Your best buck , show and tell

[jcaud]

Don’t have any pictures after I’d killed this buck because it was opening weekend, 95 degrees and I was alone. Got this one with a bow in 2018 I believe and he scored about 140”.

 

[Colorado Cowboy]

This buck was taken in Wyoming in 2010. I has 31" spread and is a 5x4. I have been hunting Wyoming since 1980 mainly for antelope but have shot a few deer also. On one trip antelope hunting I found a small canyon with a small spring at the head end of it. Every year when we were in that area hunting antelope I would check it. Every time I saw 3 or 4 buck deer that were really bruisers. It took 15 points to draw and took me awhile to get a tag. In 2010 I drew it and shot this buck . I have told a couple of friends about it and they have taken a couple of good bucks too.

 

[Pescetism]

2017 Rifle
Saw him several times in October then he disappeared for a few weeks.

 

[waspocrew]

Shot this whitetail back in 2023. He was cruising through one of our alfalfa fields. Shot him at 420 yards with my 338 RUM. Didn't get great field pics since I was by myself, but these will have to do. Our whitetails were really looking up, but got destroyed by EHD this year. Going to be a while before seeing a decent buck like this again.

 

[Taudisio]

I’ll play! My best of each deer species I have taken. Starting with the whitetail, since this is in the whitetail section.Whitetail, rifle-2018, 9 point, the only one I’ve killed.

Mule deer, rifle-2019, 4x4

Blacktail, rifle-2024, 4x4

 

[MT_Fin]

I was by myself so didn’t get good pics unfortunately, and pales in comparison to some, but this is my best muley to date. The matching kickers are cool.

 

[*zap*]

Shot with a 30-30 100 yards from his bed in October. Sat every morning and evening for the entire early gun season. Killed on last evening. Private land n/e Kansas.

 

[Toneloc]

Oct 23rd 2010. PA bow kill. Low 140s.

 

[Taudisio]

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Shot with a 30-30 100 yards from his bed in October. Sat every morning and evening for the entire early gun season. Killed on last evening. Private land n/e Kansas.

What year? That’s a monster.

Nice profile pic change too!

 

[*zap*]

I think 2008, thanks.

 

[JPeters218]

Nothing too crazy, but a cool buck. His running buddy all summer was a giant, but come rut he moved about 2 miles and got killed.

 

[hoosierhunter11]

November 3, 2023 - Indiana

 

[Robinhood21]

2012, I was having the worst year of hunting. November 15 rolled around and I had not seen a buck over 120" all year. Sitting there I saw some movement behind some cedars and didn't really think anything of it, as I thought it was another small buck or doe. Then he lifted his head and I realized there was a giant in front of me.

He was locked down with a doe and wouldn't you know that doe led him right in front of me and I shot him at 8 yards.

 

[fatlander]

This is my best buck. Took him in 2012. Have a few more that are close, but he’s still the king of my trophy room.


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[Colorado Cowboy]

This is my best buck. Took him in 2012. Have a few more that are close, but he’s still the king of my trophy room.


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Love drop tines.

 

[MallardSX2]

Fun fact: This is one of just a couple deer I have missed in my life. The day before, I took a shot at this same deer at 75 yards broadside in the woods. (Proof that I did actually load the gun below)

To this day, I'm still puzzled by that miss.

 

[Pilsner]

KANSAS
2024
RIFLE
GREEN SCORE OF 186 6/8"

 

[BigMiss]

My first 10 years of hunting were on the same few small connected pieces of property in WI that totaled about 20 acres, primarily from a single ladder stand. It was a great stand for filling the freezer with does if you put in the time, and the occasional spike or forkie. It wasn't unusual to hunt 6 sits without seeing a deer, but I always shot a couple by the end of the bow/gun seasons. I happened to be in the stand when I saw the only deer larger than a fork horn I'd ever seen while hunting. He chased a doe to my stand, and I shot him frontal at about 40 yards with a .270. I believe it was 2017. I doubt I'll ever shoot another whitetail this large. No idea on what he scored, maybe 150's? Later, I learned that the group that owned the 450 acre property next to the one I was on didn't shoot a single buck that year because they were holding out for this guy who had been on cameras for the past couple of years. The owner of the land I was on waited until after the season to tell the other guy the deer had been shot (he knew him well and didn't care for him one bit), and the dude was pissed. Not owning a managed deer property of my own, I've always marveled at how possessive guys get over "their deer." They sit in their stands all 9 days of gun season not shooting anything or moving any deer around because they want to shoot the one or two target bucks. When that buck decides to rut off property, game over.

 

[saltfork]

Kansas 2017 archery.

 

[Gid1980]

2012, I was having the worst year of hunting. November 15 rolled around and I had not seen a buck over 120" all year. Sitting there I saw some movement behind some cedars and didn't really think anything of it, as I thought it was another small buck or doe. Then he lifted his head and I realized there was a giant in front of me.

He was locked down with a doe and wouldn't you know that doe led him right in front of me and I shot him at 8 yards.
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Great deer!