two tags so I would get two deer a year, then they allowed three tags so I would harvest three deer a year.

There was a couple of years I did not hunt, so I would say I've easily killed 50 deer or more.

I did not go last year but I'm going this year, however I'm just buying one tag and filling one tag seeing that I'm the only one left at home that eats them.

Best Regards
Bob Hunter
www.huntercustoms.com

lefteye · October 16, 2012, 07:37 PM

With a .270 in Wyoming, Missouri, and Minnesota, and a shotgun and bow in Iowa, I've taken roughly 30 deer in about 36 years of deer hunting.

Jack O'Conner · October 17, 2012, 06:44 AM

I lost track at 50 deer which was about 10 years ago. I often hunt in northern Maryland where doe tags are unlimited.

Jack

bird_dog · October 17, 2012, 07:08 AM

I've been hunting for 25 years...

I've shot 1-5 deer every year with bow, muzzloader, rifle, shotgun and, most recently, handguns -- never had a year without at least a doe. At one point I know my biggest buck was my 25th set of antlers...but he wasn't my last. At least 2-3 smaller bucks since then. I've since lost track.

And being introduced to the sport by a family of meat hunters (I hate that term, but it fits!), I killed many, many does for each of those 25 bucks, as a young guy I would fill the older guys' tags so they had meat. I'm GUESSING somewhere in the neighborhood of 150 deer total, but I'm not sure. Probably pretty close. Possibly a bit more.

sc928porsche · October 17, 2012, 07:16 AM

50+ years of hunting deer. I am certain that I have averaged over 1 per year. Many years 2 and sometimes 3 depending on luck and where I hunted. Of course there have been a few years that I didnt get any at all. Elk is 21, Moose 4, pronghorn 6, and bear 4. I am lucky enough to have relatives living in California, Oregon, Utah, Colorado, Idaho, Maine, and Alaska.

seansean1444 · October 17, 2012, 07:26 AM

ya only 3 haha im 18

cnimrod · October 17, 2012, 08:21 AM

not exactly. most years one some years 2 some years none. I did log them on my computer some years ago but forgot to back that up, duh! antlers are all crudely mounted with some details on the back of the plaque. except for the ones I turned into wizard sticks for my Gandolph lovers here

Art Eatman · October 17, 2012, 09:52 AM

It's been a family thing to saw the front of the skull and then nail the horns to a garage rafter or some such place. A few plaque mounts around the house.

I can look at a set of antlers and recall the circumstances of the hunt. The where and when and conditions. Who was in camp and involved in the bull sessions around the campfire.

I've always sorta figured that as long as I'm alive, that buck is sorta immortalized--'cause your only immortality is in the minds of your family and friends.

BLUETIP · October 17, 2012, 10:01 AM

4 all in the same year on 4 different occasions same dodge ram pick-up. what a weapon!

MOshooter65202 · October 17, 2012, 10:48 AM

I've been deer hunting since 1975 with a rifle and bow shortly after,along with black powder since the 90s.....So the answer is?

"I can't remember?"

Husqvarna · October 17, 2012, 01:16 PM

5 or 20 depending on how you count

three on my own since I got my license

2 as a teen with my father

the rest it tracking already shot animals, which some are found alive, some you can shot again, some are down and only needs to be bleed out

Hunter Customs · October 17, 2012, 02:52 PM

The way my daughter was killing them with her vechicle I almost gave up deer hunting.
I believe her total is 9 now, not one of them was shot.

Best Regards
Bob Hunter
www.huntercustoms.com

BIGR · October 17, 2012, 11:33 PM

Yes I have documented every year and how and where each deer was taken. I have a diary I keep each day at deer camp and later after the season is over I put that info on an excel spreadsheet on my computer. It is interesting to look back at the information from 30 some years ago when I was a much younger hunter.

publius · October 18, 2012, 03:08 PM

I'm 40 and quit counting when I was a kid, I would guess somewhere slightly North of 100.

Edward429451 · October 19, 2012, 12:05 AM

I can remember. I've only killed two Deer. I've field dressed and skinned one Elk, and perhaps five or six deer, and butchered one Elk, three deer. (helping friends who did score).

Husqvarna · October 21, 2012, 03:58 AM

Hunter Custom is this your daughter?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=CI8UPHMzZm8

?

tell her to slow down?

Groundhog34 · October 23, 2012, 08:12 PM

I am 65 for the first 30 years of my life there were not a lot of deer around so I killed less then 5. I remember 1 big buck I killed with my friends new Ford Mustang. Since then in the past 35 years well over 100. In Alabama we have a 2 a day limit with a 70-75 day season.

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Hunter Customs · October 23, 2012, 08:26 PM

Quote:

Hunter Custom is this your daughter?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=CI8UPHMzZm8

?

tell her to slow down?

Husqvarna,

I think that may be her.

She called me one night about 11:30 pm and told me she just hit a deer that came out of the bank parking lot in Cameron Missouri.
I thought she was joking but she wasn't.

Best Regards
Bob Hunter
www.huntercustoms.com

BIG P · October 24, 2012, 12:38 AM

NO cant remember them all.But I have pics of over 200 different deer,probably that many again cull deer.Our rifle season opened Sat.20th. Ive took 4 this year sence SAT.i Do hunt for a couple familys & a church group & feed the hungary every year just about.I feel lucky & blessed at the same time.GOOD LUCK TO YOU ALL this year.

October 16, 2012, 01:12 AM	#26
bamaranger Senior Member Join Date: October 9, 2009 Location: North Alabama Posts: 8,295	yup I started a log, about age 25 or so. I could remember back to catch up, and have kept up the score card ever since. I also have kept a deer diary of sorts, though not every day of every season is in it. But kills, big deer, special circumstances are mostly written up. So....I can give a score, date, describe deer, etc. Can also break it down into rifle, muzzleloader and bow. The bow data is kinda detailed. Distance of shot, the hit, dx tracked, the tackle info. Thirty years later, the dx of bow kills has not changed, average shot, 14.5 yds. Most do not go more than 75 yds., many less than that. I've done about the same thing with turkeys, but I only shotgun them.

October 16, 2012, 04:34 AM	#27
Mike / Tx Senior Member Join Date: April 8, 2000 Posts: 2,101	I killed my first one at age 6, and have been dropping them just about every year since, and I am knocking on 49 pretty hard. I haven't got a clue as to how many, but it would be a pile for sure. When I started out and up until about 10 years ago we really DID count on the extra meat to help get through the year. It was simply one of the small things that when added up at the end of the year saved us a little extra cash. We did all of our own processing except for making link sausage. It was just easier to have it made than to do the whole smoke house thing here in the city. I have always hunted on my own property as well as being invited to hunt with friends, so there was no added lease fee. Most years we didn't put out feeders and if we did it was not for hunting, but either after the season to help them out when there was little mast, or just around fawning time to boost their protein. As for memorable hunts, I have had a ton of them. Even years when I did not actually kill a deer I had encounters with them where I let them pass and could have but didn't shoot. A couple of those bucks have been some of the best I have seen in the areas I hunt, and I was just as happy to watch them trot off. Most of my best memories however are not actually of the hunts, but rather the time spent with family and friends who are now passed away. Since the hog populations have ballooned in the areas I have been hunting I have concentrated my efforts on them rather than the deer. Heck I even have a half dozen does we now call the farm pets, as they drop their fawns within 50yds or so of the house. I guess I am just not as mad at them as I once was. This all said, don't get the wrong impression, I am out there every season with bow, rifle and handgun looking for Mr Big. It's just over the years my criteria has changed and if I am going to drop the hammer on a buck, it is going to have to be something REALLY OUTSTANDING. In fact here are the last two bucks I have taken with a rifle both breaking 20+ inches inside, Opening morning 04, weekend before Christmas 09, and I let these fella's go on about their business, __________________ LAter, Mike / TX

October 16, 2012, 10:09 AM	#29
rickyrick Senior Member Join Date: March 15, 2010 Posts: 8,236	Exactly one, with a car.... Never hunted them.....yet __________________ Woohoo, I’m back In Texas!!!

October 16, 2012, 07:02 PM	#31
Deja vu Senior Member Join Date: March 14, 2010 Location: Border of Idaho & Montana Posts: 2,584	I actually remember one my brother killed better than any I killed out side the first one. My brother has a Ruger 77/44 bolt rifle. His was internally suppressed. He was shooting some heavy for caliber loads (I want to say 300 grain) at about 1000 FPS. We came up on 5 deer (1 buck and 4 does) grazing. He took aim and dropped the buck. The does watched it kick for about 20 seconds then when back to grazing. We had to shoo them away to get the carcass. If there had been another buck he could of handed me the rifle and I could have taken it too. That was one of the craziest things I have ever seen. That inspired me to suppress my Marlin 1895 SBL (45/70) With the right loads it is very quiet and shoots a 500 grain bullet. Has over 1000 Foot pounds at 100 yards even when subsonic from the barrel. __________________ Shot placement is everything! I would rather take a round of 50BMG to the foot than a 22short to the base of the skull. all 26 of my guns are 45/70 govt, 357 mag, 22 or 12 ga... I believe in keeping it simple. Wish my wife did as well...

October 16, 2012, 07:37 PM	#33
lefteye Senior Member Join Date: January 30, 2006 Posts: 1,433	With a .270 in Wyoming, Missouri, and Minnesota, and a shotgun and bow in Iowa, I've taken roughly 30 deer in about 36 years of deer hunting. __________________ Vietnam Veteran ('69-'70) NRA Life Member RMEF Life Member

October 16, 2012, 09:59 AM	#28
ZeroJunk Senior Member Join Date: August 14, 2006 Location: Browns Summit NC Posts: 2,589	Nice bucks Mike. I'm like you in that my criteria for shooting a buck is that he has to be better than one I have already killed. But, I really like deer burger and take enough doe to keep in stock. You sure can't remember those like the nice bucks.

October 16, 2012, 05:58 PM	#30
warbirdlover Senior Member Join Date: December 13, 2009 Location: central Wisconsin Posts: 2,324	I've been deer hunting now for 47 years. I haven't always got one every year but at least one every other year. Best I can guess. That makes about 23 (mostly bucks) and only one was a real wall hanger. Last two were pretty decent 9 pointers with about 17" spread. Not quite good enough to mount. But really good to eat!!

October 16, 2012, 07:33 PM	#32
Hunter Customs Senior Member Join Date: March 26, 2005 Location: Osborn, Missouri Posts: 2,697	I don't recall for sure how many deer I've killed. Killed my first deer in 1970, a nice 8 point buck. When I first started hunting you were only allowed one tag, then they allowed two tags so I would get two deer a year, then they allowed three tags so I would harvest three deer a year. There was a couple of years I did not hunt, so I would say I've easily killed 50 deer or more. I did not go last year but I'm going this year, however I'm just buying one tag and filling one tag seeing that I'm the only one left at home that eats them. Best Regards Bob Hunter www.huntercustoms.com

October 17, 2012, 06:44 AM	#34
Jack O'Conner Senior Member Join Date: July 11, 2005 Location: Manatee County, Florida Posts: 1,976	I lost track at 50 deer which was about 10 years ago. I often hunt in northern Maryland where doe tags are unlimited. Jack __________________ Fire up the grill! Deer hunting IS NOT catch and release.

October 17, 2012, 07:08 AM	#35
bird_dog Senior Member Join Date: May 26, 2004 Posts: 225	I've been hunting for 25 years... I've shot 1-5 deer every year with bow, muzzloader, rifle, shotgun and, most recently, handguns -- never had a year without at least a doe. At one point I know my biggest buck was my 25th set of antlers...but he wasn't my last. At least 2-3 smaller bucks since then. I've since lost track. And being introduced to the sport by a family of meat hunters (I hate that term, but it fits!), I killed many, many does for each of those 25 bucks, as a young guy I would fill the older guys' tags so they had meat. I'm GUESSING somewhere in the neighborhood of 150 deer total, but I'm not sure. Probably pretty close. Possibly a bit more.

October 17, 2012, 07:16 AM	#36
sc928porsche Senior Member Join Date: May 29, 2008 Location: now living in alabama Posts: 2,433	50+ years of hunting deer. I am certain that I have averaged over 1 per year. Many years 2 and sometimes 3 depending on luck and where I hunted. Of course there have been a few years that I didnt get any at all. Elk is 21, Moose 4, pronghorn 6, and bear 4. I am lucky enough to have relatives living in California, Oregon, Utah, Colorado, Idaho, Maine, and Alaska. __________________ No such thing as a stupid question. What is stupid is not asking it.

October 17, 2012, 07:26 AM	#37
seansean1444 Senior Member Join Date: November 28, 2010 Location: ithaca, new york (home of the ithaca shotguns!) Posts: 395	ya only 3 haha im 18

October 17, 2012, 08:21 AM	#38
cnimrod Senior Member Join Date: September 24, 2009 Location: NJ/NY Posts: 152	after 30 years not exactly. most years one some years 2 some years none. I did log them on my computer some years ago but forgot to back that up, duh! antlers are all crudely mounted with some details on the back of the plaque. except for the ones I turned into wizard sticks for my Gandolph lovers here

October 17, 2012, 09:52 AM	#39
Art Eatman Staff in Memoriam Join Date: November 13, 1998 Location: Terlingua, TX; Thomasville, GA Posts: 24,798	It's been a family thing to saw the front of the skull and then nail the horns to a garage rafter or some such place. A few plaque mounts around the house. I can look at a set of antlers and recall the circumstances of the hunt. The where and when and conditions. Who was in camp and involved in the bull sessions around the campfire. I've always sorta figured that as long as I'm alive, that buck is sorta immortalized--'cause your only immortality is in the minds of your family and friends.

October 17, 2012, 10:01 AM	#40
BLUETIP Senior Member Join Date: September 30, 2012 Location: tennessee Posts: 119	4 all in the same year on 4 different occasions same dodge ram pick-up. what a weapon!

October 17, 2012, 10:48 AM	#41
MOshooter65202 Senior Member Join Date: February 16, 2011 Posts: 471	I've been deer hunting since 1975 with a rifle and bow shortly after,along with black powder since the 90s.....So the answer is? "I can't remember?"

October 17, 2012, 01:16 PM	#42
Husqvarna Senior Member Join Date: May 7, 2012 Location: Sweden Posts: 1,000	5 or 20 depending on how you count three on my own since I got my license 2 as a teen with my father the rest it tracking already shot animals, which some are found alive, some you can shot again, some are down and only needs to be bleed out

October 17, 2012, 02:52 PM	#43
Hunter Customs Senior Member Join Date: March 26, 2005 Location: Osborn, Missouri Posts: 2,697	The way my daughter was killing them with her vechicle I almost gave up deer hunting. I believe her total is 9 now, not one of them was shot. Best Regards Bob Hunter www.huntercustoms.com

October 17, 2012, 11:33 PM	#44
BIGR Senior Member Join Date: June 13, 2000 Location: Mountains Posts: 1,385	Yes I have documented every year and how and where each deer was taken. I have a diary I keep each day at deer camp and later after the season is over I put that info on an excel spreadsheet on my computer. It is interesting to look back at the information from 30 some years ago when I was a much younger hunter.

October 18, 2012, 03:08 PM	#45
publius Senior Member Join Date: January 25, 2005 Location: Mississippi/Texas Posts: 2,505	I'm 40 and quit counting when I was a kid, I would guess somewhere slightly North of 100. __________________ "Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress, but I repeat myself." Mark Twain

October 19, 2012, 12:05 AM	#46
Edward429451 Junior member Join Date: November 12, 2000 Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado Posts: 9,494	I can remember. I've only killed two Deer. I've field dressed and skinned one Elk, and perhaps five or six deer, and butchered one Elk, three deer. (helping friends who did score).

October 21, 2012, 03:58 AM	#47
Husqvarna Senior Member Join Date: May 7, 2012 Location: Sweden Posts: 1,000	Hunter Custom is this your daughter? http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=CI8UPHMzZm8 ? tell her to slow down?

October 23, 2012, 08:12 PM	#48
Groundhog34 Senior Member Join Date: December 15, 2007 Location: Alabama Posts: 196	I am 65 for the first 30 years of my life there were not a lot of deer around so I killed less then 5. I remember 1 big buck I killed with my friends new Ford Mustang. Since then in the past 35 years well over 100. In Alabama we have a 2 a day limit with a 70-75 day season. Vote Early Vote Often Just don't vote for obama

October 24, 2012, 12:38 AM	#50
BIG P Senior Member Join Date: July 8, 2010 Location: North Georgia Posts: 1,679	NO cant remember them all.But I have pics of over 200 different deer,probably that many again cull deer.Our rifle season opened Sat.20th. Ive took 4 this year sence SAT.i Do hunt for a couple familys & a church group & feed the hungary every year just about.I feel lucky & blessed at the same time.GOOD LUCK TO YOU ALL this year.

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