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Ground Shrink is alive and well in NW Sask lol. This fella looked a bit bigger running along the bush in a snow storm. No taxidermy bill on this guy but his tenderloins are sure tasty-Ty battered them in garlic salt and flour and fried them in butter-Yum Yum.
 
We hardly have any deer. It must be from too many coyotes because
we never find a carcass. The guys were out and found 6 bucks with 4 does and they also found 6 coyotes.
That's not a good ratio.

How's your deer population, Justin?

We went to Miles City today and only saw a couple. There along by the
Harding Land and Cattle there are usually lots of deer. Not so now.

Nice buck, NR, even if it isn't a trophy.
 
That's a really nice buck and a good even rack on him. Our deer numbers are down this fall, thought to be because of high coyote numbers.

A few trail cams set up in front of dens have shown a lot of fawns being dragged in over a short period of time. The coyote hunters are killing more coyotes than ever but not keeping up.
 
Faster horses said:
We hardly have any deer. It must be from too many coyotes because
we never find a carcass. The guys were out and found 6 bucks with 4 does and they also found 6 coyotes.
That's not a good ratio.

How's your deer population, Justin?We went to Miles City today and only saw a couple. There along by the
Harding Land and Cattle there are usually lots of deer. Not so now.

Nice buck, NR, even if it isn't a trophy.
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i've got one alfalfa field that is about 115 acres that has about 200 hd on it. :shock: :o :mad: quite a few hunters stopped in this weekend, most said it had been tuff hunting. :???: i guess i must have them all :?
 
They cancelled the doe tag last year in our zone which was crazy-the deer numbers are real high. When I started hunting it was a big deal to fill your tag with anything-we have alot of yotes too but I think the deer population just overwhelms them. These warm falls help the bucks get through the rut in better shape too-I'd say our doe to buck ratio is about 10-1 right now and most does have twins. When we dressed this critter yesterday he was still fat as a tick and his fat hadn't turned colour yet.
 
The doe we cut up last week had almost an inch of fat across her back but the buck was showing just a bit of fat. You can tell as usual who was doing the hard work . . . :lol: :lol: :lol:
 
The best thing they did is cancel the second buck tag for the forest. We're about 12 miles south of it and for a lot of guys that was "close enough". They'd shoot the first decent buck they saw to 'bank' one, and then hold out for a big one. Between that and the cwd kill off it was hard to find a deer over 3 1/2. Bucks put on a pile of bone from 3 1/2 to 4 1/2.
 
I'd guess a three or four year old-the Hanson World Record buck was only 3 1/2-when you see the horns in person it's scary to think of what he'd been as a 6 or 7 year old. That buck the ravens got was only 1/2 mile from where Sara got her muzzie deer-you can see the wide spread-short tine genetics.
 
We've got a cheater in our neighbourhood. There was a big buck hit by a truck the other night on the highway, and he's laying in the ditch.... without a head! :shock: :shock: :shock: Everybody's going to be pointing fingers at each other when they have the trophy big buck night after hunting season is over. :lol: :lol: :lol:
 
Three got hit last night within five miles of the yard-the ravens had them pretty much all vacumed up by this A'M. Maybe somebody just wanted the horns not necessarily going to enter them.
 

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