buckeye

With out this thread turning into a pissing match,what do you consider a "shooter" buck?

Please leave any arguments and personal attacks out of this thread..... I would like to see what everyone has to say as well as their thoughts on this subject.

I have faith in our members that this thread can be civil.

Lets here what you think.....

bowhuntermws1981

For me it all depends where I hunt. If i'm on our family's land upstate we set out trail cams and scout a lot when we're putting in food plots and such. This started me on a new trend of targeting the biggest buck that was around and hunting exclusively for him. I shouldn't say exclusively, if I couldn't get him by the last week of late season, or if someone else got him,then anything legal.
If I go hunting on State Game land, then it's anything legal.

Rick James

Depends on where I am hunting. When I am hunting in Vermont, it is any animal that is legal with the exception of a button buck. Yes, I will kill a 7 month old doe there, and I will kill a yearling 3-4 pointer there. You can't shoot spikes.

In my PA property in Bradford County, or in NY near Oneonta where I hunt, I am looking for a 1.5+ year old doe, or a 3.5+ year old buck. Every situation is different though, I passed a 3.5 year 90-100" 8 pointer in NY this year but only because a solid 135" buck came through 20 minutes earlier, and because it was the first day of my week off work to hunt the rut.

buckeye

Don't leave me hanging like that.......What happened the rest of the week?

Rick James

Tag soup...........lol.

passthrough24

I hunt almost totally on public land, and i try to wait for a 2.5 year old buck, i ussually wont shoot a doe. We do have some farmland that we can hunt and there is some really nice deer out there, theni wont shoot unless i think he scores at least 120-130.

tschaef

I have only taken 1 with a bow so sorry, but "if its brown its down".
As long as its a legal deer.

Scott/IL

Depending on the situation I am in. This year I passed on some decent bucks (100-110) and ended up being the first year I didn't harvest a buck in4 years. In result though I got to spend more time in the woods and saw 3 130 inch deer and 2 140 inch bucks. If any of the bucks I passed up on walked by me now I would take the shot with only a few weeks left.

PA Bow/Flinter

I try to avoid shooting button bucks, or fawn does.....but it has happened a time or two.

Any 1.5 or older doe is good for me....but I avoid taking more than one from any one property to keep the #'s up.

As for bucks.....at the beginning of this year....I wanted a 4 pt or bigger....my only buck at that time was a 3 pt.
I accomplished my goal and took a 5 pt...too bad it was with a flintlock...but I did see a couple "shooters" in archery...just didn't pan out.

Now next year I won't be a junior hunter anymore in PA...so I will take the first legal buck I see...4 points or more to one side.

early in

A "shooter" is a buck that is larger than my biggest which is a basket 8pt.