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 Re: Would You
[Re: txshntr]
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01/31/14 03:21 PM
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A buck that's bigger than one already taken Exactly what Tom said - I have no desire to just shoot a buck because...I can take a doe for meat. Say you hunt a place that has bucks that top out at 130". You get the chance to go somewhere else, one shot deal, and you kill a 180". Would you still hunt your old place or just hunt does for meat? Right... that's a good way to have a bunch of old 6pnts and junk deer running around.
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Re: Would You
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01/31/14 03:22 PM
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Which wouldn't bother me lol but for someone whos wanting a BIG buck that's a bad way to go about trying to get one of those bucks...
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Re: Would You
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01/31/14 03:43 PM
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txtrophy85
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rather harvest a 130"+ buck seasonally or a 145" buck every 5+ seasons? No letting the 130" grow, just the hypothetical scenario posed. Thanks for playing and just maybe we can pull some attention from the HF vs. LF ethical hunting thread that is raging on! is the 130" buck mature?
For it is not the quarry that we truly seek, but the adventure.
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Re: Would You
[Re: QuitShootinYoungBucks]
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01/31/14 03:44 PM
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txtrophy85
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Our goal is to grow mature deer. If they top out at 130, as long as they're mature, then I will take one and be proud, even if its every year. yep
For it is not the quarry that we truly seek, but the adventure.
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Re: Would You
[Re: txshntr]
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01/31/14 04:14 PM
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Don't confuse my hypothetical with my excitement of hunting and the unexpected, a button buck still excites me when coming out of the woods. Was simply posing the scenario of harvesting a mature buck every year or a trophy every 5+ years, that's all. To stick with your OP, I would answer a mature deer every year. I have hunted many seasons without taking a trophy and some that I couldn't find one. On the years I couldn't find one, I would pick a mature deer and hunt that deer. Sometimes it was 130" and sometimes it was 105", but the excitement of hunting that one deer made it worth it. That is one of the reasons I never understood the mentality of not shooting a buck that isn't as big as my biggest to date. I enjoy the hunt either way, doesn't matter if I was unsuccessful, succeeded on a getting a trophy or succeeded on getting a mature buck I had set my sights on. Also, I hunt in different areas with different opportunities. I have no problem letting a 140" deer walk on one and going to my other lease and hunting hard for a 135"  I really like this answer... however I am more likely to wait 5 years on a trophy if Im not actively part of management other than just hunting. Which is the case with most of the places I hunt because I am too spread thin between different places to hunt. Let alone being able to be involved in year long management on multiple places. I don't own any of it just am lucky and blessed to have families who do. All are constantly asking for help and I am always given the rights to hunt. So I am to a certain degree unfortunately scattered in my efforts. If I just went to one place all year and spent time exclusively there I would be better off and more likely to be more on the "take a good deer every year and target a specific deer each year". Since family calls from many directions I just hunt and work the places the best I can when I am there. If I see one I want there is always the questions of if the other places have something better, and will I see them by the end of the season, will they make it to next season? I wait till I see something that gets my heart pounding that I cannot pass on. I didn't see any bucks for two seasons that did it for me and this year I saw about 5. Obviously this is not a bad problem to have too many places to go so to speak but it can limit you, test your patience, and give you a lot of different of opportunities. Different strokes for different folks
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Re: Would You
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01/31/14 06:58 PM
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rather harvest a 130"+ buck seasonally or a 145" buck every 5+ seasons? No letting the 130" grow, just the hypothetical scenario posed. Thanks for playing and just maybe we can pull some attention from the HF vs. LF ethical hunting thread that is raging on! is the 130" buck mature? Yes, I was thinking 4.5 yo or older. Was just wanting to know if it mattered or was preferred more, to shoot a mature 130 yearly vs a an occasional trophy 145" every 5 years.
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Re: Would You
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01/31/14 08:30 PM
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I want to kill a mature deer. Don't care what size his rack is. Heck, I'm happy just killing my limit of does.
I'm not a trophy hunter. I have NO problem with those who want trophy's. That's just not why I hunt.
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