Anyone for deer horns?

[Jeff Nicol]

This is a little off the turning track but it all turned out right for me! I am an avid outdoors man and hunter and finally got a chance to get out with out the rain, snow wind driving me out of the woods! Here is a buck I got yesterday morning with a nice rack of bone on its head, just to make the pen turners drool wishing they could have them to make some pens out of! Also here is a group picture of what I have finished in the last week. I will take some better individual pictures later, as I have to go get the buck taken care of and put in the freezer.

Jeff

[Aaron Wingert]

Nice turnings and what a great buck! Well done on both.

[John Keeton]

EXCELLENT buck! So far, they have been eluding me, but I am hopeful that the rut activity here will start to get a bit hotter in the next couple weeks. I imagine you are further along into the rut from the look of the neck on that buck and being further north usually makes a difference, as well.

Nice work on the turnings, too, although I will admit I opened the pic of the buck first!!:D

[Cyril Griesbach]

Nice buck, Jeff. They've been eluding me as well and last weekend was nothing but rain and snow in Price county.

Nice turnings too, by the way.

Cyril

[David E Keller]

Nice buck. Glad you got one. They cause a lot of motorcycle wrecks around here and thus a lot of work for me... Happy to see you make the roads a little safer.

Looking forward to seeing the individual shots of the turnings

[alex carey]

Beautiful pieces and nice buck. I'm looking forward to the individual pictures, those are some rather large turnings.

[Chris Rae]

Great looking buck! My nine year old granddaughter got her first deer this year. A doe at 104 yds thru the heart.

That is a great looking group of turnings. I'll be looking forward to the individual pics.

[Jack Mincey]

Jeff,
Great looking bowls and an awesome buck. To take a buck like that with a cross bow has to be a adrenaline rush for sure. The buck looks to have good mass as well as symmetry. A stealth gloat for sure.
Jack

[Bernie Weishapl]

Great buck Jeff and some good looking turnings.

[Steve Schlumpf]

Jeff - Congrats on the buck! Nice size to him and yet young enough to be good eating!

Great bunch of turnings - looking forward to seeing the individual shots!

[Jeff Nicol]

Well I have been hunting for about 36 years and it never gets boring! I love to be out there and seeing everything and smells of the fall forest is wonderful! I got this buck out of my honey hole stand, it is at a natural crossroads in the woods and is a transition zone between a swamp and an oak ridge. They like to bed on the ridge at night or early morning before feeding down through the brush and into the swamp grass for a little longer daytime nap. This is the 7th nice buck out of the same tree so I am going to keep using it till it dies! The turnings are a great collection of different things with some beautiful pieces of wood. My cousin reopens the gallery in the new location next Wednesday and I will take most of them up to her on Monday. It is in a much better area and should have 10 times the traffic of customers and she dropped her commission rate too as her over head is much smaller, it should be a good thing!

To all the hunters it is just getting started here for the rut and in the last 3 or 4 days I have seen lots of deer moving and the next 2 weeks will be good!

Good luck to all and thanks again,

Jeff

[Jim Kirkpatrick]

Don't understand deer hunting for sport. It's quite another thing if you need to hunt for survival. Those big sad brown eyes, and that tough gamey meat.
Too bad we couldn't level the field and mount a crossbow on their heads to hunt you back. Just sittin up there in your tree stand getting fat. ...Now there's a hunt!
PS Nice turnings though.

[John Keeton]

Hey Jim, no one in this thread has mentioned killing for sport. At the risk of further hijacking Jeff's thread, and starting a small war over the hunting issue, suffice it to say I feel considerably better killing my own meat (and yes I do eat it and like it) than I do paying someone to kill it for me, i.e. Krogers, McD's, etc. There seems to be a certain honor to that versus the Pilot's approach of washing one's hands and letting someone else get bloody. Nonetheless, I do enjoy a good beef steak every now and then compliments of another animal murderer!!

[Steve Schlumpf]

Just a friendly warning to keep this turning related. Enough said.

[John Keeton]

Point well taken, Steve. I will not comment further - thanks!

[Gary Herrmann]

Nice turnings, Jeff. For those of you who haven't turned antler yet, open a window when you do. Not a good smell.

[Cody Colston]

Those are nice turnings and that's a nice buck, too.

I don't hunt but I have friends that do and I'm well supplied with antlers.

If the antler is dried out, it doesn't have much smell at all when turning it. New antler smells like hair burning.

[Tony De Masi]

Jeff, nice turnings and a great looking buck too. Is that a Parker Crossbow? Looks very much like mine from the angle of the photo.

Tony

[Jeff Nicol]

Don't understand deer hunting for sport. It's quite another thing if you need to hunt for survival. Those big sad brown eyes, and that tough gamey meat.
Too bad we couldn't level the field and mount a crossbow on their heads to hunt you back. Just sittin up there in your tree stand getting fat. ...Now there's a hunt!
PS Nice turnings though.
Well Jim I do not hunt for the sport of it at all! I eat every bit of the meat off the deer and may put 4 or 5 in the freezer each year. You can make all the sad brown eye comments you want untill you have to pull a few of them out of the middle of the highway after they are run over by cars and semis and are still alive. My buck died in 30 seconds and the road hit deer? They suffer a lot more than what any ethical hunter would do. Have you ever seen a starving deer in the winter because the land won't support the herd? I think not, but this is no place to get into the debate about hunting and food and all the other ignorant things that are said about hunting and guns and whatever. If you eat meat and wear leather you should really not say anything. I have been hungry a time or two in my life and the venison I can't use myself goes to the food pantries and neighbors and other family members who like venison. The meat is not gamey at all if you know how to take care of the deer after it is harvested. Your complete lack of knowlege of the hunters world and what we do shows in your comment.

Thats all on that,

Jeff

[Jeff Nicol]

Tony , It is a ten point crossbow lots of them look alike nowdays, I would still be using my regular bow if my shoulders weren't so messed up. I can hardly pull it back anymore even after I dropped the weight. That is why woodturning is what I do most, it seems to not hurt as bad as other things. I dug a 2' hole with a posthole digger the other day and that really is not a good action to do with torn rotator cuffs! But a little pain for some happy gain is always worth it!

Jeff

[Skip Spaulding]

Great buck! Nice turnings!

[Jim Kirkpatrick]

I respect the fact that you hunt. That is your right. But this is a woodworking forum not a hunting forum and in my mind, a picture of you holding an innocent animal you slaughtered was offensive to me and I'm sure others. I think this whole thread should be deleted, or at the very least, the picture removed.
PS I don't eat meat and I don't wear leather or furs.

[George Morris]

Nice turnings! Very nice deer! How much did he weigh in at? Looks like a cow! I love meat!!

[Peter Lamb]

Jeff,
Very fine on both counts!!
Well Done, Keep it up.
Peter

[Kirk Miller]

Great turnings Jeff and congrats on a nice Buck. Hey if we wern't supposed to eat meat it wouldn't taste so good

[Ted Calver]

Nice!! Bowls and bucks. Better in your freezer than through the windshield of my car. Recreational hunting provides needed population control on the deer herds and prevents needless suffering from starvation in overpopulated area. I don't hunt anymore, but I recognize the need for recreational hunting programs. Without them all the vegetables would be eaten.

[Marc Himes]

Hey Jeff,
I love the turnigns, love the deer, and the bow. I was lucky enough to get one with the same piece of equipment. The venison is my favorite meet. I have some antlers from a few years ago and plan to make a pen for my brother who also hunts. I have a great marinade recipe I will send you.

Marc Himes

[Mark Hix]

Both are great! Congratulations!

[Barry Stratton]

Great stuff Jeff! I'd love to get a crack at a buck like that.

Personally, I am extremely offended by folks who are offended by hunting pictures and feel any such posts/threads should be deleted :D.

[Rob Russell]

Folks - Steve already posted one warning. Even though the rhetoric has stayed civil so far, ANY MORE buck comments - positive or negative - and this thread goes away. That would be a shame because those are some nice turnings.

[Jeff Nicol]

I guess I just was happy to be a positve person and meant no offense and I will put up the pictures of the turnings today. Steve and Bob are our watch dogs and that is thier job. I truly apperciate all the comments and will continue to post some nice turnings in the future!

Thanks again and keep on spinning!

Jeff

[Barry Elder]

Naw! I just wear a hat! (Little humor there, guys, don't go getting all excited!)

[Jeff Nicol]

Naw! I just wear a hat! (Little humor there, guys, don't go getting all excited!)
Barry, You are such a card!!!! Thanks for the funny!!

Jeff