What do you consider a top end buck for your bowhunting areas?
09-28-2007, 07:04 AM
#52
Giant Nontypical
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RE: What do you consider a top end buck for your bowhunting areas?
I'm curious as someone asked earlier..How often are these pie in the sky numbers attainable? I mean come on, I see us spitting out numbers of whats possible..not what's realistic. Someone could say 7.5 yo 200" 300 lbs.. is possible.
If you guys are holdng out for 5.5 ..165-170 class deer..Two things come to mind.
A) Many people are holding out for deer that aresimply not in thier woods.
B) Our values quickly change..because based on previous bow contests..I see very few (if any) who have shot bucks in their Stated "Top End" range.
If you guys are holdng out for 5.5 ..165-170 class deer..Two things come to mind.
A) Many people are holding out for deer that aresimply not in thier woods.
B) Our values quickly change..because based on previous bow contests..I see very few (if any) who have shot bucks in their Stated "Top End" range.
09-28-2007, 07:32 AM
#53
Nontypical Buck
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Location: TN
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RE: What do you consider a top end buck for your bowhunting areas?
I would say a good deer here in TNwould be:
Age: 3 1/2
Gross score range 120 - 140"
Body weight 180#
State/Province/or even unit or county: My county and surrounding.
Age: 3 1/2
Gross score range 120 - 140"
Body weight 180#
State/Province/or even unit or county: My county and surrounding.
09-28-2007, 07:47 AM
#55
Nontypical Buck
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Location: Isle, MN
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RE: What do you consider a top end buck for your bowhunting areas?
Age 3 1/2
Gross score range 140
Body weight 190dressed
State/Province/or even unit or county Kanabec County Minnesota
when you say top end, I take it to mean the best deer a group of hunters might see (or have pics of)if they hunted all season. just my own personal definition of 'top end'
Gross score range 140
Body weight 190dressed
State/Province/or even unit or county Kanabec County Minnesota
when you say top end, I take it to mean the best deer a group of hunters might see (or have pics of)if they hunted all season. just my own personal definition of 'top end'
09-28-2007, 08:08 AM
#58
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Location: North Lima Ohio & Clarion Pa
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RE: What do you consider a top end buck for your bowhunting areas?
ORIGINAL: buckeyebuckhntr
I believe this post was only geared to what your area can produce not necessarily what we have / will shoot there.... Just a generalization of what our areas arecapable of.
I'm curious as someone asked earlier..How often are these pie in the sky numbers attainable? I mean come on, I see us spitting out numbers of whats possible..not what's realistic. Someone could say 7.5 yo 200" 300 lbs.. is possible.
If you guys are holdng out for 5.5 ..165-170 class deer..Two things come to mind.
A) Many people are holding out for deer that aresimply not in thier woods.
B) Our values quickly change..because based on previous bow contests..I see very few (if any) who have shot bucks in their Stated "Top End" range.
If you guys are holdng out for 5.5 ..165-170 class deer..Two things come to mind.
A) Many people are holding out for deer that aresimply not in thier woods.
B) Our values quickly change..because based on previous bow contests..I see very few (if any) who have shot bucks in their Stated "Top End" range.
My area can produce "Hole in the Horn" I'm 30 +/-miles away from where he was found.
09-28-2007, 08:11 AM
#59
Nontypical Buck
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RE: What do you consider a top end buck for your bowhunting areas?
Central/Northern VA
3.5 - 4.5 years
140 score
180 lbs dressed.
In my experience the deer described above can be expected with some hard work. I'm sure there are bigger, but few and far between. Too many doe here and the laws don't allow bucks to grow IMO.
3.5 - 4.5 years
140 score
180 lbs dressed.
In my experience the deer described above can be expected with some hard work. I'm sure there are bigger, but few and far between. Too many doe here and the laws don't allow bucks to grow IMO.
09-28-2007, 05:27 PM
#60
Typical Buck
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Location: westchester, ny
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RE: What do you consider a top end buck for your bowhunting areas?
I have to say, I hate you guys. But only because I'm jealous. Where I live and hunt, westchester cty. N.Y., its a bow only county. The potential for monsters is there, and I have seen some great ones, 150s-170s. The problem is that it is close enough to the city and the weekend warrior hunters who come up and shoot anything that walks by. Spikes, 4ptrs., small basket 6s. you name it. 10-15 yrs. ago before bowhunting took off and when I first started, the amount of huge bucks that I saw was unreal. Now, not so much. Its hard to hold out on a 120" deer when you know as soon as he crosses off your property some shmuck is gonna put one threw him or worse, wound it.
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