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Hill Country Bucks
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10/23/14 11:50 AM
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Joined: Sep 2012
Posts: 142
TxHillCntry21
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Gen 27:3
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Re: Hill Country Bucks
[Re: TxHillCntry21]
#5375286
10/23/14 12:37 PM
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Seadog
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I support Cap and Trade - Cap our spending and Trade Obama
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Re: Hill Country Bucks
[Re: TxHillCntry21]
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10/23/14 12:55 PM
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Pitchfork Predator
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Great looking bucks. I agree with age being around 3 for most of those bucks. But the 8 point withe nice mass and antlers that grow up and in looks mature to me.
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Re: Hill Country Bucks
[Re: TxHillCntry21]
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10/23/14 01:01 PM
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sloveless
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Those are some nice looking deer for sure, got plenty of potential. I would agree, they all look 2.5/3.5 to me. They all look pretty healthy too.
If any of them are older I would say it is that basket-racked deer with the good mass and brows. You have some good variety of antler characteristics too!
What are your buck:doe ratios like?
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Re: Hill Country Bucks
[Re: TxHillCntry21]
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10/23/14 02:00 PM
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stxranchman
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Nice bucks Most are 2-4 yr olds IMO. The big browtined 6 or 8 point is mature to me.
Are idiots multiplying faster than normal people?
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Re: Hill Country Bucks
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10/23/14 02:14 PM
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Joined: Sep 2012
Posts: 142
TxHillCntry21
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Nice bucks Most are 2-4 yr olds IMO. The big browtined 6 or 8 point is mature to me. He's a 6 with some healthy brows. Never seen him while I was there but have a 2 yr record of pics
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Re: Hill Country Bucks
[Re: TxHillCntry21]
#5375462
10/23/14 02:18 PM
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WBYHunter
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They all look to be 2.5 - 3.5 years old except that one, he looks older.
God Family Hunting
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Re: Hill Country Bucks
[Re: TxHillCntry21]
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10/24/14 01:31 AM
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HarperDeer
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Shoot that big 6! Anything that big should have more than 6 points!
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Re: Hill Country Bucks
[Re: TxHillCntry21]
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10/24/14 01:34 AM
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klp
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I currently hunt the hill country and not shot a buck in 5/6 years. With in the past 3 years we have finally started to see nicer (older bucks). Unfortunately (like you) all the deer on camera are 2.5 to maybe 3.5. Our bucks have improved. We feed more and with the increased rains the past 2 years has helped see alot of better deer. But the area (hunters around you) will be your ceiling (depending on the size of your place). Are place isn't big enough to keep the deer only in our area. I base this on the fact that the oldest deer I've ever seen on camera was 4.5 and that was 1 picture. We havn't shot the bucks so someone must be doing it.
This bothers me cause it gives the argument for hunters on your place to say "if i don't shoot them someone else will" experience tells me they are some what right. However letting them go has lead to some pretty decent 2.5 and 3.5 bucks that we would have never seen before. Before when people shoot a 1.5 year little 8 just because it has antlers.
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Re: Hill Country Bucks
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10/24/14 01:36 AM
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TonyinVA
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With all the rocks in some of those pictures I kept looking for the Mt Goats!
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