All About Pocket Knives

Nice!!

But, you wrote, "we only get one deer in Missouri firearms season".

Move to Alabama. Our limit is one per day.

Charlie Noyes

Tony - buck of a lifetime! Wow! OH

OH.. Congrats!!

TW.. KOOL!! Nice Buck!!! John

Nice big ole deer.

That is a mighty fine buck, Tony! And the photograph is very effectively composed, too.

WOW Tony - what a buck .... Beautiful rack (10-12 point? - I think I see a definite 10) ... What is the weight estimate on it? Congrats

AWESOME buck,Tony !!!!!! CONGRATS

Wow - Tony, that's a beauty!

Congrats OH Nice buck Tony thats a once in a life time

Fellas,
Thanks for the kind words. Was truly blessed to have an opportunity in this deer. Buck of a lifetime.

Charlie, I lived in Alabama for many years. Hunted in Macon, St Clair, Talladega, Coosa, and Tallapoosa counties. I remember killing a buck/doe per day when I was a youngin’. Deer not as plentiful here, but good sized from the agriculture.

Mel, my son is the deer pic guru. He studies deer pics on his Instagram feed.

Longblade, I don’t have a way to weigh something this size. Guesstimate, 200+ lbs.

Last Saturday marked the opening day of modern gun season for deer here in Kentucky. I opted not to hunt this year because of health reasons, but I did attend the traditional opening day breakfast at the hunting cabin owned by one of my long time hunting buddies. When I got there I learned that someone not part of our group had shot a deer on property across from where the cabin sits perched high on a bluff overlooking a big piece of Green River bottomland. The deer was down in a soybean field maybe 600 yards from and a hundred feet below where the cabin sits.

As we were chowing down the guys kept watch hoping that the hunter who downed the deer would show back up. One of my friends had seen the shooter walk out into the soybean field looking for the deer but he failed to locate it and had gone elsewhere. While we were eating, one of the guys said "That deer just moved". A few minutes later it moved its head again so we knew it was down but not dead. There was no way we could leave it to suffer like that, so a couple of the guys headed out to put it out of its misery. It turned out to be a very nice 10 point buck. It had been hit in the spine and could not use its hind legs so it was unable to get up. Had it remained there it would have no doubt suffered a slow and painful death.

The guys from my group located two men who were hunting with the young man who had shot this buck. It turned out that he was sick and had gone home after being unable to locate the deer. He had wrongly presumed he'd missed when in fact it had droped in it's tracks right where it was shot. The last report I had, his friends were still trying to contact him and let him know he'd actually killed his FIRST deer. His buddies field dressed the deer and drug it out of the bean field so thankfully it did not go to waste.

I see a couple of lessons to be gleaned from this. First, if you're too sick to hunt, stay home. Second, if you have even the slightest notion that you've downed a deer you owe it to the animal to give an honest and dilligent effort to retrieve your kill.

Well said Phil. I know (as every seasoned hunter knows) that a deer that’s been shot at is probably hit. I’ve spent several hours tracking in the thick stuff to follow minimal blood trails, a drop every five or eight yards, a hoof mark in the dirt, a broken twig, etc., etc., etc. Once you pull the trigger you own the deer. At least this boy had reliable, ethical hunting partners. OH

Phil and Bruce, thanks for bringing to light a subject that seems to be so easily dismissed by way too many so called "hunters".
To follow up on the crippled deer issue, I find it strange that some states don't allow the use of a dog to recover crippled or dead deer. Just last Sunday afternoon, we (Miss Joy's dog Flossie and I) recovered a deer for a friend. The weather was cool enough for the deer not to have spoiled plus the coyotes didn't find it. That deer was a double lung crossbow kill, just hard to find but a wounded one is another story altogether, a terrible thing!
Encourage folks to respect their prey, be ethical and pursue every possibility to recover the critter in question.
Treefarmer

A friends buck.

He looks like an old warrior, congratulations to your friend!
Treefarmer

Knice deer!!

Tony_Wood wrote:Thanks Bruce and Scott.
I got skunked on that smoke pole hunt. It snapped on a nice sized eight point. I just watched him walk off, but I had a huge smile for the encounter.
Glad that the long rifle misfired because we only get one deer in Missouri firearms season. Had this chance yesterday. BHB. Behind the House Buck.

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Very nice buck Tony!

Well Scott, I'm not a hunter, but I agree with Jerry that it looks old, worn. I asked if he shot it or caught it as it fell over.

My buddy Mark shot a doe last evening; oldest trick in the book - he forgot his knife! I used an Old Timer (USA) 160OT on this one. OH
Ps. Nice buck your buddy shot QS.

Thank you OH. It looked pretty old and worn. I asked if he shot it or did he catch it as it fell over.

My son just harvested this buck while hunting Michigan's upper peninsula.
He was using a rifle I built for him a couple years ago. Here's the rifle right after I completed it 2 years ago.

Congratulations Ken - your rifle worked exactly as intended! OH

Had the grandsons out the other day. Found some Tallow Plums (leanred AFTER we got home) and Sword Fern Tubers (I knew that one already!

Scott, you've probably already seen this but for the benefit of others:

From Wikipedia of course.

As food

The fruits have a pleasant plum-like flavor. In Asia, the young leaves are cooked as a vegetable. However, the leaves also contain cyanide and need to be thoroughly cooked, and should not be eaten in large amounts.

In medicine

Ximenia americana was investigated by researchers from Nigeria's Ahmadu Bello University. In animal tests, it has shown some effect against the parasite that causes sleeping sickness and severe anaemia in livestock in many parts of Africa. The leaf extract is active against Escherischia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Candida albicans. Tannins, flavonoids, alkaloids, saponins, anthraquinones, and general glycosides were found in the extract. Indigenous people of Florida used the bark to treat sore muscles and gums.

The root also contains the fatty acids tariric acid and 10Z,14E,16E-octadeca-10,14,16-triene-12-ynoic acid.

jerryd6818 wrote:Scott, you've probably already seen this but for the benefit of others:

From Wikipedia of course.

As food

The fruits have a pleasant plum-like flavor. In Asia, the young leaves are cooked as a vegetable. However, the leaves also contain cyanide and need to be thoroughly cooked, and should not be eaten in large amounts.

In medicine

Ximenia americana was investigated by researchers from Nigeria's Ahmadu Bello University. In animal tests, it has shown some effect against the parasite that causes sleeping sickness and severe anaemia in livestock in many parts of Africa. The leaf extract is active against Escherischia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Candida albicans. Tannins, flavonoids, alkaloids, saponins, anthraquinones, and general glycosides were found in the extract. Indigenous people of Florida used the bark to treat sore muscles and gums.

The root also contains the fatty acids tariric acid and 10Z,14E,16E-octadeca-10,14,16-triene-12-ynoic acid.

Yup....seen it, then reread it and said.....Ooooooooooooooooooh I got it, the "fruit" is safe to eat. Got it!! So we partook, or at least I did.
http://www.eattheweeds.com/ximenia-amer ... y-names-2/