Those are real nice bucks. Are you going to be bow hunting before regular season?
I may hunt a little bit with my cross bow. I hunt a buddy's property in Ga. also. Their season comes in a month before the Ala. season. It's too hot over there to bow hunt and by the time bow season comes in here in Ala., I'll be rifle hunting in Ga. Nothing churns my guts up worse than wounding an animal. I had a doe duck the sound of the bowstring one time and I saw then how easy it would be to make a bad shot. Any animal that can move that fast at the sound of a bow string is FAST. It ducked right under the arrow. I shot over it, but could easily have made a bad hit instead. It was only 25 yards. (I'm not knocking bow hunters, this is just a personal choice) I've seen on TV in slow motion where they draw a line at the deers back and show how much the deer can move between the sound of the bow string and the arrival of the arrow. It's uncanny. They say aim low to account for this, but the deer whirled around at the same time.
Do you hunt? I've wanted to hunt Texas since I was a little kid. I made it to Colorado twice but Texas and Kentucky are on my bucket list. Those Colorado Mule Deer look like they have rocking chairs sitting on top of their heads. I got a 3x3 Mule Deer my first year but hunted Elk the second time and got skunked. I didn't care, I had a blast camping out in the mountains for ten days. It was beautiful in a way, but the terrain looked like Hell with the fires out. The tallest trees in that area were about 20 ft tall. There were little scrub bushes I think they called Ironwood. It was maybe 18" tall. I figured I'd run over it with my four wheeler like I do the the little tree saplings and bushes around here. Wrong! That little plant didn't even bend. It lifted my four wheeler slap off the ground, all four tires. There I was with a several hundred pound four wheel drive four wheeler stuck on a little bush no bigger around than one of my fingers. My wheel chair was back in camp. I had to get down in all those little cactuses and man handle that four wheeler off that little bush. It was plumb embarrassing.