2019 Deer Meat Pole

Share your 2019 deer kill pics on this thread. Bucks and does, taken by you or your family and friends.

I'll start this off. Been hunting every day of the season that I possibly could so far, including the crazy first two evenings of the season, when it was a sweltering 91 degrees. Most years I typically stay out of the woods for the first three weeks of October, but had no choice this year and had to hunt early. Reason being that I won't be able to hunt any of the November rut due to a sheep hunt I drew in Colorado. So really wasn't holding super high hopes for much whitetail success....but still you gotta try!

This is by far the earliest date in the season that I've ever been successful in tagging out. Took this buck over the weekend on an evening hunt. Was able to make a 30 yard shot and he made it about 75 yards on a dead run. The Grim Reaper head passed through both lungs. I'd seen this buck on trail cams, but almost always at night. The wind direction was good that afternoon, so I slipped in close to the area I suspected he was bedding and used a climber to get about 20 feet up in a silver maple. It was just very fortunate that he decided to get up and move past me, just a few minutes before sunset.

I wanted to see what he weighed this early in the season, so we brought him home whole and he scaled at 260# "live weight". He carries a symmetric 10-point frame, and has some nice brow tines and heavy bases. Had to wait for the next morning to get a few pictures in daylight. Credit to my wife for her picture-taking skills!

Congrats.... good looking Buck!

Stud buck...Congrats!!

very nice .. congrats .. Ive seen 3 bucks, all 1.5 yr in 3 sits ... always tough on State lands (F&W area) to see daytime movement of adult deer this time of year .. got a few decent ones in night time pics on cams ..

Nice one....h.h.

Nice buck! Congrats!

I put down a doe on Sunday morning.



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Deadly shot placement.....congrats on the nice mature doe!

Beauty of a buck Stick!!
Congrats man!
Big bodied joker not to be rutted up yet!

I shot this BIG fat gal Thur evening in Urban zone...

I’ve unfortunately been struggling with aiming a little back myself...hopefully this year will be different! Congrats!!

Congrats Bowbo on that big ol' doe. Should make for some fantastic table fare!

Killed a 205 lb FD 8 pt yesterday on State land (F&W area) (Oct. 25th)... he went down waaaay back in a marsh, took me 6 hours to get him out by myself, he destroyed my deer cart !! .... lol ... ... only went 150 yds, but about a half mile drag/cart to be able to get him loaded up on the SUV hitch carrier, the drag and cart was unbelieveable !! .. hit him at 5:44 CDT, got him loaded at 12:20 AM ...... Wac 'Em 4 blade, sheered off the top of the aorta, sprayed like crazy ... thank goodness I'm healthy and in shape ... very hard to get him out .... my worst drag/extraction ever !! ..... I hunted the AM (4.5 hrs) and then the PM (4.25 hrs) two different locations , I was up for 25 hrs straight ... I worked 4-12 Thurs. night, only a 1.5 hr lay down prior to getting up and getting ready and hunting, it was 2Am by the time I got him hung in the garage... one heck of a DYI hunt ...

Congrats Jeff!
You sure had to work hard & long for that one.... but well worth it!!

I'm gettin' to old for this crap ... lol ... thanks ... it was worth it ... us deer dedicated deer hunters are a crazy bunch thats for sure .... now I have to get a new cart ... looking at the Hawk Crawler and a sled of some type for situations like this ... btw, thank goodness for Aleves .. ;0)

here's the story on the hit, sometimes luck comes into play .. there is no thing as a 'give me' shot either ... he came out of the marsh to my north, going to the west, my right to left.. I have a well worked scrape to my north 30 yd'ish away .. he looked like a bull walking to it, huge chest, swollen neck, etc ... he started pawing it, broadside, should be a 'give me' in a perfect world for me, I came to full draw, at the release he turned to face me to work the branch, all in a mili second as I released, the arrow on its way .... I hit him full frontal (great for elk at times) .. the 28" 427 gr Goldtip Velocity XT with a Wac Em 4 blade went in 3/4 way, the Nocturnal nock shining red ... he turned and ran towards north/NE to the marsh past the tree where I killed the 139" 8 pt in 2016 ... I lost site of him in the cattails/tall marsh grass .......... I'm thinking crap, crap crap !! ... since I hunt in a bow only area and you must take your stand in and out every hunt, I took my time taking the stand/sticks down and put it all on my back .... I walked over to the scrape, at 5 yds there was a HUGE spray of blood ... it was like that for the 150 yds he ran on a well used deer trail thru the marsh/water,etc.... Freddy Krueger would have been proud !! .. he sprayed the tops of the grass and cattails to 6 ft !! .. a blind man could follow this trail .. it was a muddy, wet mess the whole way, blood covered .. I could smell him before I saw him, all musky and such and such a great odor it is too ;0) .. .... my first thought was, crap, how am I going to get him out of here ... to my advantage (?) he went down where the water ends on soft/muddy ground as he left the wetter stuff ... ..... upon dressing him, the BH sheared off the top of the aorta and went between the lungs doing a lot of damage, I found the back half of the arrow/lighted nock while trailing, never did find the front portion, even after searching the innards and such .. then the fun began .... ;0)

I'll try a pic.... sorry, no 'hero pics' on this one

I took a bb last Saturday. Last year hunting this lease and first one with a bow in almost 7 years.

Great story Jeff
Sounds like you have a good spot in there!
Congrats again bro... Nice buck!!

Bo, you know how it goes, some spots just seem to funnel the deer thru year after year, it is just a matter of the right wind and being there when they come thru ..... this is one of those spots ...

Yessir! I have 5 bucks mounted (not counting my Euros and such)... 3 of those bucks have all come out of the same tree, in a spot that just naturally funnels them down year after year! Love it when they are directed right to you! 😁

Congrats Jeff. The tough hunts/recoveries are always the most rewarding.

Congrats Jeff!

I have a seperate post with full long story! LOL
11/01/2019
9 Pointer - Split G2

HO-LEE CRAP, that's a bruiser!
Congrats BowBo

Thank you Jeffro!
Got my eye on a bigger one for buck #2.... just hope it comes together!

very very nice critter ..... one heck of a buck ....... Congrats Bo ........ but, did it take you 6 hours on the drag/cart out ?? .....lol ...

Hahahaha, no sir! I got to drive within 25yds of him! LOL
Thanks Jeff!

you dont know what your missin ' ......lol ........ once again, congrats !!

My only struggle was getting him up into my jacked up Silverado with 35's on it! Tailgate is about 4ft off the ground... and that's alot of dead weight (literally). I'm too old for all that!!! 😯
Well, are ya feeling sorry for me yet? 😄😜

not even ... I still have my old 4x4 Sonoma, however, having a hitch carrier was so much easier loading that deer of mine onto the back end of the SUV 4x4, the only thing was, he was so long his legs and head wouldnt fit on the darn thing and rigor had set in, so I couldnt fold the legs. I use a tarp and layed him on it and folded it over him using ratchets and bungees to hold it all down... dont want to 'offend' anyone on the 40 mile drive home, plus it keeps dirt off on the drive .... btw, there was little traffic as it was, at 12:30Am ... ;0( .....


I loaded big deer onto the Sonoma before, it actually wasnt bad, keep 'em on the cart, swing it around and slide 'em off onto the bed... I cant imagine a huge deer by myself into the bed of a lifted truck like that .... you need a pulley/winch/come along in the front of the bed ....

Ha, and that is indeed currently in the works!
Thanks to my good friend George (MadDogMech).

My youngest daughter killed her best buck to date. She shot it Friday night and hit it square in the shoulder. We found the arrow about 100 yards later and with minimal blood we backed out. Saturday we went looking and found him piled up not 20 yards from where we called off the search the night before. She was thrilled beyond belief. She heads off to college next fall so hunting will be put on hold for the most part as she pursues a medical career. It has been a crazy fun ride watching my girls grow up with hunting coursing through their blood.

Wow man that is great. Huge congratulations to your daughter!

Derek, that is just awesome man! I know you are very proud of her, she is a successful young lady, in more ways than one! CONRATULATIONS to both of you!!
I saw it on FB on congratulated her there as well 👍

Another nice critter .. congrats to the little lady ......

Thanks guys. Here is the video if that is your kind of thing.

My dad out down a nice one on opening day of firearms.

That’s a dandy....congrats to your dad!

No more than five minutes in the stand and this guy walks by on opening morning.

Beautiful buck, congrats to you!

After a few years of health problems during deer season the pistol & I got the job done. Some deer meat for the freezer. A nice little doe taken with a 8.5" barrel .300 Blackout AR pistol using Hornady 110 gr V-max to make a double lung shot. She was about 50 yds away when I pulled the trigger, she jumped & kicked, then took off running, only to pile up after jumping a creek & breaking off a small tree. She dressed out right at 100 lbs. I'm not sure if she broke her neck from the misplaced jump or she went down from the well placed shot but it was easy tracking & the doe was down.

Congrats, right there’s some nice eating!

I almost did not hunt this morning. The grind of the past 4 weeks of hunting 5 and 6 days a week was wearing me down. I didn't like the forecast either. But I told myself to get up and go. I settled into the stand right at about legal time. Zero activity for the first hour. Then I looked behind me and saw something. I honestly thought it was a squirrel or racoon that just caught my eye. But as I studdied what I could just make out as an animal behind some trees, a glimps of antler. Then he stepped into an opening where I could see his full rack. I've been hunting this farm since September 15th and this was the nicest buck that I had seen all year. Finally at 40 yards he turned and gave me a broadside shot. My 450BM barked and after a short 40 sprint he was down. I used my Reduction Zone buck tag on him as I had filled a Reduction Zone doe tag in October. Tank of a body, good mass, and a beauty of a 10 pointer.

Oh wow.....beautiful buck, you gotta be happy with that one!

I was lucky enough to get this guy on the morning of November 5th.

Would love to hear the hunt story on that whopper. Nice pic!

I tagged out on Dec. 6th with a 120lb Doe ... I'm done for the season, both ARCHERY tags filled ... a 205lb buck/ 120 lb Doe and a big female Coyote, all taken with a BOW ... a very good season BOWhunting ... now, to concentrate on 'yotes with the 25-250 ....

Not long after first light I heard a grunt. I grabbed my bow and spun around in the stand just in time to see a doe headed straight my way with him right behind. Came to full draw and had to yell to stop him at 20 yards. Watched him go 40 yards and did not go down. I sat in my stand for 4 hours before I got down to take up the trail. I found him 10 yards past my last visual of him running away after the shot. It was a great morning in the woods that ended with my personal best whitetail.

I took this buck on October 25th with a crossbow. The wind shifted while I was in the stand, blowing from behind me, so that my downwind side was directly in front of me. I put down a good amount of scent to help mask my own, including a few sprays of buck bomb Doe P and some solid stick estrus. Then I proceeded to make a ruckus, doing a combination of grunts, doe bleats & some rattling sequences. About 15 minutes later, the deer walked out of the brush directly in front of me and stopped about 18 yards away. I shot him, then he trotted a few feet in an arc back towards the trees. I made a "maa" sound, he stopped and tipped over. He died within 20 yards of where I was sitting.
This is first animal I've shot with a mechanical head (Rage). I thought it was all hype until this hunt.
Now that I have my buck for the year, I might have to chase some does with my muzzleloader, or go back to pursuing varmints.

Very impressive that you had the patience to wait that long. Better to be safe that sorry. Nice job and congrats again!

That's a pretty buck Lady Artemis. Congrats!

Congrats to everyone on their harvests this season!
Looks like some really nice deer taken by all