For me here in southwest PA a 130" deer would do the trick.

Take an osage stave, whittle a bow from it, shoot wood shafts and broadheads you have to sharpen yourself, get about 50 pounds of draw weight, 650 grains of shaft and a blistering 150 FPS and shoot that bow all summer and THEN go hunting and I don't care where you go, a doe would be some kind of special trophy and anything with horn icing on the cake

My point is ....... net inches measured by P&Y standards does not make a trophy

Central Wisconsin 160 to 170 Seen one once up there Would love to see him again or his off spring.

Hey buckeye, I'm going for the same goals. Friends and i have gatherd pictures and video of 3 different 200+ bucks in our area. Dont ever give up anyone, they're there. You might not know it because they are sneaky but they didnt get big cloppin around the woods[&:]

Where I hunt in Ga, a 135 is a freak. That being said, I have only killed one buck in 4 years.

For both the areas in NY and the areas in PA I hunt I would say a 150" buck or better. They are present on both of my primary properties I hunt and we have encounters every year with 130" or better bucks, but someone only arrows one maybe every 3 years or so between the two patches. We do average about 1 buck a year in the 100-115" range between the 2 properties though.

I'm in NW iowa, and a 170 or better would be the buck of a lifetime

I'd say of the places I hunt in MO, a 150-160 would be a deer of a lifetime. I'm sure there might be a few bigger than that out there but breaking 150 with archery tackle would be the cat's meow.

I should also mention that the area here in Washington that we hunt Mulies, a 180"+ deer wouldn't be difficult to find.

Yes it is, I still am on cloud nine