A good opening day.

[Tororider]

Nice story and nice deer. Tell your son congrats for me. I know many an older hunter(older being relative, I am 28) who have yet to shoot a deer that nice. I hope to remedy that this year.

Congrats again, and you can get poster size prints cheap and Costco or Sams Club, heck with the 8x10s, if you are going to do it, go big!

 

[3RRL]

Great story George.
Getting 3 generations together like that is a dream for all of us. Nice photos too.

 

[TNhobbyfarmer]

Really great story and thread. I went to my cabin on Friday. My son and daughter in law came Saturday about noon. I didn't hunt but my son did, bow season is open. It gave me a lot time to talk to my daughter in law. Great girl. I love her like my own. Family time is special. We should get as much as we possibly can.

 

[texasjohn]

Great story... great photos... great hunt...great shooting!

There have been three occasions where I have shot two bucks, one right after the other and within a few feet of each other... but, it's truly a rare occasion.

 

[N80]

Myu first two bucks were a 'double'. The first one, my first one ever, was a smallish cow horn. I then got back up in the stand and about 20 minutes later an 8 pointer came by and I got him.

I don't think my son would have shot the second buck if he had known it was a different deer. We don't do much QDM stuff but he'd already killed two small bucks in years past and was holding out for a bigger buck. When this cow horn popped up from where he thought the bigger deer went down, he just assumed it was the same buck and dropped him. I told him not to feel bad about it. There was nothing wrong with shooting the cow horn. And he did make excellent shots on both.

I think he has gotten over being embarrassed by the mistake and is now a little proud of getting two at once. Which is fine.

 

[Richard]

Can I show my ignornace... what is a 'cow horn'?

(and I agree on framing those pictures!!)

 

[N80]

Can I show my ignornace... what is a 'cow horn'?

Maybe its just a local term, but around here that refers to horns that are long enough to have some curve to them but no branches or other points. The one on the ground in the picture is a prime example.

In local terms the progression would go:

Button buck - just little knobs sticking through the hair.
Spike - just short straight horns with no branching (basically just brow tines)
Cow Horn - as described above
4 pointer - one branch/two points on each side
6 pointer - etc, etc

 

[dooleysm]

Huh, I've never heard of a cow horn buck before either.

 

[N80]

Huh, I've never heard of a cow horn buck before either.

Well, that's why I said it may be a local term. And since I'm in South Carolina and you are......not, then it may be that folks in your neck of the woods don't use the term.

That being the case, what would you call a little buck like that one in the picture?

(And since compared to our little deer your deer look more like cows then you might want to adopt the term for yourselves.)

 

[MossRoad]

That being the case, what would you call a little buck like that one in the picture?...

Two pointer!