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For years I have had this fascination with big 6-points... not the no brow tine kind of six, but the typical 3x3 with brow tines and G2's only... if I have one dream in hunting it would be to kill one... not sure why I'm so drawn to them, maybe because they are so rare. I have two buddies that have taken a big six... but I have never even seen a live one in the woods... does anyone else have the same fascination? My buddies with their six points

Me left moog5050 right.

Because my wife doesn't .....

My son took his 9 year old with him to camp and shot an 8 point . My grandson claimed it as "his" deer . His younger 6 year old brother wanted to go out with dad and my son shot a doe with the muzzle loader making another grandson happy . Now the 6 year old twin sister wants to go out with dad because it's her turn . I called up my 6 year old grandson to congratulate him ( even though his dad shot the deer ) and he told me about seeing the deer's heart , his dad removing the guts and stuff and draining the blood . He was quite excited .

Hell, with all the stuff I've done over the years, if it was up to the man upstairs I would probably never have gotten a deer.......I'll stick with preseason scouting to up my odds......

12-9-14 Late season success on the timbered edge of a goldenrod field. I sat on my stump daydreaming about shed season and all the antlers I'd be scooping up from the field behind me in the coming months. I had a sudden snap back to reality at 3pm when all of a sudden out of nowhere movement woke me up 25yds in front of me. This guy was casually following behind a young doe fawn and she led him right by me at 15yds before the ML swept him off his feet. He piled up about 40yds away, and when I arrived at his carcass I discovered he knocked an antler off when he crashed. I grabbed a few quick picures, and with sunset fast approaching I made a quick run home to grab a sled to make the drag out a little easier and protect his antler that was still attached. At home I realized I had this bucks antlers from last season which I included in these pics, and that I killed him just over 100yds away from where I had found those antlers last spring. This was the kind of hunt that made me thankful I could appreciate some of the finer points of the hunt without the size of the antlers clouding my excitement over him!

I always believed there was no such animal as a truly "BIG 6pt" until I found these on my hunting grounds. I got a little more interested in 6pts after this. Never set eyes on him before or after this find. 8" gnarly bases, and some of the deepest vein canals I've ever seen on an antler around here.

Lol! I can't shoot a cap gun in my neighborhood without one of the many liberal neighbors I have going ape$hit. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Great stories .... keep them coming !

My 14 yr old nephew and my brother in law teaching him on the left with his first deer. On the right my 12 year old helping me with mine. And my younger brother in the background. Family and the young ones is what it's about! I remember how excited I got when I was there age! Still do!

And the survey says!

He was next door eating my neighbors bushes last night. Too bad I'm in Amherst..... No action this morning so far Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

luck on the last afternoon! I've been reading on here for quite a while thought it was about time to join and start posting. Good info here - thanks to all

I was leaning against a tree this morning in north central PA, hoping a buck would walk by...I saw a bird flutter down to the snow near me and then fly back up to a nearby tree..It was an eastern bluebird..Then I saw another, and another...Soon I was in the middle of a whole flock of bluebirds.. 30 degrees F and 8 inches of snow on the ground and I was surrounded by what was certainly a migrating flock of bluebirds. This is latest I have ever seen them this far north. I have no idea what they were eating, but they were flying down to the snow covered forest floor and getting SOMETHING, and then flying back up in the trees..They stayed around me for about an hour..It gave me something to watch, because the deer weren't moving much. Saw a big momma doe and two fawns, but she was safe from me since I already filled my PA antlerless tags.

My son took his 6 year old daughter out back yesterday and he shot "her deer" . She was so excited !

This is the way new recruits are formed. My kids always got involved in tracking and hunting at very early ages. It works!

Looks GOOOOD ! Here in Little Apallachia, all a feller needs is a nice hot bowl of Sheperd's Pie and a nice hot EWE to snuggle up to...<<sigh>>...

don't laugh, they said a man would never walk on the moon and look what happened............

Good stuff. I had my 4 and 6 yr old girls on there first blood trail a few weeks ago. Huge smile when we found him. 6 yr old helped me butcher as well. Definitely have to start them young.

Awsome....my 11 year old nephew helped me track and gut a doe I shot durring bow season....i always call for second eyes as I am color blind and tracking in leaves is really tough....altho I'm getting pretty good at it... first one he's helped find and gut and he was thrilled

I am all for full inclusion. I am not ever for taking a shot at an animal that I have not practiced for and would know - not guess the trajectory.

Lucky Last Day I had a little extra luck on Sunday. I was hoping to get up to the Adirondacks for the last day of gun season but personnel circumstances prevented me from getting away. So I thought I would hunt locally although I hadn't seen a deer in the last two weeks. I wasn't able to get to my stand until 8:30, climbed the tree and pulled up my shotgun. Within 30 seconds of untying my shotgun from the haul line I heard something then saw a deer creeping through the brush about 80 or 90 yards away. The deer's track would result in a CPA of about 40 or 45 yards directly upwind of me if. I took the shot as soon as he walked into an opening. Photo below. Just lucky, pure luck. Not a huge rack but he had some heft. Right beam was partially broken off due to fighting. The phrase "timing is everything" comes to mind.

My second weekend doe

Filled my late season tag with the ML this afternoon! Is it the least bit ironic that that when I walk up to my buck I see this,lol I know he was wearing them both when I shot him. Guess there's a first time for everything, as this has never happened to me before. But how cool is that, I killed a buck AND got my first shed of the season! Here's what he looks like when I put him back together! That stick is holding his horn in place. I have to check, but I think I have this set of antlers in last years 2013 model! I have to take some better field photos and get the story up in the morning in the harvest thead.

If you get them to have the itch at a young age, they will scratch it the rest of their lives! Love it, awesome! I never had a mentor but at an early age of 6 I was introduced to hunting and guns from my uncle Mert who was known as a great and very successful hunter. Even though I did not hunt with him or get any knowledge the itch was created! Personally I love getting anyone involved in hunting but getting the kids involved is a whole different level!

As someone who speaks to hundreds of people each year about scavengers, I don't think you give the public enough credit. Actually, I think the general public very easily grasps the need to control certain populations, e.g. deer, sedentary geese, bears in NJ, etc. They understand these human wildlife conflicts. What they fail to understand is why "population control" is used as a rationale by hunters who are obviously self serving. I think Doc said he never thinks about controlling deer populations when he goes hunting. I do because it is a personal priority. In my youth, I heard it at the gun club all the time but it never motivated me. When you discuss coyotes and crows, the general public does not see conflict. They see persecution. And, with coyotes, all the science supports this public perception. Killing coyotes does nothing to reduce their numbers and may actually increase them. Much coyote killing is done out of ignorance and fear. (I'm not talking about those who are doing it for income, or a combination of income and sport.) Read the recent thread on someone killing his first yote. There are quotes like "another dog down" and "another fawn will live". These attitudes show me that much of the hunting public fails to grasp ecological concepts. Since the science shows that coyotes have little impact on deer outside the forest preserve, killing coyotes to improve deer numbers is folly. It may make some feel better but it doesn't help the deer.

I honestly wonder why there is so much controversy over shooting hours. Have we gotten so darn desperate that we cannot abide by a very simple rule? It is amazing what peer pressure and a need for the acceptance of fellow hunters can force people to do. Most do a lot of self-control acts, like being super-selective in shot selection, looking for minimum personal standard in size/age of what they take, etc., etc. So what is the big deal about adding one other restriction ..... ensuring that we follow the law. Is that really a big hardship? Why is that one so hard to incorporate into our hunting ethics?

Going to the Jefferson Co. fur auction this morning. I do not sell there, going to have my fisher sealed. Be interesting what the prices are like.

One of my FAVORITE venison dishes right there! Cream style corn and hold the carrots for me though. I like to brown the ground with a pack of taco seasoning and eat it cold the next day. YUM is right!

I don't know, I had a banner year. I counted up my sightings on my DEC Bowhunter log and ended up with 57 deer total including 5 bucks. Granted some of them were probably the same deer but still. I hunted a lot this year (I used all four weeks vacation and four of my personal days during deer season) from opening day bow and am still going and so far I have only had two outings where I didn't see at least one deer. That's even counting my trips up into 5H. I even ended up with two bucks.

Crossbows were legal implements during this season, but we used something else. This Adirondack buck (town of Fine) was the heaviest and probably the oldest buck I have ever taken. The 8-point rack was decent, but not huge. The teeth were so worn, that most of the acorns stuffing his belly were barely chewed. I will ask the taxidermist for the exact age when I talk to him next. I probably would not have gotten him mounted were he not the first buck and my in-laws new camp, and all the "special" help I had in the harvest and recovery. For the second consecutive time this season, the good Lord guided the shot to exactly the right place (diagonally thru the rib cage from about 300 yards, just below the backstraps to not ruin any of the "good stuff"). The 150 grain Federal 30/06 bullet out of the Ruger M77 put him down in his tracks.

How about just putting them in a brass case and press the projectile on top. Could even put the primer in the base of the case.

there are some urbanites i would take over sloppy white trash any day. They tend to be educated and thoughtful. If you're a foody you're less likely to leave your bud light can in the woods. Seems to be a mindset of doing things right and with care. So less likely to lie, cheat, steal and bait. The answer is probably somewhere in the middle.

So because your freezer was empty you were or are more than willing to take a bigger chance then you are when its full? Are you saying you have more respect for filling the freezer than the game animal you are pursuing? This statement just confuses and baffles the hell out of me. Your shot taking chance standards should be just as high full freezer or not.

IMO, it's only irresponsible because he didn't practice at that distance or know exactly where to aim. Had he done both and the conditions were right, no wind and deer standing still, there would be nothing wrong with a 60yd shot. It's done all the time successfully out west in open fields on deer, antelope, elk, etc. if I ever go to Wyoming with my xbow, I will make sure I can shoot out to at least 60 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

No offense taken. If I can get a hunting story published I could join both my Uncle, Granddad, and Great-Granddad as members of my family that have hunting stories published and that would be pretty cool. Financially, I probably wouldn't quit my day job to become a freelance writer, but I'll admit; I have spent a LOT of money on hunting one way or another. If there was a way to get a little kick back now and again, I wouldn't be ashamed to take it. I certainly won't sell my sheds and don't aspire to be a TV star either.

Lol- you have no idea how much it pains me to put those sloppy pics up. I forgot my little camera remote for field photos and it was dark by the time I got home with him so I didn't get a chance to clean him up first. Just dug through the horn pile and pulled out his antlers from last year. I knew they looked familiar. I killed him about 100yds away from where this set layed. Not intentionally after him there, but pretty darn cool it worked out like that if you ask me!

I have had a good season. Have some venison in the freezer, spent time with some friends, enjoyed some beautiful forests and came home safely every time.

Can't shoot a deer from the computer chair I know that. Hunt don't type.

Nothing . We need them we should embrace and encourage them . The average joe who gets out a few times and is happy to kill any deer. We need there numbers and we need them to pass it on to generations to come .

My cousins monster 10 point he shot down sw of canadaigua lake his best to date .. his dad's been watching this buck for 2 years named it the bull and his son comes once and drops it ... some day I will see one this big

Took dad's 270 out on state land in 8n was there literally 25 min when a group Walked out and took this one at 50 yards ran 20 yards and done....put in truck went back out didn't see anything else

Number 2.

Two doe tags filled! Passed many 2.5 y/o and younger bucks, still waiting for the big guy!

Sunday morning following opening day on state forest land 9J. Harvsted this one while in the company of a doe walking through the old pines.

1st handgun deer....70yds...Smith & Wesson 29 44mag 240gr hollow point

Closed out bow season with this big Doe in 7s. 20 yard shot Bowtech Insanity CPXL and NAP killzone broad heads, complete pass through. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

After being on stand most of the day yesterday and seeing no deer, I went out at noon today back to the same stand watching my food plot and at 2:55pm this buck walks out.

So here is the short story. I'm in the wood tower stand I built two years ago on our property in 3H. It overlooks a few ridges and has pretty good views. To my right there are pines and the deer seem to always travel out of the pines then take one of the ridges. So I hear some noises and see a doe running from a 4 ptr and then I saw a big body deeper in the pines but couldn't see a rack. All of an sudden the big one runs out and chases the 4. I still couldn't get a clean look at the rack. They ran off down the mountain a bit out of view. I was kind of upset I couldn't do a rack check on it. Then 15 min later in see a doe on the ridge. Had the scope on her and then I saw a nice rack pop up and disappear. So another 5 min passes by and the 4 ptr came back. Well the 8 pointer didn't like that and showed his face again. I heard some stomping and then the 8 popped out at 80 yards out broadside 5 min later. And that's that! This whole time I was on my knees so I could use my rail to stabilize my shot. The problem was the while stand was covered in ice and snow so moving quietly to reposition when they popped out again was a challenge. First buck in a long time, well worth the wait! My heart was pounding for hours, actually it still is. Still can't wipe the smile off my face. My old man was so excited too.

Sitting for 10 minutes and I had this stud 10 pointer walk by me ,biggest deer I've ever seen .shot him at 30 yards ran 3 steps and fell over . Shot in 3s westchester county .