ORIGINAL: buckeyebuckhntr
This is one of the biggest lines of BS I have ever heard. If someone only has public land to hunt it is no ones falut but there own. Get up off their lazy butts and go nock on some frickin doors.
So you admit that you NEED private honey holes to succeed? Don't like a challenge huh?
I am not asking by "sheer probabilty" Once again I am not asking what is most abundant. I am saking what deer is most suseptible to being taken by a hunter. Read my question don't mold it into what you want it to say.
I read your question..........you just want to mold the answer into what you want to hear. No matter how you slice it if fawns and does outnumber 1 1/2 yr old bucks 20 to 1 then you stand the best chance of seeing and killing one of the 20 before you kill the 1. Put those 21 deer in the woods full of hunters and that 1 buck stands a good chance of survival.......while a bunch of the others will not.
I hunted DEC managed lands this year that kept stats on every deer killed. Out of 50 deer killed (last time I was there) there were 37 does and 13 bucks taken. Numbers alone make the does and little ones easier to kill. To quote the DEC officer at the check station......."Kill us some does PLEASE.....They are like rats around here"
So we did. My brother killed 2 does and I killed a buck and doe........just doing are part in the management plan
What did you shoot that with again??? OH YEA a shotgun[&:] By the way did you ever have him aged? He looks like a 2 1/2 year old around here?
I killed him at 20 yards with a gun that has a range of 50...........Oh the shame
If you are trying to make me feel less about my buck you are REALLY, REALLY barking up the wrong tree
He was aged at 3 1/2.
Going by your pics in the Taxidermy forum I guess this is true after all.
Because I don't wait for older bucks??
I post my pics in the taxidermy forum because that is what I have on my wall at this time. I usually keep the last 2-3 years on the wall and replace them as new stuff comes in.............what you fail to see when looking down your nose at everyone is that if you had any idea of the conditions I hunt in 90+% of the time you would have a better grasp as to what's on my wall and what it took to get it there. I have killed 8 deer in the last 3 years and 5 of them are bucks (1 mature). Our state averages are 11% and 14% success rates for bow and gun respectively.........and only one deer was taken on private land which I haven't been back to since.......too easy