ORIGINAL: TEmbry
ORIGINAL: Rory/MO
ORIGINAL: GregH
ORIGINAL: Rory/MO
I don't see how you can pass up a deer that would meet your "criteria", just because he broke off a g2. Aren't you "supposed" to hold off for 4.5 year olds?
I've never shot a clean 5x5, a 10 pointer. I passed on one this year because he had a snapped off g-2. He would have grossed about 133". In my mind he wasn't "clean" anymore. He wasn't what I had in mind. It is my choice isn't it? I decided to wait for something else. No problem with that is there?
Greg, would you have shot him, if he had that g2?
I see your point...but to play Devil's Advocate...He doesnt have that g2. Would you have shot that 80" 2.5 if he was a 125" instead? Well of course, but it doesn't.
To each his own, I guess. I'm on neither the age or the antler trip, I'm on the deer one. If it gets my knees shaking, and it's legal, it's gonna get lead or carbon flung at it.
And honestly, I love busted up racks. Here's a prime example. My dad killed this buck about 5 years ago in Illinois, the thing took up the whole bed of the truck. He was aged at 6.5-7.5 years old. You know how many scoreable points he has? If you counted 5, you're right
. He'd be an 8, if he had all of his points. And I'm gonna guess that IF this buck had all of his points still in tact, he'd only gross 120" TOPS. Once again, to each his own.
