What will he score?

Pics I took of a buck on my place back in Sept. this year. Here is a pic of him from 2018 and then 2019 also.
This is 2018

Then in 2019

Now in 2020

I think he'll score . . . .

135-140

More than some may think, low 140s

I have him at 145

I bet he sure as hell hopes he does

139

Poor bugger probably didn't get the chance

I knew this was a trick question! Congrats!

Congrats! I remember him. Looks like a great plan that worked out well & I think he's about 142. Perfect example of letting a buck go a few seasons to put some meat on his bones. Your progressive pics say it all. Can't wait to hear the story.

He loose his G-2 kicker ?

No, he still had it.

Nice!!

X2

123...very nice animal...

Cool deal couldn't see it in that one pic.

152", great buck

He's pushing 140" real hard.

Great mass and beams but I think he just missed 140.

Little background on deer killed on my place where I live. Ranges on mainbeams, mass and spread has been from 82" to 86" with one buck around 88". Mass ranges from 25" to 27" and mainbeams from 20.5" to 22" with one buck having one beam at 23" in the past. Tine length is always good but the downframe is what keeps the bucks from scoring really well. Body weights are from 108 post rut to 145 in archery season before the rut. I saw this buck opening morning in the feed pen at 35 yards but did not think he looked as good as the day I took the photos of him. I had another mainframe 8pt with him that I had found a shed off of and thought he was around 125 and this buck looked a bit larger. I had him originally around 131-134 the day I took the pics then saw him a few days after and took more pics. I then put him at 134-138 range. In the back of my mind I knew what the downframe scores were in the past so I was not going to score him higher based off of that. Yesterday he came in at 6:55 and then finally jumped in the feed pen. He looked much better than any other sightings or trail cam pics I had off him.
This was opening morning with him to the right of the feeder. The 8pt is behind the feed pen to left of feeder. Sorry but low light cell phone pics are not the best.

Nice buck, if you don't mind me asking, What mm lens do you use for those photos?

I gave him 16 inch spread, 22 inch beams and 28 on mass

So did I in the pics from Sept., but yesterday evening he looked much bigger for some reason when he jumped into the feed pen.

500mm Canon lens

141.5.... 89.5 down, 52 up.

Went to check my trail cams and found this pic. This was immediately after the shot. He was on this side of the feed pen and had just plowed over the hog panel after my shot. He is skidding on his brisket trying to get his front legs underneath after going over that panel. My blind is off the lower right corner of this photo.

Cool picture for sure

Well....

You da man stxrm!

Congrats on a hell of a home grown bow buck.

He looks every bit of 6 years old to.

Glad you got him

Well done!

After the shot at 19 yards he plowed over the panel on the closest side to me then across the pen and took out the offside hog panel on the way out. He tried to jump it but he could not get his front legs underneath him. So he plowed into the panel and the cartwheeled over it ripping it away from the T-post. It was overlapped and spliced in 5 places with concrete tie wire and then both panels were tied to the Tpost with 14 gauge tie wire in 3 places.


I went back this morning to check trail cams and make sure the hogs had not tried to get inside the pen at this panel. You can see the outline of where his nose/head hit the one opening in the panel and spread it apart.

Pre tenderized

An eventful evening out there ways.

Gift idea for stx -

He is to German, he would keep that to fix his implements and keep using what he took off the 99 year old fence.....


I’m sure it’s patented as a “Break-Free” fence though

131 7/8

I’m saying 139. Great buck. BTW congratulations

Well, what’d it score?

137

Survey says??????

Must be a lot of adding

140

I scored him at 144.4 gross
Inside Spread 17.4
Right Left
G1 5.2 4.6
G2 9.3 8.6
G3 8.2 9.1
G4 1.5 2.5
C1 4.3 4.2
C2 3.5 3.6
C3 3.5 3.5
C4 3.1 3.2
NT 1.6
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Total 63.7 63.1

63.7
63.1
17.4
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Total 144.4

Forgot his NT

Nice harvest Ranch

Heck of a deer ,bow kill even sweeter ! congratulation s !

That was my guess

Left off the MB's

Nice deer. Should have gave him one more year.

As a matter of fact I did give him one more year...that was last year to this year...
He went from this 8pt in 2019 to a 5x5 with one NT point this year in 2020.

Awesome deer

Thanks everyone.
I liked the deer and his was one of two bucks I had targeted when the archery season opened up. I knew he was the older of the two and he was more visible than the other buck..so the decision was easy when he was inside 20 yards from me that afternoon. He is my second largest bow kill and my largest buck off of my place I live on with any weapon. So I was very excited and happy when I got a chance at him.

Better build a bigger house.

I said 135-140. Not a bad guess. Good buck especially with a bow! Congrats!

Congrats! Very cool deer and story and pics - fun stuff with a bow!

Congrats, stx!!!

Congrats STX. That is a great buck.

well done stx ... nice deer ... slightly larger than I had him, I was guessing mid to upper 130s

BOBO, I'm relatively sure his last name is polish though.

Y'all don't be jealous now. God could not let everyone be smart and polish like some of us!

Heck yeah man. I would have been to.
Great home grown buck!

Great write up and a great buck!

What did you have him at as far as age? Figure 5-6 based on your progression pics, but did you think older?

As an aside, I added up my numbers and was gonna say 145 but saw you had posted the numbers before I got to this. When I read your blurb about your typical buck measurements I thought “well I am way off” but then saw your score and thought different. What a nice jump he made from last year to this too. Congrats!

Having 23 inch main beams and 5 inch brows definitely helps! I came up with 137-139 before I read the through the thread, but I was only giving him 21 inch beams and a 16 inch spread. It's always great when you underestimate them.

Congrats on your best home grown buck to date.

I always underscore deer for that reason so that they grow on the ground.
Thanks again everyone.

I had him at 5 last year based on pics and seeing him in person a lot. He was one of the more dominant bucks around most of the time. There was 3 more bucks that were more aggressive than him and all but one was the same age as him last year...I thought. One was older and is still here this year and shows his age much better. I had him at 6 this year but tooth wear was more of a 5 yr old but on protein for at least 3 yrs if not more...I know to add 1 yr to the age on bucks on protein.