Let's see your limit pictures. Not to degrade bowhunting to a game of numbers but since I started with traditional equipment nearly 10 years ago I've had the goal to tag out. As some states have had issues with over harvest I'll be more careful to limit my harvest of female animals. This was my 2014 season in pictures. 5 total 2 bucks, two does and one button buck. I had to pass up lots of bucks in late season due to my early buck harvests.
All were taken with my TallTines bow 60# at my draw and Snuffer or woodsman original broadheads.
October 7th I believe, public:
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November 5th and 6th private:
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The big guy 114 P&Y net:
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December Hog, public:
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Button buck Christmas day on public:
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I have limited out on deer several times. Last year I went 4 out of a possible 5.
Opening day doe:
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Nov 3rd doe:
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Nov 16th, 7 point:
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Nov 23rd spike:
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I hunted hard from the end of November till the middle of Jan trying to get my last doe, but it was not in the cards.
Congrats on a great season, Michael!
Bisch
Not me. I am usually lucky to get one much less my limit. My wife doesn't eat it so one deer if rationed properly can last me most the year. few things on the deer go to waste.
Congrats to you guys who can continually fill the freezer.
Well, since the deer limit here in Oregon is one.....not too hard to do. Add an elk in there also and it gets a little more difficult. Pulled it off last season!
Bisch your a killing machine.
Only times I have limited out was states with limits, here in SC its been shoot to your happy.
I haven't yet, but I likely could have if I was shooting. Had bunches of opportunities to take close in deer, but I usually stick with one doe and maybe one buck per year if the right one comes by. Trad bows are killing machines in the right hands, don't ever discount them.
ChuckC
I have... The most was 2, a spike & a doe.
Some years we get more tags than others... :rolleyes:
I am not even sure what that would entail here in Alberta...several deer, a moose, an elk, a cougar, two bears, mountain sheep and even a goat once in a lifetime
DDave
I've taken my "archery limit" of two deer. However, I also carry my bow in "buck - firearms" season (we are permitted to substitute the bow for a firearm) but have never taken all the legal number in one season... all with the bow. Now that is as clear as mud! :knothead:
No limit here in NJ in certain zones. I've taken as many as six in one season but know of others who've taken lots more. Small state but lots of deer.
Our limit here is two bucks, I've done it only twice. 2011 a 5pt and 6pt and 2014 a 4pt and 5pt in 10 years of Trad bow hunting.
Good hunting. Bisch, what kind of bow are you shooting? Also are you guys using a climbing stand or is that from the ground?
QuoteOriginally posted by Mississippi bow hunter:
Good hunting. Bisch, what kind of bow are you shooting? Also are you guys using a climbing stand or is that from the ground?
My bow is a Sarrels Blueridge longbow. All of mine in the pics above were from a ground blind.
Bisch
That is some good hunting. Keep it up.
No limit on bucks in my area....4 does with over counter tags. 5 turkeys as well. Never limited out or come close even with blackpowder or rifle...I tend to shoot what I need and then help others shoot theirs afterwards.
I have done the three doe tags one buck tag and three more land owner crop tags often enough. The one that I want is the three daily bag limit on pheasants. I have gotten only two wild pheasants in one day, never the three.
I kill my limit ever year. Some years it is zero. :bigsmyl:
I fill all my tags every year with trad gear ( sometime I will hit one with a flintlock just for fun ) and do my best on the turkey that I can. I think for deer I have shot my limit on deer here in Texas with trad gear for about 18 years in a row now other than 2 or 3 taken with a flinter. I have to keep the freezer full my little boy is 15 years old and is six foot three inches tall and weighs in at 275 pounds , and he can sure eat...
,,,,Sam,,,
I don't think anyone in Alabama can hunt that many days the 3 bucks sure but your aloud a bunch of does.
Only thing I've hit the limit on is skill!
I believe it was 2000. I bought 4 custom bows, 4 Selway quivers, a couple hundred tapered cedar shafts, and a bunch of Magnus 2-blades. I went to the PBS Gathering, Cloverdale, GGLI and Denton. I also went caribou hunting in the NWT. At the end of September my wife looked at me with a gleam in her eye and told me, "That's it mister. You're all tagged out."
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Can't be done in Maryland. Uimited antlerless with a bow in the region I hunt in.
My rule of thumb is I shoot what the Family and I can eat. Don't try to hit any state limit. I have a neighbor who does that and I question if its necessary to try to thin (or wipe out) the herd and see less deer every year. Its almost like being a fat guy on a cruise ship, yes you can put a pound of bacon on your plate from the buffet, but is it cool? No, no its not...
When Ga. had a limit of five I did nearly every year for 20 or so years. Now it is 12 the best I have done was eleven. I am most proud of tagging out on 3 Gobblers one spring. RC
I hunt to kill no question about it. I enjoy every minute and nothing gets wasted. I`m the fat guy with bacon on the plate that eats it. RC
Kevin, it was great while it lasted wasn't it.
My Wife has got where she can tell if its a new bow or not from looking...I could be in trouble. RC
Bowhunting has never been a numbers game to me where I tried to kill everything I was legally entitled to kill. I get tired of gutting, dragging, and cutting up deer after 2-3.
QuoteOriginally posted by JD Page 1965:
My rule of thumb is I shoot what the Family and I can eat. Don't try to hit any state limit. I have a neighbor who does that and I question if its necessary to try to thin (or wipe out) the herd and see less deer every year. Its almost like being a fat guy on a cruise ship, yes you can put a pound of bacon on your plate from the buffet, but is it cool? No, no its not...
Hahaha...I must be THAT neighbor. No but really, it is a concern and I am pretty careful about over harvesting. Keep in mind these were taken from three different areas and two counties. I didn't post the one I got in Missouri.
For a long time the deer limit was one in Michigan so you had to pass up deer to keep from limiting out to early. Now the limit is 2 in the areas I hunt as it is very difficult to get extra doe permits, so it still happens occasionally. Turkey, bear, elk are on a drawing basis so usually my limit is 0, I meet that every time.
We only get one deer tag for the most part in Colorado, makes it a little easier to tag out. I've done it two out of three times with trad gear, never could get it done with a compound. That had more to do with experience than gear though!
The only thing ive ever tagged out on with a trad bow is turkeys this pas spring. Hopefully that will change this deer season! Obligatory pics:
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Got my personal limit several times over the years. Here in my KY zone there are enough deer not to be any bag limit except for a single buck.
It's not real hard to shoot your limit here on does in Kansas if that's really what you want to do. Bucks too if your not picky but we like to pick certain ones that we have been watching for years till there mature. We don't hunt over feed piles or food plots and spend many, many hours each year patterning them on many different spots that we have that are not leased either. Makes no difference to me what other guys do either way we just like the challenge of chasing the big ones not the numbers game.
Makes it a lot more exciting for us and we always fill enough doe tags to get our family's thru till the next season. Plus I always share my hunting spots with my good Tradgang buddy's :bigsmyl:
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Tracy
Just in rabbits. No deer yet. No limit on coyotes yet out here.
Ha. . . not caring if it is cool or not. . . a pound of bacon is a pound of bacon. . . and it is ALL MINE ! bwahahaha keep your fingers clear or dey get bit !
ChuckC
QuoteOriginally posted by K.S.TRAPPER:
It's not real hard to shoot your limit here on does in Kansas if that's really what you want to do. Bucks too if your not picky but we like to pick certain ones that we have been watching for years till there mature. We don't hunt over feed piles or food plots and spend many, many hours each year patterning them on many different spots that we have that are not leased either. Makes no difference to me what other guys do either way we just like the challenge of chasing the big ones not the numbers game.
Makes it a lot more exciting for us and we always fill enough doe tags to get our family's thru till the next season. Plus I always share my hunting spots with my good Tradgang buddy's :bigsmyl:
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Tracy
Reckon you need any more "Tradgang buddies"?!
:wavey: :wavey:
Nice looking bucks!
:campfire:
Wow! tracy those are 2 impressive bucks. Dunno if I've seen that much antler total in the 3 seasons here in Michigan
I did 2 times in 2012 21st century longbow 5 caribou each day JULY 2-3 for total 10 caribou but than again up in this zone we can shoot 3 cows and 2 bulls a day 365 days a year,
That's a lot of caribou meat to be packing!!!!! Some great photos here! Congrats to all.
Cool thread, I have taken 3 deer in one season with my bow here in Indiana but I have a lifetime hunting license and with that I can take as many deer as each county will allow which would be a lot of deer.