RE: Should I wait to kill bucks after the rut?
 

My B. robb you typed before me i dident read this part

RE: Should I wait to kill bucks after the rut?
 

like i said before i agree with this to no end but i still cant do it... i only get few chances at a buck.......only thing i can do to help this is to try an take a doe early in the year so im not tryin to get meat after shes been bred.... my season doesnt end til jan 31...after jan 1st huntin gets really hard... the deer are so hunkered down a mouse squeaks an u dont see a deer for days.... but i still like the orginal idea though!!!!!!!

RE: Should I wait to kill bucks after the rut?
 

Many biologist suggest shooting doe's early before they are bred,better for the available food supply and should lead to a better defined and condensed rut depending upon how the buck to doe ratio's are in your area.As far as waiting until after the rut to kill a particular buck,I would say that you would have to have a lot of things very much in your favor for that to occur.Has the buck survived?Is his rack all busted up from fighting?Has he come back to his pre season bedding and feeding area's.Tough call,if your properties are so unpressured where you think it will be reasonably likely that you will see specific bucks in the late season,then there is decent logic to doing what you are describing.For most of us that would not be practical.

RE: Should I wait to kill bucks after the rut?
 

what happens if you pass up that buck,he runs 10 yards off your hunting property and gets whacked by another hunter? then you wouldnt get that buck or any of his offspring

RE: Should I wait to kill bucks after the rut?
 

Take em when you can!

RE: Should I wait to kill bucks after the rut?
 

In PA you have to take the first "good" shot that you have at any decent buck.

When you take into account the fact that someone else could shoot him, he could gethit by a car, chasing does miles away, poachers, yotes, the general pressures from hunting season, poachers, etc. etc.--it's just not practical.

RE: Should I wait to kill bucks after the rut?
 

This thinking is not off base at all, and is quite logical. However, it is a bit unrealistic if you want to kill a buck with any degree of regularity, at least on public land. One thing that I've heard reguarding this thread is the "big boys" breed first. This isn't true. The truely "big bucks"do their breeding towards the end of the rut. It's the1 1/2-3 1/2 year olds that do the bulk of thebreeding during the main rut. I do agree, if you want to kill a doe, it should be in the early season before they come into estrus. JMHO:)

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