ORIGINAL: Vabowman
A buck from 100-125" is very common here in south east Va. On the places I hunt and the surrounding areas several in 135-165" class are killed every year. Anything above the 165" class is not as common. I would say there maybe 2 or 3 170+ killed in this area which is 25 mile radius a yr.
I'd say thats about a perfect assessment sir. Any buck that is 125" and up will get noticed and get you slaps on the back. They are there, and while I may have never found any sheds, I don't put a lot of effort forth to find them either... maybe one or two walk-abouts.
On 500 acres last year, I got pictures of four bucks that would make Pope and Young, and another one that is flirting but I don't think quite at 170" gross....I am confident he would gross over 160" for the awards in B&C... but would fall short net because of deductions (see pictures below).... he is a trophy animal either way. I also found those two bucks that killed each other locked up right behind the club house in the pond... the final scores of those two, by the way, were 129 4/8 and 126 6/8 net. Both grossed over 130".
I put a thread up about them... there are the pictures in the first post of the thread:
http://www.hunting.net/forum/tm.aspx...&key=�
There are a few bigguns running around too.... this was one of the best... gross over 160" I'd say... net... ehhh who knows.... hard to tell... definately pretty though:
