callmefence said:
ccr said:cb, how many pounds of meat do you get out of a deer like that
callmefence said:We had just pulled that buck out it the cold room. Where he'd been laying for three days.
Makes em look a flat lol.
Anyone who says they killed a central Texas deer that hung gutted over 100 pounds is probably full of wind. And you better be efficient with the knife to get 30 pounds of good meat. Well put 10 in the freezer though.
Brute 23 said:A lot has to do with the food source. There are exceptions like the some in hill country and places but you put the right food source, and some age, to most of the deer in Texas and you will produce good deer both horns and body weight.
Deer can vary drastically in a 10 mile stretch. A lot of times you see people say our deer never get over this big, no matter if its horns or body weight, but that is due to the hunting pressure. Most of these people are killing 2.5 and 3.5 year old deer and the 4-4.5s are not the top of the gene pool. The top deer in the gene pool was shot at 2.5-3.5 because he was already exceptional at that point.
I still have people with in mile of some places we hunt that are in their late 60s,have lived there all their life, and swear the genetics will not produce a certain size deer. They continue to shoot the first 2.5-3.5 year old, 8pt, deer they see. We have 140-150 class deer with kickers and all kinds of stuff not even a mile away.
Brute 23 said:A lot has to do with the food source. There are exceptions like the some in hill country and places but you put the right food source, and some age, to most of the deer in Texas and you will produce good deer both horns and body weight.
Deer can vary drastically in a 10 mile stretch. A lot of times you see people say our deer never get over this big, no matter if its horns or body weight, but that is due to the hunting pressure. Most of these people are killing 2.5 and 3.5 year old deer and the 4-4.5s are not the top of the gene pool. The top deer in the gene pool was shot at 2.5-3.5 because he was already exceptional at that point.
I still have people with in mile of some places we hunt that are in their late 60s,have lived there all their life, and swear the genetics will not produce a certain size deer. They continue to shoot the first 2.5-3.5 year old, 8pt, deer they see. We have 140-150 class deer with kickers and all kinds of stuff not even a mile away.
greybeard said:Acorn crop in my area is/was almost non-existent this year. White and red oak.
Caustic Burno said:greybeard said:Acorn crop in my area is/was almost non-existent this year. White and red oak.
Same here and only a few live oak.
I don't recall an acorn crop failure across so many various oaks in the same year.
greybeard said:Deuce..I've been called worse.....and yes, if you call about 70 miles 'close', which in Texas, it probably is.
greybeard said:Here in Tx, 'deuce' is sometimes slang for be nice or be nice (feces) ..inferring CB lives close to me.
That's the joke.
It's no biggie.