Bowhunting Contest - Do you ever lower your standards?
10-09-2007, 08:13 AM
#11
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Kansas
Posts: 3,288
RE: Bowhunting Contest - Do you ever lower your standards?
Im pretty much set in my ways, if they get a pass at the beginning of season, Ill let them pass at the end of season also.
Where I live now a 120 class 8 pt is a great buck (GERM can tell ya, his family has a cottage not far from me) Yet would not give one a second thought if I still lived in Kansas.
So where Im hunting also plays a roll on what I turn an arrow loose on.
Sure would like to see a picture of you on our team board with one of those MD, 150+ bone heads
I will be heading your way Monday the 15th to the 26th to give it a try!
Where I live now a 120 class 8 pt is a great buck (GERM can tell ya, his family has a cottage not far from me) Yet would not give one a second thought if I still lived in Kansas.
So where Im hunting also plays a roll on what I turn an arrow loose on.
Sure would like to see a picture of you on our team board with one of those MD, 150+ bone heads
I will be heading your way Monday the 15th to the 26th to give it a try!
10-09-2007, 09:38 AM
#12
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Michigan/Ohio
Posts: 11,682
RE: Bowhunting Contest - Do you ever lower your standards?
I have a picture of 140'' buck near Glennie, when I get it from the cabin I well send to you.
Biggest deer my Grandpa has seen in ever, he's been hunting the area since 1942. Hell if I see a 100'' deer in NLP I am shooting it
Biggest deer my Grandpa has seen in ever, he's been hunting the area since 1942. Hell if I see a 100'' deer in NLP I am shooting it
10-10-2007, 08:58 PM
#15
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Blossvale, New York
Posts: 21,199
RE: Bowhunting Contest - Do you ever lower your standards?
Germ, I gave an example. I hunted 5 states last year. I have more than one friend.... honest.[8D][8D] I have so many invitations to hunt I can't make them all. I decided the other night to forgo Indiana and Ohio this year because mySquadron Commanderfrom Vietnam called and ordered me to a reunion in DC on Veterans Day. His words, "You will be there Captain". So I'll be there. That's the way it is. If he told me to kill you.... well I'd make it quick and ethical.[8D] I have friends in just about everywhere that I've actually met face to face and spent a lot of time with. Not these psychos from the internet. LOL
10-11-2007, 12:09 AM
#17
Bartender
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 6,634
RE: Bowhunting Contest - Do you ever lower your standards?
Pumpkin, WI
ORIGINAL: Germ
You're nopt even in the contest, LOL
Contest is for fun and to me people, and I love it. I now have friends all over the USA. In 2005 I knew a few people out of my state now I have many friends in
KS
Iowa
MD
IN
ILL
PA
TX
OK
Canada
Idaho
WY
CO
MO
FL
Georgia
AL
MISS
NC
SC
VA
WVA
KY
TENN
NY
NJ
Ark
New Mex
Ariz
I am sure I missed a few, but all of these friends are from contest.
So my standards are the same, but my friend list is not, it's waaaayyy bigger
ORIGINAL: davidmil
They change with location and local land rules. But other than that, when I decide on what to do I do it. I've eaten tags, like early bow season this year, but I decided that going in. Or tags I wasted two years in a row in Ohio with nice8 point bucks and multiple bucks in bow range the last evening of the hunt. One standard I don't change no matter where I'm hunting..... Nothing with Spots> LOL
They change with location and local land rules. But other than that, when I decide on what to do I do it. I've eaten tags, like early bow season this year, but I decided that going in. Or tags I wasted two years in a row in Ohio with nice8 point bucks and multiple bucks in bow range the last evening of the hunt. One standard I don't change no matter where I'm hunting..... Nothing with Spots> LOL
Contest is for fun and to me people, and I love it. I now have friends all over the USA. In 2005 I knew a few people out of my state now I have many friends in
KS
Iowa
MD
IN
ILL
PA
TX
OK
Canada
Idaho
WY
CO
MO
FL
Georgia
AL
MISS
NC
SC
VA
WVA
KY
TENN
NY
NJ
Ark
New Mex
Ariz
I am sure I missed a few, but all of these friends are from contest.
So my standards are the same, but my friend list is not, it's waaaayyy bigger
10-11-2007, 03:56 AM
#18
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: ND
Posts: 1,627
RE: Bowhunting Contest - Do you ever lower your standards?
I will stick to my goals all the way through until the end. I've eaten quite a few tags over the years. Plenty of does tags to be had to fill the freezer. There are days though that 120 - 135 class buckslook good andare tempting to shoot.
Goals... 150 for 5pts or more. 135 plusfor 4 pts with the buck being 4.5 year old or older in all cases. Granted due to field judging errors on my part, ground shrinkage of 5 - 10 inches is allowed to cover my a$$.
Contest has no bearing on my hunting goals.
Tim
Goals... 150 for 5pts or more. 135 plusfor 4 pts with the buck being 4.5 year old or older in all cases. Granted due to field judging errors on my part, ground shrinkage of 5 - 10 inches is allowed to cover my a$$.
Contest has no bearing on my hunting goals.
Tim
10-11-2007, 05:43 AM
#19
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Blossvale, New York
Posts: 21,199
RE: Bowhunting Contest - Do you ever lower your standards?
Contest has no bearing on my hunting goals.
10-11-2007, 05:55 AM
#20
Nontypical Buck
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Damascus MD
Posts: 2,751
RE: Bowhunting Contest - Do you ever lower your standards?
ORIGINAL: davidmil
That's one of the main reasons I don't join Big Buck Contest or any hunting contest. I don't want anything interfering with my "Fun". Never have, never will.
Contest has no bearing on my hunting goals.
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