I harvested this 9 pointer on Wed, Nov 10 at about 10:30am.  It was chasing a doe and 2 fawns behind me around 8am in the brush and I could not get a shot at it.  At 10:30am it trotted out of the brush and presented an easy 40 yard broad side shot.

 

I hunted for 7 of the 9 day season and saw more deer activity than I have in years.  I saw a very large 8 point buck on Tuesday about 400 yards away that was tending to a doe and watched it chase off 4 smaller bucks for almost half an hour.  Every time a smaller buck would get near that doe, he would drop his head and chase it off.  Fascinating behavior to watch in person.  I saw that buck a couple more times but never really close enough to take a shot. It has almost pure white antlers and I nicknamed it "whitey."  If he survives until next season, he'll be a giant.

12 hours ago, gimruis said:

I harvested this 9 pointer on Wed, Nov 10 at about 10:30am.  It was chasing a doe and 2 fawns behind me around 8am in the brush and I could not get a shot at it.  At 10:30am it trotted out of the brush and presented an easy 40 yard broad side shot.

 

I hunted for 7 of the 9 day season and saw more deer activity than I have in years.  I saw a very large 8 point buck on Tuesday about 400 yards away that was tending to a doe and watched it chase off 4 smaller bucks for almost half an hour.  Every time a smaller buck would get near that doe, he would drop his head and chase it off.  Fascinating behavior to watch in person.  I saw that buck a couple more times but never really close enough to take a shot. It has almost pure white antlers and I nicknamed it "whitey."  If he survives until next season, he'll be a giant.

Good job.. congrats

Awesome, congrats!

I dont deer hunt but will take a deer if somebody wants to give me one . Well I got one this year. today I went to the freezer to retrieve some tenderloin and it quit working . A half deer spoiled . I still have summer sausage and deer sticks coming . I'll have to squeeze them in the refrigerator freezer .

41 minutes ago, scaleface said:

I dont deer hunt but will take a deer if somebody wants to give me one . Well I got one this year. today I went to the freezer to retrieve some tenderloin and it quit working . A half deer spoiled . I still have summer sausage and deer sticks coming . I'll have to squeeze them in the refrigerator freezer .

Disaster! I can give you plenty of deer and I don’t hunt either. I’ve got good friends, one is an unbelievable marksman 

18 hours ago, scaleface said:

today I went to the freezer to retrieve some tenderloin and it quit working . A half deer spoiled . I still have summer sausage and deer sticks coming

 

I've never had a freezer die on me, but I have shot a deer before in the late evening hours and didn't recover it until the following morning when it was light out.  Half the deer was spoiled because it was so warm out that specific night.  It only got down to about 50 degrees overnight and the highs during the season that week were in the 60's.  We cleaned it and took it to the meat locker as quick as we could.  The butcher inspected it and said some of it appeared to be spoiled.  He called us later and said that all the prime cuts (loins, chops, steaks, roasts) were ruined and that all he could do was process the trimmings into sausage/sticks.

 

That was an extremely warm deer season for days on end.  I remember the butcher saying that all kinds of deer were coming into the meat locker spoiled that season and they would not process rotten meat for liability reasons.  This trend of warming falls is probably only going to continue too.  It was 60 degrees on opener this past November but luckily it cooled off by the third day of the season.  Warm falls might be good for bass fishing, but they are not good for hunting seasons.

On 12/30/2021 at 8:42 AM, gimruis said:

 

I've never had a freezer die on me, but I have shot a deer before in the late evening hours and didn't recover it until the following morning when it was light out.  Half the deer was spoiled because it was so warm out that specific night.  It only got down to about 50 degrees overnight and the highs during the season that week were in the 60's.  We cleaned it and took it to the meat locker as quick as we could.  The butcher inspected it and said some of it appeared to be spoiled.  He called us later and said that all the prime cuts (loins, chops, steaks, roasts) were ruined and that all he could do was process the trimmings into sausage/sticks.

 

That was an extremely warm deer season for days on end.  I remember the butcher saying that all kinds of deer were coming into the meat locker spoiled that season and they would not process rotten meat for liability reasons.  This trend of warming falls is probably only going to continue too.  It was 60 degrees on opener this past November but luckily it cooled off by the third day of the season.  Warm falls might be good for bass fishing, but they are not good for hunting seasons.

Ha ha, forgot about the hunting forum.

Agree, warmer hunting seasons seem to be more prevalent. 

What I've done to offset this is instead of hanging the deer and risk losing it, I quarter it and drop the quarters into Rubbermaid trashcans " clean " full of ice water and salt, dump and re-ice for 3 days. 

This also draws the blood from meat.

Been doing this for the last 10 years. 

 

Congrats on the nice buck. I also shot this 9pt at 15 yards while hunting on the ground. 

4 hours ago, Bird said:

Congrats on the nice buck. I also shot this 9pt at 15 yards while hunting on the ground

Nice work. Deer season seems like it was so long ago now.