What do you guys look for in a buck

Deerhunter89 · 09-28-2002, 06:44 PM

WHAT do you guys look for in a buck a rack or the poundage or the size in meat and that. some of my friends look for racks and i say why look for racks i look for meat. SO what do you look for.

Pete

Wahya · 09-29-2002, 05:03 AM

Fat, lazy, stupid and tasty is my favorite. <img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>

bloodtrail1 · 09-29-2002, 06:38 AM

I pretty much look for a doe or two right as season opens for the freezer, then I look/wait for a big rack. In 2000 I took a buck that made pope&young (131 7/8) so now I wont shoot a buck unless it is darn close or bigger than that.

LBR · 09-29-2002, 07:06 AM

Four points or better, at least until there is some meat in the freezer (here in MS, a buck has to have 4 points or more to be legal).

Chad

Long Bows Rule!

john nail · 09-29-2002, 10:57 AM

I like to read, so I subscribe to a bunch of magazines. The quickest way to get me to trash one, is for them to start talking about how many points a rack would score, or some obscure "delta one" tine, or some such crap. I wonder how many hunters wrap their balls around a buck's "score"?
I wish they would remove any mention of the human in a pope&young or boone&crockett record book.
It ought to be about the animal. People who hunt for "score" are in the woods for the wrong reason.

Smokin · 09-29-2002, 11:32 AM

I personally look for tender meat, either sex. Tell you the truth, my pride would love a big buck, but I was taught as a child that hunting was for putting food on the table, and hunting for sport was just killing. This isn't a troll, just commenting on my upbringing.

COB · 09-29-2002, 01:34 PM

Four legs, breathing, and close! Hell he does not have to have four good legs even. Closer the better! Meat hunter! Meat!

Ted A. Young AKA COB

bloodtrail1 · 09-29-2002, 03:12 PM

I agree about taking the humans name out of the books! It IS about recognizing the animal! I hunt for meat...THEN I wait for decent horns. Luckly I live in a state where you can get all the tags you want/need so meat is filled first with a doe tag, then wait for a nice buck. NO sense to me in killing a small buck, when it can be left to grow and get bigger! Now if I needed meat and had no does in the freezer and it was the last day of season I might take a smaller buck. Not sure if John Nails post was aimed at me or not!? But...

widowlbow · 09-29-2002, 03:48 PM

A spot behin tha shoulder.ssshhhup down he'd go.bout anythang a gudin with a stick. WidowlBow

randy g ward

john nail · 09-29-2002, 04:18 PM

Bloodtrail>
My post was not aimed at you. This "Score" thing is just one of my many pet peeves. I freely admit to being a testy old curmudgeon. I firmly believe that ANY animal I kill with my stickbow is a trophy. I believe an old, wise doe is just as cagey as a buck. And I believe a lot of people are in the woods for the wrong reason.