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Awesome pics, Scott! I'd love to do a trip like that. One of my neighbors at the farm goes out west every year with his brother. They don't do guided trips, instead setting it up all by themselves. They brought home a beautiful elk a couple of years ago.

As for my contribution to this thread, I shot my first ever buck, an 8 point, this year. Unlike many here, I don't hunt real hard so I know not to expect much. We eat a lot of venison, so I prefer does and they are certainly more readily available at our place (other than today, that is!).

I shot this guy on the first Friday of the season after working on our pavilion all day. Right at dusk as I was driving out I spotted him along my main road and jumped out and shot him. It was a neck shot that didn't kill him but would have been fatal eventually. He couldn't get up and I didn't want to shoot him at close range with my .270, so I called a buddy who lives just up the road and he brought a .22 pistol as well as his step son. His step son has a thing for martial arts weapons and he had just gotten a spear, so they brought that, too! Turns out it was more desirable than another shot, so I administered the coup de gras with his new spear and immediately dispatched the deer, and that is why it's in the pic!



The deer doesn't look really big in this photo, but when it was hanging in my building with an 8 foot ceiling, its front hooves were just touching the floor and its back hooves were up into the opening to the loft. It was a big bodied deer that, had I let it go till next year (if it made it that far), would have probably been an exceptionally nice deer. The big question mark is an adjoining parcel of about a hundred acres that is hunted by a bunch of yahoos that shoot everything that moves and there was little likelihood of this guy surviving another year, so now he's mine and getting mounted by a local guy who does a lot of work for Cabelas.
He's not a trophy like many of the beautiful deer posted here, but I am thrilled to a level only second to my son who can't believe he is finally getting a buck mount to put in his room!