HOSS
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I took a nice 10 point (basic 8 with two 3" kickers off the G2's). Scores roughly 144" gross. I love bow hunting the rut.......all kinds of neat things happen.....and bucks get just stupid enough for me to kill them.
Like tall tines?
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TexasBred
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Wow HOSS...that's a beauty. Looks like he has a pretty heavy body too. Lookin' at that fence behind you....was he in a pen?? :lol2: :lol2:
Jogeephus
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Good one Hoss!
Calman
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Nice buck,Hoss!!
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Kingfisher
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Nice! Let's see another angle of that rack 
I passed on a young long tine buck last week. I sure hope I see a bigger deer tomorrow........he was
a nice buck but not as mature as the one you shot. How old is your deer? Thanks for your post.
I passed on a young long tine buck last week. I sure hope I see a bigger deer tomorrow........he wasa nice buck but not as mature as the one you shot. How old is your deer? Thanks for your post.
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HOSS
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TexasBred":fmzuyo3b said:
LOL.....Nah....that fence is behind the old farmhouse where we stay. The grass is the lawn. I'll post another angle later where the other kicker can be seen. He was judged to be 3.5 years old by the game warden. He was about 60 pounds underweight from being gored in a fight. You could see where another bucks tine had pierced his testicles and lower abdomen. He had infection all in his belly when I gutted him. He was chasing does but I am not sure if he could have bred them with the damaged testicles.
TexasBred
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HOSS":33iln90o said:
Dang..if I'd gone thru all that I'd have been looking for a hunter too. :lol2: Very very nice "young" deer. Must be a lot of good genetics in the area.
ROCKSPRINGS
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If that one was mine he would be in the taxidermist shop. Nice one..
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HOSS
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TexasBred,
The genetics in my hunting area is about the best in the nation. Myself and 6 other friends lease property from a farmer in Schyuler County, Illinois. The big TV hunters hunt the next property with just a two track dirt road separating the two properties. Sometimes I park my truck next to Stan Potts as he hunts Sugar Creek Outfitters next door. You see them on the Outdoor Channel just about every week. We are hunting the same deer herd and we also manage it for big bucks in conjunction with our 3 outfitter neighbors. As a group we do not shoot any bucks under 125" and we try to harvest an adequate amount of does. The smallest buck harvested this year so far scored 129" as an 8 point and the largest was a 158" 11 pointer. On bucks we average 140" with our biggest to date being 178". We are a strictly bowhunting proposition by our own decision. I have been in the group for 9 years now. I do not kill a buck every year as I am focused on 140"+ animals but I am convinced that I see some of the best quality whitetails anywhere. We see one 170"+ deer almost everyday between the 7 of us. Of course seeing a wild buck of this caliber and killing him with a bow are two very different things. They are as wily as coyotes and about the only time they expose themselves is during the peak of the rut.
On our lease a 3.5 year old buck will usually sport 8 or more points and will score 130" or better. Most of the 4.5 year olds will be heavier and score 150" or more. The 5.5 and up bucks that we have taken (with more than 8 points) have scored 160" and up. The older 8's usually run 140" to 150". My best 8 point was an older buck that taped out at 154". Very tall tines on that buck.
The deer have a smorgasbord of quality food. There is corn, beans, alfalfa, winter wheat and hayfield clover. The wooded portions have a high population of forage trees like white oaks, persimmons, beech and there are tons of smaller plants for browse.
Body weght (field dressed) usually runs 180 to 200 lbs. on 3.5 year olds and 200 to 230 on older deer. We have a 500 lb. hanging scale to weigh them on and we report the weights to the landowner as he keeps records of weight and antler score. I have our lease weight record at 255 lbs field dressed on a 4.5 year old 9 point. He was absolutley massive with a 28" neck circumference measured 2" behind the ears. I don't know what he had been eating but it must have been high quality protien. The land owners son killed a 12 pt. behometh 3 years ago on another piece of his property that pushed the 300 lb mark. The rack scored over 170". We loaded that beast on a 4 wheeler to get him out of the woods and it was all that 4 wheeler wanted going up hills.
I am behind in the taxidermy department. I normally do my own mounts but due to time I will be having a commercial taxidermist mount the 3 that I am behind on.
I have hunted all over the US and up in Canada for several species of big game but I am hooked hopelessly on whitetails. I so enjoy being out in the woods it is indescribeable. The deer do not have to be huge as I understand the differences in geography and genetics but I want a mature, adult representative for that area. In Tennessee where I live that would be a 120", 140 lb buck but he is just as wily as his northern cousin.
The genetics in my hunting area is about the best in the nation. Myself and 6 other friends lease property from a farmer in Schyuler County, Illinois. The big TV hunters hunt the next property with just a two track dirt road separating the two properties. Sometimes I park my truck next to Stan Potts as he hunts Sugar Creek Outfitters next door. You see them on the Outdoor Channel just about every week. We are hunting the same deer herd and we also manage it for big bucks in conjunction with our 3 outfitter neighbors. As a group we do not shoot any bucks under 125" and we try to harvest an adequate amount of does. The smallest buck harvested this year so far scored 129" as an 8 point and the largest was a 158" 11 pointer. On bucks we average 140" with our biggest to date being 178". We are a strictly bowhunting proposition by our own decision. I have been in the group for 9 years now. I do not kill a buck every year as I am focused on 140"+ animals but I am convinced that I see some of the best quality whitetails anywhere. We see one 170"+ deer almost everyday between the 7 of us. Of course seeing a wild buck of this caliber and killing him with a bow are two very different things. They are as wily as coyotes and about the only time they expose themselves is during the peak of the rut.
On our lease a 3.5 year old buck will usually sport 8 or more points and will score 130" or better. Most of the 4.5 year olds will be heavier and score 150" or more. The 5.5 and up bucks that we have taken (with more than 8 points) have scored 160" and up. The older 8's usually run 140" to 150". My best 8 point was an older buck that taped out at 154". Very tall tines on that buck.
The deer have a smorgasbord of quality food. There is corn, beans, alfalfa, winter wheat and hayfield clover. The wooded portions have a high population of forage trees like white oaks, persimmons, beech and there are tons of smaller plants for browse.
Body weght (field dressed) usually runs 180 to 200 lbs. on 3.5 year olds and 200 to 230 on older deer. We have a 500 lb. hanging scale to weigh them on and we report the weights to the landowner as he keeps records of weight and antler score. I have our lease weight record at 255 lbs field dressed on a 4.5 year old 9 point. He was absolutley massive with a 28" neck circumference measured 2" behind the ears. I don't know what he had been eating but it must have been high quality protien. The land owners son killed a 12 pt. behometh 3 years ago on another piece of his property that pushed the 300 lb mark. The rack scored over 170". We loaded that beast on a 4 wheeler to get him out of the woods and it was all that 4 wheeler wanted going up hills.
I am behind in the taxidermy department. I normally do my own mounts but due to time I will be having a commercial taxidermist mount the 3 that I am behind on.
I have hunted all over the US and up in Canada for several species of big game but I am hooked hopelessly on whitetails. I so enjoy being out in the woods it is indescribeable. The deer do not have to be huge as I understand the differences in geography and genetics but I want a mature, adult representative for that area. In Tennessee where I live that would be a 120", 140 lb buck but he is just as wily as his northern cousin.
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HOSS
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Kingfisher":38oi1ga7 said:Nice! Let's see another angle of that rack
a nice buck but not as mature as the one you shot. How old is your deer? Thanks for your post.
Kingfisher, here is another angle. You can see the kicker on the right G2 is starting to turn down into a drop tine.
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Nice looking buck.
TexasBred
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HOSS sounds like you folks have a well planned and executed management program in place. Should give you and the family much enjoyment for a long time. Way to go. :clap: :clap:
