2022 deer! Let’s see em!

[NRA4LIFE]

Been a strange year at my place.  Usually, I'm seeing deer in the yard almost every day this time of year.  I have not seen a single deer in 6 weeks or better.  And we generally would have seen at least a half dozen different fawns too.  I have seen 1 and only once back in July. 

[Boss .300 winmag]

Been a strange year at my place.  Usually, I'm seeing deer in the yard almost every day this time of year.  I have not seen a single deer in 6 weeks or better.  And we generally would have seen at least a half dozen different fawns too.  I have seen 1 and only once back in July.

My guess is you have a Cougar around.

[Meattoeat]

Multi season deer tag is punched.

New to archery, and got the opportunity last night to shoot this buck, long story short I got buck fever and rushed things and learned a lot.

Archery is not rifle hunting, haha and you can’t treat them the same way. Beyond blessed and thankful we found him and were able to process him before the meat spoiled.

But with that here’s my 2022 archery blacktail. 35 yards, and a first archery animal.

[full choke]

Been a strange year at my place.  Usually, I'm seeing deer in the yard almost every day this time of year.  I have not seen a single deer in 6 weeks or better.  And we generally would have seen at least a half dozen different fawns too.  I have seen 1 and only once back in July.

My guess is you have a Cougar around.

Where are you at in Maple Valley? Last week I saw a Gamie pulled over on the side of Issaquah Hobart road. He was walking and just then I saw a very large cougar dead on the side of the road. Looked pretty darn fresh too. And it was BIG. This was just past the hwy 18 overpass, right by the Taylor forest parking lot.

[OutHouse]

Fun hunt!

[Meattoeat]

Fun hunt!

Great deer! That’ll make some steaks!

[Jpmiller]

Fun hunt!

Didn't want to hold out for the big one huh? 

Great looking buck, congrats! I'd have been more than happy to "settle" for him. Would have been my personal best.

[MeepDog]

Multi season deer tag is punched.

New to archery, and got the opportunity last night to shoot this buck, long story short I got buck fever and rushed things and learned a lot.

Archery is not rifle hunting, haha and you can’t treat them the same way. Beyond blessed and thankful we found him and were able to process him before the meat spoiled.

But with that here’s my 2022 archery blacktail. 35 yards, and a first archery animal.

Don't see many archery blacktail. Congrats hope the meat is tasty

[OutHouse]

Fun hunt!

Didn't want to hold out for the big one huh? 

Great looking buck, congrats! I'd have been more than happy to "settle" for him. Would have been my personal best.

Thanks JP!  It was a weird encounter. He busted me and I wanted to leave as I realized I was in his core area. I tried to leave and got stuck in a place where I didn't want to double back and scare him off. I had to hunker down for about 15 minutes, then tried to leave, and then he got curious.

I think he thought I was another deer. He heard me, and came looking. I moved with him until there was a shot window and I took it. It really appeared to me that he forgot about me and then assumed my sounds were another deer. It was like he was looking for his buddy but found me instead. After the shot I said "I can't believe that just happened" and realized I stole that quote from an episode of Steve Rinella with that guy Clay.

[pickardjw]

First ever big game animal on high buck opener. Taken at 325 yards with a 6.5 Creed 143 ELD-X

[NRA4LIFE]

Been a strange year at my place.  Usually, I'm seeing deer in the yard almost every day this time of year.  I have not seen a single deer in 6 weeks or better.  And we generally would have seen at least a half dozen different fawns too.  I have seen 1 and only once back in July.

My guess is you have a Cougar around.

NW of the HY 18 Maple Valley exit maybe a mile or so.  3-4 miles west of that location.

Where are you at in Maple Valley? Last week I saw a Gamie pulled over on the side of Issaquah Hobart road. He was walking and just then I saw a very large cougar dead on the side of the road. Looked pretty darn fresh too. And it was BIG. This was just past the hwy 18 overpass, right by the Taylor forest parking lot.

[kellama2001]

Congrats to all the hunters with punched tags so far! The wait for my season opener is almost over (muzzy)! 

[jasnt]

First archery hunt, first archery harvest

[bigmacc]

First archery hunt, first archery harvest

Beautiful shot, good eatin right there.👍

[Lucky1]

First archery hunt, first archery harvest

Nice job. Glad to see you got your bow issues fixed.