Stinkin big buck contest
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Join Date: Jan 2004
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Stinkin big buck contest
Had a nice 5 pointer under my stand tonight and I DIDN'T shoot !!!!. Damn this big buck contest LOL. All I could l think about was sending you all the picture of the little rack that scores oh 20 POINTS. You guys/gals will make a trophy hunter out of me yet.
#7
RE: Stinkin big buck contest
That is one of the toughest things to do thats for sure. Unless you KNOW first hand you have BIG bucks on your land passing up smaller ones is tough. But here is the thing you have to keep in mind, if you want to harvest a mature buck you have to let the smaller and the first bucks you see pass. Its just now getting good, if you want that mature buck that will make book you have to earn it. Otherwise everyone would do it. I will say this Ihave been blessed with a wonderful place to hunt and its easier to pass up those small 8 pointers when I saw at least 3 different Pope and Young before the season. But I did my share of scouting too. My hats off to you for the discipline on holding off. Be alert, it pays off.
#9
RE: Stinkin big buck contest
Why kill just to kill? You really didn't want that buck and obviously wouldn't have been happy with it. Thanks on behalf of everyoe out there that hopes to have a neighbor like you in the name of QDM! It's all part of maturing as a hunter/sportsman....... CONGRATS! I'm way more impressed and even proud of a hunter that passes an immature buck like that then I ever will be of the guy that kills one! The most easily killed deer in the entire herd, alright if you are/were a newbie or a kid but not as a "hunter" that is actually supposed to be a conservationist and care about his local herd, it's condition, health and sex ratios. Thanks man and CONGRATS again!
#10
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Jefferson, NY
Posts: 62
RE: Stinkin big buck contest
Hats off to ya. Let the lil ones become big ones. You'll appreciate it later (that is until some yahoo who walks in the woods opening gun day and shoots him sheerly out of luck) - so frusrating these 1 day hunting yahoos.