Thought there might be a few people on this forum that would be interested to see this.
I was lucky enough to arrow this massive 10 point this week, 4 yrds from my treestand on my uncles farm here in Iowa. He's my biggest buck yet, both age, body size and antlers, and he is getting shoulder mounted which means that I also had to take my wife out for dinner to a nice restaurant, not a bad trade :)
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mmmmmm venison! Nice trophy! Congrats! Make sure you post a pic of it mounted.

Congrats man great kill!

Nice Buck Jeff
Looks like an easy 150 +
Big congrats

nice buck! gotta love the nice rack on that one!

Nice!!! Congrats :cheers:

Good buck, nice rack and lottsa venison :yes: Congrats.

The ol' lady saw a big 10 point on the property we hunt just the other day. She's determined to take it out before her brother comes back up for gun season :D

Congratulations on that big fella!

Nice buck, Congrats.

Had Chomper drooling looking at that picture.

Thanks guys, pretty lucky and pretty proud of that one, because as anyone who bowhunts knows you spend a lot of hours in the treestand watching nothing but squirrels and chickadees, lol, so when one like this comes along and you make a successful harvest, you do some serious thanking upstairs.:master:

Very cool - nice shot!!

Congrats and well done!

how long did you have to wait on that big boy ?

everyone down here in arkansas is geared .

i am ready for some deer chili !

wow....now that's a big boy!

Wow...Always nice getting a nice buck with your bow! That dude has some major mass for a 10pt. I guess I will have to make some deer chili tonight since Kare brought that up...UUUMMMMMM
Congrat's Jeff!!!

Congratulations Jeff!!! And by the way... taking the wife out to dinner is something you should be doing anyway, lol!

Wow, that's a nice one Jeff! Just the other day I saw a HUGE axis buck on the side of the road while driving to a show. Those antlers were 3 feet high!!

Congratulations Sir. :yes: Iowa is known for some monster bucks and you sure proved it!!!

Congrats! That is a beauty.

Congrats. Very nice rack on that buck.

Dan

just got the rack back from the taxidermist last night, rough green scored 163 inches, of course he will skrink as he dries but will still be right at 160 and the taxidermist said after taking measurements that he will require the largest manikin form they manufacture, likely a bonafied 300lb corn fed Iowa whitetail. Good luck to all you deer hunters this season hope you all shoot a monster.

that's a big buck! 300lbs? down here in texas they are small in comparison

I weigh a little over 200lbs as a reference. They get big and fat in Iowa when they have an all they can eat buffet of corn, soybeans, alfalfa, and acorns, plus northern deer need more mass and fat to survive the harsh winter.

Nice rack! Send me some fried backstrap.

Congratulations, that's a beautiful buck. I was fortunate enough to tag a buck and all available doe tags for 11 consecutive years before I started coaching my daughter's soccer team, but I never got one like that. Now that I have retired, I fully intend to get back into it in a big way.

That's a thick rack on a mountain of blubber!

Very nice man congrats

Great deer and a 4 yrd shot to top it off, can't beat that.


Send me some fried backstrap.

That's the only reason I deer hunt! :lmao:

Awesome buck! 4 yards ain't an easy shot out of a tree either.

NICE! my dad has an one or two 8 points coming out to his feeder at the back of our property and some spike's too...

I keep bugging the crap out of him that i want some venison jerky!!!

I contemplated going out there with my dad this year cause my brother doesnt wanna. Still might!

nice take bro !
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Very Nice! I retired my rifles this year and have started bow hunting. I have got 2 bucks and 2 does so far. Not bad for a first year bow hunter. Did I mention that is a very, very nice deer?!?!?!?!

Shane I have shotgun hunted for 15 yrs for deer and 10yrs with my bow, I've killed some nice bucks both with gun and bow but the ones with the bow meant 1 million times more to me, I've also been doing the urban bowhunts for does in two nearby cities for 10 yrs and shot a lot of does with the bow and donated a lot of meat to the HUSH program which is an awesome program to help stop hunger and pretty proud of that contribution as well.
This year was the last one for me to shotgun hunt (actually I carry a muzzleloader during shotgun season anyway) simply because I don't feel it's as sporty and while opening morning of the gun season has always been exciting and the comradery with my buddies is fun, but wondering if it's going to be my last day on the planet and nearly crapping my pants when a gun goes off 75 yrs away just isn't fun for me anymore. When I was younger, fearless and invincible (or so I thought) it was a blast, but every year I hear about someone getting shot and killed in the area, and it's just not worth the risk for me anymore. If anything I may do early muzzleloader season next year, but for me, of all the different hunting I do, bow hunting whitetails is the ultimate sport.
Anyway I'm not sure what your reasons for retiring your rifles were and switched to a bow and we hunt and live in totally different part of the country but maybe we're at common points in our hunting "careers" and can relate. Best of luck to you with your future bowhunting, it's just fun to get away from it all and sit in a treestand, even on the days (which are most) that a guy doesn't harvest a deer.

Anyway I'm not sure what your reasons for retiring your rifles were and switched to a bow and we hunt and live in totally different part of the country but maybe we're at common points in our hunting "careers" and can relate.

Hi Jeff. Thanks for the reply. There are two main reasons I switched to a bow. The main reason is the sport of hunting. Its not that challenging to kill a deer 150 to 200 yards away. The deer never has a sporting chance. Getting the deer within' 25 yards or so, not to mention getting off a good shot, is a whole different ball game. The second reason is I feel lots more land owners will allow you to hunt on their property with a bow. Not many people welcome more hunters on their land with high powered rifles, especially when kids visit. Lots of people have family visit during the holidays that fall during deer season, and they usually bring the kids as well. It just makes it easier when you say you are using a bow instead of a gun, at least I have found this to be true.

I bow hunt more than gun hunt, when I hunt at all. And I hunt private property. Mostly because, like Jeff, I twitch every time I here a gun go off and I don't know who's firing it. I'm a Nam vet and that's been with me 40 years. Last time I gun hunted was on public land and when it got light enough to see I looked around me and saw no less than eight orange suits, all within range. Thank God nobody got a shot off before that. I might have wound up dead, or somebody else might have. That long ago I was still in self defence mode most of the time. :D

All that being said, I enjoy bow hunting because it takes some actual skill to take a deer down. And it's just much more rewarding.

That's a beauty!! Deer hunting...another passion of mine :)

Hi Jeff. Thanks for the reply. There are two main reasons I switched to a bow. The main reason is the sport of hunting. Its not that challenging to kill a deer 150 to 200 yards away. The deer never has a sporting chance. Getting the deer within' 25 yards or so, not to mention getting off a good shot, is a whole different ball game. The second reason is I feel lots more land owners will allow you to hunt on their property with a bow. Not many people welcome more hunters on their land with high powered rifles, especially when kids visit. Lots of people have family visit during the holidays that fall during deer season, and they usually bring the kids as well. It just makes it easier when you say you are using a bow instead of a gun, at least I have found this to be true.

Couldn't agree more Shane. Also you can get permission to hunt in the suburban areas (and sometimes urban areas with special permits) with a bow and I will tell you that surprisingly that is often where you will find the best hunting, in terms of less pressured/less spooky deer due to a lack of gun hunting, which allows you to watch REAL natural deer activities, also often higher deer densities, and of course you will see more mature bucks because they weren't shot when they were 1-2 1/2 years old.

I bow hunt more than gun hunt, when I hunt at all. And I hunt private property. Mostly because, like Jeff, I twitch every time I here a gun go off and I don't know who's firing it. I'm a Nam vet and that's been with me 40 years. Last time I gun hunted was on public land and when it got light enough to see I looked around me and saw no less than eight orange suits, all within range. Thank God nobody got a shot off before that. I might have wound up dead, or somebody else might have. That long ago I was still in self defence mode most of the time. :D

All that being said, I enjoy bow hunting because it takes some actual skill to take a deer down. And it's just much more rewarding.

Totally agree Quig, the more the challege the more rewarding and sense of acomplishment. It's kinda like the difference between, buying a combo morph vs making one from base morphs. Sometimes you just need to get'r done with whatever means and for whatever reasons or you can take the time and the long hard road which is more rewarding in the end. Heck I do a lot of fishing too, mostly catch and release although I enjoy a couple meals a year of fresh walleye and/or crappie, but heck I'm getting so soft in my older age that sometimes I think it would be nice to catch and release deer with a dart gun like they do for Rhinos in africa, don't get me wrong I'm not joining PETA anytime soon, it's just i've done lots/enough killing (for many years I took 10-15 deer/yr with my bow, but if it hadn't been for donating to hungry people and serving for city depredation it would be hard to justify those kind of numbers), and I more enjoy the cat and mouse game (the primal instinct), the tranquility of sitting in the treestand getting away from all the stress of today's society, and blending into the woods and seeing all the incredible things in nature that most people have no idea exists and occures right near where they live, I know I didn't know before I bowhunted and learned to become "invisible" on many levels in the woods.

That's a beauty!! Deer hunting...another passion of mine :)

Thanks bro, I think there are a lot of people that both hunt and like reptiles, most of my closest friends fit that bill, maybe it's the whole primal/preditor thing why we hunt and why we respect and enjoy watching and keeping the ultimate prehistoric preditors; snakes and reptiles, it's just in our blood and it runs deep.

there are a lot of people that both hunt and like reptiles, most of my closest friends fit that bill, maybe it's the whole primal/preditor thing why we hunt and why we respect and enjoy watching and keeping the ultimate prehistoric preditors; snakes and reptiles, it's just in our blood and it runs deep.

Sounds like a lot of the people I know. :cheers:

WOW...that deer is huge!!