first wall hanger?

[beeker]

just wondering how long did it take for you guys to get your first wall hanger? everyyear there is that story of some lucky sob stepping off their deck and smoking a big one. I know other guys who have been chasing for 15 years with no "true" trophy... (by true I mean one that the vast majority of hunters would be impressed with).

personally it took me 15 years, to get a 9 pointer with an 18 in spread scored around 135, and field dressed at 222#s.. was worth the wait.

[HUNTER2]

I think it was about 8 or 9 years to get my first one. I have about 3 others that could be head and shoulder mounted. The first is a 14 that weighed 230 dressed and the others are 2 10 pointers and a nice 9. My first buck ever shot was when I started about 20 some years ago, a 4 point. Still have the horns on the wall. We used to hunt Agaziz wild life area way up north. A lot of land that doesn't get hunted.

[wildlifeminnesota]

About 12 year for this Trophy. 11 point scored 150 7/8 in the typical class. It field dressed around 240. I also shot this one on state land. I got my chance after a hunter had three really nice buck came out on this privet land and he shot this gun. I   he had empty his gun out then he got right out of this stand and when to look for this   he when in the woods a out came the the buck right to us the old hunter standing next to me took the next shot and miss at a full dead run now it my turn at about 70 yards and a full dead run I put my gun 30 30  to a spot wear he was going to be in the air and took the shot and he came strait down. This guy had 5 deer come out two does and three really nice buck  and I shot two of them and a another hunter took one of the first buck. It was a nice 8 pointer that hunter told me that the another buck look to be 8 or better. When I left that open day that hunter was siting in he deer stand with no deer down and a lot less ammo. A trophy in my book should score 140 or better to make it in the Minnesota record book. I have take lot of deer  in my years of hunting for this year 8 point and spike and two does. Last year two buck 7 and 6 point and no does.Year be for one 8 pointer and three does the after that was my trophy year with my 11 point and one doe this was 2005. that 12 deer in five years. I   when you hunt state land I   it is harder to get a trophy as you have know control over the land and the another hunter they will see brown and the guns are going off. It dose not matter to them if it small or big they shot and look later. some of them do not even know how really to hunt if it move they just shot. As privet land you can put food plot in and take out the bigger buck and leave the smaller ones to grow. I   in time as in years of hunting you get better at it. There are year I have got 0 2000 and 2001 are two that I can   of right now. But that call hunting we all would like to get a deer ever year. We all make mistakes when we are out in the filed and that how we learn how to be better hunter. I had done my homework on this trophy I new he was around that piece of state land I had see him three week be for open day of deer hunting I had photograph him. I went and sit in that same spot I had see him but I got my chance after some hunter miss fortune in hunt. That how it work some times.
    

[MNBucKKiller]

nice deer.

It took me 8 years to get my first wall hanger and I didn't even get my first deer til my 6th year.  I got a 148 inch 10 point on highly hunted PUBLIC land so its very possible.  Its my profile pic.

[HUNTER2]

Nice pictures and buck. How did you get the picture of the buck by the swamp?

[22lex]

Took me three years to shoot a 12 pt., 169 inch buck. I had shot two does in the two years prior leading up to my good luck, and have only shot two other (whitetail) bucks since 2001.

[wildlifeminnesota]

Nice pictures and buck. How did you get the picture of the buck by the swamp?

He was standing next to it. 
I will tell you when I the more time. I am running the store today.