so who all got deer this year

[butthead]

just looking for numbers of deer taken this year.
seems to be a struggle and getting more difficult
to even see a deer these days.
ill say i got 1 this year in region 8 10 antler-less wt
how did the rest of you do.
i can under stand not posting photos these day
so lets do a count

[ratherbefishin]

Never put a shell in my gun( again) but had a marvelous time with my boys and extended family,introduced a grandson to shooting 22s and deer hunting and all the cameraderie that goes with a hunting camp.Weather co operated

Harvested a couple of bucks and shot some grouse.100% success!

[Retiredguy]

I took a nice heavy 4 point mule deer buck. No time to go after a whitetail due to construction projects at home that needed to be completed before winter really hit.

[Linksman313]

Nope - Nada - 8-14/15 - Only ever saw mature Does nocturnal on cam. Future bodes well though, observed many yearling does and short spikes in daylight but nothing that would constitute more than 30-40lbs of eating, so they walked. Must admit it has been an off year though, lost my best friend/brother/hunting partner in March and was still out of sorts come hunting season, didn't put hardly any of the usual scout work/time in so was not expecting much to be honest.
Many a dandy deer in town though lol.
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[butthead]

Nope - Nada - 8-14/15 - Only ever saw mature Does nocturnal on cam. Future bodes well though, observed many yearling does and short spikes in daylight but nothing that would constitute more than 30-40lbs of eating, so they walked. Must admit it has been an off year though, lost my best friend/brother/hunting partner in March and was still out of sorts come hunting season, didn't put hardly any of the usual scout work/time in so was not expecting much to be honest.
Many a dandy deer in town though lol.
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now if i could only hunt in my neibour hood
nice bucks galore.
saw 1 i figured would of been 220 on the hook
he was huge

[wideopenthrottle]

took a whitetail doe reg 8 honey hole... 5 minutes into morning shooting light...have taken 7 deer within 500 feet of this spot...a pinch point between where they eat and where they bed...

[callnmin]

took a whitetail doe reg 8 honey hole... 5 minutes into morning shooting light...have taken 7 deer within 500 feet of this spot...a pinch point between where they eat and where they bed...

So cool! Got my first whitetail (doe, region 3) this year, then focused on getting a whitetail buck (region 5). Got a couple of nice bucks on the game camera, but they didn't want to show themselves during daylight hours. Got the hard part nailed down though, found where they are hanging out, now I need to implement patience and learn how to do a better job calling. All the best in the New Year!

[wideopenthrottle]

congrats on your first...awesome

it was a perfect set up this year...when the wind is right the deer will always come right past my spot at or just before daybreak...If they are early, I know where they go to bed down...and the doe bedding area is approachable...the bucks go higher up and the only way to get to them is back and forth on switch backs while they watch you go up..heheh I have tried to put a play on bucks there but no luck where they bed

I got up extra early....slowly walked 1km from camp to sit and wait for first light...I walked a bit too fast and was quite warm when I got to my spot even though there was a light rain...I was sitting there in the dark sipping my coffee in a tshirt and light rain thinking life does not get any better than this (I actually said to myself, "I am gonna request to have some ashes spread here when I die) …

all of a sudden, the clouds whisked away and it was shooting light in barely a blink of the eye...I think it caught the deer off guard a bit and they moved up from the farm fields too late to take advantage of the darkness...

I am not the most patient at sitting and waiting so I sit until I can see farther than I would be heard (wind and terrain and other conditions determine how quiet/noisey things are so it is a bit of a gut feeling on when to move)…

I had not moved more than 10 feet from my sitting spot when I spotted a decent sized doe...bang...70 lbs of meat....


In between "bang" and "70 lbs of meat" there is a bit more to the story but i'll leave it at that for now

So cool! Got my first whitetail (doe, region 3) this year, then focused on getting a whitetail buck (region 5). Got a couple of nice bucks on the game camera, but they didn't want to show themselves during daylight hours. Got the hard part nailed down though, found where they are hanging out, now I need to implement patience and learn how to do a better job calling. All the best in the New Year!

[Rayne]

I harvested a nice 3 point blacktail in 2-12. Didn’t get out nearly as much I would have liked this year.

[tinhorse]

Took 2 island balcktail bucks on my first day out of the season in mid October....