Would you take this buck
10-17-2007, 05:27 AM
#23
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: SW PA USA
Posts: 7,220
RE: Would you take this buck
They definitely look like two different bucks by the pics. Would need a better look to decide to ytake either.
Antlers aside the first pic looks more like a mature buck and the second looks like a youngster. Different view of dark pics can be decieving so I'd need a better look.
Whoops, just noticed the time interval between both pics. Assuming it IS the same buck, I'd let him grow. Those missing brow tines may besimply broken off
Antlers aside the first pic looks more like a mature buck and the second looks like a youngster. Different view of dark pics can be decieving so I'd need a better look.
Whoops, just noticed the time interval between both pics. Assuming it IS the same buck, I'd let him grow. Those missing brow tines may besimply broken off
10-17-2007, 06:19 AM
#25
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: MA
Posts: 89
RE: Would you take this buck
I would definitely shoot that deer. For me it would be the best deer of my career, plus withthe limited amount of time I have in the woods I will only pass a deer if I already have meat in the freezer and if I knew there was a better deer in my woods. But even then I still would probably sling an arrow.
10-17-2007, 06:20 AM
#26
Typical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Oklahoma
Posts: 772
RE: Would you take this buck
It's all relative. In my woods, yes I'd take him and be proud, but at another place I hunt from time to time I'd let him walk, especially if I thought he'd survive until next year.
10-17-2007, 06:57 AM
#30
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Phoenixville, PA USA
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RE: Would you take this buck
To me he looks like a pretty good 2.5 year old. I would definitely take him in NJ,and he would be an on stand decision in PA. He looks pretty good so he'd be hard to pass up.