Any hunters?? dosent have to be deer

This is a weird topic since we all love our deer. but archery season for deer is coming up before you know it, July is already half over. So I thought I'd start a thread to talk about hunting. Please dont hurt me, LOL!! If you hunt, What do you hunt, antelope, deer, elk, ducks, turkey, small game. I like to turkey hunt, (and mushroom hunt well doing so) I am not into deer hunting much anymore here around home, but I do go deer hunting in West Virginia every year with freinds and family, but I really just like the company and the time on the mountain more than the hunt. I used to be so intensly passionate about deer hunting, but now that i raise deer I dont really desire to kill them, mostly i like to watch. I shoot one once in a while, maybe every other year. I quit shooting does, but I do still hunt for bucks. Since I dont eat the deer I raise I still hunt if I want venison.

I am very passionate about going to Colorado to elk hunt every year. The rocky mountains make for a beautiful and challenging hunt. I am so blessed to go out there every year with family, this year I have a mule deer tag, i have never harvested one before and I am excited to try for a nice one. I also really enjoy looking for elk sheds out west, and deer sheds back home. I thought it would be interesting to see if some of you fellow deer farmers still enjoy hunting wild deer, or if you used to. Most of the guys i know that raise deer dont hunt but some do. Show off some pics of your hunts if you want.

I love to hunt most anything... deer, turkey, mushrooms, antlers, arrowheads, metal detecting. The main thing especially with the deer and the turkey is not so much the trophy but "the hunt" and to be able to hunt with family and friends. Now days, all people want are big antlers, but give me a few days to hunt with a good bunch of guys...and especially my son...and I would be happy! I have always said that the fun of the hunt is over as soon as you pull the trigger.

I also love the hunt. My passion is deer with my bow or muzzleloader. We however have found that most of the guys I know that raise deer are also avid hunters. I know my love for the wild deer is what eventually led me to raise deer now. Like Ike said, another big plus of the hunt experience is the good times and memories you have with friends and especially family. I cherish every minute I spend in my tree stand and I've been hunting deer since 1980. Rick

I hunt just about everything including mushrooms. My avitar is my muzzleloader kill from last year. I really prefer to bowhunt but once in a while I do grab the ol' smoke pole. Whitetails are my life though, hunting them or farming them 365 days a year!!!

Yes I agree with you Aaron I love the whitetails.........Archery is my favorite but taking my boy out on the first day of gun season is priceless....I cherish those times so much.....we have such a great time!!

I think the best think about raising deer and hunting in general is the time spent with family and freinds. I live to hunt waterfowl, I travel thousands of miles a year from Canada to Arkansas, but the greatest Hunt I have ever been on was last year when i took my 3 yr old son and my 55 year old dad on a goose hunt on my property in northern IN. Yes we shot our limit but just the time spent with 2 of the most important people in my life was priceless. I can't go out to the deer pen or go out scouting for geese without my son. THAT IS WHAT LIFE IS ALL ABOUT

bow ,muzzle and shotgun whitetail but addicted to elk been going for 6yrs and can wait .shot my first one with bow 2 yrs ago

Birds, Chipmunks, Squirells, *****, Groundhogs and anything else that eats deer feed!! Love those Morels, Sheephead and flee flees. I`m a shroon hunter. Use to spend those hrs on end in that tree stand but time has changed the desires. Deer farming may have played a little role in that. Still love to set up youth hunts for the kids around town. When you get these younsters back to the house at the end of the day and listen to the stories they talk about is just priceless. I`ve seen more 8 points turn into 14 pointers in a matter of hours. Makes ya think back when we started and stretched the horns a bit. Especially on a miss. I get more enjoyment and more excited when one of these youngins shoot a deer than if I had shot a Booner. Even if you don`t hunt much anymore, take a younster out hunting. You`ll find new excitement in your life.

1111:elk picture.I have to say I have become an elk addict. Dont get me wrong I still like to hunt deer here in PA but there is just something about being at 8000 ft. living in a tent for two weeks with no cell service and no tv and 20 degrees at night that turns me on. Just talking about it gets me excited. Is it October yet?



The pic. is from last year.

Here is my 2nd bull ever from '07, I got this one while I was still hunting during a blizzard -like snow squall, He was walking the same gametrail as me, only he was coming toward me. He was only about 20 yards away when I noticed him, it was an easy shot and a quick, humane kill. Buy the time I had him gutted (and after some pictures), the snow was melting and it was nearly 60 degrees! I swear the weather changes by the hour in October in the Rockies, you never know what to expect its usually 20 degrees in the morning and 60-70 by noon. Really makes dressing for it fun, LOL.

My favorite is turkey hunting. I can't get enough of it. I killed a monster bird last spring that weighed in at 27 pounds. And then another one that weighed 21 pounds. This spring I followed it up with a 22 pounder and a 21 pounder. I called a big double bearded bird in for my 12 yr old son on youth day this year. Just something about hearing them gobbling just fires me up.



My son and I also really enjoy groundhog hunting. We have contests each year to see who can shoot the one from the farthest away. Right now he is winning with a head shot from 411 yards. With MY .270 !!



We do enjoy deer hunting alot, especially bow hunting. We have very liberal bag limits here in WV. My son has already stated that he isn't using the rifle this year to hunt, only the bow and muzzleloader. I have become much more selective about the deer I shoot since I now raise deer. We do shoot alot of does and let he young bucks pass by. We are very overpopulated here. So we do our share of crowd control.



We like to have fun. We use groundhog season to get ready for deer season. That way we know how our rifles shoot. Shooting does from 300 or 400 yards adds to the fun. We wouldn't take shots like that if we weren't confident in our abilities and our equipment.



Squirrel hunting with .22's is a blast. My son now has a .17HMR That thing can pick off squirrels at 100 yards.

I got my best bow kill deer yesterday

He scored 125 dressed 175lb

Ohio deer

I love to bow hunt

but this time year there's alot to do on the farm.

So I don't get to hunt as much as I used too.

I saw one Bout that Size Beside my Pen couple days Back,Not seen him since. That is a Nice Deer Congratulation!! Dc Let see them !!

congrats, very nice rack on him, i never seen one that nice in the wild before.

I am addicted to bowhunting! Haven't stuck anything this year, but my 10 year old daughter did get her first deer, a little 7 pt. Couldn't have been prouder

warning: deer in pictures may appear smaller due to the fact that I'm 6'4" 310 lbs.



Killed this sucker on my ranch 2 years ago

2698:Branding Iron Buck (small).



Killed in British Columbia

2699:Bear Hunt 3 smaller.



Took these last two in Ohio last year at Roy Yoders

2700:160.



2701:151.

Killed this one Sept. 11, 2009 in the Bridger Teton National forest. Great hunt. Three hunters Three kills.... not to bad for a bunch of bow hunters. My bull was a 6x5 and green scored 326 1/8. He was tagged in both ears. In 2003 he was tagged by Wyoming Park and Wildlife as a calf. They sent me a certificate with all of his info on it.

Droptine, you and I would get along just fine... LOVE my bowhunting. It is the ultimate rush for me. I have been lucky enough to take 5 P&Y bucks in KS, 2 auodads, turkeys, elk, hogs and an alligator in Florida. They all have their place in my heart.

My dad & I went on our first Elk / Goat hunt & what an awsome hunt we had

w/ Total Outdoor Adventures. My specialty is long range hunting w/my 30hart.

I shot this elk at 400yd & Antelope at 720yd

Arrowhead Whitetails said:

Killed this one Sept. 11, 2009 in the Bridger Teton National forest. Great hunt. Three hunters Three kills.... not to bad for a bunch of bow hunters. My bull was a 6x5 and green scored 326 1/8. He was tagged in both ears. In 2003 he was tagged by Wyoming Park and Wildlife as a calf. They sent me a certificate with all of his info on it.

Droptine, you and I would get along just fine... LOVE my bowhunting. It is the ultimate rush for me. I have been lucky enough to take 5 P&Y bucks in KS, 2 auodads, turkeys, elk, hogs and an alligator in Florida. They all have their place in my heart.

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I am dying to go after Elk with a bow! I was going to do it this year, but I backed out because I was too busy at the ranch. I just want to feel that rush of seeing a big trophy Elk come charging in during the rut and hang up 20 yrds from me

Ringneck pheasant is my favorite bird here in Pa, but if I lived down south Im sure it would be the bobwhite quail!!! also I hunt ramshead , pinkie, and chicken of the woods mushrooms. And fox, ****, coyotes.