How Many Have You Killed?

I killed my first in 78-79, I remember the first 3 very well, then I remember the biggest ones...all the others in-between, I'm not sure about.
 
I doubt I could give any real totals unless there was a way to get the records from every state I have hunted in. There are a few memorable hunts, not due to the deer, but the hunt itself, a few individual deer that I can remember where I took them, but no way I could give any numbers even close to reality. When I first started hunting, I think the limit was 5 a year, and mostly filled my tags each year for 8 years. Same when in GA, and then for a few years here at Ft Campbell, once I retired my numbers went down, and only take 2 or three a year for the past 10 years or so, varies depending on how many I give away.
 
I can only estimate a total for whitetail deer. Started in 1993 with my first deer, a year and half old 4 point that is still mounted. Assuming an average of 4/year (mainly does) from then to now, that equates to approximately 116 deer. Unfortunately I managed to kill one of the bigger bucks with the front bumper of a car. I can also remember killing five 90-100" 8 points (little to no difference between any of them) in one season in the 90s when we had a truckload of buck tags every fall. With all of that said, for the last 15 years, my wife has commented "you are a deer watcher, not a deer hunter". That is what she gleans from my hours in the woods/on stand to tell her I saw X number of deer, but did not pull the trigger. I suspect same can be said for many others. I watch waaaaaay more deer these days than I kill, and that has pretty much been the case for the last 18 years (since 2004).
 
I killed my first deer in 1973, didn't kill anything for the next 2 years, killed 5 over the next 4 years I then had my longest dry spell 0 deer in 11 years, since then I learned a few things and started kill several each year, here's a few pics from of my more memorable hunts
 

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Killed #1 in 1974.
Took awhile to get #2, there just weren't many deer in E. TN in those days.
We had to go to Middle TN to hunt usually, which was an all day/multiple day affair.

I can't remember all of them, there have been so many does, spikes, and small racks back in the 80's and early 90's.
Definitely close to 200 total, all states I've hunted.
I've slowed down greatly over that last 5-10 years.
 
I started hunting deer in 1977.I killed way more than i needed to kill but the 80s was crazy then unit L opened. All were legal kills i just went to far with the killing part.
 
I don't have any idea how many total, but one year (somewhere around 1990) I shot 12 or 14 deer and antelope combined. I was living in South Dakota at the time. I had two tags for East River, two for West River, 2 antelope + muley tags for a special Harding County season, a couple for the Sand Lake refuge, etc. In addition, I had a friend who was legally blind (macular degeneration) and I had written permission to shoot on his behalf.
 
I've kept a very detailed excel list of all the deer killed (date, time, weapon & location). I killed my first deer in 1990, I was in 8th grade, First person in my middle school to kill a deer. It was the last AM of gun season, and it was a button buck on Jefferson National Forest. I remember every detail of that hunt.

I'm at 104 deer now, 48/52% public/private. I've really slowed down last 5 years since my kids started hunting. I went from killing multiple most years to I just wanting 1 deer a year to keep my streak alive. I killed one in 91 & 93 then it was 1996 before I started on my streak. I've killed at least one deer a year since '96. Almost ended it in 1997 & 2017. '97 I was packing up on the last day of season to hike out of the mountains and looked up and seen legs walking through the laurel. Button buck walked out and I dropped him. 2017 it was week of Christmas when I finally had doe walk out a ridge point.
 
Killed my first deer in 1970. Like a lot of other people here I have hunted multiple states over the years, don't know my head count its been several. Haven't killed a deer the last 6 year's, kids is gone from home, don't eat them like we used to. Still enjoying going and watching.
 


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