ORIGINAL: quiksilver
At least
PA has implemented an antler restriction, which does leave a few more 2.5's in the woods. People around here are starting to wait for racks, but they are still in the verysmall minority. We still live in a "Brown & Down" world, here in the extreme SW corner of the Keystone State. A 115" buck is actually an attainable goal nowadays, but just 15 years ago, a 100" buck was headline news.
West Virginia, in my opinion, hasthe toughest conditions I've ever hunted. Liberal harvest limits, TONS of poaching, ARMIES of hunters, semi-auto rifles, lawless culture... It's everything you can do to fill your buck tags down there. With anything.
In total, I've probably been hunting WV for about 10 years - and have taken around 20 whitetail bucks down there. Sadly, only ONE of those deer would top 100". It was this guy:
He taped out close to 120. I'm still very proud of that deer. Public Lander, Preston County.
Easily the biggest buck I've ever seen on the hoof in Mountaineer territory.
Congrats Quick. That's a dandy for that part of the state.Your discription of WV hunting is spot on. They have cut back on the amount of bucks you can kill, but we are still at 3 per year with no AR's. With the numbers we have in the woods our herd can and does get decimated every year. Not so much in the southern part of the state, but not of charleston is a tough row to hoe.
I hunt in Wirt co. and here are some of our best....... I have never measured any of them but I would guess we have a few that are 100-110".
