Pass those smaller bucks.
#11
Wow, Scott, I never saw a buck tree before!! I thought they came from doe! (Just kidding.) Nice pics.
#12
and thank you -
I hunt the way I want to hunt and I kill what ever trips my trigger on that particular day. I hunt deer, not antlers. If I kill a big buck, great! If I kill a small buck or a doe, great! For me, it's about the hunt and the kill, not the size of the antlers.
#13
Judge Smails: Ty, what did you shoot today?
Ty Webb: Oh, Judge, I don't keep score.
Judge Smails: Then how do you measure yourself with other hunters?
Ty Webb: By height.
Ty Webb: Oh, Judge, I don't keep score.
Judge Smails: Then how do you measure yourself with other hunters?
Ty Webb: By height.
#15
I'd opt for a doe over a small buck on private land. But I have access to plenty of private land to choose from--a lot of guys don't. On public land (which I hunt a lot as well), if it's half decent, it's as good as dead Of course, I'm speaking from a firearm standpoint. I would shoot anything with a bow 'cause I have yet to do that! Gonna give it another shot today and tomorrow
#17
That is great, but you have to have some control over the land in the area you hunt. If you pass on those 120's and the guys a half mile down the field are blasting everything with four legs that walks past, all you did was allow them to fill THEIR freezer. I would love to have a few hundred acres to manage, but my fifty acres is just a rest stop along the path to "the killing fields".
Gundeck, I do know where your coming from though, I deal with this every year. Yes It's frustrating but If the hunter Is happy and Isn't complaining about their bucks I'm happy for them. I'll never tell someone what they should be shooting on their land, I'll just offer them friendly advise If they were to ask.
#19
Uh , did you bother to read the title of the thread? "pass those smaller bucks" sounds like someone, telling someone else, what to shoot to me I also see my simple point has confused you, so let me simplify it a bit more , -shoot many small buck-still plenty buck left to get big-that why big buck live everywhere deer found.