Good luck to all the deer hunters out there!! Shoot straight and be SAFE!!

Good luck to you too!! :div20:

Shoot Straight!!

"Take a deep breath to steady your nerves"

Good Luck all!!!

Bring home the big bucks...

thanks :div20:

:beerchug: Good luck to everybody!

Exhale... count to one... pull (not squeeze) slowly... :div20: First year using the revolver... see how it goes. :div20: IF I still have my spot... and time. :cn:

:beerchug:

Good Luck and be safe.

This will be my first opening day I have missed since age 5... :banghead:
It is killing me not to be out in the woods.
Good luck to all of you out there! :div20: :beerchug:

I was always told to take a nice deep breath and release it slowly and ease into the trigger and you'll never miss.....so far so good.

Hunting the Thumb with the .50 Cal smoke pole or .44 Mag Revolver. Big Rapids area with the .308.


Good Luck to all.

I will be out in a few day hope to get one with the new

No rifle for me this year...can't get the time off and already have a full freezer! It was another good first half of archery season in Big Rapids.

Congrats Sonbooger on the full freezer. As you can see I am writing this when I should be out hunting. Work calls. So I will be out this weekend. Good luck to everyone this firearm deer season. Be safe and lets stack them like cord wood! :banana: :div20:

Congrats on that freezer full! :beerchug: Looks like we're neighbors...We live in Hudsonville :nobeerchugsinhudsonvilleyet: :banghead:

Good luck hunters. Aim small, miss small..... I'm still using my Bow. I've gotten skunked all year and I've been to Ohio, Illinios, and Mississippi looking for a wall mounter....Oh well, I guess I'm going to have to wack a doe to feed the family :banghead: :beer:

Cat Girl, where are you in Hudsonville. We are out by 22nd & Quincy... :beerchug:

Could you guys get rid of some deer please. My company proccessed over 400 deer claims in October :banghead:

Then bring me some jerkie :div20:

wow...the famous cat girl is in my backyard! and upfront too...

actually, im about miday through a european mount on the goofy looking "multi-point" i took this past saturday. the boys in the orange army should be up for a good opening day today!

All these HCS'rs in our backyard and we haven't met them yet :banghead:

We're at 40th/Port Sheldon area but I work at I-196/32nd




I see you ride in Kalkaska....our cabin is in Mancelona. Congrats on your new mount (that sounds funny any other time of the year!) :smilielol:

Don't Give UPFront to much into Tammy. He might try sneeking ( or peeking ) in your window :frech32: :beerchug: :smilielol:

Son and hunny went out this morning, its son's first hunt with Gun, bought it for him on Saturday, he hit 2 bullseyes.. out of 2 shots,(went target practice).not bad for a first timer lol.

hope he gets one, it would be awsome! Good luck to all!!

Hope everyone does great I got mine this morning 1st thing, now I'm going back out for another one, be safe
Brad

It was all over for me by 8:30am, had a firearm buck tag and an anterless tag to fill, shot the six point first, waited a few minutes then got up to go find him, about halfway to him 7 does come running out of the swamp straight at me. The last one stopped about 10 yards away and looked at me, oops that was a mistake. Shot her and continued on to find the buck. I can't ever remember being done this earlyt on opening day let alone before Thanksgiving. :banana:

Big Congrats! Your little girl is a cutie too- :banana:

Thanks, she's my good luck charm :div20:

She stayed right out there and watched me gut both of them, she wanted to see all the "inards". She was non-stop chatter "what's that?", "what's that?". Didn't get grossed out at all, makes Daddy proud!!!!

Congrats!!! :div20:

Here's my wife with her first deer, got her into hunting last year. I got mine earlier this morning so she went out and got this one tonight. Ain't she COOL!!!! :banana:

Congrats to your wife too! :beerchug: St. Venison's Day was really good to your family- :beerchug:

All Not At Fault Claims though Buddy :div20: You get paid to claim, us agents get paid to keep loss ratios down :smilielol:




Brad, looks Good :div20: Bring some meat in Feb :fluffy: :fluffy:

Looks like everyone is doing great :div20: I was in Caddy Sat night and they were running everywhere, I tried to hit one, but I didn't want drifter put me on his list :smilielol: :smilielol:

Click to view attachment My Dad got this today..10 pt. 17.3" inside spread....

Was that near the cabin?

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Nope..about 200 yds from the house. What a great day...Dad got his deer.. I finally got a pic to post

Looks great!! I am happy for all those that got one already. Now for the rest to get theres.

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awww congrats ro all ! As for my guys NO luck..... few ran by but thats it. I really didnt see a lot of deer in the Mid Michigan region.. But we had some heavy Fog too

Will do PolarisGirl, I'm far from done yet, I hope, but its pretty soggy out there this morning, Congrats, everyone, here is a pic from the Buck Pole last night
Brad

Well, here is my bow buck from last saturday. No pics before processing, or pics of my doe. We bowhunt pretty hard, then give it all up, as the property owners rifle hunt there own properties using our stand set-ups. It's a pretty good deal if you ask me! Might get out with the gun just to hang with the old man, but any meat now will be made into fancy stuff (Jerky, salami, etc.) to pawn off on friends and relatives. :beer:

He is in the process of whitening, so he's a little gooey, but tomorrow i'll throw him on a board and let him join his brothers on the wall! :fluffy: :fluffy:

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He was a 1.5 yr old :frech32: and dressed out at a plump 142lbs. I actually got him on video in late august(?) in velvet, then drew on him once earlier in the season at eye level while he was pursuing a doe and while i was looking for blood of another buck that was shot. he stood facing me and didn't allow a shot before turning and chasing off another buck. the woods were alive for us this season, that's for sure! definitly a strange rack. would have been neat to see him a few years down the road. we tend to get 1 per year that follow this trait, and allways chalked it up to an injury, but after 3 bucks like this in 3 years, we are wondering if it's not genetic. LEGALLY, he is a 7 point, as he has 1 point on the right that goes about 17/16" and one on the left that goes a bit over 1 1/8", but he was tagged a 6 (4X2) and probably will remain that way in my mind! :div20:
Let's see the BIG ones now! :tease:

Its gonna make a nice european mount, I like the oddball racks, its pretty hard to get one thats typical around here
Brad

I'm shocked that nobody harrassed me about my Polaris Ranger!!

Here's a pic of the Wolly Mamouth that I got opening morning. It was decent sized.

9am opening morning on state land in Au GresClick to view attachment

Archery season was good this year!

Nailed this six point w/my camera in the back yard tonight. The pic's suck becuase it was dusk and I could not use my flash.

here's my buck from last sunday with a bow.

nice one chickenhawk! looks like you got the boy fired up! is he doing some shooting in the background!?

Double :div20: :div20: UP!!!!!!!!!


Congrats to all so far! Nice deer! :div20:

Click to view attachmentClick to view attachmentthursday morning at 07:15 A.M. 7 point, fair sized deer. What I found really unique was the dark feet, with the white in the hair and in the hooves. Never seen anything like this before. The rear hooves are next to the deer, was a tight squeeze in 6.5 truck bed for the trip home.

How did you get the deers back legs way up by it's head??

Had to remove them to fit him in the back of the truck, they were placed there for the photo due to the coloring. I have talked w/ a couple buddies since I posted and they have seen this before. It was new to me.

:div20: Congrats on your white footed deer.. Going back out @ 2.30 Got a blind back in the swamp that has'nt been hunted yet. Gonna be hard to top my Dad's deer!!

thanks, and good luck to you and all the others still out there as well.

Still seeing deer.. saw 2 nice bucks yesterday both 8 pt. plus,but no shot at them..Had a spike come in this morning..hung around from about 30 min. Still lots of time left.. Lets see some pics !!