…. Probably a meat hit through the back straps … but you never know

Kills pushing 4-5 hundred

Kills pushing 4-5 hundred

jbyrd- You've killed at least 8 deer a year for 50 years, assuming you started about age 11.

All in Kentucky or other states as well? How many by firearm and how many by archery? I'm sure you must have those stats on an Excel or two.

Any mule deer or pronghorns or just white-tail...?

jbyrd- You've killed at least 8 deer a year for 50 years, assuming you started about age 11.

All in Kentucky or other states as well? How many by firearm and how many by archery? I'm sure you must have those stats on an Excel or two.

Any mule deer or pronghorns or just white-tail...?

some areas in ky are unlimited doe. It changes by the zone and the year. There are a lot of deer in some places.

I don't know my kill count . The kids asked me years ago and I stopped loosing track a little short of 200. I have not shot a deer in at least 5 years now. And that was because the kise wanted to see me shoot one. I have not put it on them hard I. close to 10 years. Was nothing for me to kill 14 or more in a year in different county's across the southern part of Indiana.

Fair enough. If a single person can kill 10 to 15 deer in a single state a year, and really wanted to do that, yeah, the numbers can add up quick. Personally, I'd be sick of shooting, butchering, and eating that much deer, but f its what you all lived on and it didn't cost you much except for some fuel money to drive to and from a few counties, then it probably works for some people. I like ground chuck beef for burger, medium rare, more than any venison (except elk, closest wild meat I've tasted to beef) but that's just me.

I think I added up one time, back at a more "golden time" of South Dakota deer hunting, a person could take up to about 20 deer a year if they filled in every type of hunting style and region in the state. But you would be putting on multiple thousands of miles on a vehicle to do so and not doing much regular paying work in the fall. But I guess to each their own.

jbyrd- You've killed at least 8 deer a year for 50 years, assuming you started about age 11.

All in Kentucky or other states as well? How many by firearm and how many by archery? I'm sure you must have those stats on an Excel or two.

Any mule deer or pronghorns or just white-tail...?

A lot of us donate the deer to hunters against hunger when we kill more than we need

Kid that used to work with me hit triple digits on deer before he was old enough to vote.
Unlimited does, and he'd kill 30+ a year.

No, you just put a tag on the deer and put it in a walk-in donation cooler. Call the number and let them know you dropped one off. Fish and wildlife picks it up and takes it to one of the prisons where they have inmates cut it and they grind it and send it to pantries.

Why would anyone want to shoot 30 does a year...? I would think the state people would be all over that, watching him like a hawk. You all must have does and fawns in every backyard that borders some forest or a farm field.

Like I stated, were allowed unlimited does back then, it was legal and encouraged.
Him and his dad ground and bagged most everything and delivered it to.a local church that distributed it.

One of my brothers got booted off a farm for not killing ENOUGH does.
Couldn't kill a buck.until he killed X number of does, 5 or 10, I think.
Lady wanted to see every deer killed, he started picking up roadkill and sneaking it IN, to show her on way out.

Kill has been declining steadily here last decade.