What's your area/woods capable of?
 

1. Is the area/woods you hunt capable of producing P&Y and B&C bucks?

2. Do you believe you have either of them around?

3. If you believe you do not, what's your reasoning?

RE: What's your area/woods capable of?
 

1. Yes

2. Maybe a couple

3. Everybody shoots the first one they see.[:@]

RE: What's your area/woods capable of?
 

Their here, their nocturnal & very good at what they do best...... Survive!

RE: What's your area/woods capable of?
 

My woods are capable of produceing P&Y caliber deer, although holding out for one isnt a realistic goal unless you want to eat tag soup often. I saw a 140 last year, a friend shot one around 140 and another in the low 120's, but last year was a very good year. My buddy who got the 120 has hunted for 17 years and that is his best ever.
An average "good" deer in our neck of the woods is around 100-110. I would be very hard pressed to pass up a 110, although i know there are better. Hopefully this i can seal the deal if it happens again.

RE: What's your area/woods capable of?
 

What is my woods capable of? How 'bout driving me nuts! Other than that the answers to your first two questions is: YES
Are they cooperative? NO
Does it torque me off? YES
:)

RE: What's your area/woods capable of?
 

We kill a few P&Y bucks every year off of our lease.

There have been two B&C deer taken off of the same ground in the last six years.

We try to stick to a basic "let them go so they can grow" management plan. Having said that, we don't tell anyone who is there to kill their first deer that they have to let small bucks walk. We tell them to shoot the first one that looks good to them and after that it needs to be P&Y or better.

RE: What's your area/woods capable of?
 

Where we hunt in western Virginia is certainly capable of producing B&C and P&Y bucks. At our hunt club there are 4 people who hunt 3 of whom are ages 19-22 and my father who is 48. When we were younger and my father and grandfather were trying to turn us on to hunting, we shot pretty much any antlered animal and didn't really take many does. (Even took one that went about 140) Even then, however, we still would usually take a buck a year or so that would score 110 or so. The past 5-6 years, however, we have practiced selective harvest getting very strict over the past 2 years or so. Since then, we have seen several bucks that would score probably 130-135 and were only 3.5 years old. With our strict adherence to QDM principles, we can definitely produce B&C/P&Y bucks. While we may not have bucks running around that score 175, the 140-160 range is definitely a goal that is being achieved as we speak:)

RE: What's your area/woods capable of?
 

I honestly believe my area is capable of producing truly world class whitetails.

3- 200" typicals have been shot within 10 miles in the last 10 years.

I believe them to be around, and I believe that our group, as hunters and stewards can keep producing these type of results.

I am one hell of a lucky guy, but also do my share.

RE: What's your area/woods capable of?
 

1. Is the area/woods you hunt capable of producing P&Y and B&C bucks?

Yes.


2. Do you believe you have either of them around?

Not this year, well maybe close to a P & Y


3. If you believe you do not, what's your reasoning?

Between my neighbor hunting buddy and I, weve set out cams in various places and both of us have the same deer on both of our cams. But we do have the capabilities of producing wall hanging buckson certain years. Give all the deer we have this year 1 more year, And I would bet I would be having a poaching problem;)

RE: What's your area/woods capable of?
 

1. Yes - 4 have been taken in the last 5 years over 130"
2. Yes - sightings of a couple this year already.