Author Topic: 2011 WHITETAIL IS ON THE WALL!!!! (Read 5324 times)

Fowlweather25 · « **on:** February 29, 2012, 01:12:51 PM »

My 2011 whitetail shoulder mount is ready to be picked up!

pictures to come!

sirmissalot · « **Reply #1 on:** February 29, 2012, 01:39:12 PM »

Well go get it lets see some pics

RoyBoy · « **Reply #2 on:** February 29, 2012, 02:10:29 PM »

Fowlweather25 · « **Reply #3 on:** February 29, 2012, 04:08:03 PM »

And here he is!

RoyBoy · « **Reply #4 on:** February 29, 2012, 04:23:24 PM »

thats one nice whitetail! i like the character. nice body too pretty face.

Fowlweather25 · « **Reply #5 on:** February 29, 2012, 04:24:51 PM »

Thanks a bunch

RoyBoy · « **Reply #6 on:** February 29, 2012, 04:27:40 PM »

i know you probably already told the story but whats the story behind the buck? how'd ya get him.

sirmissalot · « **Reply #7 on:** February 29, 2012, 04:29:58 PM »

Sweet who did the mount for you? Great turn around and it looks awesome

Fowlweather25 · « **Reply #8 on:** February 29, 2012, 04:52:13 PM »

The critter corner in rainier.

Ok here's the story. My buddy and I decided about a month ahead of the season that we were going to try to see what pomeroy had to offer this year. He grew up in pomeroy and his family owns a school section out there. I had always hunted the okanogan country and felt like a change. We only had 4 days so we decided to use Friday to scout.(modern firearm). We showed up late Thursday night and since we weren't going to be there long we hauled the trailer. We got up early Friday and headed out. By noon we had counted almost 75 deer. 26 bucks, 13 of which were legal!

! Needless to say I was getting a little anxious! For the evening jaunt we decided to check out a stretch of area about 15 miles away. When we got there we were surprised to see about 20 whitetail and 11 mule deer, all feeding within 200 yards of each other. So we decided if the morning hunt of the opener was a bust we would head there for the evening. Well that's exactly what happened! On the way in to the area we busted 4 turkeys up and thought we were ruined. Much to our surprise we had beat the deer in there. We sat for about 15 minutes and we started seeing deer filtering out of this draw. But they were coming in about 500 yards farther than the night before!

! Pretty soon I saw a big bodied deer coming through some crp. When he got out of the deep stuff I very quickly noticed he was a nice buck!(legal) . We watched him for 2 hours trying to let him get closer, there was no such thing as a stalk in this area. While I contemplated taking a 600 plus shot, my buddy whispered there's another legal buck, I looked and there was a very decent mule deer at about 300. So I told my buddy to go ahead and take him, he was a lot closer to us. My buddy raised up and BOOM, deer scattered everywhere! I looked up at the buck I had been watching and he was still standing there looking our direction like WTF was that?

I couldn't take it! Shootin sticks came out! I shoot a Ruger mkII 7mm rem mag, 168 gr. Berger vld's. I said here we go, he said your gonna take that shot? I said I'm very confident in this rifle and my ability! (I was shaking like a leaf!) I buried the crosshairs a little above the shoulder, and squeezed it off! The 7 mag barked and the following THWOP confirmed a solid hit! The buck went about 20 yards and did his death wobble and was done! Longest shot I've ever taken on a big game animal! I couldn't have been a happier man at that moment! My buddy missed!

jackelope · « **Reply #9 on:** February 29, 2012, 04:55:59 PM »

There's no deer in Pomeroy. You must be mistaken.
Did you mean to say Winthrop?
Maybe Spokane? Colville?
Nice buck but I think you must have made a mistake with the location.

Congrats on a great buck.

Fowlweather25 · « **Reply #10 on:** February 29, 2012, 04:57:44 PM »

Haha I wish that was true jackelope! Would have been a lot closer drive!

BOWHUNTER45 · « **Reply #11 on:** February 29, 2012, 05:20:52 PM »

LOOOOOKS GOOD

Fowlweather25 · « **Reply #12 on:** February 29, 2012, 05:46:28 PM »

It only took 4 months! I couldn't believe she whipped em out that fast and still kept the quality intact!

C-Money · « **Reply #13 on:** February 29, 2012, 05:52:55 PM »

Very Nice Man!

Fowlweather25 · « **Reply #14 on:** February 29, 2012, 06:03:52 PM »

I gotta say, I know hes not huge but he's my first whitetail buck!

biggdogg · « **Reply #15 on:** March 04, 2012, 06:56:25 AM »

Nice buck Fowlweather, I always wonder what whitetail deer taste like?? How to they taste compared to a mulie, I've been told they taste different. I wouldn't know cause I've never tasted one.

buckfvr · « **Reply #16 on:** March 04, 2012, 07:41:05 AM »

Ive eaten mule deer from just about every eco system in the state, and can say my experience is they are not all created equal. Flavor varies greatly based on regional preferred forage.

Same goes for white tails.....but in general, whities seem to me, to be considerably more mild. Up here in the n.e. corner, they are very similar to the free range beef which eat just about all the same browse. My opinion is white tails up here are 5 star table fare.

Fowlweather25 · « **Reply #17 on:** March 04, 2012, 05:27:47 PM »

thanks biggdogg!

I think as a whole if you took 10 whitetail and 10 mulies from across the nation and sat 10 people down to eat the steaks, youlld get a greater response for the whitetail. I shot one other whitetail in eastern Montana that grew up in alfalfa and didn't notice much of a difference between this buck and that doe. Bit a huge difference between the alfalfa fed mulies that I've harvested. I would rather shoot a mulie, but I'd rather eat a whitie.

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