I know many of you have started your season, and I'm envious. During the summer I spent a good amount of time long distance scouting with my video camera. I've got some pictures of one of the largest bucks I've been watching, but they were at over 500 yds with a 150 power digital zoom, the detail is quite poor at that distance. Still, there is enough to maybe come up with a rough score - and I'd like your opinions. I'm also curious of the deer's age if you'd like to give your thoughts on that as well. He is the dominate buck in a group of 7 we watched for most of July and part of August. The pictures attatched are from Aug 7, fully one month before shedding the velvet, so its possible a little more growth would occur. I last saw the buck sparring with anothe good buck (not quite as large) 2 weeks ago out of velvet - he was looking pretty impressive (no camera with me).

We've taken several bucks the last few years scoring around 120 B&C, to me this one seems a bit larger, please post your estimates. Hopefully one of our group will get this buck, and I'll share what we find out.

Again - I apologize for the fuzzy pics:












Thanks........

Sorry but I can't see them..........I'd really like to though!!!!!

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Maybe 140. He is pretty tall, but his width isnt very wide.

i will go with 135-140..nice deer with excellent looking rack. he will be bigger next year if he is on your private land.

just hard to tell at that distance, but looks really nice though

From what I can see I would say he is a 18inch 8 pt. If so, I would guess him at 125-130. Very nice bow buck.

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I'm guessing around 140, if it turns out to be a ten pt. instead of an eight, then I'd say he might push 150.

Nice buck, I'm guess 130-135, adn I bet that is pretty accurate
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My guesstimate would be a 130 class deer.

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I would say it looks like at least a big 8 and would score minimum 135 and up to 140+ given spread/etc. Good luck.

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