Slow start - Great finish to the season

[deadeye]

Things started pretty slow for the deadeye clan.  Everyone was seeing plenty of deer, just not the right one at the right time.  During the season we hunted 6 full days and 2 half days.  We had between 3 and 7 hunters depending on the day.  In all we saw approxmitaly 120 deer, with at least 1/4 being bucks.  Lots of small bucks, spikes, forks, 6's and a few small 8's.  We were also seeing some nice bucks but for one reason or another (too early, too late, too much brush, too far) didn't get a shot.  As it was, we started the last Saturday's hunt with just the two does that I had shot.  Saturday morning I had a doe run by at about 50 yards followed by the 10 point pictured below.  Saturday evening my brother in law turned around to see a big 9 point 30 yards away just staring at him.  He had a few tense moments while attempting to get his gun into a shooting position without having the buck blast out of there.  He succeeded and got a beauty.   My son's nephew shot his second deer (a nice doe on Sunday morning. 

My 10 point - 196 pounds


My brother in laws 9 point - 210 pounds


My sons nephew with his doe

[DDSBYDAY]

    Congratulations Deadeye.  Your patience and hard work really paid off.   

[ray634]

Nice deer. All of them. It feels so good when a long season of hard work finally pays off.
congratulations to all

[Outdoors Junkie]

Congrats!

[MTCOMMER]

AWESOME!  Those are some great looking deer - nice end to the season!  Nice to see everyone gettin in on the action!   

Also sounds like you will have a nice crop brewin' for next year!   

[corny13]

Nice Mature Bucks Deadeye, Congrats, your management pays off.

[dakids]

Great bucks deadeye!!!  Did you have any trail cam pics of the bucks?  Would love to se them and compare befor and after.