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How many deer have you killed?

shwacker said:
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The 3 best that made it to the wall


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So the pillow doesn’t count?
 
How old you are 58
When you started 12
How many seasons 46
Where you're from/where you generally hunt Wisconsin all public
And how many deer you've kilt! 143

How many Hard question to answer for the first several years only shot bucks Dad would say to keep the population up only take a forked buck or larger and we also had a WI law called a party tag that out of 4 hunters in a group they could only harvest one doe between them. (Two older brothers usually filled that tag)

1st kill was at 13 a 4 point buck. I was 25 when I took my 1st first doe since then I take 1 doe every year. I have 13 eight point racks on the wall and 1 eight point head mount never kept racks smaller than eight. In 46 rifle seasons and 35 bow seasons (stopped bow hunting off and on for 10 or 11 years) Grand total 63 bucks 80 doe. Saddle hunting two seasons from saddle 1 buck 1 doe one with bow one with HC Mini.
 
70 in March
first year deer hunting I was 12. Squirrel hunting started when I was 10.
I probably have 30 or so seasons.
How many? 1 in Maine 50 years ago, 4 West Virginia, 1 North Carolina, 3 Massachusetts.

2 Were with rifle, 4 with bow and the rest with muzzle loader.
 
How old you are: 44
When you started: Started hunting at 8 - First gun kill at 11, first bow kill at 13
How many seasons: 36
Where you're from/where you generally hunt: North Mississippi - Public and Private
How many deer you've kilt: - I haven't kept up with it exactly but about 140 - ratio is about 40/60 bow to gun. From my teens into my twenties my goal was to kill the state limit, and I don't recall a season from age 15 to about age 28 that I didn't get my limit. From about 28 until I was 40, I only bow hunted and got a lot more selective about what I would shoot. Most of those years I only killed 2 or 3 deer a season. The past 4 seasons, I've been gun hunting again to spend more time hunting with my dad and take my young son and have killed 18 in that time with gun and bow.
 
jtw0057 said:
How old you are: 23

When you started: 8? started in third grade and shot a doe out of an old wooden tree stand with my dad.

How many seasons: 15 I guess. started bow hunting last year.

Where you're from/where you generally hunt: Alabama, hunt private in south Alabama and started hunting public in Georgia this year when i moved over the summer.

And how many deer you've kilt!: 7 or 8, 3 bucks and 4 or 5 does including today. All with a gun except for the doe today.
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Update for end of season.

How old you are: 24/ will be 25 Tuesday.

When you started: 8? started in third grade and shot a doe out of an old wooden tree stand with my dad.

How many seasons: 16

Where you're from/where you generally hunt: Georgia, hunt private in south Alabama and public in Georgia

And how many deer you've kilt!: 14, 6 bucks and 8 does. 4 with a bow now and 10 with a gun.

Added 3 archery kills, 2 bucks and a yearling. And 3 rifle kills, 1 buck and 2 does.


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Update as of 10/31/2023:

How old are you?
Age 38

When did you start hunting?
Age 12

How many seasons?
26

Where are you from?
PA

Where do you hunt?
Mix of private and public

How many deer have you killed?
31

(8 bucks + 23 antlerless)
(11 bow + 6 flintlock + 7 rifle + 6 xbow + 1 pistol)

The latest:

Thread 'Guess I Should Have Joined the Contest - 2023 Edition' https://saddlehunter.com/community/...d-have-joined-the-contest-2023-edition.54867/
 
Nutterbuster said:
To the best of my knowledge, I'm at 56 as of today. Funny, even though I don't "get excited" shooting nanny goats, my back still cramps after the shot. Definitely still get a little adrenaline jolt out of the whole ordeal.
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Huh… your back cramps huh. How would you describe that cramp? Short and sudden? Almost like a….
 
elk yinzer said:
Whip em' out boys!

How old you are
31

When you started
age 12 hunting been roaming the woods since I could walk

How many seasons
19 with minimal hunting first 2 years of college and first 2 years after. We'll call it 17 adjusted seasons.

Where you're from/where you generally hunt
From Western PA grew up hunting mixed woods/farms. Spent a couple years in urban DC area then several years in Pgh. Urban experience, no thanks. Now live and mostly hunt in Central PA. Rural hunting is way better. Vast majority public, some heavily hunted private. Never hunted cherry private land in my life. A few scattered out of state public hunts. More of that to come.

And how many deer you've kilt!
Coming up with 15 bucks I think I got them all. Approx 20 does. Bucks pretty even distribution of scrounges up to 5 pretty dang good ones for this part of the country. More rifle kills in my teens but mostly bow since. We are a one buck state, man how different my numbers would be if not.

How did I measure up, lol?
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19 bucks now. Blanked in '21, doubled up PA and WV in '22. We'll call it 25 does.

Losing my desire to kill, especially does, the past couple years. Just entering a new era, after old bucks.
 
philsanchez76 said:
I first posted on this back in 2019 so ill update too:

As of 12/14/2022:

How old are you?
Age 41 (dam I got old)

When did you start hunting?
Age 37

How many seasons?
This is the 5th season

Where are you from?
Tennessee

Where do you hunt?
100% TN public land

How many deer have you killed?
37 (only 1 buck out of that 37 would score over 110"- im starting to understand what folks say when they say hunting a mature buck is like hunting a totally different animal than spikes and does, but im working towards it. ive just really enjoyed learned how to kill deer and the family loves eating them so I kill as many as I can for now)
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Now 42, 6th deer season and at 44.5 kills (I gut shot a buck last night and am meeting a tracker this morning to find him so hopefully will be at a round 45 kills by lunch time).
 
hokiehunter373 said:
How old you are: 32
When you started: 10ish.. I'd say I didn't actually start hunting hunting til I was 24
How many seasons: Due to college and getting grounded from hunting 1 year in high school (long story :tearsofjoy:) I'd say no more than 15 years
Where you generally hunt: 100% Maryland up to this point
And how many deer you've kilt! 27

8 antlered, 19 antlerless
5 private (2 antlered), 22 public (6 antlered)
1 rifle, 7 shotgun (3 antlered), 19 archery (5 antlered)
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How old you are: 33
When you started: 10ish.. I'd say I didn't actually start hunting hunting til I was 24
How many seasons: Due to college and getting grounded from hunting 1 year in high school (long story :tearsofjoy:) I'd say no more than 18 years
Where you generally hunt: 100% Maryland up to this point - Ohio in 2 weeks!
And how many deer you've kilt! 29

9 antlered, 20 antlerless
7 private (3 antlered), 22 public (6 antlered)
1 rifle, 7 shotgun (3 antlered), 20 archery (6 antlered), 1 smoke pole
1 with my son, 1 with my daughter and son
 
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bowhunthard88 said:
I'm currently 33, now in the shadow of 34... I started deer hunting in 1999 (I was able to turkey hunt in the Spring of 1998) at the age of 10, which is the minimum legal age for NJ and the age of my first harvest. I've never missed a season since then. When I lived in NJ: I hunted the archery seasons with the compound, muzzleloader seasons with an inline, and shotgun seasons with either buckshot or rifled slugs. Preference in that order, as well. Now that I live in PA: archery season with the compound, rifle season with a centerfire rifle, and primitive/late season with the compound. I started hunting PA about 5 years ago, when we moved to where we now live, and I've only harvested 14 deer since 2017... In NJ I hunted about 75% public and 25% private land, and now in PA it is 100% public.

So, to tally it all up, it gets kinda gray lol... Looking back at my half-a$$ records: I'm somewhere North of 120 with the compound, 36 with the muzzleloader, and 11 with the shotgun. Final tally puts me above 167, currently, and I'd say less than 185!

To put it in perspective: I hunted 3-5 days per week (morning, night, or both; depending on school/work) from 2006 through 2012. The other years it wasn't quite that much, and it will never be as much as I want to! To put it lightly, NJ has liberal seasons and bag limits (often split into zone sets with individual harvest limits), and I took advantage of it (I didn't pass much if it gave me an ethical shot opportunity). We ate every single deer that we harvested, as well. My family ate about 18-20 deer per year. Me, my wife, and son don't need as much and I have become much more selective in my "old" age, too.

I've killed three deer from the saddle, so far!
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Add another 3 with the compound at this time... I'm now 35 and I've been on the pickier side since 2017 (and moved to PA), so my numbers are not exponentially increasing lol. I am now entering the WKTLT era (With Kids, Therefore Less Time) so I did reevaluate my goals and expectations for this year and possibly the next few... My PA goal now is +2.5yr legal buck (accomplished for 2023) instead of a +2.5yr "solid buck", and a few does for meat. Out-of-state goals are whatever trips my trigger, with no expectations.
 
How old you are: 43
When you started: 12 Years Old
How many seasons: Went about 10 years between college and starting a family where I did not hunt at all. Hunts were still few and far between during half of my 30's because of heavy work travel. So, let's call it 18 seasons. Really got back into it about 3 years ago when I started saddle hunting.
Where you generally hunt: South Louisiana Public land, 100% bow. Have some plans to hunt Central LA during the rut and hope that works out.
And how many deer you've kilt! 38 Deer. 14 Bucks and 24 Does. Those have been taken with rifle, muzzleloader, compound bow and vehicle! Still waiting on my first public land AND saddle deer!! Have killed deer in LA, MS, and WV
 
bowhunthard88 said:
I am now entering the WKTLT era (With Kids, Therefore Less Time) so I did reevaluate my goals and expectations for this year and possibly the next few..
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You may surprise yourself, I've killed 3 of my best 5 since WKTLT and still very much in it. But my wife is a saint, we adhere to quid pro quo, and I pivoted my whole career to have more schedule flexibility.
 
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