Let him go? Gimme a break!
10-20-2006, 12:37 PM
#51
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: River Falls, Wisconsin
Posts: 129
RE: Let him go? Gimme a break!
ORIGINAL: Jumpum and Dumpum
If that deer is a hog for your area then shot him.
If that deer is a hog for your area then shot him.
I've got a couple good sized bucks on my game cameras, so I know whats up where I hunt. Sure, there are more deer up there that I don't have pictures of, but I'll have something to compare them to if I decide to take a shot!
10-20-2006, 01:24 PM
#52
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Northern Idaho's Panhandle
Posts: 4,436
RE: Let him go? Gimme a break!
Hunting for mature bucks is not for everyone and for those that are truely happy with any deer then more power to you by all means shoot what makes you happy.
On the other hand, it doesnt take mass amounts of acreage or big dollars to let bucks walk. That is nonsense. I have been hunting public land for 20 + years for whitetails and pass up the babies and young bucks annually while killing mature bucks year after year. If you want to consisitently get onto mature bucks, get off your rear and get out there and put the time in finding an older buck, all it takes is one...you'llnever learn anything about a mature buck if all you ever hunt is young ones. They are completey different in behavior, they should be classified as a seperate species as far as I am concerned.
Once you find one or two mature ones then you can pass all the others.... I know a handful of bowhunters across the nation that do it year in and year out on public lands, not private, not big money spots.... They all have one thing in common... they out work every one else in their areas and the bucks on their walls prove it.
Anyone that consistently shoots the better bucks in their neck of the woods, especially pressured areas...are in my mind the guys I would be talking to for advice.
On the other hand, it doesnt take mass amounts of acreage or big dollars to let bucks walk. That is nonsense. I have been hunting public land for 20 + years for whitetails and pass up the babies and young bucks annually while killing mature bucks year after year. If you want to consisitently get onto mature bucks, get off your rear and get out there and put the time in finding an older buck, all it takes is one...you'llnever learn anything about a mature buck if all you ever hunt is young ones. They are completey different in behavior, they should be classified as a seperate species as far as I am concerned.
Once you find one or two mature ones then you can pass all the others.... I know a handful of bowhunters across the nation that do it year in and year out on public lands, not private, not big money spots.... They all have one thing in common... they out work every one else in their areas and the bucks on their walls prove it.
Anyone that consistently shoots the better bucks in their neck of the woods, especially pressured areas...are in my mind the guys I would be talking to for advice.
10-20-2006, 01:34 PM
#53
Typical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: QDM Heaven
Posts: 847
RE: Let him go? Gimme a break!
ORIGINAL: shed33
Hunting for mature bucks is not for everyone and for those that are truely happy with any deer then more power to you by all means shoot what makes you happy.
On the other hand, it doesnt take mass amounts of acreage or big dollars to let bucks walk. That is nonsense. I have been hunting public land for 20 + years for whitetails and pass up the babies and young bucks annually while killing mature bucks year after year. If you want to consisitently get onto mature bucks, get off your rear and get out there and put the time in finding an older buck, all it takes is one...you'llnever learn anything about a mature buck if all you ever hunt is young ones. They are completey different in behavior, they should be classified as a seperate species as far as I am concerned.
Once you find one or two mature ones then you can pass all the others.... I know a handful of bowhunters across the nation that do it year in and year out on public lands, not private, not big money spots.... They all have one thing in common... they out work every one else in their areas and the bucks on their walls prove it.
Anyone that consistently shoots the better bucks in their neck of the woods, especially pressured areas...are in my mind the guys I would be talking to for advice.
Hunting for mature bucks is not for everyone and for those that are truely happy with any deer then more power to you by all means shoot what makes you happy.
On the other hand, it doesnt take mass amounts of acreage or big dollars to let bucks walk. That is nonsense. I have been hunting public land for 20 + years for whitetails and pass up the babies and young bucks annually while killing mature bucks year after year. If you want to consisitently get onto mature bucks, get off your rear and get out there and put the time in finding an older buck, all it takes is one...you'llnever learn anything about a mature buck if all you ever hunt is young ones. They are completey different in behavior, they should be classified as a seperate species as far as I am concerned.
Once you find one or two mature ones then you can pass all the others.... I know a handful of bowhunters across the nation that do it year in and year out on public lands, not private, not big money spots.... They all have one thing in common... they out work every one else in their areas and the bucks on their walls prove it.
Anyone that consistently shoots the better bucks in their neck of the woods, especially pressured areas...are in my mind the guys I would be talking to for advice.
10-20-2006, 01:45 PM
#54
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: land of the Lilliputians, In the state of insanity
Posts: 26,274
RE: Let him go? Gimme a break!
Ill let the little guys go, until the end of season approaches. If there are a few days left, and i have a tag left, That little guy is becoming steak.
10-21-2006, 07:24 AM
#56
Fork Horn
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Pound WI USA
Posts: 429
RE: Let him go? Gimme a break!
See, some here are getting my point without any further information. Did you look at the pic I posted of the largest buck I ever shot?
For the rest of you, I do have pretty good area to hunt. I hunt in Northeren Wisconsin, and between the land that I own, family land, and fallow farm land, we hunt about 3 sections....1800 acres.
Wow! That's great! Right!
Well for the last 6 years I am the only one that shoots does. I am the only one that plants and maintains food plots. I am the only one that has set aside a large portion of my land as a sanctuary. I am the only one that select cuts the large timber areas of my property to open up the canopy to encourage natural brouse. And I am the only one that will let a fork horn walk.
Seems like a lot of work and money for one small 14" 8 point in the last 6 years, don't you think?
So, yes, I'm going to put an arrow or a bullet through the first 130" buck that walks into range.
Brian
For the rest of you, I do have pretty good area to hunt. I hunt in Northeren Wisconsin, and between the land that I own, family land, and fallow farm land, we hunt about 3 sections....1800 acres.
Wow! That's great! Right!
Well for the last 6 years I am the only one that shoots does. I am the only one that plants and maintains food plots. I am the only one that has set aside a large portion of my land as a sanctuary. I am the only one that select cuts the large timber areas of my property to open up the canopy to encourage natural brouse. And I am the only one that will let a fork horn walk.
Seems like a lot of work and money for one small 14" 8 point in the last 6 years, don't you think?
So, yes, I'm going to put an arrow or a bullet through the first 130" buck that walks into range.
Brian
