Decent East Texas Timber Lease Buck

I shot this buck last weekend on our MLD lease in Trinity County. He weighed about 135, but looks like he lost a good amount of weight since the trail camera pictures we have of him from rut. His brow tines are worn down smooth, so I'm guessing he may have rubbed them off in velvet.

He isn't a monster, but is a very decent buck for our area and more importantly a sign of our hard work and management over the last 10 years. When we got on this lease 13 years ago or so, they were killing everything they saw. The only bucks we even saw on camera were young 4 points. Then the county went to antler restrictions and then we got on MLD. We've been seeing better bucks and are finally starting to see mature bucks regularly.

I'm doing a euro myself, but am kinda regretting it now. I might see how much a taxi will charge me for a new cape and end up doing a wall pedestal.

Also, what would yall age this deer at?

Nice East Texas Buck!

Great looking buck. Congrats

Nice mature buck, 4.5 - 5.5. Congrats, glad to see hard work and patience paying off!

Great Buck!!

Great buck! Congratulations!

Great buck

Decent? Shoot, that's a great deer! Congratulations!

Are you posting because you think he is decent or your proud of him?

I'd be happy, congrats.

X2 Great deer!

That's a great deer!

I agree he's 4.5 or 5.5.

Hard to tell on age, but about 5 from the pics you have would be my guess.

Very nice buck, congrats!

Good one

no need for apologies needed, congrats

Really great 8pt!

5+

congratulations!

Nice!

Nice buck for any part of texas in my book

Old knotty Head!
Great buck

Awesome

Nice

Thanks all. I say decent relative to some of the monsters posted here. I'm pretty excited about it. I'll be doing the euro this weekend. I'll post pics when its done. I may end up buying a cape and doing a shoulder mount later on.