When did this become "the thing"? That is some stupid shucks to me. I thought it was something idiots on TV did to sound cool. It's about as dumb as naming trees in the woods. Oh, that pine is Larry.

Before people started hearing that crap on The High Fence with Tom and Jerry, no one did it. I have used cameras since they were film. I have never had to name a deer to keep track of them. Hell, you know looking at them what deer they are, they don't need a silly name.

No one ever names them Bob or Tom. It is always some thing cool, like "The split brow buck" or "Jamis Winson", or "sparkle pants".

Sorry, maybe I am just getting old and cranky. But, when I read a name for a deer, I hear it in some whinny Midwestern voice.

I think it's goofy as chit. It's nothing new, though. People have put names on deer and other animals, but mostly deer, for decades. TV and video make it worse, though.

folks been naming deer for at least a hundred years, nothing new there. Read some of the old 1800-1900 hunting stories/books and they named some deer.

Probably got a big boost from game cameras and TV hunting shows I'd guess.

go back to bed ya old crank.

You need to get laid...

We've named bulls and horses for as long as time goes so what if someone names a deer?

Goofy

EDIT: I've named one once. Had a goofy looking 1 horned deer that we'd had on camera for a couple of years. Rack was kinda goofed up and just 1 long twisted point one one side. Called him "dummy" because we had a bunch of pics of him with his face right up in the camera with a goofy look on his face.

Dummy was my first (only) bow kill

We name the deer that we kill. The name is based on an event that took place that day.

I agre, I think it's stupid. Almost as stupid as having a "Hitlist". I make my Hitlist as I go. If I like him, i shoot him.

Bear in mind, these are the same f*****s that talk about "tonight" for the evening hunt and shooting a "toad". They are also the same ones that "back out" and leave a shot deer for in the morning because they don't know how to blood trail on a crappy hit. They do all this stuff hoping it will become buzz words that everybody else will start using.

In the rare instance I watch a hunting show, I always turn the sound down so I don't have to hear the fake after shot interview. Damn a bunch of talking.

Dr. Kroll is about the only one I want to hear talking.

There's a couple guys I know that name turkeys. They are trying to get a show or sponsored I guess? They hunt via camera and ground blind. It's real hard to take them seriously.

I believe all of you need to get laid, opp's wonder who named it laid?

I have 2 bucks that have been running together.You see one the others not far behind...My brothers best friend(who actually lives with them) is the same way as that smaller buck is about the bigger buck...always not far behind my brother..My brothers name is Trent his buddy is Robbie...I now have two deer I named Trent and Robbie and I told him I think they're gay.. Think it pissed him off a little.

So what's your deers name? Come on, we won't make fun of ya

Yeah I agree it's goofy. Most of the names could double as names for bowel movements

Side note. Next big buck I kill, I'm naming it rest notches but I will pronounce it
( rrrrest nochase)

Personally, I wouldn't do it. But, if it makes one fell more like a "professional" hunter in doing so, have at it.

There's one named Pinchers over in the serious forum

I named a turkey "Asshole" one time. He was one.

I name a lot of my Midwest shooter bucks on one particular farm. I have a lot of history with this farm and the deer that live on it. It easier for me to give the shooters a name when you share the lease with another person. It's a lot easier to say I saw Billy Bob rather than try to explain which deer I saw by antler characteristics.

I do bot name a deer to be cool or in the fad. I don't have anything to prove nor am I trying to impress anyone. It's something I just do on this particular farm.

I agree. It is d-u-m-b.

I let my grandsons' name them because it helps them to identify and talk about particular bucks that they see, and they enjoy it. Folks have been naming particular animals for a very long time. Ain't none of y'all ever read Moby Dick?

Totally agree.

I have never named a deer - I just go by physical descriptions only. Have one *referred* to in terms of where it was killed (Ramer) but that is not a name. We used to have a really ugly buck with a big humped nose - and that is exactly what I called it: "that ugly buck with a big humped nose." No name was necessary.

If someone names a deer one time/once in a blue moon no big deal, but the current obsession with putting a name on every cotton picking deer is totally metrosexual.

Yep...then they work the deer's "name" into the kill story.

It's normal to name your pets. That's what these deer are to these guys on TV. They watch them grow up in the big free range pin and pays thousands of dollars for them

All my deer have the same name, Supper

My thought....some of ya'll need to stay indoors the next few days or you might drown.

It is common place on properties where selective harvest is practiced and folks don't kill every legal buck they see. A lot of places have a hit list and you damn well better not shoot one not on the list. It is a lot of fun and a challenge to target a particular buck. It's not like we're all hunter gatherers trying to feed our tribe

I just named one I passed on Thanksgiving week. Looks like a 1.5 year old with about 15" spikes. Named him LongShanks.

It just helps identifying what you see in stand, or get on camera

I don't see any issue with short hand identification

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It's just a way to identify them and keep them separate from each other. If you have several 10 pointers on camera , how ya gonna keep them separate , number them 10 number 1,2,3 ? I think it became more common place since game cams have come on the scene. Lots of folks name their stands , that goofy too? I like naming big bucks, that usually means I know a lot about them and the odds of them dying are high.

I don't care one way or another, but I disagree with you on this. Sometimes the best thing to do is leave a deer laying till it dies instead of pushing it off into a gulf or cutover where it will never be retrieved.

My BinL once shot a deer that made a figure 8 and went off in a deep holler. We crawled for about a half mile tracking that deer in the dark. When we found the second place it bedded down we stopped. Went back the next morning and it wasn't 50 yards from the last place we jumped it. It was headed off in a cove where we would have lost it for good.

Part of being a good tracker is knowing when to stop.

If you have one with an unusual or big rack I get it, but naming every deer you have seems a bit much and by that I mean ghey

Man, I am very selective about what I shoot. It has nothing to do with being selective. It might be for some. But, every person that kills a big deer has a name for it these days. Maybe my brain works different. I can remember them by characteristics, I don't need names. But, then, I don't tell people what I see and I certainly, don't tell them when I see a shooter.

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BBB what Deadwood is talking about is a guy that would leave a deer over night then hunt the next morning before looking for it. We all agree it's best to allow a deer to bleed out rather than bump him into the next county. It all depends on where the deer is hit, that tells us how long we need to wait. Hunt Safe

I agree BBB, if you shoot one right at dark with a bad hit , worst thing you can do is chase it all over the woods at night. No way to prove it , but I'd bet there have been way more deer lost pushing them than waiting.

On my place several years ago there was a big old doe that had a small white patch on her side, so she got the name Patches. I know two consecutive years she had triplet buck fawns.. My grandsons had specific instructions to not shoot her.

I've never seen anyone name every deer

Only certain deer deserve distinction from others

This is difference^

No need for differentiating if you hunt alone.

Naming them just for yourself I would agree, would be super gay

Once called one "Oops" .260 125 gr Partition through heart.

Same reason people name roads and food plots on hunting clubs. So you can talk about the buck you have on camera or have seen and people know what you're talking about. If you hunt the same property each year and run trail cameras it's the easiest way to keep up with individual bucks.

I'd be thankful that life is going so well that something so "stupid" as folks naming deer bothered me.

Amen

Yep

X4

I am 2Dogs, I name big bucks, I'm married to a woman that names our vehicles. I guess we should go to a husband/wife retreat or a 12 step program.

I'm green enough in my hunting "career" that any deer that walks in front of me doesn't live long enough to get a name.

I am just now getting to where I can let a few walk. Now, with my 12 year old son with me. Every deer is in grave danger! I let him decide if he wants to shoot or not.

Got a new lease with a few bucks on camera. Probably gonna give them names just to know who we are talking about and where they have been spotted, if I ever see a deer!!

I have named a few turkeys as $%#@%^^&^%**&^%.

My hitlist has one entry... "deer" .

I used to have a "hit" list but my ex found it. That was a tough one to explain

That's good

I agree. We name most of the bucks. It just makes sense so it's clear when we are talking about deer on our property .

A few weeks ago I visited a property, about 1000 acres, that would make some of you crazy. It's owned by an engineering group and has a million dollar lodge on it.
They bought it strictly to have a 1st class place for them and their guests to hunt. Huge plots, food planted year round. They've done an inventory of all the deer with game cameras and identified every deer using the property. 107 bucks and about 150 does. They brought in Dr Grant Woods to advise them. It's the most impressive place I've ever seen
In every shooting house they have laminated named pictures of every buck on the hit list. Some genetically superior young bucks aren't on the list, off limits.
Last year they killed 7 bucks. Put that in your pipe and smoke it

All my deer have names. I name em cubed, loin, blackstrap etc.

same reason we name our tree stands
(big oak stand)
(no step stand)
(second bluff)
(8 point stand)
(OK)

Naming roads and food plots is a way, especially on large properties, to have specific identifiers for hunters. "Go down the Pothole Road through the pines, take the second left on the Skidder Trail and then you'll be in the Jones Plot" can help someone not get lost or be able to call for assistance with more certainty.

Y'all need to get back to complaining about game check.

Same reasoning for naming deer. "Don't shoot so and so" or "shoot so and so". If I bring a guest,I'm definitely showing him/her pics of what bucks he/she should be looking for or passing. Sorry,but we're not a "brown it's down" club and everyone can't score/age deer on the hoof as good as you or the OP can. The fact that you let this bother you is pretty telling. I forsee many roadrage incidents in your/OP's future.

GameCheck needs an extra line for the deer's name. Maybe in 2017.

Haha

Why are you acting like anyone is mad? I don't have any rage. You sure to protest how important it is to name your deer. If you have a guest that can't age or score a deer, do you really think they can tell one deer from another from a picture you showed them? Come on.

If it makes you feel better, go for it. Apartment, the deer namers like you think no one can have an opinion other than bowing to your awesomeness and superior hunting skills. I don't know how any of the rest of us non namers ever make it.

You don't know anything about me or the OP, so don't assume. It doesn't bother me. I just think it's goofy as chit, as are "hit lists." I'm not into naming animals other than pets.

Identifying bucks with specific characteristics and photos for guests to not shoot is fine. I've been to places where I was shown photos and we discussed antlers, droopy ear, whatever. But the host didn't call them DingleBalls or Whoopie Spike or some other name.

We typically name a few that are shoot and some that are no-shoot. We use real complicated names like - "Big-6","Half-Rack", "Young-8", "Odd-6", and the ultimate "Monster-10".

We used to have a pretty good idea of the bucks that stayed in the area, of course deer move around and it is impossible to know what may show up. But, we had a reasonable idea of what was there - and we agreed what bucks would be taken and what bucks would get a pass.

Dingleballs, hahahaha

Doesn't make me mad either. Funny that disagreeing means you are mad.

I have hunted in several states, and on some very, very high dollar property where I was shown pictures too. One where they said don't pull the trigger unless you know it is 4 and scores over 150. Guess what, I never shot a deer there. Took pictures of a bunch, including some they ask why I didn't shoot. Never once did they tell me the deers name.

Having grown up with a farm, I was taught as a toddler not to name an animal you are going to kill. We didn't name cows or chickens and I don't name deer.

Do you tell your kids, they are having dingleballs for dinner?

bahahahahaha

Years ago, not long after we had moved to the country, a friend of my wife's gave her 1st farm animal, a piglet. When she decided she was going to name it, I told her it's name was bar-b-que and when it got to about 250 lbs. sure enough, it turned into bar-b-que, pork chops and sausage

Geez,guys. You really letting 1 light hearted joke get you all bent out of shape speaks volumes. Quit getting each other hyped up and go smoke some pol,I mean cigars together...

Still joking to, so don't flip out again... or flip out,I don't care.... dingleballs

X5. And I've been naming turkeys for as long as I can remember

Let's see I'm hunting a few
#Slice
#Horseshoe
#Wonderboy
#C
#Capt X
#Wicked Six

My eleven year old loves to eat cubed steak with mashed taters, gravy and sweet peas. The third deer he killed he dropped it in its tracks. I told him " Bub, you dropped him in the gravy". We've never named a deer. But when he kills one now and we get our hands on it he'll call it Ole gravy. Tickles the chit out of me every time.

Many years ago a friend killed a deer on the place we both hunt that is the biggest we've ever killed. It is an 11 pt that scored 173 typical and some change. Just short of qualifying for the B&C books. Anyways a couple of days later, while I was eating lunch at Hancock's a couple of guys asked about it. I had a picture and showed them. I didn't know that our neighboring landowner, who is well known for tying one on every evening, was sitting behind me. Later that night, somehow he tracked me down to my girlfriend's (now wife) parent's house by phone. His speech was slurred and he was obviously lit. He was fussing about not telling anyone about that deer because we will never be able to keep poachers away. He said they have been letting him go so he could be a breeder. Said they named him Fred. All I could do is respond "Well Fred's dead."

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Fred is on the right.

Kind of like Zed. Zeds dead.

I call every male turkey and deer....."Fred". Always have. It's starting to drive my 8 year old crazy, but it's just funny to me.

Except for that one turkey I named "Einstein". That was a bad experience to get to that point.

Hell when I say a big ole roach at camp I say "Hey there goes Fred!" Wife hates that lololol

Damn I like ole Fred lol. Deer on the left aint no slouch, but Fred makes him look bad..

I Hey that T-shirt! I remember watching Northern Exposure when I was a kid

I don't see enough of them to name them. I probably would though. I named a pig we raised pork chop.

We do it, I guess because it's fun. That's what hunting is (was) supposed to be about, right?

Everyone is wondering what I am laughing about. You guys are a hoot sometimes

I took a co-worker that had never killed a big deer and he killed the one on the left. he was as proud as a person could be......until we picked up Fred. Took the wind right out of his sails. That was an MLK Birthday holiday in the early 90s or so. I have 1993 stuck in my mind. Ever since then that day has always been viewed as the best hunting day for us. For many consecutive years someone always killed a big, mountable buck on MLK Day.

I have one on the wall I killed on Martin Day. That's about when the big boys start to show up around here

Like squeaky said we name our mid west deer. It's way easier to remember and it makes it fun to see how they progress as they grow.

This thread reminds me of another "Fred":

http://www.foxnews.com/story/2007/06/01/...t-pig-fred.html

IIRC, it was the subject of a long thread here on Aldeer back then.

You need to post a pic of that 150" buck you killed called "Stickers."

That one was certainly worth naming and "Stickers" was an appropriate name for that deer.

I had no idea. Poor Fred.

I've killed my buck the last two years on January 18th, MLK holiday might be worthless but I'm glad it's there so I can hunt

i hate when people name dogs its just a dog.

theres 3 names thats way overused #3 pinchers, #2 stickers, #1 Freak nasty. also anything with zilla at the end.