2024 Deer Season

[Altitude sickness]

Big old looking Roman nose Congrats !

 

[wesheltonj]

Finally pulled the trigger on one on our place evening before last. Thank goodness for great optics (Leica) - I probably did not study my watch too closely before the shot, but it was cloudy so I am confident we were still within that last half hour. He is no monster, but about as good as I have seen on our place for several years. Judging by tooth wear, he was also quite old, and I believe is antlers were starting to regress. In any case, he will make his way to the freezer.

Bit of poke as well. 185 yards off the sticks (Blaser quads).

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Nice old deer. I noticed that's not your Sporter Classic R8.

 

[Reg26]

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Speaking of dog drives. Got behind a load of beagles on the way to work this morning!

Seen outside a convenience in Nebraska. Pretty sure we prevented a stick-up.

 

[Red Leg]

Nice old deer. I noticed that's not your Sporter Classic R8.

Correct. The Jaeger actually was the original R8 that I purchased back when. I fairly recently switched scopes on a couple of my favorite deer rifles (.270, 7x65R, and .257) and have not yet resighted them. This R8, set up for .300 Win Mag, has not been played with. I normally leave it for Nilgai, but it works decisively on deer - if a bit overkill.

 

[WyoBull]

Have a Whitetail tag for a late season area here in Wyoming that closes /[emoji[emoji6][emoji6]]. Called the rancher as I was going to head up there tomorrow for last couple of days and he said don’t waste your time as he is not seeing any deer at all.

They are having a real mountain lion problem in that area and on top of EHD issues the last several years, the deer have really taken a hit.

Guess I will be eating tag soup this year and will go coyote and pheasants hunting instead!

 

[WAB]

Finally pulled the trigger on one on our place evening before last. Thank goodness for great optics (Leica) - I probably did not study my watch too closely before the shot, but it was cloudy so I am confident we were still within that last half hour. He is no monster, but about as good as I have seen on our place for several years. Judging by tooth wear, he was also quite old, and I believe is antlers were starting to regress. In any case, he will make his way to the freezer.

Bit of poke as well. 185 yards off the sticks (Blaser quads).

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Good buck to take, he’s well past his prime. Our bucks are still totally nocturnal. Things generally get hot between Christmas and New
Years.