Announcing the 2011 FnF Bowhunt Contest
Contest will be broken into two categories and will run from Sept. 30th, 2011 through Feb. 5th, 2012.
Best Photograph
Can be a photo of any bow kill harvested between the dates above. Date stamped photos are a must. Judging will be on the aww factor of the picture. Meaning either the size of the harvested animal/s, or the setting the pic was in, or overall picture, or all of the above. Looking for something that stands out from an ordinary hero shot here.
Largest Whitetail Rack
Will have to be photo'd obviously, but we ask that you include something for size reference. A tape measure legible in the pic, measuring the spread, would be best.
Must be a Whitetail deer.
This will be judged on the widest spread, so measure them at their widest point.
* The members will judge the Best Photograph, and the Largest Whitetail Rack will judge itself.
* You don't have to specify which category you want your entry in. It will pretty much dictate that itself.
* All entries must be a registered Fins and Fur member at the time the contest begins. (Sept. 30th 2011) Midnight. This way no one is lurking, hops in after a massive kill and runs off with the loot, never to be seen again.
* All entries must be posted in this thread in order to be eligible.
* All entered pictures must either be time stamped via the camera, or there must be something in the photo reading "Fins and Fur '11.
No photoshopped images.
Prizes
One 1st place winner will be selected for each category.
Each first place winner will receive...
* A $100.00 gift card to Cabelas or Bass Pro Shop. Winners choice.
Good luck to all :yoyo:
* All entered pictures must either be time stamped via the camera, or there must be something in the photo reading "Fins and Fur '10.
No photoshopped images.
Crap ! The sign I have made up "Fins & Fur 2011" won't work then !?! :biggrin:
:laf: ooops
I better fix that for my lil HaMeR
Ok, all better :biggrin:
Quote from: HaMeR on September 30, 2011, 04:36:47 PM
Best Photograph
Can be a photo of any bow kill harvested between the dates above. Date stamped photos are a must. Judging will be on the aww factor of the picture. Meaning either the size of the harvested animal/s, or the setting the pic was in, or overall picture, or all of the above. Looking for something that stands out from an ordinary hero shot here.
So the photograph part of the contest can be any animal taken with a bow? And not just a whitetail deer? Just wondering. :wo:
That would be correct Semp. :wink:
It was brought to our attention a while back that Whitetail arent available everywhere, and not everyone hunts them.
Sure!! Pick on the old overworked guy that types with 2 fingers!! :argh:
:alscalls: :alscalls:
Good Luck to everybody!! :yoyo: :yoyo:
No entries so far? Man, I wish I had a fins and fur sign with me on Sunday when all we had to take a pictura was a camera phone.
Until someone sticks one and enters the contest, here's a cool pic. to tide you boys over.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/FOsteology/Misc/trailcam.jpg)
What are the odds of capping a shot like that over your cuddeback trail cam :laf: :laf:
I have a picture of this buck on trail cam 2 nights before I shot him. Can't upload pics from work but will when I go home for lunch.
Practice makes perfect. If you remember when I shot at my 4 point on Saturday night around 6:00. That night I shot just over his back. Luckily I missed him clean. We moved some stuff around on my bow and shot through paper. We went down under some big oak trees and practiced out of a stand at a fake 3-d doe target and found where to shoot him at what angle. On sunday, monday and tuesday I practiced every chance I got and felt deadly about my shooting. On tuesday evening Dad and I headed out to the stand where I missed my 4 point and I spoted a 5 point around 6:00. He walked past us and out of the woods and into the field behind us. We forgot are grunt call but luckily brought are rattiling antlers. My Dad was burbing to try to sound like we were using a grunt call. He didn't pay attention so we tapped the antlers together and he quickly responded to them. The wind was blowing right toward him but he didn't smell us. He started to come back into range but there were limbs in the way and I couldn't get a good shot. He looked really nervous and was trying to smell us and finally he walked back up into the clover field. We couldn't see him anymore and just watched the trails in front of us in the woods. After a while it started to get dark and then we heard something off to our right. It was him. He came back for another look. He was walking straight for are tree when two other bucks showed up. None were as big as him. He smelled them and then started coming for us. At 11 yards he finally turned broadside. I pulled my bow back and he took two long leaps and stopped to look back. He was quartering away from us and I put the green pin right on the top of the kill zone just behind his ribs. I pulled the release and saw the tracer nock go straight into him and disapear. He ran up towards the other bucks and into a thicker part of the woods. Dad thought I shot under him but then thought I hit him low because we didn't see the nock in the ground. We went down and looked for some blood. Found two little drops and then I thought I heard some rustling up around where he ran to. Dad said we should leave and give it a couple of hours just in case. We came back around 9 ish with flashlights and found his trail. We walked up a little and found the nock glowing red right next to the 5 point. I was so excited.
Here are two pictures of him.
(http://i738.photobucket.com/albums/xx27/daveandbarb2/IMG_1886.jpg)
And in this one you can see he is a five point
(http://i738.photobucket.com/albums/xx27/daveandbarb2/IMG_1877.jpg)
Wonderful story Dante. :highclap: :highclap: Congratulations on a beautiful deer. :congrats: :congrats: You should be very proud.
Pat
Thanks! It was so much fun!
WTG Congrats on a Nice Buck and a good story :highclap: :highclap:
That's fantastic Dante! Nice buck, and good shot. Congrats! :congrats:
Congratulations on a fine buck! I'll bet your heart was thumping just a little. :eyebrownod:
Super job !! :yoyo:
Congratulations !! :highclap: :highclap:
Absolutely beautiful buddy :yoyo:
Quote from: Spike on October 06, 2011, 07:19:38 PM
We came back around 9 ish with flashlights and found his trail. We walked up a little and found the nock glowing red right next to the 5 point. I was so excited.
I was excited just reading it! Nice job :congrats: And congratulations.
Nice story and great looking buck.
Jerry
Thank you! I really enjoyed following all of your story, the miss and your practice and especially your persistence. You earned that buck!
Congratulations on a fine buck Dante!! Way to hang in there & practice!! Congratulations to Dad as well!! :yoyo: :yoyo:
Nothing beats time spent with your kids. It feels like I tagged out, and I couldn't be prouder.
All your comments add to this experience.
Thanks
I was wondering when I was going to be reading my little buddy's story here. I was busting a gut trying not to say anything here, after Dante called me Tuesday night to tell me of his success. Once again, "Way to go Dante"! I'm so proud of you!
Dave
Awesome Job Dante, :congrats: :congrats: you are smoking me so far this year.
Here is my buck from last Sunday. Didn't have an FnF sign made up but I will for the next one if there is one. I leave for Korea in 4 weeks for an entire year so I am trying to make the most of this season and my wife said she wants a freezer full of deer meat before I leave.
On the trail cam a few mornings before I shot him:
(http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k109/Lighterknot/Hunting/00021-1.jpg)
At the skinning rack:
(http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k109/Lighterknot/Hunting/2Oct8ptt-1.jpg)
Congrats!
He's a nice looking buck - and it's cool you have him on the trailcam. No story, though?
Nice buck! :congrats: :biggrin:
Nice buck yougot there Lighterknot!! And we wish you the very best over the next year while you are away!! :yoyo: :yoyo:
Nice fat buck you got there, Chad. That one will go a good ways towards filling the ol' freezer. :congrats:
Out of country for a year? You know they do have computers over there ... so keep in touch, ya' hear! :wink:
Congrats Lighterknot on yours too ! :congrats:
Lighterknot you had yours posing for you ahead of time :laf: What a ham.
Nice buck, definitely a freezer filler.
You could have wrote FnF in the dirt there and got by :wink:
I appreciate your time serving. Stay safe my friend.
Thanks for the well wishes everyone. Almost got #2 of the season but the deer was so close the bottom cam of my bow hit my stand when i took the shot and it almost knocked the bow out of my hand. It made the arrow land about two feet short of the deer and he took off like a rocket. He never blew so maybe I will see him again in a few days.
Here's my 2011 contribution. :biggrin:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/FOsteology/Misc/IMG_0743.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/FOsteology/Misc/IMG_0746.jpg)
Not much of a tracking job needed there FOs! Good shootin!
Quote from: HuntnCarve on October 30, 2011, 07:11:33 PM
Not much of a tracking job needed there FOs! Good shootin!
Might need some tree climbers :readthis:
:alscalls: NNNNNNNnnnice
A song came to mind when I seen that.
Shot through the heart, and your to blame.... :biggrin:
Quote from: FinsnFur on October 30, 2011, 08:47:21 PM
:alscalls: NNNNNNNnnnice
A song came to mind when I seen that.
Shot through the heart, and your to blame.... :biggrin:
So you are a Bon Jovi fan? :wo:
Nope :nono: But my Ex sure was.
:confused: No date stamp or FnF sign FOs!! Wassup wit dat!!?? :alscalls: :alscalls:
Heres my entry! Shot him 11-11-11. Sorry didnt get to post the pics that day just now had my friend email them to me so i could get them posted. After a long hard season it finally paid off, not my biggest buck but i sure am proud of this one. Long story behind this deer.
(http://i1026.photobucket.com/albums/y329/biscuit071/bow1.jpg)
(http://i1026.photobucket.com/albums/y329/biscuit071/bow2.jpg)
(http://i1026.photobucket.com/albums/y329/biscuit071/bow3.jpg)
(http://i1026.photobucket.com/albums/y329/biscuit071/bow4.jpg)
Nice buck. Congrats!
Very nice :yoyo:
He's got some unique facial markings. Nice looking deer :congrats: Congrats
Way to go Biscuit! :yoyo: :yoyo: Nice buck, congratulations. :biggrin: :biggrin:
Pat
Nice one for sure! Can't wait to hear the story. Looking at your pics I could'n't see where you hit it. :shrug: Texas Heart Shot? :biggrin:
Thanks guys!! Dave my tree stand is 30 ft and im on a hillside and of course the deer had to come from down the hill. Arrow went in 3in below the spine and out the bottom of the stomach. When field dressing the deer his one lung was in three different strips. Them Rage broadheads sure do there job.
Congratulations ! :congrats:
Congrats! Nice deer.
Now that you got that out of your system you can get back to killing coyotes. :eyebrownod:
Semp i cant wait for deer season to get out of the way so me and joe can start our wrath!!! :sneer: :yoyo:
WAY TO GO Biscuit!!! Nice deer!! :yoyo: :yoyo:
Well I got my 2011 buck in 2012. Six of us met up and did some pushing. Not really much of a story as a pushed deer either comes by you or not. Three bucks came out ahead of the pushers, and I could see them about 100 yds off, being contained on the far side of the woods by a rain swollen river (more like a creek that they would normally cross, but not that morning), and a housing development behind me. They continued past, staying 100 yds away, then turned back my way when they smelled one of the other standers. They came back up my side of the woods, right under the tree I climbed, and stopped about 15 yds behind me. My crossbow is sort of loud, so I can quote Semp here - "Bang flop." And flop it was as I spined it. The other two, which were rags, ran back across the woods and took their chances with the swollen creek. They were swept downstream about 50/60 yards by the time they swam all the way across.
Later in the day my brother shot a doe - out of a tree stand on our last drive. I'm telling you this because I've been battling with one of the other guys that you need to be in a tree (at least 20 feet up - even higher this time of year) to have a chance with a bow. We moved a lot of deer yesterday and the only two we got were the only times the stander was off the ground. Don't mean to go on about this, but I NEED to vent! And he still doesn't get it. :madd:
Anyway, here is my 8 point:
(http://i738.photobucket.com/albums/xx27/daveandbarb2/IMG_2749-1.jpg)
(http://i738.photobucket.com/albums/xx27/daveandbarb2/IMG_2756.jpg)
Dude thats a Boone and Crockett Christmas tree. :biggrin:
Way to go Dave!
Nice one, Dave! I try to get 20 ft high for my tree stands. Any lower and the odds go way up that they will see or smell you.
I've never done a deer drive. Sounds like a good method to use.
Quote from: Todd Rahm on January 13, 2012, 11:44:03 AM
Dude thats a Boone and Crockett Christmas tree. :biggrin:
Damn! I was going to try and crop that thing out as I knew it would draw attention here.
And thanks for the 'atta boys.'
Nice ! Congrats :highclap: :highclap:
I shot my buck on Sept 17 2011. can I still count it? :eyebrow:
Crop out the Christmas tree :laf:
Thats a nice lookin buck Dave. Especially after his bath :wink:
Way to go Dave. :yoyo: :yoyo: Congratulations on the crossbow buck. :congrats: :congrats:
Pat
Way to go Dave! Taking it right down to the wire as the season draws near to a close.
By the way Todd, I helped pick out that Christmas tree. :yoyo: Dang fine looking tree and Buck!
Dave
Hey,
If you do a contest this year would it be hard to change the start date to September 1st?
Thanks, Cody
Hey Code, we haven't talked dates yet with your folks but I could take your younger bro after deer the last week or two of August. It is open by then up here.
If so, it would be nice if he was eligible for contests.
I just went back and read the rules. As written it is for whitetails only. Code would have to drive several hundred miles to hunt whitetails. He has blacktails in his yard. Any chance of adding other categories of deer?
Our archery season for deer opens August 25 and ends Jan 15.
Actually the contest has two categories. One for best photo, and one for biggest whitetail rack. Any species could still win $100 bucks for best photo.
If I remember right we hashed this over a couple years ago and couldnt come up with a way to include every deer in North America because a baby Reindeer or a healthy Mule deer could wipe every Boone and Crockett Whitetail out of the contest with little or no effort.
OK, gotcha on comparing mule deer and others if size & scoring is the standard of measure. Thanks for the clarification. I hadn't followed that debate.
Our dinky northern blacktail racks don't stand a chance against anything, and we have a defensive complex about that! :iroll:
How about starting the photo contest early enough to include August and Sept. seasons?
Thats not a problem.
We'll general poll the membership for season dates to make sure everyone who cares to participate has a chance.
I'm guessing those dates werent mentioned in the previous contest discussions.
You'll have to bring it up again or remind someone, cause with no discrepancies everything just carries over to the following year if we set up a new contest.
Heres' a question for ya. If I get lucky with my new crossbow, is it legal for the contest?
Depends on whether or not you update your profile info so that I quit getting all your private messages :innocentwhistle: :alscalls:
:shrug:okaaay! :laf:
Don't know what Code took for photos today and maybe after the kill is too late, but here is my reminder to open the photo contest earlier (Aug 15 wold be ideal) to allow legit entries from far western early bow seasons.
Quote from: FinsnFur on July 29, 2012, 08:49:38 PM
Thats not a problem.
We'll general poll the membership for season dates to make sure everyone who cares to participate has a chance.
I'm guessing those dates werent mentioned in the previous contest discussions.
You'll have to bring it up again or remind someone, cause with no discrepancies everything just carries over to the following year if we set up a new contest.
You mean September 15th, Okanagan?
Quote from: FinsnFur on September 03, 2012, 07:48:28 PM
You mean September 15th, Okanagan?
Today is Sept. 3 and Code and his brother each killed a deer with a bow today, so the main thing was to try to get the contest open by today so they could be included. I said Aug 15 (rather than today's date or a backdate to Sept. 1) just to set the rules precedent for next year because some of our bow seasons open in mid August.
Sounds good.
And they can still be in it, regardless of when we open it, if we have one. As long as they have something in the pic saying FnF 2012 or time stamped pictures.
The important date is the closing date.
Thank you. Sounds good.
Quote from: Okanagan on September 03, 2012, 08:06:36 PM
Today is Sept. 3 and Code and his brother each killed a deer with a bow today, so the main thing was to try to get the contest open by today so they could be included. I said Aug 15 (rather than today's date or a backdate to Sept. 1) just to set the rules precedent for next year because some of our bow seasons open in mid August.
Congrats to Code and his brother! Ask them to post some pics. Hope it is a little cooler up there than what it is down here. I don't know that I could get one out of the field before the green flies landed. :nono:
Went out to my stand this morning after working all night. Didn't see anything. Hunted till about 9:30. Came home and took a nap so I could hit it fresh this evening.
Went back out about 5PM. Around 7, 2 does and a small 4 point buck still in velvet came thru. I wanted some freezer meat, so at 27 yards I stuck this doe. She turned towards me about the time I released the arrow and hit her a little far back. I was kinda worried about that but she piled up in 60 yards.
(http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k311/weedwalker/Redbird/Ninevah/DSCN0561.jpg)
Beautiful!
She'll put some good eats in the freezer for ya for sure. :congrats:
Yep, should be prime eating this time of year. Weedwalker, you did some good shooting!
re my grandsons: after me asking for early entry time, I don't know if they took a pic with a date in it or not, so don't know if they have a pic that qualifies! When Cody returns we will see if the word ironic is appropriate. :readthis:
Congrats, Ed! Makes me want to pick up my bow. I might just do that. It's cooling off some here.
Nice job ! :congrats: :congrats:
JDBP, (Jason), got a nice buck with his bow. He's moved into a new house and dosen't have internet yet so I told him I'd post his pic for him.
(http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k311/weedwalker/Redbird/JasonsBuck.jpg)
Very nice indeed! :congrats:
Yes! That buck is a dandy.
Yep, nice looking rack anyway. What'd he weigh?
hey...is that shed built off the ground? what up wit dat?
Don't know what it weighed. Didn't take a pic of the spread with a ruler, (he said 18" :iroll:). The shed is 1/2 floored and sealed, 1/2 open on one side and off the ground jus a lil.
Wow that is a nice looking buck. Congrats to you Jason.
Nice ! Congrats !
Congratulations on a dandy buck Jason!! :yoyo: :yoyo: