little buck on opening day.

[Pat_Cameron]

He isn't big but if you cut him up into little pieces and surround those
pieces with mashed potatoes and maybe a few vegetables he starts to look a whole
lot better.

50 cal mountain rifle by John Bergmann. lots of FFFG and .490 patched round ball.



I will try and post a better photo in the daylight before he ends up in those little pieces.

Pat Cameron

[silly goose]

I love venison in little pieces.  Nice work.

[wattlebuster]

Congrats Pat. The one I killed has smaller antlers than that. I Shot what I thought was a doe an it grew little spikes when I walked up to it. Oh well. Like you said the taters will make it all better

[Hungry Horse]

 My dear departed Dad had to admit that my venison sauerbraten was better than his mothers. She made hers using a recipe she brought from Germany. I made mine from a buck I killed that was in full flight when I killed him with one shot at eighty yards. What's not to be proud of? He field dressed 63 pounds. My hunting buddies kid me to this day about it. I always mention what a small target he was, but it does no good. But of course they didn't get any sauerbraten, and potatoes, with gingersnap gravy, so maybe that's the real problem.

  Hungry Horse

[Daryl]

Nice little buck, Pat.  He's a Monster compared to a 4-point black-tail a friend shot on Morsby Island (one of the Islands in the Queen Charlotte Islands) off the BC coast.  That little fella dressed out at 18 pounds, about what my little runt Springer Spaniel (30lbs. live) would have dressed out at.
Be happy with that BIG whitetail! 

[Majorjoel]

There is an old saying around here that relates  to taking the smaller sized deer. 

I can't seem to remember what is was, but when old age creeps up on you, dragging a small carcass out of the woods sure beats the heck out of them big monster one's!
 
Younger meat is much more tender and delicious as well!

Pat, you bare a striking resemblance to that movie star..........Bruce Willis      

[wattlebuster]

Dont tell him that. His head might swell an he wont be able to get through the door of his cabin

[Smoketown]

Nice little buck, Pat.  He's a Monster compared to a 4-point black-tail a friend shot on Morsby Island (one of the Islands in the Queen Charlotte Islands) off the BC coast.  That little fella dressed out at 18 pounds, about what my little runt Springer Spaniel (30lbs. live) would have dressed out at.
Be happy with that BIG whitetail! 

I'll bet the Sioux know how to prepare Springer Spaniel.   

Cheers,
Smoketown

[D. Taylor Sapergia]

Before I got down to Daryl's post, I too was reminiscing about those island deer I used to shoot.  There are no predators other than black bears and humans on Haida Gwaii (Formerly Queen Charlotte Islands) so the deer are plentiful but small.  I used to shoot several every week for our table. Once Daryl came to visit  and my wife roasted an entire back leg for our supper.  We ate the whole thing in one sitting.  Mighty fine grub!  That little white tail will be outstanding fare.

[Dave R]

Just tell the hecklers " ANYBODY CAN HIT A BIG DEER IT TAKES A TRUE MARKSMAN TO HIT A LITTLE DEER!!

[Pat_Cameron]

Here are a few better pictures.
He forest photo is where I was set up.
The little buck came from the left hand side of the photo
and was in the creek bed.

[David R. Pennington]

Very nice deer pat. I haven't had a chance to get in the woods. Maybe a chance Thursday morning. Best tasting venison I ever had was from young bucks. A few years ago I had no venison in the freezer and it was the very last minutes of daylight on the very last day and a nice fat doe came walking toward me. She disapeared down a little gully and I had decided when she reappeared I would take her for the table. In the failing light a deer soon apeared out of the gully and the .50 roared. When the smoke cleared I saw a white tail bounding away. I couldn't believe I had missed. When I looked again I saw legs sticking up in the air. When I got to the spot I found I hadn't missed, but the deer I shot was not the big fat doe, but a very small deer that had evidently come up the gully completely out of sight. Oh well, at least it is dark and no one will see me drag it out. So happens one of the cousins was hunting on the farm and heard me shoot and got nosey. He made fun of me of course, need any help dragging it out? I got an empty pocket, all those kind of remarks. It was very tasty as long as it lasted.

[hanshi]

You did just fine, Pat; I haven't even got a shot so far.