RE: What is your idea of a good solid shooter buck?
 

Anything 125 and above here in MI for me.

This year I would like to take a 150, but hard not to pull the trigger on those small 140's

Here is my question for the guys who are (I hate this term) meat hunters.
If you have 140-150 class buck coming towards you, and it looks like you are going toget a shot. Are you thinking look at those back straps?

For the (hate this term also) trophy hunterwhen you shoot a doe are you thinking, boy she will look pretty on the wall?

I can tell you I shoot 1 1/2 doe because they are tasty!!!
When I see a big boy I am not thinking about his back straps, LOL

I only know one hunter who does not fits this mold, Grandpa would come look a big boy I shot and say, "Looks at those Back Straps", lolthen say "Nice Rack"

Shooting a mature whitetail comes down to 2 points, 1 you have to have them where you hunt and 2 the patience to wait for one. This is doe or buck, I have taken more mature bucks they I have doe's. Those old doe's seem a bit wiser during the rut.:)

RE: What is your idea of a good solid shooter buck?
 

Why not??.......bucks don't have meat on them??




So you have no answer for Why not??



It matters how?.........Why would a farmer be mad if you shot 1 small-medium size buck or 1 big one. Either way his chance at THAT buck is gone. Saying that a farmer who is after big bucks would be happy to see you shoot one of them doesn't make sense.


You can't read a farmers mind but you can read a hunters mind?

Interesting.




What does that even mean??.........you're not killing a deer and giving it to the farmer.......or taking it to any market. Following that logic.........if the farmer had a hog or steer TAKEN off his farm by coyotes for example............would he be more upset if it was a mature steer or hog or if it was only half grown??




Are you talking about farming or hunting?? Unless this "farm" is a deer ranch then I don't see how his livelihood depends on how big the racks are on the deer that get killed in his woods.

Full potential of what??........The best venison you will EVER eat comes off the little buggers.......and guess what???..........farmers know that too.......that's why veal is so expensive ;)





Maybe not.





Well.....Duh!! Everybody CAN follow rules.


What is "high quality" hunting???



I would hope that EVERY hunter only shoots what is legal.

RE: What is your idea of a good solid shooter buck?
 

I mistakenly put "hunters" in for "farmers in the statement Perhaps these farmers keep thinking of the future instead of the present.
I never said I could read anyone's mind, just going off my interpretation of what I've seen or heard inmy area and trying to be helpful to others who may be openminded enough to think of others rather than themselves.

I do have an answer for"why not" atlasman, and if you had any comprehension skills you would be able tounderstandit. You however do not havean answer for my "Why" yet you try to argue just to argue, totally ignoring the real reason for my post, and more importantly the original post. It's kind of sad.

RE: What is your idea of a good solid shooter buck?
 

one made of meat

RE: What is your idea of a good solid shooter buck?
 

I consider myself neither a "meat" hunter or a "trophy" hunter I'm just a hunter. Last year I let 3 yearlings walk because the bucks were on the move and I ended up killing the biggest buck of my life that evening. But beleive me ifI hadn't known that the bucks were moving good that day one of those yearlings would've paid the price. It seems to me that hunters get way to caught up in defining what's the right size or age structure of the deer that you should kill. Let's just hunt and kill what we want at let the next guy do the same.

RE: What is your idea of a good solid shooter buck?
 

Gutshot Thats about the best anwser I herd yet!
All this argue about whats a shooter or not a shooter is getting old guys.
Shoot it if you want to?
And if you don`t let it walk.
It`s a simple matter of "freedom and choice".
Each hunter has to decide for himself if its a shooter or not?
We don`t decide for each other!

RE: What is your idea of a good solid shooter buck?
 

How does you shooting a monster instead of a spike improve the farmers future?


I know.......you said you couldn't read the farmer's mind............but then went on to tell us what the hunter's were thinking..........which lead to my comment.


Please explain how shooting a big buck is thinking of others but shooting a small buck is not..........either way 1 buck is gone that no one else will get a chance at.




You haven't answered that...........or ANY of the questions I have asked you.



Don't have an answer for Why???

I'll give you a couple ;)

How about because...........

I can.
It's legal.
I want to.
Meat.
No reason not to.
I feel like it.
I enjoy it.
It's hunting.
I have a broadhead that is too clean.
There is room in my truck for him.
I am hungry.
My family loves venison.
My dehydrator is empty.
My grinder is bored.
He won't hold still for a picture unless I shoot him.
It's fun.
Dragging is good excercise.
I bought a license......why not use it?
Because he is there.
I like the color red on my arrows.


Just a few off the top of my head ;)

RE: What is your idea of a good solid shooter buck?
 

AMEN!!!!!!

RE: What is your idea of a good solid shooter buck?
 

same here. except for fawns.

RE: What is your idea of a good solid shooter buck?
 

I agree...as long as it isn't a little fawn.