Troy

The area I hunt in ND does have decent bucks but not the quality as of other states/Providences. QDM/TDM is not practiced at all. Inmost respects for me, I am glad it isn't practiced. In order to take a big mature buck, you are going after something that has lived through many years of hard pressure from hunters.

Wenormally see a dozen or so 130 -145 class bucks while scouting and hunting each year. We will see a couple that will go over 150 in a year's time. We can usually find 1 buck thatgets in the160 range. These are gross scores of course.

Last year I took a buck with bow that went 160. While I am hoping to some day take a bigger buck with bow, I have my work cut out taking a 140 -150class buck everyfew years. Life time buckwould be160 - 170.

20 years ago when I moved here, you were lucky to see a buck gross 120. Things have changed since then!!

Tim