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What Would Your Dream Buck of a Lifetime..

Posted By: Stub

What Would Your Dream Buck of a Lifetime.. - 10/24/20 03:34 PM

look like? Mine would be like this guy.

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Posted By: tlk

Re: What Would Your Dream Buck of a Lifetime.. - 10/24/20 03:44 PM

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Posted By: txtrophy85

Re: What Would Your Dream Buck of a Lifetime.. - 10/24/20 04:06 PM

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Posted By: stxranchman

Re: What Would Your Dream Buck of a Lifetime.. - 10/24/20 05:12 PM

I lived my dream in real life in 2019.....
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They are now bookends in my living room....
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Posted By: ChanceHuiet

Re: What Would Your Dream Buck of a Lifetime.. - 10/25/20 12:43 AM

A deer that looks like the Hanson buck. I absolutely am in awe of a giant perfectly symmetrical typical.
Posted By: Stub

Re: What Would Your Dream Buck of a Lifetime.. - 10/25/20 10:56 AM

In a perfect world I would like a 300 lb hairy northern US or Canada main frame 10 with double drop tines, tall brow tines and good mass all of the way to the tips.
Pretty much like the one I posted but a little larger body and thicker coat.
Posted By: snake oil

Re: What Would Your Dream Buck of a Lifetime.. - 10/25/20 11:58 AM

Any mule deer over 200".
Posted By: KWAKZ

Re: What Would Your Dream Buck of a Lifetime.. - 10/25/20 01:09 PM

Chocolate horned, main frame 8 or 10 with 2 drop tines. Wide and symmetrical.
Posted By: Jacob__McCandles

Re: What Would Your Dream Buck of a Lifetime.. - 10/25/20 06:38 PM

I want a ginormous Alberta whitetail.

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Posted By: Stub

Re: What Would Your Dream Buck of a Lifetime.. - 10/25/20 10:48 PM

A friend of mine who is not an avid hunter at all got invited to hunt Whitetail in Wisconsin on a customer of his families property. I think he said was about 500 acre place with mix wood and corn fields. He shot a big old hairy one that is to die for.
Posted By: mbavo

Re: What Would Your Dream Buck of a Lifetime.. - 10/26/20 01:15 AM

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I have been very lucky to shoot 2 different beautiful whitetail bucks.
I never dreamed I would see 2 bucks of this quality, much less be able to shoot them.
I feel blessed.

I would love to be able to add a 180+ mule deer buck to go with these nice whitetail bucks , on my wall.
Posted By: Erathkid

Re: What Would Your Dream Buck of a Lifetime.. - 10/26/20 02:42 AM

Wow, Mike. I've never seen that double droptine buck. Was that a Kansas deer? What a monstrosity. Congratulations.
Posted By: Hudbone

Re: What Would Your Dream Buck of a Lifetime.. - 10/26/20 09:55 AM

Never ever thought anything like this would happen -
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Posted By: Mr. T.

Re: What Would Your Dream Buck of a Lifetime.. - 10/26/20 01:24 PM

I've noticed that most of these bucks in the photos are typicals, and not the 300 inch ones. A good typical 8 or 10
would be my buck of a lifetime.
Posted By: QuitShootinYoungBucks

Re: What Would Your Dream Buck of a Lifetime.. - 10/26/20 01:31 PM

Originally Posted by ChanceHuiet
A deer that looks like the Hanson buck. I absolutely am in awe of a giant perfectly symmetrical typical.



Yes, this. My HF neighbor has one with the same shape, etc, probably about 170ish. I've seen him running around a couple of times.

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Posted By: hook_n_line

Re: What Would Your Dream Buck of a Lifetime.. - 10/26/20 02:09 PM

My dream buck would be like this with longer brow tines.
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This is my dream 8.
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Posted By: mbavo

Re: What Would Your Dream Buck of a Lifetime.. - 10/26/20 02:38 PM

Originally Posted by Erathkid
Wow, Mike. I've never seen that double droptine buck. Was that a Kansas deer? What a monstrosity. Congratulations.


No the double drop buck came off a high fence ranch in Texas .
I was lucky and entered a raffle for the hunt and won.
Never dreamed I would shoot a buck like him.
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This other buck is from Kansas .
Leased some small acreage and was lucky to be able to harvest him.
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Posted By: ILUVBIGBUCKS

Re: What Would Your Dream Buck of a Lifetime.. - 10/26/20 02:55 PM

Originally Posted by tlk
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WOW

What does he score as an 8 TLK??
Posted By: Texas Dan

Re: What Would Your Dream Buck of a Lifetime.. - 10/26/20 03:17 PM

My buck of a lifetime would be measured more by the location and experience of the hunt than by the animal itself. In fact, anything that I might take while on hunt in the mountains of Montana or Alaska would likely fit the bill.
Posted By: Hudbone

Re: What Would Your Dream Buck of a Lifetime.. - 10/26/20 04:01 PM

OP requested Dream Buck and not anything about location or "the" experience.
Posted By: Biscuit

Re: What Would Your Dream Buck of a Lifetime.. - 10/26/20 04:44 PM

Originally Posted by Hudbone
Never ever thought anything like this would happen -
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Great deer
Posted By: Biscuit

Re: What Would Your Dream Buck of a Lifetime.. - 10/26/20 04:46 PM

I love typical and very symmetrical 8 or 10 points. Always low fence
Posted By: tailchaser93

Re: What Would Your Dream Buck of a Lifetime.. - 10/26/20 06:02 PM

A typical Saskatchewan 12
Posted By: MWTX270

Re: What Would Your Dream Buck of a Lifetime.. - 10/26/20 06:15 PM

Is that the Burris buck?
Posted By: texasgal

Re: What Would Your Dream Buck of a Lifetime.. - 10/26/20 07:09 PM

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Low fence and he didn't stay in that corner for long.
Posted By: 270Sendero

Re: What Would Your Dream Buck of a Lifetime.. - 10/26/20 07:32 PM

Wow texasgal! Great deer
Posted By: Davis300

Re: What Would Your Dream Buck of a Lifetime.. - 10/26/20 08:19 PM

My buck of a lifetime would look something like this...I’m a sucker for wicked drop tines.

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Posted By: texasgal

Re: What Would Your Dream Buck of a Lifetime.. - 10/26/20 08:20 PM

Originally Posted by 270Sendero
Wow texasgal! Great deer

Thanks! Definitely a buck fever morning!
Posted By: west-tex

Re: What Would Your Dream Buck of a Lifetime.. - 10/26/20 08:44 PM

This is him walking out of my life. sick

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Posted By: texasgal

Re: What Would Your Dream Buck of a Lifetime.. - 10/26/20 09:10 PM

Originally Posted by west-tex
This is him walking out of my life. sick

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Just WOW!!!
Posted By: freerange

Re: What Would Your Dream Buck of a Lifetime.. - 10/27/20 03:41 PM

I could pick a few out of STx pics but one in particular (just a little short on mass) would be my dream buck. I better not post the pics, yall can just dream along with me.
Posted By: snake oil

Re: What Would Your Dream Buck of a Lifetime.. - 10/27/20 08:19 PM

I've got a 188 6/8" LF WT so it's a 200" Mule deer.
Posted By: freerange

Re: What Would Your Dream Buck of a Lifetime.. - 10/27/20 08:22 PM

Originally Posted by snake oil
I've got a 188 6/8" LF WT so it's a 200" Mule deer.

Snake, I assume you shared pics of the 189 before my time. You wanna share again?
Posted By: Perfect 8

Re: What Would Your Dream Buck of a Lifetime.. - 10/29/20 05:18 PM

I am losing the land that I have hunted for the last 12 years (i have another place just down the road) at the conclusion on this season. My dream deer would be a 5.5 year old or older buck. While I enjoy a larger vs. smaller set of horns. When I first hunted this place, I was happy with any legal buck (AR county). In the intervening years, I worked on aging deer and didn't shoot anything less that 4.5 years old. I have let a number of 3.5 year old 10 pts walk that would have easily been my largest deer ever....but I really enjoy hunting more than killing and I wanted to see what happened if I let them grow a little older. Two of the deer that I let walk were killed later and really blew up to something spectacular...and I am ever hopeful. I have two potential shooters on camera and there is always the opportunity that one will walk in that I have never seen.

This has been the best hunting place that I have ever had. I get to hunt with a nephew and we do our small part to manage the property and we both enjoy that. I would just like to have my last day on the place to end with a fully mature deer...maybe in a little snow with a bitterly cold North wind.
Posted By: snake oil

Re: What Would Your Dream Buck of a Lifetime.. - 10/29/20 06:50 PM

Originally Posted by freerange
Originally Posted by snake oil
I've got a 188 6/8" LF WT so it's a 200" Mule deer.

Snake, I assume you shared pics of the 189 before my time. You wanna share again?


I'm too dumb to post pics but I could text you a pic if you could post it up for me. PM me your # please.
Posted By: freerange

Re: What Would Your Dream Buck of a Lifetime.. - 10/30/20 03:24 PM

I’m posting this for snake oil. We gotta teach him how to post pics. [Linked Image]
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Posted By: Hudbone

Re: What Would Your Dream Buck of a Lifetime.. - 10/30/20 06:08 PM

Dang . . . ..Snake - pretty special one there.
Posted By: snake oil

Re: What Would Your Dream Buck of a Lifetime.. - 10/31/20 12:56 PM

Thanks FR.
Posted By: snake oil

Re: What Would Your Dream Buck of a Lifetime.. - 10/31/20 12:58 PM

Thanks Hud.
Posted By: Jgraider

Re: What Would Your Dream Buck of a Lifetime.. - 10/31/20 01:09 PM

This one, from Sonora, MX in 2006

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Posted By: Hudbone

Re: What Would Your Dream Buck of a Lifetime.. - 10/31/20 01:20 PM

I imagine so, oh my!
Posted By: sbushee

Re: What Would Your Dream Buck of a Lifetime.. - 10/31/20 01:38 PM

I wanna get to be friends with stxranchman! Guy always takes great pics of great deer.
Posted By: freerange

Re: What Would Your Dream Buck of a Lifetime.. - 10/31/20 02:24 PM

Originally Posted by sbushee
I wanna get to be friends with stxranchman! Guy always takes great pics of great deer.

Stay 6’ apart in that line.
Posted By: freerange

Re: What Would Your Dream Buck of a Lifetime.. - 10/31/20 02:25 PM

Jg that monster muley would have to be on anyone’s list. Score and width?
Posted By: txtrophy85

Re: What Would Your Dream Buck of a Lifetime.. - 10/31/20 06:35 PM

Originally Posted by Jgraider
This one, from Sonora, MX in 2006

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What did that deer look like on the hoof?
Posted By: snake oil

Re: What Would Your Dream Buck of a Lifetime.. - 10/31/20 06:38 PM

JG that's what I'm looking for. What did it score?
Posted By: freerange

Re: What Would Your Dream Buck of a Lifetime.. - 10/31/20 06:55 PM

Originally Posted by txtrophy85
Originally Posted by Jgraider
This one, from Sonora, MX in 2006

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What did that deer look like on the hoof?

I wouldnt of been looking at it long enough to tell you. That rack takes up about as much space as any buck I have ever seen alive or dead. EXTREMELY impressed. He could easily be my Dream Buck for a Mulie if his front forks were just a little deeper/longer and just a hair more mass(yeah, I know, some folks would mess up a wet dream.)
Posted By: Jgraider

Re: What Would Your Dream Buck of a Lifetime.. - 11/01/20 12:28 AM

Got lucky on that buck for sure. Just happened to be in the right place at the right time. He was 36" wide (30.5" inside main beam), 27" main beams, 22" backs, and grossed (green) 213 4/8". After the 60 drying period he netted 204 6/8" net typical.
Posted By: Lotto

Re: What Would Your Dream Buck of a Lifetime.. - 11/01/20 03:29 AM

Still hanging around last month.......................



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