You would be a ninja master to pull that one off, grasshopper. :-)
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I agree. I have an English Pointer that is 4 (almost 5) and I can point to the actual hunt w few years back where everything 'Clicked" for her. I was fortunate enough to be in a place where quail were spread out over a 5 acre field for their afternoon feeding. She was transformed in a matter of 30 minutes as we first flushed 2-4 birds at a time followed by re-flushing them as singles.


2 more trips to that lot over the next week or two turned her into one of the best dogs I've ever hunted over.
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Ammo with Flavor - no more buckshot in your game.

Hope this hasn't been posted already

Season Shot
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The taxidermist is an outfitter....and knows the tv and magazine guys. The email I sent others with the story here must not suck....I wrote it yesterday and have been contacted twice by magazines.

Anyone have experience with that stuff? Can you just "give the story" to all of them that ask, or should a guy hold out and see if one of them will throw my brother a bone.

I think they're diggin the Iraq-now home-hunter-brother time-finding on vets day angle.

oh yeah....we measured incorrectly....the deer was measured 196 3/4
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Baaaaaaa! Hide behind a tree, jump out with the chucks and go for the neck/head shot. (Bonus points if you have "kung Fu fighting" playing on the ipod at the same time.)
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Great story Iowanian! Here is my hunting story that includes my brother:
I take my wife hunting Sunday morning and we see a very nice 10 pt. I promised my wife she would get first shot at anything we see and she is unable to shoot it. It slowly wonders away and is not spooked so I am encouraged that it will come back that evening. We tell our story to the others at deer camp, including my brother. I take my 11 year old son with me Sunday night to see if he can harvest his first buck (he has killed does the last 4 years and set a goal of getting a buck this year). He is very excited about possibly getting a chance at this big deer. We get to our stand and wait. After a while, a shot rings out very close to us. We soon find out that my brother snuck into the field in front of us and killed the 10 pt before it came into our view. My son is crushed and wonders why his uncle would do this. My brother has over 500 acers to hunt on and I basically have only one stand to hunt on with my wife and son. Obvioulsy the only reason he hunted there that afternoon was because we mentioned we saw the deer in that field. He also has killed several deer about that size, so it wasn't that special to him; but it would have meant the world to my son. He is still trying to understand why his 47 year old uncle would take that opportunity away from him (so am I).

I guess my story is a little different than yours....
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Well, ask him! Or better yet, have your son ask him, see what he says. Sounds like your brother is an asshole. You should beat the sheot out of him!
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got one a week ago with the same method husk - not that big or that much damage tho.
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Any of your Miiiiisourians tag anything good?
Some must have, because I saw a truck load of deer I wouldn't mount at the taxidermist brought in from MO.

Also...

If any of you graphics guys are interested in hookin' a brother up......I've got a "man book" as well as my brothers....just a picture flip book that holds like the 4x6"....we put photos of fishing, hunting, dirtbikes and the like of each year...some when we were kids and some of the nieces-nephews.

Anyway, I'd like a graphic with a deer/largemouth bass that I could add a text to and print to stick on the cover.
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Mr. Hathaway believes your standards are too high. Hold your nose and hump away.

PS: congrats to your brother.
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I'm still a little upset that I didn't let this one go...he'd have been a very nice buck in another year. They don't get big when I shoot em like this one. I flinched on my strength to let him go and wait, after a couple of very, very nice bucks came close and I got screwed because of other bucks, a doe, or some other reason. Its a 9 point, but not a big one. Yunghungwell also has scoreboard with a nice 8.

A few nights ago, I did see something I've never seen before....a nice 10 point, probably 140 class came in with a doe....he was downhill 100 yards near a ditch and I grunted....he STOOD up on his hind legs like a polar bear and turned a half circle trying to look over the horizon....He started coming in, and about 45 yards he grunted and his hair bristled, and I noticed he was looking to my north....another buck coming out of the timber....they put on a show, bristled, approached each other and fought briefly through a barbed wife fence...then each came my way and at 35 yards, as I stood to draw.....I heard the doe pee, and trot and the buck whipped nad went after.....I didn't shoot the other raghorn.

This buck came out as I was hopping my climber up a new tree.....sawing a branch with my bow on the ground....I shimmied up the bow to 12' and used a beaty can call 3 times and he came in....I just wanted a better look, but the devil on the "shoot" shoulder overtook me.
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hmm, thanks but no, I'm just looking around...:-)
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drink bleach skeezer.
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Bowhunters like are real hunters. Glad to see some of them in here. It makes me sick when I see 5 guys go in one side of the forest, then 5 guys go in the other and run them through and blow the hell out of them. All of them little bucks anyways, all of them wasted, and shot with bad taste.
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Eat a turd....I shotgun party hunt too.

I should send anyone who hates it an invoice for "transportation protection services rendered"....say, $10 for every deer I punch the lungs out of before Christmas.


If its so easy....you try it.
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