Lord forbid u leave a buck tag in ur pocket.

yea well, I will have to shoot him next time because I cant shoot another spike which I would prefer...

I paid for it so I am gonna use it... do you pay for a full tank of gas and only take half a tank?

I also love the meat I will have eaten all of it by june at the latest then I will have to get by on White bass til next deer season.

There in lies the need for ARs.

Please prove they werent

Lord forbid u leave a buck tag in ur pocket.

I called you out first........

Please prove they werent

Perfect example of a super mature buck that WOULDN"T be legal in an AR county. 145"

I've told u, the proof was in the local processors cooler.

I've told u, the proof was in the local processors cooler.

Sorry, but that ain't proof. I saw tons of great mature bucks at various processors for decades before this nonsense started. Guess that proves the opposite.

I want proof that it's working in my county on my ranch where I hunt. My experience from actually hunting tells me it has the exact opposite effect.

The local processor deals with dead deer. Doh

The proof of age structure is live deer, that actually have age. There proof is no live deer data on the deer that are walking around in the pasture. TPWD did not prove ANYTHING about the living age structure of the herd by counting dead deer !!!

They might have proved hunter selectivity. But that wouldn't fly with the masses as we see in this thread. Sooo they chose to make up an "Age Structure Problem" and try to twist the data THEY HAD around to support it. Making esteemed TPWD Wildlife Mgr. desk Jockies in Austin look like idiots!!!

I saw mature deer at my processor too. But for every mature deer, there were 10 50 immature. That is proof we needed the law in erath county. I'm sure it was the same way in most counties in the state, but I can't prove that, and you will never admit it.
You are gonna have to give me proof that it does not work. Other than that one dang deer that you can't kill. All of y'all whine about the one deer that is ruining every deer within a radius of 10 miles of your ranch. That deer isn't gonna ruin anything, and that deer sure ain't proof ARs don't work

White tailed deer have been around since the stone age by evidence of bone and antler finds at archaeological dig sites, and have adjusted to their surroundings over time in order to survive.

Now with the AR's they are adapting by growing narrow racks in order to survive.

C'mon, give the white tailed deer some props for once again outsmarting their two legged predators.

here are 3 bucks from the same 12000 acre mld (and heavily managed since the 60s...was HF for a long time and they just gave up on it...and moved their HF mgmt to the next county over away from the thickets and that is how Scrappin' Valley came into existance) property in an AR county from this morning. Not the first one over 13" @ 4.5. Not going to be able to change those brush buck genetics w/o changing the habitat, but one more yr just adds mass and a little tine length on these deer 9 times out of 10.



can still make out the frame on this one.


12" 12pt

You are gonna have to give me proof that it does not work. Other than that one dang deer that you can't kill.

The proof is the deer that I see while hunting, both young and old, and the fact that deer that were once primary targets for very successful game management plans that I was a part of are now off limits and left to breed and produce similar bucks. BTW....not sure the size of your place, I hunt a 14,000 acre ranch with a very low amount of hunters per acre compared to most places. It doesn't work where we are and is actually a detriment. ALL of our hunters, many of whom have been hunting the ranch for 25 years or more and are quite experienced in game management, consider it a complete joke. And the fact that it's just more government intervention in our sport and our lives doesn't help.

Perhaps it works for you, but not for us, and there is no way you could prove it does because the proof doesn't exist.....therefore shouldn't be forced on the whole state based on a small amount of criteria nowhere near our ranch.