Do you let this buck walk this year?
08-27-2009, 06:47 AM
#41
Fork Horn
Join Date: Aug 2009
Posts: 103
If you're in the area where you don't have hunting pressure and he will have a great chance to make it till next year, LET HIM WALK! He is really good but next year he will be awesome.... But like I said if you think someone else is going to wack him then take the shot.
Good Luck with whatever choice you make....
AJ
Good Luck with whatever choice you make....
AJ
08-27-2009, 10:29 AM
#44
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Warren County NJ USA
Posts: 3,899
If this deer walked with-in range of me in my home state of NJ I would take him, but on our leases in Illinois he walks.
Only you can make the judgement of taking him or not, be happy either way
Only you can make the judgement of taking him or not, be happy either way
08-27-2009, 11:46 AM
#46
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: East Central, Ohio
Posts: 1,226
If he were on my property he would get a pass. I would rather take a chance and him making it thru the season then to take him and wonder what he could've been.
A similar thing happened to me last year. I got a great two year old on camera last year that had 12 scoreable points. 10pt mainframe with split g-2's. I probably had close to 40 pics of him. If he would've made it thru a season or two he would've been a giant! My father-in-law hunts the same property and shot him in late Oct. I actually got a pic of him the afternoon he shot him. Gross scored 126" I was sad to see him taken, but It was a trophy to him.
Sometimes you just have to take chances. Some turn out bad and some turn out good.
A similar thing happened to me last year. I got a great two year old on camera last year that had 12 scoreable points. 10pt mainframe with split g-2's. I probably had close to 40 pics of him. If he would've made it thru a season or two he would've been a giant! My father-in-law hunts the same property and shot him in late Oct. I actually got a pic of him the afternoon he shot him. Gross scored 126" I was sad to see him taken, but It was a trophy to him.
Sometimes you just have to take chances. Some turn out bad and some turn out good.
08-27-2009, 05:36 PM
#49
Fork Horn
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location:
Posts: 104
It depends on what I've been seeing. I passed up a buck like that last year and didn't get one bigger in range all year after that. I don't regret it though.
If I'd seen bigger ones then I might, but I think I would try to hold off as best I could.
If I'd seen bigger ones then I might, but I think I would try to hold off as best I could.
08-27-2009, 08:28 PM
#50
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Central Minnesota
Posts: 9,445
There's a reason them guys are shooting 4 to 5 mature bucks a year, their letting the younger ones walk. The brown Its down guys your reffering too also shoot more then just spikes and small racked bucks. Deer drives do wonders, happens allot around my area. There's at least 3 times the younger bucks then older mature bucks, taking the older ones out won't effect anything.