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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | OutdoorsFIRST Media will soon be launching a new website dedicated to Whitetail Deer hunting across North America. We are searching for pictures and the story of the hunt from 2005 and 2006 and articles/stories our MuskieFIRST visitors who are also deer hunters wish to contribute. Expect the format AND the sense of community at www.whitetailfirst.com to be very similar to MuskieFIRST. We will be sponsoring a Big Buck contest for the best 2005/2006 Big Buck picture as well, with details soon to be posted. Lots more to come in the near future about the planned launch!
Gather your big buck pictures, your family hunting pictures and stories and submit them to me at [email protected] for publication in the Whitetailfirst.com gallery as soon as the site is launched.
Thanks to the good folks at E-cell for the Sponsorship necessary to launch our FIRST Outdoors Website for the Hunting enthusiast. |
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Location: Stevens Point | I have been waiting for this moment my entire life!!  |
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Location: Anchorage | Control yourself BSwen, slow, rhythmic breathing. |
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Location: north central wisconsin | That is great to hear Steve!! Cannot wait to check out that, in addition to this years' ice fishing section. |
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Location: Pewaukee, Wisconsin | Now we are talking, I like it.
How about some big buck PORN.
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Location: Washington, PA | Nice! can't wait. |
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Location: Iowa | DUDE!!!!...I just about blew it when I saw that Lake of the Woods buck...that thing looks like an Elk...congrats to the hunter...
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Location: Black Creek, WI | Where's Skeelunker1 when you need him? Heh heh heh.
Cool idea Steve!!! Can't wait to see its debut. |
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Location: Athens, Ohio | Will this sharp turn away from strictly fishing necessitate a change in your organization's mission?
"Our Mission
OutdoorsFIRST is about the news of the day in the walleye, muskie, and ice fishing industries, reported in a fair and unique manner to an ever growing audience.
Whether we're reporting a hot story, presenting high-quality tournament photography, editing a video, or conducting a radio interview, OutdoorsFIRST's commitment to the freshwater fishing industry will always remain the same. Do it FIRST and do it better than anyone else."
There is no catch and release in hunting. m
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| Mikie, I keep many of the walleye I catch as they are good to eat...same with deer...I am sure whitetailfirst will encourage a continued hunting heritage with quality ethics and respect for the enviroment and wildlife....such as the other outdoorfirst sites...I am sure you have little to worry about...Ben |
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| mikie - 10/26/2006 8:50 AM
Will this sharp turn away from strictly fishing necessitate a change in your organization's mission?
"Our Mission
OutdoorsFIRST is about the news of the day in the walleye, muskie, and ice fishing industries, reported in a fair and unique manner to an ever growing audience.
Whether we're reporting a hot story, presenting high-quality tournament photography, editing a video, or conducting a radio interview, OutdoorsFIRST's commitment to the freshwater fishing industry will always remain the same. Do it FIRST and do it better than anyone else."
There is no catch and release in hunting. m
There is also no catch and release in the mission statement of OutdoorFirst. I should probably just let Steve and Zach handle this, mikie. You know I'm seeing a tilting to the left in your post. hehehe Wish you were going to be up at PI this weekend! |
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Location: Waukesha & Land O Lakes, WI | Whitey....not just a white tail.
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | "Our Mission
OutdoorsFIRST is about the news of the day in the walleye, muskie, and ice fishing industries, reported in a fair and unique manner to an ever growing audience.
Whether we're reporting a hot story, presenting high-quality tournament photography, editing a video, or conducting a radio interview, OutdoorsFIRST's commitment to the freshwater fishing industry will always remain the same. Do it FIRST and do it better than anyone else."
There's no 'catch and release' phrase in the mission statement, either. We'll have to add our statement the committment to reporting the news of the day in the deer hunting industry exactly as we do for the fishing business. High quality photography, audio, video, and much more, plus coverage of Whitetail shows, etc. |
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Location: Eau Claire, WI | That's ok Steve, from what I've heard. Shep's gun has a bent barrel and he practices "Shoot and Release" or maybe that's me when I'm trying to score a duck for my Lab to retrieve.
Congrats on the new adventure, should be fun.
WaterfowlFIRST.com now there's something that makes the ol' fur on the back of my neck stand up.
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| Very Cool! ...If "Big Boy" walks by my stand this weekend I will make sure to post pics |
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| Mark, we're way ahead of you.
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Location: Lincolnshire, IL | Here is another one from the trail cam in MO. Hope to meet up with him in a week or so...
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| A buddy of mine shot this one last year, how old do you think it is haha? It didn't have a whole lot of teeth left.
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Location: South Portsmouth, KY | Sweet! I cant wait for this site to get underway. Hopefully i can get you a picture of me and a big kentucky buck! Now that would be nice!! |
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Location: Pewaukee, Wisconsin | WOW, that is a monster.
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Location: Pewaukee, Wisconsin | I just got a couple more great pics of a huge buck I would like to share with everyone.
WOW is this a hige buck!!!
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| Hey Steve, this is great news, I have casually browsed the internet looking for a whitetail board that is as friendly as the musky boards and haven't had much luck. I am looking forward to this project.
Good luck and God bless.
John
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| Mike do you know what that scored? Impressive non typical!!!....
THIRTY POINT BUCK?..its DA TIRDY point buck!
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Here are a couple that were sent in today, good shots of nice whitetails, a trophy and a future trophy..
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Location: Pewaukee, Wisconsin | No idea what it scored. I just got the pictures from a friend and thought everyone would like to see this monster.
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Location: Stevens Point, WI | Brad is that a big drop tine on the right side if I see that correctly? |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | A couple from the Badfish Boys from the past...look at the 'boots' on the buck in the truck!
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Location: The desert | Cool pics! Steve I finally have my bow up here. Can I still send you the information to try and get it sold?
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| That buck obviously spent most of it's life in a swamp! No hard pack to wear the hooves down.
Here's some pics of Erics first deer a few years ago.
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Location: Pewaukee, Wisconsin | OH MY GOD is that buck sweeeeeet!!!!
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Location: Stones throw away...finally!! | IAJustin - 10/31/2006 9:15 AM
Mike do you know what that scored? Impressive non typical!!!....
THIRTY POINT BUCK?..its DA TIRDY point buck!
Here is a newspaper article about the monster Ohio buck pictured earlier.
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Location: Stones throw away...finally!! | A couple more pics.
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Location: Wausau, Wisconsin | Here is one I sliced last Saturday. Great trip, bucks were rutting everywhere. Saw a couple of monsters but this one offered me a standing broadside 31 yard shot.
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Yar Craft/Mercury Walleye Pro Tom Gatzke likes to hunt, too. Nice buck, sir, congratulations!
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Location: Pewaukee, Wisconsin | Can we do catch and release pictures?
Here is one that is lucky to still be walking. I have my eye on his dad or grandpa(big 10-pointer that has a 20-inch + inside spread).
Either way it was nice to watch this buck for an hour. Ya, an hour because he layed down where I took this picture. I took a couple when he got up. Good thing because I was already in my tree for 5 hours and it was 10am.
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Location: north central wisconsin | To think the one on the left is better than a 170 inch animal..... Can you say Brutus Beefcake?
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Location: Iowa | I have seen both deer above on another site...the story behind them was that they were shot on a high fenced "ranch" for a pretty penny...kinda seems like shooting fish in a barrel to me and not too sporting att all...
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Location: Waukesha & Land O Lakes, WI | http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/11/10/deer.pumpkin.ap/index.html
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | A 2006 Dryden, Ontario Buck taken by Jim Kalkofen.
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Todd Williamson sent this picture of an Albino 10. Beautiful buck!
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| A year ago gun season (Friday), this guy stepped out of the cedars. His back was covered with snow and he had big chunks of ice on his forehead. I think he was holed up for several days and finally came out after the big snow on Thanksgiving day. Decent 9 and with good weight...
Last weekend on the same stand (bow), I had a good 8 come out to make a scrape although never presented a shot...I guess the .300 WSM will have to do his job instead of the carbons.
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| My best was 149 gross, 143 5/8 net.
The biggest deduction was an almost 3" difference in the G-2's.
The only other deductions, for main beam was 1/8, brow tines were 2/8 and the rest were all 1 or 2 eighths.
It was so symetrical, it was scary.
I may have sat for the last time yesterday. I just can't handle it physically any more.
Hard to admit that it's time to hang it up for good. But, I have a 10-year old daughter who plans on hunting with her "Best Buddy" in the years to come. I'll do it for her, but my back can't take the cold or the hours needed to arrow the big bucks that run my little slice of heaven. I've seen an 8 that would score 150, and a 12 that would push 170, but I can't sit all day any more, which is what I should have been doing for the last week and a half.
That's OK, I had a good run. Now it'll be a ground blind with my daughter until she is old enough for tree stands, and then I'll make her boyfriend do all of the work.
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Location: Waukesha, WI | Big Perc you said something about shooting fish in a barrel. Well here is something like that. Only I shoot fish and put them into barrels.:) http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i178/muskie-guy/P1010076.jpg
Have not shot a deer yet (haven't gone through Hunters Safety yet), but I have found some nice buck skulls. A 10pt with 22"inside spread!:) I should get on the Hunters Safety thing because I'm seeing some nice bucks in my back yard.
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Location: Pewaukee, Wisconsin | Just if your guys had not got the whole story on that amish buck, here it is.
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Good luck out in the woods this week. The Midwestern Deer Hunt is ON! |
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Location: The Sportsman, home, or out on the water | I was reading that Amish Buck article, and that writer wrote just like Amish folks talk! As I read it, I could hear one of my Amish accounts narrating it!
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Location: Oconto Falls, WI | Here's my largest to date shot this past Sunday evening. 8 full points with one broken point to make 9 pts, and a 19" inside spread.
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| Nice deer boys !!! Beav , ahnging it up to hunt with your daughter is very COOL !!!! I can't wait until my son and nephew can come with , we'll have someone else to do all the work !! They're both only 4 going on 5 but they're HILARIOUS !!! I stay with my nephew when I hunt in MN , we came home after hunting the first day and Nolan ( my nephew ) has yellow shooting glasses , a grunt call . orange hat on backward's , his boots , and he's blowing the grunt call like he's calling geese !!! Then h'ed pick up the binoc's and look out the window and tell us all to be quite ... then he'd go loke mad on the grunt call again !!! PRICELESS to see kid's who want to hunt with their dad's !!! I can't wait to hear his " goose " grunt on opening day , that would make the trip worth while for sure !!! |
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| hey trying to post pics for the first time would you shoot this buck?
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Well, we had a great season, even though the big boys avoided us well. We didn't see a nice buck all season, but they ARE there. We found a blood trail by a stand we hadn't hunted all season because of the winds, and tracked it back to a huge area all ripped up from a fight; looks like one of the bucks lost pretty bad. Probably not fatal, but a heck of a fight had happened there.
Sue got a 6 and a nice doe, and I got a nice doe in the herd control area not far from us. I still have a couple days I can hunt with the smoke pole, maybe that big boy will make a mistake yet!
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| Here is a pic of a very nice 1st Deer a coworker shot on the first morning, of his first ever deer hunt. I suggested he might want to sell his gun and all his gear, as it don't get any better than this!!
WOW, this guy lives in deer poopies!
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Canned venison, anyone else putting it up? I have 8 pints from my doe today already, and probably 26 more tomorrow. Sue uses it with a can of Mushroom soup and a bed of noodles, and it is kick fanny food. Lasts a very long time on the shelf. I'm using an old pressure cooker/canner, 75 minutes at 12 pounds pressure, a tea spoon of seasoned salt, no other ingredients. REALLY easy, and very good eating.
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Sent to me via email:
> Subject: Another Arcadia Giant Falls!!
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> gun season. The story was that they were setting up to make a drive
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> heard something behind him. Here was this GIANT with a doe coming right
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> right time. Welcome to Wisconsin Gun Season.
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> The buck had 15 scorable points and a 29 1/2" inside spread.
> UNBELIEVABLE!!!!
Second set of pictures:
>>This year, his son got a different kind of big buck - a deer with
>>antlers massive enough to put most chandeliers to shame and obliterate
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>>"He does the fishing, and I do the hunting," said Bill Crutchfield
Jr.,
>>as he waited yesterday afternoon for state certification.
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>>With a crowd of camera-phone-toting hunters and Department of Natural
>>Resources officials watching, Crutchfield hauled the carcass from the
>>refrigerator at Hitchcock Taxidermy in Severn for the tale of the
tape.
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>>The buck had 13 points on each 25-inch antler. The entire rack spanned
>>slightly more than 21 inches tip to tip. After measuring all the
antler
>>tines and space between the prongs, Crutchfield's total score was 268
>>4/8 inches, breaking the mark set in 1987 of 228 4/8 inches (antlers
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>>"That's stunning. That's a beast," said Paul Peditto, the head of
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>>For Crutchfield, Monday afternoon's hunt in southern Charles County
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>>a waiting game that began just minutes after he settled into his tree
>>stand and heard a sound behind him in a marsh.
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>>"I turned around and seen him lay down about 100 yards away," recalled
>>Crutchfield, 39, a Charles County native and a firefighter at the
Indian
>>Head Naval Surface Weapons Center. "I seen him shake his head and
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>>see just a bit of his rack. I seen him last year and I knew he was
big."
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>>To calm his nerves, he called a hunting buddy, who reminded
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>>About an hour passed as the hunter calculated the distance and thought
>>about the shot. Suddenly, about 40 yards behind the big buck, an
>>eight-point buck walked out.
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>>Minutes later, "my deer stood up and it was over like that," said
>>Crutchfield, who after looking at the buck called his friend again to
>>alert him that the state record was in jeopardy.
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>>To gain a spot in the national record books, Crutchfield will have to
>>let the antlers air-dry for 60 days and then submit them for
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>>measurements to an official of the Boone and Crockett Club, the
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>>record-keeping organization for North American big game.
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>>Because some bucks develop racks that do not have an equal number of
>>tines on each side, the club divides entries into "typical," or
>>symmetrical, and "non-typical."
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>>While the unsymmetrical antlers on Crutchfield's buck will never be
>>mistaken for the world record of 333 7/8 inches, they easily made the
>>185-inch minimum to be included in the next edition of the Boone and
>>Crockett award book.
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>>Word of Crutchfield's accomplishment attracted a previous record
holder,
>>Walt Lachewitz of Gambrills, to Hitchcock's shop, to swap stories and
>>snap pictures.
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>>"Sad? No," said Lachewitz, who in 1998 bagged a white-tailed deer on
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>>Eastern Shore that scored 185 7/8 inches. "I'm happy when someone gets
a
>>big one because it doesn't happen often. You could hunt for 10
lifetimes
>>and not see a buck like that."
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Location: Stevens Point, WI | I got the email that was going around about this deer. Pretty awesome deer but the body looks like a dog! That deer looks sickly! As much as like big racks, I can almost say I would rather have a 200+ buck with a decent rack than that little body deer. But congrats to that guy!
Edited by Merckid 12/13/2006 7:53 AM
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Location: Stevens Point | Those are amazing, congrats to the hunters. |
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Location: Stevens Point | Those are amazing, congrats to the hunters. |
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