How you found them...
Whitetail Deer
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I love trophy photos. Even more I love taking and seeing photos of the deer as you found them. Please post yours from this past fall. I'll start...
Those are some of my favorite photos as well.
I'm right there with you Rick! A dead buck is One of the best sights to walk up to.
This buck went 25 ft. and fell over! Shawn
Hope this worked! This buck did not go far! Shawn
Hanging out til I got to him.Tongue out and right cotton eye makes you want to say "Down goes Frazier,Down Goes Frazier!" as he clings to the ropes....
Those fences are a bitch Genesis. Cool to see something besides me stuck in them.
Matt's buck but I got to take the pic:)
My nilgai I almost jumped in myself
The end of the red carpet..
Hawaii Axis deer rut 2015
Shot was from the ground aiming up hill.
Ran 300 yards. One tuff buck.
Date is wrong on picture. Changed batteries and didn't reset date.
DC, what is that you pinned to the ground? Bobcat? I dont see a tail.
I love walk-up. And the first grip of the horns. I crave that
Great picture, t-roy.
Look like a job waiting to happen.
:-)
Thanks Joey. It made it interesting to say the least! (enjoyed every minute of it though)
T-roy, I'm sure that added to the adventure. Great Bull!
This one ran right to the logging road for me!
Tunnel vision pic
I love it when there's no "ground shrinkage"
Cool thread.
Good idea Rick
GotBowAz Yes It's a Bobcat here is a better pic.
bdfrd24v - Man I wish I could get my deer to run to the road like that. Awesome.
Smarba
Have you actually killed TWO Ibex with the bow??!! Please start another thread with stories, if you haven't already posted. If you did, I must have missed it..
Great bull in the last pic. Gila?
A few of mine. Great pics guys!
Oh man, T roy that moose pic hurt....i did the same Heres one 50yds from the shot
Heres a solo DIY elk hunt...bull went 55yds and tipped over....I'm standing where he was shot [Raining, bad pic]
I'm surprised that deer doesn't have 4 holes in it.
Love this thread!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just like that the next morning !!
Michigan Public land Deer 2008.
Still my best buck IMO.
Michigan - Public land - 2004.
North Carolina 2009 - Best Southern Deer
This is a cool thread. Congrats to everyone.
Montana during a rain storm. Twenty yard shot he only went 40 before going down.
I love these sorts of photos. From this last season...
When he saw this photo, a buddy asked me if I'd beaten him with a pipe to kill him...
Biggest deer I ever killed in rack and body... and he died in the bottom of a Kansas drainage with 10' banks. Fun.
This guy is a special one to me. Hunted him 5 years before I finally caught him in a mistake on the final day of the season. He jumped a fence and tripped and fell and knocked an antler off. It's amazing how humble they look without their full crown. In a way I think he was sticking it to me even in his death. Great adversary, and I miss him. Hunting changed after he went down.
Not this year but still one of my favorites.
I love this thread!! Where's my buddy Jack Harris! I know he has some of these pics!!!
Almost as much fun as this one! :)
Ran 20-30 yards. Stopped, dropped... And rolled another 30 through this brush until hiting that downed tree he's up against. It was like a meteor hit that brush though!
Some awesome photos on this thread!
I see that some photos have been posted from seasons other than just this past season so I'll post some too...
This one is from 2013. I'll never forget the feeling when I saw him laying there at the end of the blood trail.
One of the best "finds" of my life
Yes! What an incredible feeling!
I always take a photo when I first see them so I can relive it later.
The deer in the water reminds me of a big 11 point that someone in our group shot when I was a kid. It died in the middle of a small river, washed downstream a bit and got caught on a fallen tree branch in the river. The only thing we could see was a couple tines sticking above the water. It was a miracle we found it. It was also the middle of Nov. and COLD. Don't remember who ended up going in the water to get it out, but that probably was just the start of the fun, too.
This thread made me realize I haven't taken many pics of animals just as they fell, but usually moved them for a better picture first. I think I'll start doing that more now.
Great pictures and thread!!!
I'm noticing a pattern with these moose...
This is cool. Lots of amazing differences in terrain and country and animals. What a great continent.
I love when there is snow on the ground
2015 Colorado shot at 14 yards and watched him go down after a short run.
first of 2 I shot on this trip.
You can see Blind in the background.
Hey Rock , that dry land Muskox hunt looks a lot better than on frozen ice and 20-30 below.
My best, Paul
Not this year, a couple three years ago. My buddy met up with me not long after the shot. Didn't go far, we spotted him down in a gulch. The watched him for another 10 min. thinking he was bedded.... left antler had jammed in a tree limb after he went down and rolled quite a ways. He almost got another arrow for good measure after a classic stalk.... heheheh...
Droopy ears gave him away....
Believe it or not, this was a double lung shot. He went 40 yards and crashed.
Bear jumped into a swamp and swam into a beaver run before expiring
My best buck with the bow, taken on 11/25/14, Slick Trick Mag.
Didn't make it 75 yards.
My bride's but I found him!
That's very cool Novembermadman !
Novembermadman for the win! That is awesome!
Really nice photo, NovemberMadman!
Does anyone remember the photo that someone took awhile back of the whitetail buck lying in the field, with arrow still in it? Beautiful setting too. The guy was a regular on here but his handle eludes me. Maybe someone remembers... ?
Don't have one from this year but this is my favorite from 2011.
Must be something with bears wrapping around a tree.
I don't do enough of these. I have a few but they do make for neat memories and neat pictures. Need to start doing it all the time.
He sunk in a big river after I let the air out.
Mine aren't from this past fall, just ones I like of "how I found them" from a couple recent memorable hunts.
Bad hit with an easy recovery, only 40 yards
found these on the same trip. 11 and 13
Treestandwolf, that is an amazing photo of your caribou in the water!
My son's buck - after he shot it, it took a leap off the trail and landed in this brush pile - feet were not touching the ground.
Newfoundland first moose.
This is such an awesome thread.
Russell, I remember that thread, that's a great picture of the mountain caribou.
Another view from 2013...
Entered for Caribou77. His first caribou with a bow.
5575... That was the photo (your first pic) I referencing in my last post! I love that photo! Where was this taken?
Walked up to this at 4:20 PM, November 11th.
until campone's moose pic I was beginning to wonder if bowshot moose ever died except in a pond or lake.
Sorry previous photo was wrong. Watched him lay his head down after a 60 yrd run.
NW Colorado exit from quartering away, uphill shot
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Hmmm, double dipped. Where's the delete?
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My biggest buck yet in Virginia. 151 gross
Luckily he didn't break my arrow!!
I was in my stand when I first got out to Ohio and some guy was with a flashlight walking up the valley towards me. I thought it was one of the new guys from camp, so I stayed quite so I could scare them. I hit the guy with a flashlight and saw it wasn't one of our guys. I asked him what he was doing there because he was trespassing. He started talking crap, so I told him that if he was still there when I got out of my stand, we were going to have a go. He took off by the time I got down. A little more than a week later I found this. This is how I found it, Sucks
2014
2014
November 5th Wisconsin
November 5th Wisconsin
I shot a nice buck this morning. I saw this thread the other day. When I walked up to him I thought of it because I can't say I've ever seen one die in this position before. Sorry I don't know how to post pics but if someone wants to email me at
[email protected] I'll be glad to forward it so someone a lot smarter than me can post it if they want. bw
Couldn't see the drop from the first pic
Couldn't see the drop from the first pic
Barry Wensel's 2016 Whitetail
This buck I got yesterday meant a lot to me because he was killed on the 57th anniversary of the day I shot my first whitetail. Plus, since I had the open heart surgery in April I wasn't allowed to practice much until late Sept. I vowed to keep my shots under 15 yds. I passed up a B&C class buck broadside at 27-28 yds. a couple weeks ago because I didn't feel confident on it. Then yesterday this one came in behind me directly downwind. Jumped an old internal fence 5 yds. from me. As soon as his hooves hit the ground he started to run. I haven't shot a running deer in decades but my instincts took over, I swung on him at 10 yds. and sunk a perfect double lunger pass-through right behind the shoulders. Anyway, the position he was in when I walked up was very unique. I got another big one a couple weeks ago but he was just laying normal like most do. Best of luck. BW
Here is a better pic of the buck so you can appreciate the size.
Not sure why it came through at 90 degrees the first time. As a side note...image tools do not work on added pictures.
November 20th
November 20th
Snow melted by the time I got him to a camera.
Snow melted by the time I got him to a camera.
Nice pics everyone! Apparently everyone here only shoots big buck (and bulls etc).
Barry, very nice buck, and a great story! When you said that you had a pic, and had never seen one die in that position before; I was guessing you were gonna show us a picture of a big one on the wall and say something like: "when you have as much experience as I have, this is how they end up!". ;-)
Happy Thanksgiving all!
Seriously, that top picture is exactly how I found him. He appears to be begging for open heart surgery... which I already had given him. Ha. bw
This guy landed with his head on a gopher hill with one antler buried in it. I'm not a fan of the term "dirtnap," but...
This guy landed with his head on a gopher hill with one antler buried in it. I'm not a fan of the term "dirtnap," but...
Kansas 11/13/2016 He went down about an 80 ft. embankment
Kansas 11/13/2016 He went down about an 80 ft. embankment
Last afternoon of a 17 day hunt in Kansas! Shawn
Not a good hit so I let him go for the night. Found him in less than a 100 yards.
My buck this year ran into a tree at 35yds with his rack and got hooked up. He tried to 'push through' but with a few more kicks he expired. This has happened to me on numerous occasions and I always think it's nice so that you can watch them go down.
0 yard shot. Straight down. WENT 80-90 yards
0 yard shot. Straight down. WENT 80-90 yards
Watched him expire 60 yards from the shot.
Iowa. 11/17/16. Went 18 yards.
Double lung shot but went 360yds, looked like he was sleeping.
Double lung shot but went 360yds, looked like he was sleeping.
Coyote......
Coyote......