What was your most satisfying BP harvest?

[ohiosam]

Really great buck and a nice story! Congratulations!

 

[Flintlock58]

CONGRATULATIONS! Everything came together for a change! Nice picture too.

 

[Bill Hall]

Wow! Deerzilla! Are those bald spots on his neck from fighting? Must be another biggun' around close. I don't think a much smaller buck would take him on. Bill

 

[KyFlintlock]

Great story, glad you got that big ol Minnesota bruiser! :hatsoff:

 

[Spikebuck]

Bill, Another nice 10 point was taken on the leased farm. Different antler shape, but a mature buck. He could have been scrapin' with him. He also had a 6 inch scar without hair right between his shoulders. Not sure it was another buck, but could have been...or a barbed wire fence. We are blessed with some very nice deer in SE MN and with newly implemented antler-point restrictions and party hunting limitations, the next couple years are going to get really interesting! The DNR estimates that about 70 or 80% of yearling bucks were protected this year.

 

[smoothy]

Two years ago I shot a doe with a .62cal/20ga fowler I finished building in'99. It was the first year hunting with this gun and I had brought my 3rd oldest son with me. It was a high lung shot, but the doe only went about 25 yards. This leaves room for my most memorable hunt yet to come, maybe a large buck with one of my flintlocks. Won't be this year, although I did get to see this same son harvest a button buck recently.

 

[tg]

In reality This old boy is my pride and joy I caught him working a Doe in the bottom of a real thick gully in Novemnber and I was able to slowly work him as he worked her and got a good shot at 25 yds a long shot in that cover but he dropped like a sack of spuds with a .40 PRB with 65gr3f caplock old Navy Arms "Kentucky" with new GM barrel he only scored 120+ which is not bad for a Blacktail but small by other species but often with Blacktail you battle the habitat as much as the animal. I have taken several bigger Deer with center fire way back when, but none had my heart pumping like this one from the time I saw him for probably 20 minutes till I got the shot.Nov. 25 1997 if I recall, Oregon Coastal mts elevation 2700ft +/- four of us all tagged out on a four day hunt, all fork horns or better it was the best trip we ever had back when we hunted together each year for a decade or so.Not a camera in camp as it turned out everyone thought someone else was bringing one.

 

[John Wasmuth]

:thumbsup:

 

[hoochiepapa]

Good God, tg, I'm jealous! :shake:

 

[tg]

It is not much compared to Mulies and Whitetails but is a fair animal around here, the stalk thru the bottom of the draw with blackberries,ferns, Devils club and other stuff made it a challenge every couple of minutes I would slowly look over a piece of cover to see if I could spot him and finaly all fell into place, I stood thigh deep in a creek at a Deer crossing when I heard some noise real close so I did not spook him after a few minutes my feet were numb but i was warm as toast after the shot and I found him laying next to a 2" Alder that I had seen shaking at the top after I shot, his rack hooked the tree and as he kicked one leg laying there the tree top moving 20 ft in the air signaled his location, I did not know what was going on till I found him so it was a bit strange at the time.

 

[gmww]

I've killed a few animals with a ML but I have to say the one shot instant kill with the .62 RB Underhammer was the most satisfying.

It was a neck shot behind the ear like where the guide said to put it. She dropped right where she had been standing.

My buddy had to shoot his 4 or 5 times with his BP Cart. 45/70. :shocked2:

 

[hoochiepapa]

tg;
Ain't it funny how you can be freezing to death, and an animal walk into your sight, and all of a sudden you're warm. Happens every time. :idunno:

 

[tg]

Yeah Hunting can defy the laws of phsyics at times, Hey! congrats on the Buff hunts now there is a real ML accomplshment in my book well done and nice pics

 

[bucktales]

This was only last year, but it was one of my most enjoyable hunting experiences. First Pa. gobbler, First with a Flinter,and a miss at a Jake the day before. It's nice when it all comes together.

 

[rabjr]

Hey, I used to have a gun just like that one.... :wink:

 

[bucktales]

:blah: :haha:

 

[hoochiepapa]

Bearded turkey from a bearded.... :rotf:
Good goin'!

 

[Rhett Griffith]

My most satisfying harvest to date was the little doe I got with my Colt Dragoon while sitting in a ladder stand with my 7 year old and 4 year old. :grin:

 

[John Wasmuth]

:thumbsup: I've killed several of them, all with traditional styled ML's, every one of them was special, my youngest daughter was there with me for all of them.

 

[John Wasmuth]

Buff hunting is just way to much fun!