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I am dead set I am going to wait until gun season to shoot my deer this year.
My problem is that I have a nice 10 point that has shown up on the little 60 acres I hunt.
It is so tempting to go after him with my bow but if I kill him with my bow, he will be gone and then I can’t shoot him with my Flintlock
 

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I am dead set I am going to wait until gun season to shoot my deer this year.
My problem is that I have a nice 10 point that has shown up on the little 60 acres I hunt.
It is so tempting to go after him with my bow but if I kill him with my bow, he will be gone and then I can’t shoot him with my Flintlock
Im as big a bowhunter as they come. Get on him now before the neighbor does.
 
Cautiously and carefully, get in with the bow. But you don't want him pushed out. I hunt near my house where there aren't many deer. Come muzzleloader season, there's tons of hunters putting all kinds of pressure on the deer. Movement on camera becomes almost non existent.and mainly after dark. I get what I can during bow season and still generally have tag soup at the end.
 
Back when I got mine it was still legal to buy formaldehyde at a drug store. I wrapped the antlers in rags and then poured the formaldehyde over it all. I put the whole works in 2 or 3 garbage bags and left them in a spare refrigerator for a few weeks. I didn't do the whole skull I just did the antlers. I post a photo but they're at my son's place. The velvet still looks like new. There are probably other ways to do it.
 
What happens to the velvet if you harvest a buck in velvet? Does it dry up and fall off?
I always wondered.
Yes, it falls off. I killed a moose in Newfoundland that was in velvet, and it fell off in about a week or so. After it dried out, I aged it with brown leather dye, and it turned out looking almost as if it had aged naturally.
 

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