Opening weekend come and gone. How'd you do?

[David Unnerstall]

It is amazing how deer season can turn five pre-elderly dudes into 8th graders, again.  I shot this 5-pointer on opening morning.  It is not bad to hang around the cabin for a day but after that first day it is not so cool.  I shot a monster three years ago and this is more of an easy process. 

[Haris122]

1 hour ago, Smallie Seeker said:

Now, someone needs to ask me about the necklace I'm wearing in the pics! 

I can't see it too good, but here we go. So what's up with that necklace you're wearing.

[Johnsfolly]

2 hours ago, David Unnerstall said:

It is amazing how deer season can turn five pre-elderly dudes into 8th graders, again.  I shot this 5-pointer on opening morning.  It is not bad to hang around the cabin for a day but after that first day it is not so cool.  I shot a monster three years ago and this is more of an easy process. 

Congrats on a nice deer! Some of the best eating venison is a young buck. Known to be a young age and more meat than you typically get from a doe.

Those steaks in the last photo look great!

[MOPanfisher]

No molted the Nosler Partitions are pure poison in .223, mine happens to also like barnes TSX.  I loaned a Handi rifle in .223 to a kid from church some years back.  Sat with him when he killed his first deer a fat spike at about 30 yards, he collapsed in his tracks.  Over the next 3 years he used it to kill 3 more bucks, all better than anything I have killed.  Handloaded the 60 grain Partitions for it.  Me i go sit in my wife's stand to escape the house for a few hours and get annoyed when deer show up instead of a coyote.  End up playing wolf howls etc. To get them to leave so I can leave her stand without getting busted.  This year she has apparently taken the 5 "free" CWD tags as a personal challenge, and conquered it.  But I m getting practiced up again in field dressing, deboning etc.

[Smallie Seeker]

15 hours ago, Haris122 said:

I can't see it too good, but here we go. So what's up with that necklace you're wearing.

The story of the necklace.

It has magical, mystical powers. Seriously, it's kinda spooky. 

I used to have a deer lease in Linn county, MO with my buddy James. 5 years ago his daughter made him a necklace. Told him to wear it for good luck. Well he did, and proceeded to shoot his best buck. 

Told me it really is good luck! Yeah, yeah. Pretty cool. He then hung it up for 2 years as a neat keepsake. 

2 years later, his wife asked him to take her out for her first hunt, and he decided to bring the necklace with him. Sat in a blind first morning and that evening. Saw does but no shot opportunity. But...        she forgot to wear the necklace!

Next morning she put it on, headed to the ground blind, and sure enough a bit after first shooting light a doe came through with a really nice buck in tow. She smoked him! Said her cup of coffee wasn't even cold yet. It was a bigger buck than James had ever taken, and her first deer, which they got mounted. The legend of the necklace grew. 

James said he needed to be careful with it and only use it on special occasions, or when the cards were down. 

Fast forward to the 2017 spring turkey season. James had hunted turkey for several years without tagging one. Thought he'd see if it worked on turkey too. Wore it and sure enough shot his first bird!

Now it doesn’t have a 100% success rate, but it definitely had a better than 50% hall of fame average. 

Enter this years rifle season. He hunted a public spot in N. MO with his cousin. And he wore it opening day, and of course he shot a nice buck. Text his cousin who hadn't seen anything. Told his cousin to come and sit where he was, because he had seen a lot of movement that morning at that spot where he shot his buck. 

He gave the necklace to his cousin, who looked at and after knowing the stories about it, gladly put it on.  You know where this is going....          His cousin shot an even bigger buck!!! At the same spot where James had shot one just 45 mins earlier, and on public land!!!

Now this past weekend I took a veteran out for his first deer hunt Saturday morning on private land, on his birthday no less, but we didn't see a deer. 

James had hunted that morning on a public spot, saw does but no shots. He told me I should come up for the evening hunt. And when I got there, he said since I hadn't tagged a deer all year yet, I needed to wear the necklace...     I had never worn the thing, but you don't look a gift horse in the mouth, so I put it on and headed in to hang my stand. 

Never sat down. Shot that buck at 25 yards 2 mins after I climbed up! 

That necklace is now responsible for over 800 inches of deer antler.

Him, his wife, his cousin, and me all took bucks the first time wearing it. 

He forgot he had it on while driving home from N. MO and a buck ran into his car!

 

[BilletHead]

17 minutes ago, Smallie Seeker said:

The story of the necklace.

It has magical, mystical powers. Seriously, it's kinda spooky. 

I used to have a deer lease in Linn county, MO with my buddy James. 5 years ago his daughter made him a necklace. Told him to wear it for good luck. Well he did, and proceeded to shoot his best buck. 

Told me it really is good luck! Yeah, yeah. Pretty cool. He then hung it up for 2 years as a neat keepsake. 

2 years later, his wife asked him to take her out for her first hunt, and he decided to bring the necklace with him. Sat in a blind first morning and that evening. Saw does but no shot opportunity. But...        she forgot to wear the necklace!

Next morning she put it on, headed to the ground blind, and sure enough a bit after first shooting light a doe cane through with a really nice buck in tow. She smoked him! Said her cup of coffee wasn't even cold yet. It was a bigger buck than James had ever taken, and her first deer, which they got mounted. The legend of the necklace grew. 

James said he needed to be careful with it and only use it on special occasions, or when the cards were down. 

Fast forward to the 2017 spring turkey season. James had hunted turkey for several years without tagging one. Thought he'd see if it worked on turkey too. Wore it and sure enough shot his first bird!

Now it didn't have a 100% success rate, but it definitely had a better than 500% hall of fame average. 

Enter this years rifle season. He hunted a public spot in N. MO with his cousin. And he wore it opening day, and of course he shot a nice buck. Text his cousin who hadn't seen anything. Told his cousin to come and sit where he was, because he had seen a lot of movement that morning at that spot where he shot his buck. 

He gave the necklace to his cousin, who looked at and after knowing the stories about it, gladly put it on.  You know where this is going....          His cousin shot an even bigger buck!!! At the same spot where James had shot one just 45 mins earlier, and on public land!!!

Now this past weekend I took a veteran out for his first deer hunt Saturday morning on private land, on his birthday no less, but we didn't see a deer. 

James had hunted that morning on a public spot, saw does but no shots. He told me I should come up for the evening hunt. And when I got there, he said since I hadn't tagged a deer all year yet, I needed to wear the necklace...     I had never worn the thing, but you don't look a gift horse in the mouth, so I put it on and headed in to hang my stand. 

Never sat down. Shot that buck at 25 yards 2 mins after I climbed up! 

That necklace is now responsible for over 800 inches of deer antler.

Him, his wife, his cousin, and me all took bucks the first time wearing it. 

He forgot he had it on while driving home from N. MO and a buck ran into his car!

 

           Great story and much MOJO in that necklace.

    I have not seen Marcus on here in some time. Didn't he hunt with you some? 

  BilletHead

[Smallie Seeker]

@BilletHead yes we hunt together on occasion, but he’s been busy with work this year and hasn’t gotten out too much. 

[BilletHead]

            Great glad he is doing OK ! Still playing hockey? Still have all his teeth? . Tell him hi,

BilletHead

[Smallie Seeker]

Yes, and yes.

Will do!