The south Tx 190"+ club
12-13-2004, 06:23 AM
#23
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Maine
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RE: The south Tx 190"+ club
I wish I could afford to buy one of these and turn him free in the woods of maine for breeding purposes. My guess is they've got good genes and an abundance of high protien foods.
Those are some very fine specimens.
Those are some very fine specimens.
12-13-2004, 06:29 AM
#24
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Hillsboro, Ohio
Posts: 464
RE: The south Tx 190"+ club
Yeah, I posted ohio's pics, and all of them were free ranging bucks. I think a free ranging-trophy is more of a trophy than a bottle-fed buck..., but I know some of you guys in tx just use high fences. Not us...
12-13-2004, 01:35 PM
#26
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Rural Kansas... Where Life is Good
Posts: 4,139
RE: The south Tx 190"+ club
Awesome Deer! Too bad most were probably killed behind fences. But I guess everybody has his (or her) own way of hunting, even though it may not be your own.
12-13-2004, 02:39 PM
#27
Typical Buck
Join Date: Mar 2004
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RE: The south Tx 190"+ club
I'll drive buddy.
hats off to you Texas hunters. I'd also have no issue with racks like that regardless of what size thier bodies are.
12-13-2004, 03:36 PM
#28
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Dunkirk MD USA
Posts: 283
RE: The south Tx 190"+ club
i don't know if it's just me but i don't get this ...deer contest for high-fence hunting operations. i guess if you want to win you go to all the outfitters and check their inventory lists before booking your hunt.
not trying to put anyone down but i find it hard to be the least bit impressed with bucks taken behind a fence.
not trying to put anyone down but i find it hard to be the least bit impressed with bucks taken behind a fence.
12-13-2004, 05:32 PM
#29
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Goldthwaite, Texas
Posts: 126
RE: The south Tx 190"+ club
Not all these deer where taken in high fenced ranches like I said earlier the blonde's was killed at a low fence ranch. If you go to the website you can see what deer were taken on high fence and low fence, archery ect... Just cause its a big deer from Texas doesnt have mean it was killed on a high fence...lol and 90% of Texas hunters hunt low fence areas..
12-13-2004, 08:52 PM
#30
Thread Starter
Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 638
RE: The south Tx 190"+ club
avid_bowhunter2005:
LOL, do I smell a little envy??
I never said anything about these deer coming from "high fenced pens" nor did I say anything about them being "bottle feed". These are just things that some of you guys, who think you know everything, assumed for no other reason other then the fact that these deer are from Texas.
About 50% of the bucks that I posted came from a none high fenced ranch. The bucks that I posted that were killed behind a high fence, came from ranches that are bigger then some counties in the eastern states. The first picture is a buck that grossed 217" and it came from a 50,000 acre high fenced ranch. Now for all I care, the great wall of China could be around the ranch and I still would consider all the deer taken as "fair chase". Just because you have a 20 year old 8 foot fence around the place, dosent mean the bucks are going to be tame on the 70 square miles that the ranch makes up.
LOL, yeah thats exactly how it works. "Hey BOB, you got a 200" buck tied to the Mesquite tree out side; I really want to spend $5,000 to shoot him, because I might win a $50 jacket at this Big Buck Contest that I entered". LOL, on second thought I dont think thats how its done.
Yeah, I posted ohio's pics, and all of them were free ranging bucks. I think a free ranging-trophy is more of a trophy than a bottle-fed buck..., but I know some of you guys in tx just use high fences. Not us...
I never said anything about these deer coming from "high fenced pens" nor did I say anything about them being "bottle feed". These are just things that some of you guys, who think you know everything, assumed for no other reason other then the fact that these deer are from Texas.
About 50% of the bucks that I posted came from a none high fenced ranch. The bucks that I posted that were killed behind a high fence, came from ranches that are bigger then some counties in the eastern states. The first picture is a buck that grossed 217" and it came from a 50,000 acre high fenced ranch. Now for all I care, the great wall of China could be around the ranch and I still would consider all the deer taken as "fair chase". Just because you have a 20 year old 8 foot fence around the place, dosent mean the bucks are going to be tame on the 70 square miles that the ranch makes up.
i don't know if it's just me but i don't get this ...deer contest for high-fence hunting operations. i guess if you want to win you go to all the outfitters and check their inventory lists before booking your hunt.