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Old 08-26-2004 | 05:40 PM
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Porintree
 
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Default RE: What is a trophy buck?

In the Manitoba provincial big game record book, a whitetail must score 165 typical or 180 non-typical to qualify. There are well over 700 typical entries in the book and around 450 non-typical entries in the book. So there are some big deer out there, however if you are limiting it to bowhunting, any buck over 100 would be considered pretty decent by most hunters. The deer are tough to bowhunt and most bowhunters don't put in the scouting time to figure out how to get them in the large forested areas in the province. In my immediate area, our proximity to Riding Mountain National Park provides a large hunting free sanctuary for deer. Many large bucks only vacate the Park during the rut. So for this area there is a a fair difference in what is considered a trophy as far as a score goes. I think any deer taken with archery equipment is an excellent trophy.
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