Yeah, I get it. It's a DEER. Nothing more, nothing less. I've killed a trailer truckload of them from a spike up to a 165" and in the end they're still just deer. To me, a big part of the enjoyment of hunting and killing a good deer is sharing it with others. I live in a small town and when you kill a good one, everyone hears about it. Sure there are some that will talk and make accusations and that's fine. It doesn't bother me in the least. If I ever get to the point where I kill a good deer and feel like I need to keep it a government secret for fear of what others say or do, I'll hang it up. It's not that serious to me.

Amen! to you and Talltines.

Look I understand and we were just waiting til after season was over to post about it because we know how people where we are act and it's not some big government secret it is just a deer but it was my first real buck and we shared it with close friends and family that we thought understood why we didn't want it shared or posted til after season but we were wrong and that mistake won't happen again I know everyone works hard to make sure they have somewhere to hunt and enjoy doing it daily we are like that it is something that we can share and do with our kids

I hate that you lost your lease because of stupidity and I understand how that is too when you have people screw things like that up that you have worked hard on and they have no clue what they are doing

Guys, I understand it's just deer hunting. But, when other people make it so bothersome to even have fun on your own property, then it's just best to keep quiet. That's a personal decision. I know a lot of you work very hard too. I don't get too worked up over the lies and rumors. It's keeping idiots off of your property that's the problem. If I am paying money, using my resources for a piece of ground that is MINE, then spending time keeping idiots off is not how I want to spend my deer season. The road hunting, trespassing, poaching, baiting on the line, etc gets to be more than what a person can handle. In the end it is a deer. There are more important things to worry about. BUT, a person should have the right to enjoy their land without the headaches that come along with the aforementioned problems. So to me, it's not worth talking about. I'd rather shut my mouth, enjoy my hunting, share it with a few close friends and family, and leave everyone else out of it.

You need to be hunting in south Alabama the last week of January

AMEN!!!

Congrats thats a deer of a lifetime

Dayum yall taking this a little to serious. Good buck and congrats but u shoulda waited til next year. It woulda been a real good one then.

Matt, if you would have left it alone everyone would have thought it was killed in Hamilton. If that wasn't true, you didn't have to correct them and set the people on to where it was really killed.

I haven't said where it was killed, just that it wasn't Hamilton.

When I see misinformation about where deer are killed on here I always try to correct it. Why? Because I can't stand all these pics being thrown around every year about deer being killed in 10 different places. Not sure why it bothers me so much, but it does.

Recommend you look at the wikipedia article on the "Streisand Effect".

This post will quietly go away if you let it die.

Just let it go. I am married so, therefor, I see and hear stupid $%^& everyday that I have to just let go. You need to try to do the same.

Oh, yeah. I can hang with the best woman out there.

If it's that big of a deal, maybe a picture shouldn't have been taken in the first place!!!

The only thing I'll say is that you've got WAY too much traffic through your barn/shop/garage if those pics would allow anyone to identify who/where you are from those pics.

The day that deer hunting brings this much stress to my life I will sell every damn thing I've got and y'all can fight over my lease.

This could possibly be the longest sentence in aldeer history. Or atleast since blackhawks been gone.

In for more pics!!!

Congrats to your son on his 9 point. That's a great first buck.