Live from the Stand - 2024
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Native Hunter
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It’s getting crazy here. Just had a 145 inch 9 point I’ve never seen before come by within 50 yds with his tongue hanging out. Deer moving everywhere.
Mennoniteman
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On a different note; a friend that lives in KY said deer drives aren't allowed in KY, which piqued my curiosity, however I could not find anything online to that effect? Can you tell us what the law is on deer drives in KY?
Native Hunter
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Getting hot here. Just passed a 145 inch 9 point I’ve never had on camera. Tongue hanging out when he passed by.
Native Hunter
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I’ve never read anything in the regs about it. I’ve always thought it would be legal. I will search later and let you know if I find anything different.
Native Hunter
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Native Hunter
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Only thing I could find is that deer drives aren't legal in Fort Knox area. There may be other WMAs where that is the case as well. But as far as I know they are perfectly legal everywhere else.
you seem to be more careful with them from what i have seen Here its often shoot on sight with the big bucks. Iam guilty as well, out here we feed our families with them mutch of the year. Our diet in winter is essentially game, frozen/smoked/dried fish and rice, barley or potatoes wich we stockpile before the snow falls, and ofcourse pickled veggies and fruits. But i wonder if those bucks are so rare here because we alway shoot the biggest one
Native Hunter
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And it may get worse if Putin keeps moving across Europe. Best wishes to you and good hunting.
i wish him luck, Finland might be the most fortified place in europe. I could elaborate more if you find it interesting but after the last 2(3 but the ussr used q proxy in the first) wars we turned our natural layout into an artillery death trap. Also every man over the she of 18 is a trained reservist. It would be hundreds of kilometers of dense forest, lakes and rivers with a maze of small forest roads leading up to the border wich are intended to just about allow our native mobile artillery to use them. It would be a deadly game of wackamole for russia trying to pinpoint the mobile mortars and howitzers constantly cruising through the wilderness.
Native Hunter
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I’ve got the big 8 I passed during ML season at 100 yds. Huge body and about 135 inches.
having said that, it seems to be hitting the fan a bit. My family is in the dark now, reportedly sabotage at the nuclear plants followed by cut cables along the eastern border have caused the local powergrids to be overloaded. aditionally several large bridges connecting finnish islands to the mainland have had their support cables tampered with and the underwater powerlines damaged. All while russian and chinese merchant ships where in the area. Those islands are completely cut off now until the current nationwide storm subsides.
Native Hunter
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I heard it was a Chinese ship that whacked the underwater cables that tie you to Germany.
it was a russian ship until a few weeks ago, with a russian crew. ownership was transferred to China recently.
Native Hunter
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Not good for sure.......
Mennoniteman
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We love eating the venison we shoot, but even more, we enjoy managing habitat to grow big antlers. In the USA manipulating habitat to manage and grow wild, free ranging whitetail deer is a big hobby with a lot of outdoorsmen doing it, and that in a nutshell is what this forum is all about. Owning 10 acres of lower quality land is an attainable thing for most Americans, and that's all someone needs to get started managing deer, because deer thrive on lower quality land, especially if it's managed a bit to improve the deer habitat. Many people on this forum have ten times that much land, and, since the deer are free range, the key is to have better management than all of the neighboring properties so that the deer stay on your own land. Like the buck in your picture most of our bucks start off as a spike at 1 year old, but our goal is to preserve them until they are 5 1/2 years old, at that age most of them will be a real trophy, with 10 points or more. A side product of managing deer habitat is that there will be a lot of does, and that is what we eat. A good manager will harvest one doe for every buck taken to keep the herd balanced, and roughly one to two deer a year can be removed for every ten acres of improved habitat that you have. The main deer habitat improvements that we do that you'll read about here are planting things for cover, and thinning big trees to make thicker cover, also, planting small food plots for better nutrition, and lots of fruit and nut trees. This forum also then talks a lot about hunting techniques and the importance of mostly staying out of the key areas where your deer herd lives. Hunting and utilizing all of the meat and doing our own butchering is a rich tradition here that my dad and ancestors did as far back as to when they came from Switzerland in 1729. The Swiss put my ancestor in a prison wagon to Rotterdam as a persona non grata, and put him on a ship to Philadelphia with a one way ticket because he was a Christian. He didn't know it at the time but they sure did him a big favor, and that's how I ended up hunting deer in Pennsylvania instead of Finland.
Mennoniteman
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I saw this 6 year old one-eyed 4 point buck tonight, as big as a small steer, with heavy beams and almost no points. He might even be the heaviest PA buck I ever saw, he looks like he might tip the scales at 300lbs. Last year he was a big heavy 6 point and my son wanted to cull him out, but I argued to save him, figuring that he'd be an 8 point this year, now here he is, the main breeder buck in the neighborhood. I wonder what would make a buck gain weight like that, we don't even have a McDonald's in the area? Anyway, I guess I decisively lost this argument 
Mennoniteman
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Do you think there's a possibility that whitetailed deer are getting heavier? I've seen a lot of large bodied deer lately.
