the 2012 hunting thread. lets see some pics!!!!!!

[SirGreenThumb]

man they dont always goin a circle ive had them run few miles in a straight line over mountains and rivers and keep on going deer are hard to kill. but yea how long did you wait to go look for deer jimmy? you should wait awhile depending opn where you hit it and how your arrow blood looks. if its guts or liver i wait 8 to 12 hours. heart or lung give it an hour if you didn't c it fall. anything else give it till the next day and look in the daylight

IME, the deer will always go from which way they came. They know that it was safe before they got shot so they try and return to the safest way they knew before hand. I've never had to track a deer more than 50 yards. But then again, I never hit the gut. Always lung or heart shot, once I hit a lung and a shoulder and the deer fell 5 feet from where it was shot. I will always wait to hear the deer drop "if I don't see it drop." You can always tell when they hit the ground and stop moving, and after they stop moving, wait at least 30 min to an hour and go track your deer.

But on another note. I went out to the state park today to test out my new buck call "Buck Roar" and I called in 4 deer within 20 min.
I only recorded one of them as the others came through after I stopped recording. Here is a pic of it. May have to save and zoom in from your computer. It was 3 Doe and 1 Buck. I didn't notice the buck till after I had stood up and was getting ready to leave and he blew at me. They came within 30 yards of me calling.
Lets play Find the Deer.

 

[slayer6669]

lol i wouldn't educate the deer with your calls unless you plan on killing them when they come in, now them deer will no it was a human making them calls and prolly wont come back into it. anyways thats cool it works good. or are you not aloud to hunt there? if so then i guess it really dont matter what the deer know

 

[Jimmyjonestoo]

man they dont always goin a circle ive had them run few miles in a straight line over mountains and rivers and keep on going deer are hard to kill. but yea how long did you wait to go look for deer jimmy? you should wait awhile depending opn where you hit it and how your arrow blood looks. if its guts or liver i wait 8 to 12 hours. heart or lung give it an hour if you didn't c it fall. anything else give it till the next day and look in the daylight

Seemed to me to be a nice shot to the kill zone but I never did find the arrow. As far as tracking I pretty much started shortly after shooting it. Way to warm yet to wait much longer.

 

[Corso312]

What do you do with the skins/hide when ya bag a deer?

 

[SirGreenThumb]

lol i wouldn't educate the deer with your calls unless you plan on killing them when they come in, now them deer will no it was a human making them calls and prolly wont come back into it. anyways thats cool it works good. or are you not aloud to hunt there? if so then i guess it really dont matter what the deer know

Can't hunt in a state park like that.

 

[VLRD.Kush]

What do you do with the skins/hide when ya bag a deer?

Usually trash... deer fur is kind of, mehh.

Some great pics in here guys! Only thing i've shot this year was 1 dove. supposed to be going hog hunting soon in our WMArea

 

[budlover13]

Usually trash... deer fur is kind of, mehh.

Some great pics in here guys! Only thing i've shot this year was 1 dove. supposed to be going hog hunting soon in our WMArea

A little disappointed. While a deer-skin hide is not the most comfortable warming implement you can have, it does work. Bet there's a few homeless folk who would die for one as it gets colder.

 

[VLRD.Kush]

There's enough deer killed each year, I'm sure they're are people out there that do give out the hides. I've never taken a deer to a processor so I can't say for sure. Just whenever I have cleaned them, we usually trash them.

 

[budlover13]

There's enough deer killed each year, I'm sure they're are people out there that do give out the hides. I've never taken a deer to a processor so I can't say for sure. Just whenever I have cleaned them, we usually trash them.

Just a thought, since you have to skin them anyways, might as well save the hide imo.

But to each their own.

Good luck on your next hunt regardless

 

[slayer6669]

Seemed to me to be a nice shot to the kill zone but I never did find the arrow. As far as tracking I pretty much started shortly after shooting it. Way to warm yet to wait much longer.

not warm where im located highs min the low 40 and lows around 20 its been a really cold year so far for me

 

[slayer6669]

There's enough deer killed each year, I'm sure they're are people out there that do give out the hides. I've never taken a deer to a processor so I can't say for sure. Just whenever I have cleaned them, we usually trash them.

i clean my own deer to and if its a nice hide we will tan it but alot of times they wont have a nice hide so we just feed it to the coyotes

 

[slayer6669]

 

[slayer6669]

heres the ten point i got and all its hooves are a clearish white and it has white legs

 

[bowlfullofbliss]

What do you do with the skins/hide when ya bag a deer?

There isn't a whole lot to do with them, except for having them tanned with the fur on, and using them for a decoration to put on the couch, or my Uncle saved several of them, and had a leather coat made. It took a 3 or 4 of them in order to get the size and quality cuts needed to put it together. It wasn't cheap. Remember, you're putting a hole in both sides, right in the area that has the biggest area of usable leather.

I do know some guys who save them in the freezer along with bags of blood that have been processed so they don't clotted up. They use the blood and hide for training dogs to recover wounded deer.

 

[slayer6669]

hmm i need to train my dog to find wounded deer

 

[Corso312]

Was told that you use the brains to tan the hide? is this true...and that every animal has enough brAIn matter to tan it's own hide...who the hell ever figured out that smearing brains on the hide tans it eh?

 

[slayer6669]

yea brain tanning works, its a real thing lol

 

[slayer6669]

i don't do it so i don't know to much about it i use tanning solution if i tan any.

 

[Corso312]

Any of you guys live in Michigan? I am looking to tag along and learn a few things on a hunt.... I am going to buy a bow in november and buy a target and practice my shot

 

[slayer6669]

nope i dont if i did id teach you how to hunt