Nice Buck
 

This is a BIG buck for my area and i was thrilled when i got my camera this mourning. Hopefully i can stick him!

Not bad at all..
 

Good luck on harvesting him.. He'd make a nice trophy.. I know I'd be happy as could be if I got him here in North Central West Virginia.. What area are you hunting in?

i am in north west ohio. it is very flat here and people just shoot anything that is brown. we have the genetics to grow big deer, they just never get a chance.

Same problem we have here.. "If it's brown, it's down.." That's what kills all chances of getting trophy whitetails in an area.. Not to mention that in WV, you can take up to 3 Antlered Deer in a year.. I wish our state would follow some of the guidelines that PA or OH does, because as you said, we have the area for nice deer, they just never get the chance to make it to maturity..

wow your area is just like mine. isnt it unbelievable what ppl will shoot..its crazy

good luck in your venture after him, would be some nice bone on the wall eh?

hes a nice main frame 8 with a sticker it looks like, but he looks realy young,,,just think what he would look like in 4 or 5 years when hes mature.i know central west part of wva is covered up with deer,,so you have to kill quite a few to keep the herd in check...i dont know about kentucky but wva has the deer no.s to kill 3 a year and still be covered up with em at least neer my mother in laws area..they have so many she cany even have flowers...they come right up to the porch and eat her mater plants

great buck man! good luck at him man!

yeah he looks pretty young. but around here. there is no way he will make it through gun season.

what do u guys think he would score?

good luck with him!!

Yea, I know.. Some of these people wouldn't believe the size of some of these deer if they'd let these little ones walk..

I'm not disputing the number of deer and the need for the control of them, but it's nothing to hear of around here to hear someone taking a spike, 4 point, and then a 5 point (Legally that is, not even talking about what some of these unethical people do around here).. Now that's your preference of what you take, not saying you shouldn't take what's legal (and/or what you paid for with your licence and extra tags), but when the same guy is also complaining about how small their racks are then I tend to think why are you taking the small ones if you want a big one.. There are more than enough does to take to fill the freezer, and really that's what is in abundance in this part of WV.. Plus if you lower the # of does in the herd and raise the buck-to-doe ratio that would help immensely with the ability of big, mature bucks to grow.. But this is just IMHO.. But just as PutnamHonigford said, I'd love to let some one these smaller, young 4, 6, and 8 pointers walk and grow into true monsters, but I know if I do, someone else will take them once they cross over to the next property or two..

u said it all!

Nice! Good luck gettin him. From the look of the pictures id say 110 ish maybe 115. hard to tell in velvet.

Thanks foxfire, that is what i was thinking too

Thats a nice buck for anywhere in my book!

Good Luck with him, I would take him tot if he crossed paths with me.