ORIGINAL: The Deer Destroyer
ORIGINAL: outdoorsmen
Droptine, i see your point and agree with you.
i like terry and mark, the other jokers i don't care foras much. i have more respect for mark and terry then the rest of the crew. I'd love to have terry and mark as a mentor, their experience and abilites far outway the other crew members.
besides from what i understand any joe blow and send in footage. the pay back was a mere $1000 for a good big buck kill and only a couple hundred dollars for a doe. now i got that from one of the team members about 9 years ago when i called him trying to get involved. so realisticly how many "big bucks" does the average joe blow kill a year? In my home state of illinois it's a max of 2. so i'd need to hunt out of state for more oportunities. then you have your taxidermy bill to deal with. and it would take about 3-4 years just to pay off the high-def video camera you bought to film the hunt.
so i guess my point is, is getting on tv really that important to you? if you're looking for recognition for being a "big buck killer" or "master hunter caused you made it in a video killing a big deer" wouldn't it be easier and cheaper to just send in you picture of your once in a lifetime 170" buck to your local newpaper?
all videos now have high standards of buck size. i would bet that 99% of us will never see the size of deer in our lifetime that the drury boys kill. hell they pass on deer that are bigger then most of us ever see. why???cause of location, location, location. if we had enough money to buy a huge piece of land in a prime county and have the equipment to farm and food plot and manage the herd we could have big deer on video too.
The reason they seem to always shoot big bucks is because they let younger deer go. They have a great management plan, and it pays off for them. When you pass on the younger bucks, they will get bigger. I'm sick and tired of people saying they never see big bucks. I ask them do you shoot 1 1/2 olds? They say yes, and I tell them that's the reason. My dad and I started passing on the younger bucks, and now, the bucks we have on our property are getting bigger. We know ofover 10 bucks that are shooters, and there's probably more. Including a HUGE typical buck that has avoided us since 2003. We've had one shot at him, and got him on film, and the shot missed (my dad's bow was off.) Hopefully we get a crack at him. He got that big by us letting him grow and get older. He's now either 6 or 7 1/2, nd he is still a monster.
1st i sure as heck hope you're not trying to lecture me!
2nd "when you pass on younger bucks they will grow bigger"...well no s**t! what a profound statement! why didn't i think of that?
3rd. the average age of a whitetail buck is only 1.5yrs old. it's a fact. so unless you own a hugepiece of ground that the deer will actually stay on, yourgoing to be dealing with migration and emigration, esp during the rut.
4th i hope your in claiming/stating/suggesting/insinuating that i shoot small deer and that's why i don't see big ones. did you net read my statment earlier that yo quoated, "location, location, location." do you think mr. joe public land hunter has high odds of seeing a P&Y deer??? no of course not. i happens but not as mcuh as on micromanaged lands. I'm a private land owner as well, it doesn't mean anything. I don't shoot a buck unless i think that it's big enough to spend $500 on a wall mount. plain and simple. if i shoot a buck it gets mounted so it better be big. so why don't i see big deer on the regular...ask the land owners/farmers that gun hunt around me. you can't find the needle in the haystack if you looking in the wrong haystack.
5th. when a deer gets to be 6 or 7 yrs old he's not considered to "still" be a monster. at that age is when they hit their peak. he has yet to decline in size so he is a monster. now when he gets to be 8 or 9 cause he out smarts you, then you can refer to him as still being a monster.
7th. "i'm sick and tired of how people can shoot at a deer and miss...so i ask them it they check their equipment and they say no..."