I have this 4x4 that has shown up regularly on this trail all of this week between 4:30 and 6:45 pm (9 pictures in the last 4 days). This camera is directly on the tree my stand is in and a fresh scrape he seems like tending to. Im gonna hunt this stand first day Saturday if the wind allows.
He isnt the best, but on the verge of a shooter for this area. I see alot of other 3x3's on film, but very much on the limit for this area. Maybe I will wait and see with my own two eyes and see if the scrape attracts others (mineral site is on same trail, 80 yds away), potentially bigger.
No I wouldnt shoot him but I wouldnt let what I or anyone else say have anything to do with your judgement If you like him, then by all means go after him, and good luck!
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What is that old saying, "a shooter on the last day should be a shooter on the first day."?
Me? I would let him walk. However, I have told myself I wasn't going to shoot a buck I had on a trail cam a few years ago and yet he was in my freezer that fall. It is a lot tougher to pass up bucks when they are right there!
I definitely agree that its a lot easier to say you would pass a buck up then to actually pass one up when its in front of you but I would say I would not shoot that buck
It would probably be a hard decision for me as well, but from the pictures, I probably wouldn't shoot him either. He is on the verge of a shooter for my area too.
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Would you shoot him?
If you like him, then by all means go after him, and good luck!
