I deer hunt Alot.Days off and weekend on the few jobs that I worked falls.When I worked for the union for 30 years and now Baxter State Park for 8 years I have all falls and winter off.Also what helped me alot was growing up in Maine hunting the big woods bucks.A person had to really learn alot about deer to be successful.We are not talking about fields,apple orchards or food plots.Its tough hunting.Upon moving down to Virgina in the blue ridge mountains it was easy hunting for me.I also did alot of bear and coon hunting with hounds and learned all the gullies and places where deer crossed like the back of my hand while living in Virginia, nearby West Virgina,and North Carolina.I knew a number of places where large groups of hunters would park to start going in at daylight.I would then drive up to higher areas above them where I knew the deer would cross.I would get in my stands before daylight.Daylight would arrive and I would hear all the doors shutting and noises made from the hunters.Pretty soon here would come the deer.You are allowed 2 deer a day with basicly a 4 month long season which includes early bow season,Rifle season,muzzleloader season,and late bow season.You just had to keep buying the permits.Believe it or not I would also pass on alot of deer.I always would stop at 30 if I shot over 25 deer.I knew all the deer crossings.My brother inlaw who lives in Conn owns a greenhouse business there and has piles of places to hunt deer there as the deer eat all the shrubbery.People pay him to deer hunt.I shoot 4 to 6 deer every year hunting there for the last 27 years.Its also as easy to hunt even with just a bow as its just tiny patches of woods surrounded by houses.I hunt in New Hampshire on Sundays as they allow Sunday hunting where Maine does not.The bear hunters that I guide here in Maine allow me to come down and hunt their land in Pa.I also was invited to hunt up in the Upper Pen. of Michigan one year getting a buck up there as well.It goes on in on.What can I say but I love to deer hunt.I have never bought burger in my life.

Roughly 60 to 70 deer including 19 bucks dressing over 200 pounds and 1 booner.

Totally believe Bruce. I almost never missed work to pile up deer. Most I ever harvested was 11 in a season. Doubt I hunted a total of a two weeks of evenings that season. One evening father-in -law took off the head rows in one of his corn fields. Got three in about 20 minutes all laying down in the corn that night. I quit hunting after walking around a hundred yards. Numbers around my property are high and depends on how many kill tags you are allowed each year. Probably averaged around two or three a year since I started hunting (early twenties for me). But when I started there was a lottery for antlerless tags now they hand them out like candy with antler restrictions for the antlered deer.

Low coyote prices we better enjoy the doe limits. Shooting bucks does nothing to control populations. We may see stricter doe limits.

I very rarely weigh one.

In Maine its a big thing to weigh your buck and see if it weighs over 200 pounds dressed out.No guts,heart,liver and lungs

Yeah, we get some big ones here too. This one was 240something dressed.

I have never once weighted a deer. Guess it's just not popular here.

…. I killed 700 deer in one day… November the fourth 2005… I’ll never forget it

… number 562 dressed just a hair over 300 pounds

Processor friend puts out a
platform scale on 1st day of buck season.
That is a lot of fun.

Not really news worthy, happens often. I guess they did ask.

… way to deflate my ego big man! … oh well.. live and let live… I guess

NO………

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I know a guy who claims to have killed 500 antelope one year in Wyoming "with a 5 gallon bucket of .223 shells". He said he "stacked 'em up like cord wood".
This guy is quite a story teller, problem is, he expects you to believe his stories.

When I was a young ,,,,,antelope were everywhere in wy….
I had a job riding fence one summer in a jeep….. easily possible…
Ranchers hate them because they eat the pastures……

Congrats.Nice buck

(Quote)The Big One

One such buck in Maine’s rich deer-hunting history met and surpassed even the wildest dreams of a 59-year-old hunter back in 1955. Horace R. Hinckley did what no other hunter has been able to match since, by shooting the heaviest whitetail buck on record within the state of Maine. In fact, Hinckley’s buck places second in all of North America, only to a Minnesota buck shot in 1926 by Carl Lenandor. Carl’s buck topped the scales at 402 pounds dressed.