Big Buck Contest

[TopNotch]

Top Notch Taxidermy is having a big Buck contest.   there is no entry fee and the biggest deer will receive a free mount.  biggest archery deer receives half price on a mount and biggest muley gets money off a mount as well.  Everyone who enters will receive a gift certificate for a future mount.  Good luck to all during this rifle season and remainder of bowseason.  It should be excellent and I look forward to hearing from you and sharing hunting stories.  I can be reached at 605-691-1145, and you can view my website www.tntaxidermy.com
Tyler- Top Notch Taxidermy

[Smarty]

Give us some results.  What are some of the big ones looking like?

[TopNotch]

ill see if i can get some pics taken this week and put them up

[Smarty]

Sounds great.  We'll be looking forward to them.

[TopNotch]

Well I figure the racks look better on the deer.  Some of you have been asking to see some of the deer from the big buck contest.  All these are this years deer.  The biggest are yet to come and  I will post more pictures when i Get them finished up.  The skull is a doe that was head shot by buddy last year.  He asked me to clean it up and after removing some of the flesh i found the broad head lodged in the back of its skull.  Pretty neat looking skull.  Needless to say, there was no tracking of that deer.
Tyler

[Slip Bobber]

Good work Tyler....some nice looking mounts.

Has your buddy (skull shot) taken any bowhunter education courses?  That was not a very responsible or ethical shot placement to say the least.

[gunner]

It was an oops.  The deer moved when He shot.

[TLA]

Good work Tyler....some nice looking mounts.

Has your buddy (skull shot) taken any bowhunter education courses?  That was not a very responsible or ethical shot placement to say the least.

Please explain to me why it wasn't good shot placement, responsible or ethical? I really don't understand but then I've never bow hunted. Seems to me the deer would have felt nothing and just crumpled. From a firearms viewpoint it doesn't get any better than that. Particularly if you don't care about having it mounted.

Not being my usual smartass self either, I truly don't understand why it was a bad thing.

[sdstroker]

Good work Tyler....some nice looking mounts.

Has your buddy (skull shot) taken any bowhunter education courses?  That was not a very responsible or ethical shot placement to say the least.

Please explain to me why it wasn't good shot placement, responsible or ethical? I really don't understand but then I've never bow hunted. Seems to me the deer would have felt nothing and just crumpled. From a firearms viewpoint it doesn't get any better than that. Particularly if you don't care about having it mounted.

Not being my usual smartass self either, I truly don't understand why it was a bad thing.

I don't know who ever taught head shots with a bow or where justifiable in taking of any big game animal.  As hunters we have a responsibility to harvest the animal as fast an cleanly as possible.  In all my years of hunting I have never aimed for the head on a big game animal with a bow or rifle.  I don't know how it ever could be condsidered an oops.  The heart and lungs are along ways from the head.

Alot of people that hunt are marginal shots at best often times missing the deer completely.  For the shots that do hit the deer and often times they hit areas outside of the vitals leaving for a tough trail or wounded deer that run off to die needlessly.  Bowhunting gets a bad enough name because of things the responsible bowhunter has no control, such as the mythical tales of scores of wounded but lost deer, hunting arrows that wound, but don't kill...etc.  Bowhunters don't need to add to this by posting pictures on public forums saying look at this cool shot.  It was a oops, but it was pretty cool?  As an experienced bowhunter, I have a hard time believing this was an oops as the OP said it was.  The odds of the deer turning right as the shot is placed only to have it hit squarely in the top of the skull are unbelievable.  The odds of wounding that animal with a bullet or arrow, hitting anything but the spinal cord are far better.  I myself have seen one deer with an arrow hanging from the neck and another with its jaw shot off.  This is the last thing the public need to see or hear about, not to mention it pisses most landowners off to see wounded deer running around or laying in field.  JMO

[gunner]

Your right it does piss landowners off seeing the deer wounded or finding one that died due to hunting. But I have also experienced on more than one occasion of having a wounded deer cross onto land I could not hunt and be denied permission for retrieval.

I also have seen deer move.  As an experienced bow hunter you have also seen deer move when the bow gets released.  I'm almost positive of that.  I even see it on tv when they are shooting tame deer on the farms.  Any shot is possible with all the factors.  I shot a T-post with my bow once cause I plain and simple didn't see the fence the deer was standing behind.  Call it BUCK FEVER or whatever.  What's the chance of hitting a post 2" wide when shooting at a 6' long deer?  Close to none.  It was an accident get over it.  I've seen plenty of deer running around with legs dangling.  I'm sure the hunters that have shot these deer weren't aiming for the legs.  And yes the European mount with the broadhead hole does look cool.  I've only shot one deer in the head and it took most of it off with my 30-06 and I can honestly say it didn't run and I easily found it. no tracking.  I'm not saying that is the best shot to take but we're not shooting tame deer on a ranch.  Take the shot your comfortable with.  Last time I checked the brain was a VITAL ORGAN.