RE: How many bucks do you pass on?
question....when you guy's say pass do you mean that you had a good opportunity to take the deer and choice not to ... or you saw the deer and maybe with a grunt call or something that sort you could have made it happen, but otherwise he was out of range???
this year was first year i have "passed on a buck" we had 3 in the freezer for meat and i wanted something a little bit bigger, but most years we are lucky to get one or two deer between 4 of us hunting (my brother and i hunt very hard so really 2 hunters, but dad and cousin do go out and hunt)........our ratio is something in the range of 10-12 does per buck.....usually in most areas ( all public land for me) so there is no room for passing on a deer if i want some jerky or burgers later in the year...