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Re: Best Kills!!!
« Reply #285 on: November 01, 2024, 01:20:55 PM »
This is still my favorite deer that I have personally taken, he was actually an 8x9, but the newspaper called it a 6 point, I got it the year after I graduated high school before I got so busy guiding hunters every fall.

That was back in my disco days, LOL.
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Re: Best Kills!!!
« Reply #286 on: November 01, 2024, 01:37:25 PM »
This is still my favorite deer that I have personally taken, he was actually an 8x9, but the newspaper called it a 6 point, I got it the year after I graduated high school before I got so busy guiding hunters every fall.

That was back in my disco days, LOL.

WOW! I love this! Thanks for sharing!

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Re: Best Kills!!!
« Reply #287 on: November 01, 2024, 01:48:08 PM »
This is still my favorite deer that I have personally taken, he was actually an 8x9, but the newspaper called it a 6 point, I got it the year after I graduated high school before I got so busy guiding hunters every fall.

That was back in my disco days, LOL.

WOW! I love this! Thanks for sharing!

There were three bucks like that, I watched them all summer, on the second weekend of early season we found them, they jumped up running straight away, I dropped this one with a texas heart shot, about an inch off dead center of you know what. It was the first time my buddy had ever went deer hunting and he forgot to take off his safety, he couldn't get his gun to shoot. We never saw the other two again and never heard of anyone getting them, I think they died of old age or predators

I took another friend in the same area a couple years later and he got another similar buck, a little younger and not quite as big, but with the same drop points on the end of both main beams, we figured it was off-spring of my buck or at least closely related.
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Re: Best Kills!!!
« Reply #288 on: November 01, 2024, 01:49:29 PM »
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Re: Best Kills!!!
« Reply #289 on: November 01, 2024, 01:54:42 PM »
This is still my favorite deer that I have personally taken, he was actually an 8x9, but the newspaper called it a 6 point, I got it the year after I graduated high school before I got so busy guiding hunters every fall.

That was back in my disco days, LOL.
Thats a dandy bearpaw, as well as all the others folks are posting. What’s your age estimate on that beaut of a white tail bearpaw? Looks like he may have the ole Roman nose along with the white face.

The one dead center in this picture is the Muley buck my dad killed in 1967, 11 by 9 that dressed(guts out) in the low 400’s they estimated him at 13 1/2 years old. It’s the skull mount with the spent casings above the rack. I think I told the story before but we’ve killed 4 huge non typicals in this route, a 13 by 9, an 11 by 7 and a 9 by 8 and this one. All in a 10 year span, all built like government mules, stocky and heavy bodied. Genetics? You bet!👍

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Re: Best Kills!!!
« Reply #290 on: November 01, 2024, 02:03:58 PM »
My best, 2020.
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Re: Best Kills!!!
« Reply #291 on: November 01, 2024, 02:05:04 PM »
This is still my favorite deer that I have personally taken, he was actually an 8x9, but the newspaper called it a 6 point, I got it the year after I graduated high school before I got so busy guiding hunters every fall.

That was back in my disco days, LOL.
Thats a dandy bearpaw, as well as all the others folks are posting. What’s your age estimate on that beaut of a white tail bearpaw? Looks like he may have the ole Roman nose along with the white face.

The one dead center in this picture is the Muley buck my dad killed in 1967, 11 by 9 that dressed(guts out) in the low 400’s they estimated him at 13 1/2 years old. It’s the skull mount with the spent casings above the rack. I think I told the story before but we’ve killed 4 huge non typicals in this route, a 13 by 9, an 11 by 7 and a 9 by 8 and this one. All in a 10 year span, all built like government mules, stocky and heavy bodied. Genetics? You bet!👍

I don't know what his age was and didn't even pay attention to his teeth, but he was old and smart, I was lucky to get him. We saw 22 deer that morning while still hunting, saw them all before they saw us, but those three bucks saw us first and jumped up running. I don't know if I could make that shot today, but I used to do a lot of coyote hunting and that refines your shooting skills. He was the heaviest whitetail I've ever seen, of course they don't get as big of bodies here as in the midwest or northeast.

Those are some nice mulies, great that you have your father's deer. I have my father and grandfather's best deer too.
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Re: Best Kills!!!
« Reply #292 on: November 01, 2024, 02:05:46 PM »
My 9yr old Sons first bear (Brown) and my biggest bear (Black)
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Re: Best Kills!!!
« Reply #293 on: November 01, 2024, 04:42:56 PM »
This is still my favorite deer that I have personally taken, he was actually an 8x9, but the newspaper called it a 6 point, I got it the year after I graduated high school before I got so busy guiding hunters every fall.

That was back in my disco days, LOL.
Thats a dandy bearpaw, as well as all the others folks are posting. What’s your age estimate on that beaut of a white tail bearpaw? Looks like he may have the ole Roman nose along with the white face.

The one dead center in this picture is the Muley buck my dad killed in 1967, 11 by 9 that dressed(guts out) in the low 400’s they estimated him at 13 1/2 years old. It’s the skull mount with the spent casings above the rack. I think I told the story before but we’ve killed 4 huge non typicals in this route, a 13 by 9, an 11 by 7 and a 9 by 8 and this one. All in a 10 year span, all built like government mules, stocky and heavy bodied. Genetics? You bet!👍

I don't know what his age was and didn't even pay attention to his teeth, but he was old and smart, I was lucky to get him. We saw 22 deer that morning while still hunting, saw them all before they saw us, but those three bucks saw us first and jumped up running. I don't know if I could make that shot today, but I used to do a lot of coyote hunting and that refines your shooting skills. He was the heaviest whitetail I've ever seen, of course they don't get as big of bodies here as in the midwest or northeast.

Those are some nice mulies, great that you have your father's deer. I have my father and grandfather's best deer too.
Thanks BP, back at you.👍

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Re: Best Kills!!!
« Reply #294 on: November 01, 2024, 04:54:53 PM »
Here’s a few that’s hanging at my son’s place, all family bucks. We have pictures, mounts and plain old antlers scattered over 4 different properties. Some know about the hundreds my great grandparents donated to the Boy Scouts. Yes, hundreds of racks.

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Re: Best Kills!!!
« Reply #295 on: November 01, 2024, 05:25:36 PM »
I think I’ve shown this guy before, won’t mention the weight, don’t need the drama but he was HEAVY! Killed him in a route that was all down hill for 3 1/2 miles, a bugger get up there but a sled ride coming down.😆

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Re: Best Kills!!!
« Reply #296 on: November 03, 2024, 09:17:41 PM »
This is still my favorite deer that I have personally taken, he was actually an 8x9, but the newspaper called it a 6 point, I got it the year after I graduated high school before I got so busy guiding hunters every fall.

That was back in my disco days, LOL.
Was that in the Statesman or Spokesman?


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Re: Best Kills!!!
« Reply #297 on: November 04, 2024, 08:10:19 AM »


Last years blacktail an my cascade bull.


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Re: Best Kills!!!
« Reply #298 on: November 04, 2024, 04:27:51 PM »
Great job to everyone contributing, some dandy’s indeed.👍

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Re: Best Kills!!!
« Reply #299 on: November 04, 2024, 05:14:15 PM »
Here’s a few that’s hanging at my son’s place, all family bucks. We have pictures, mounts and plain old antlers scattered over 4 different properties. Some know about the hundreds my great grandparents donated to the Boy Scouts. Yes, hundreds of racks.
That is a cool wall  :tup:

 


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