Got my first deer today!

Got my first deer today, a nice mule doe! Big one too. I have a friend (member here) with a property that gets depredation permits for does to help thin out the deer in his area, they're thick as flies. He gave me a permit, and called me this morning to let me know there were herds in the area. They just take them in the pasture behind his house.

Used my .44 magnum Winchester 94AE Trapper, fitted with my dad's old 4x Bushnell Banner, a 210gr. Winchester Silvertip bullet on 27gr. of W296. I fired and thought I'd missed, but Bernie said I made a good hit and she was down before I could even seen one acting hit. Offhand shot, freestanding with no support, at about 50-60 yards. WOOHOO! Now I can say I've done it! Thank you Bernie!

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In here....

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And out here....

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Right through both lungs....

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Bernie's son Justin, and the buck he took a month ago in the same pasture behind their house. Very impressive....

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A fine shot.

Congrats! Looks like good eats.

Congrats! I remember my first (was a boar). Looks like you got meat to last all winter.

Congrats on making meat!

It's nice to have good friends.

That's a GREAT picture of the lung shot!

Congratulations on your first deer! I hope it's the start of a continuing interest for you. Time to start looking for places to hunt elk.

Looks like you're well on your way to butchering it yourself. A few hours work could net about 15 lbs. of steaks and 20 lbs. of meat to grind for burger and sausage.

When I got my first deer I was struck by the wealth of having an abundance of meat in the freezer. It's fun to pull out and fix a steak any time you want it.

Great pictures, too, Rondog!

Good job! Looks great!

Awesome day for it! Imagine it could have been minus 25 and blowing 40mph!

Congrats!!!!

Nice one!

Awesome harvest Ron!

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Congrats! Enjoy the good eating!

Mmmmmm, deer jerky. Nicely done.

Very cool, hope you continue the hunting tradition.

Funny part is, my bullet went right through my doe. Bernie's friend John showed up shortly after with his teenage daughter Molly, and she got her first deer today too, shooting a .300 Blackout. When we were dressing the deer, Molly found MY bullet in HER deer! Didn't know it at the time, we thought it was her bullet. I got a call later, the bullet certainly wasn't an all-copper .30 Barnes, it was a big, fat mushroomed hollowpoint with a lead core, just like what I was using. Can't wait to get it back!

Wow that is crazy! How did the 300 do?

Were you guys shooting at a hallway full of deer?

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Were you guys shooting at a hallway full of deer?

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Cluster of 10-12 that were fixin' to bolt over a fence, so they were a little bunched up. I think my bullet was found just under the hide of Molly's doe. Pretty strange that she shot the same one, it wasn't acting injured.

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Wow that is crazy! How did the 300 do?

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Very well, knocked two of them right down, we took three total today. They use a suppressed AR in .300blk, and it reached right out and touched them. Very impressive.

Very nice! Congratulations and I hope you keep hunting!

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Awesome my girlfriend just bagged her first deer with her AK at 120 yards with a neck shot wow good times.Loved the pics of the carnage.

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Funny part is, my bullet went right through my doe. Bernie's friend John showed up shortly after with his teenage daughter Molly, and she got her first deer today too, shooting a .300 Blackout. When we were dressing the deer, Molly found MY bullet in HER deer! Didn't know it at the time, we thought it was her bullet. I got a call later, the bullet certainly wasn't an all-copper .30 Barnes, it was a big, fat mushroomed hollowpoint with a lead core, just like what I was using. Can't wait to get it back!

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That is why you should not take a shot when there is another animal behind the one you are taking.

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That is why you should not take a shot when there is another animal behind the one you are taking.

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He told me to because they still have more tags and a double wouldn't be a problem. Otherwise, you're right of course!

Just so you know the Department of Parks and Wildlife would have a problem with it.

Very cool, great job skinning it too. I still am 0 for 3 on deer.

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Funny part is, my bullet went right through my doe. Bernie's friend John showed up shortly after with his teenage daughter Molly, and she got her first deer today too, shooting a .300 Blackout. When we were dressing the deer, Molly found MY bullet in HER deer! Didn't know it at the time, we thought it was her bullet. I got a call later, the bullet certainly wasn't an all-copper .30 Barnes, it was a big, fat mushroomed hollowpoint with a lead core, just like what I was using. Can't wait to get it back!

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So much is wrong with this, I suppose what bothers me most is that this guy thinks it is funny.

It's was a copper jacket. I will weigh it later and try to figure out where it came from. So definitely not from our gun, but I don't think its from Ron's gun either... And there wasn't a deer directly behind his doe, so I told him to take the shot. And we did find it funny to find an extra bullet in a deer, not funny haha , but funny strange. Just as my son's buck had a broadhead in it from a year or so ago from some other hunter, fully healed over. Found that funny (odd) also. The deer here are consistently in herds of 10 to 50 deer, so rarely are they willing to separate from the herd and stand in front of a berm..

Ron made a fantastic shot offhand and shaking on his first big game animal. Congrats... And to process the meat yourself is a large undertaking, gotta give you credit for that also.

I'm jealous. I've gone all the way to Ohio and not even had a chance to put sights on a deer.... :-(

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It's was a copper jacket. I will weigh it later and try to figure out where it came from. So definitely not from our gun, but I don't think its from Ron's gun either... And there wasn't a deer directly behind his doe, so I told him to take the shot. And we did find it funny to find an extra bullet in a deer, not funny haha , but funny strange. Just as my son's buck had a broadhead in it from a year or so ago from some other hunter, fully healed over. Found that funny (odd) also. The deer here are consistently in herds of 10 to 50 deer, so rarely are they willing to separate from the herd and stand in front of a berm..

Ron made a fantastic shot offhand and shaking on his first big game animal. Congrats... And to process the meat yourself is a large undertaking, gotta give you credit for that also.

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I haven't seen the bullet yet, but if it's mine it will be near 210 grains, .44 caliber, nickle plated copper jacket, lead cored, have a deep concaved base, and "should" be mushroomed and intact, not all blown up. AFAIK.

There's certainly way too many deer in the hills east of Parker, but there's also assloads of homes out there. So it's certainly possible the bullet found in that doe may have already been there. If it's not a .44 Silvertip then it ain't mine.

I don't think Bernie has the bullet yet, all either of us have is this photo from the other guy. I don't really think it's mine, but can't tell from this photo.


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I'd say the concave base should be a definitive characteristic, along with the .44 diameter. This is what I used.

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You guys are using your guns for all the wrong reasons.. they're not for hunting don't you know!

I was worried about using them since there wasn't 2 webbed feet (or however Mr Fudd worded it). [ROFL1]

Those tenderloins got my mouth watering.
Congrats!

Somebody slap me for being silly enough to try cutting up this meat by myself! Jeebus, talk about being in over my head.....

I've tried watching YouTube how-to videos, but man, those guys throw away LOTS of meat!

And posting pictures of yourself is why you're a Witness Protection Reject.

Great job on the harvest. Take your time processing it. Break it into a couple of days or more. After a little while of cutting & carving, your hands start to cramp and it gets miserable. You start to get sloppy and cut yourself as much as the game. Spreading it out a bit eliminates that.

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And posting pictures of yourself is why you're a Witness Protection Reject.

Great job on the harvest. Take your time processing it. Break it into a couple of days or more. After a little while of cutting & carving, your hands start to cramp and it gets miserable. You start to get sloppy and cut yourself as much as the game. Spreading it out a bit eliminates that.

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Huh, well that explains the title! Wondered about that. Getting old enough I just don't give a rat's ass about being anonymous. Like my sig says, there's more of us ugly motherfuckers than there are of you pretty people!

Did that, took me three friggin' days since I didn't really know what I was doing. And you ain't shittin' about the hand cramps! My left hand damn near locked up, hurt like hell and freaked me out. Yep, sliced my thumb open too.

Never processed my own animals but I've helped my best friend/hunting partner on a couple of animals. I learned to have some of those finger condoms and extra latex gloves available to cover my cut fingers.

Just joking about the showing your face thing...good natured ribbing and all but as for "you pretty people"... clearly we've never met. [Coffee]

Congrats on your deer.

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Congrats on your deer.

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Much grass amigo! Looks like you're new here, welcome aboard!

Nice deer, Thats gonna be some good eating.

congrats and great shot!