I cannot have these high standards that you all speak of; I am lucky to even have a buck in the area that I hunt. So unless I have seen a big boy earlier in the season (no camera) I am shooting the first legal buck that comes by. I am not a rack hunter nor can I afford to be as picky as many who can get a tag every year and see animal after animal.

Not really.....I get 3 buck tags and I've never filled all three...... Any 3.5+ deer will be shot, no questions asked....On some properties I will let 2.5 and under walk, others I will not......

My standards would remain as is.I will shoot doe's if I don't have an opportunity of the buck of my choosing.

Yes and no. I usually will shoot any P&Y deer that walks by me in this area b/c they are few and far between. But on a given day or year I may lower or raise my standards depending on the amount of time I have in the woods and the type of deer that I am seeing.

Why set a "limit" of any kind? Are 140" bucks THAT easy for these guys to kill? Or maybe its 130" deer thats so "easy" to kill that "they" have to set lofty goals to make hunting challenging?


let those guys pick up a true bow and try going out and killing ANY deer with it = ====== perspective changes big time

Why does it have to be that way? I’ll be hunting a lot with a “true” bow this season, and I’ll still be holding to a certain set of standards. I’m not going to attempt to whack a 1.5 yr old buck just because I am using a more difficult implement.

Unless the quality of bucks change in any one of my areas I will not change my standards. So far, the buck quality/size has remained pretty consistant in the spots that I hunt.

you made your own bow, shooting self arrows and your own trade points or knapped heads and STILL won't shoot less than xxx inches of antlers ?


I can easily prove its not about hunting trophy animals. Almost none of you trophy hunters who set high limits will shoot a 6 1/2 year old, 180" class buck that has one antler broken off at the browtine.

Why ?

Same smart animal, 1/2 the inches he'd normally score - horn porn fellows, just admit you're addicts to the Horn Porn

So what, Dude? So what if someone wants to hold out for a two antlered deer and let the other one go. It's their choice. The trophy is in the eye of the beholder, not you or me.

For me , the choice of weapons does not change the size of the deer I'm after. The terrain, genetics, herd and age structure does.

NOPE. I can shoot does with much more regularity. I don't have to kill a buck to be happy.

And I voted that I'd shoot any buck with a busted half rack, that I normally would shoot if it had both.

Just admit you are a traditional elitist with antler envy. [8D]