Originally Posted by
BarnesX.308
But the one with the forked G2s has an awesome rack. He's also about 22 inches wide.
The old deer, whose name is Czonka, was only a 5 pointer last year. Who knows what he'll be this year.
The buck in this picture was basically a 4 pointer. He barely had enough of the 5th point to make him legal. The taxidermist said he was 8.5yo and he was around 300lb on the hoof.
Barnes a 8.5 year old 300lb PA. buck is the trophy of a lifetime!!
Out of the millions of bucks that lived in PA. over the decades there might only be a handful of them that had the genetic potential to reach 300lbs. Actually harvesting any buck that old in PA. is a trophy of a lifetime regarless of score or weight!! I bet that buck made alot of hunters look stupid in his time to make it to that age. And if you think about it, having that buck doing the breeding is natural selection, the biggest, strongest and he had to be the healthiest and smartest to reach that age in the state of PA. because I doubt very few bucks that reach his age in north america faced the amount of hunting pressure that he encountered during his life time and he had to be very healthy because most wild deer do not live to be 8.5 years of age even if they are not killed by hunters. Pike