ORIGINAL: retrieverman
Unless I misunderstand B&C Records, 150 class deer don't make "The Book". If these are some of the state's top deer (and they are VERY NICE deer), the "north" should not worry about their hunters running to Florida for trophy whitetails. Florida is like eastern Texas. Blind hog do find acorns every once in a while.
This is a post from the topic Yankee Panic in this forum.
Retrieverman, does this sound like I'm defending the deer hunting in the state of FL?
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ORIGINAL: buldog762000
when will you post some pics. of deer harvested down there that are 225+ poundsdressed? I would really like to see these deer. Don't really understand how you feel the deer are bigger in Florida than in Ill. Wi, or Iowa, but we all do have an imagination, just yours works a lot more than others. Here in the Midwest we see these deer almost everyday. How often do you see deer that size. I'll tell youalmost never. I think your justembarrassed of your deer so you feel you need to bash the north. Good luck with yourtrophy bucks butI willstay here in the Midwest with thereal deer.
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Buldog, I have been hunting North FL all my life and sometimes someone will shoot a 10or 12 that has been night feeding in someones cattle feed, that willweigh between 185 to 195 lbs.
That is onrareoccasions only!
Usally they are 6 to 10 pts and weigh from 165 to 175 pds. I have hunted in every WMA from the FL Keys to the Georgia Line. The last Hunting Club I was a member of was in Madison, FL just 20 miles South of the Georgia/Florida line.
From North FL to the Fl Keys they get smaller and smaller. The Key Deer only stand 2 ft at the shoulder and weigh from 40 to 50 pds. They are protected by Fl Law. As a matter of fact there is no hunting in Monroe County at all, which covers the SW section of Big Cypress WMA.
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