I compared this pic. to the bigger ones in the contest thread. It could be 170's.
Look at the 160's and the one 170 something on page 3 shot by gregH.
I can't score something like that..never had to.

Nice buck, thanks for all your trouble, I can't believe none of my friends up there never heard of him.
This is a nice one to.

WWWOOOWWW!!!
Where did he come from?

I am not sure, all I know so far is the kid is 9 yrs old and the deer is a 23 pointer, I will try to get the rest of the story later. Talk about beginners luck, it's going to be tough for him to top that one.

Look at those eyes. That buck has been dead for a WHILE!
Not gonna make any wild accusations but it does raise questions!

Did you ever notice - that the further you have to drag them, the bigger they get.

My neighbor shot a 9 1/2 point buck - up in the orchard.

It has posted signs on every tree. He really didn't HAVE permission to be there, but his brother is a insurance man and knows everybody.

The family has lived in the same house beside the orchard for the last 100 years.

Then he comes to my house a couple of days later with no tag and tells me that he is going to get the deer mounted. Only they already cut the head off - below the chin - because they wanted the meat for a roast.

He says that he can get a cape.

Then he tells me that they are going to get a point glued on - because the one was broke.

By the time the story was over, he was making it out to be a 120 Class Pope and Young record book deer.

I just wonder - if you glue points on and change the cape and do all the alterations that he wants to do - would it still be a 120 class deer and would it count.

All my deer are hanging on the wall and you can look at them anytime you want. Old piece of plywood board - cut to look like a placque. Nothing fancy!

I think that too many hunters places too much importance on getting recognition for what they have accomplished - by getting their name into some kind of record book or getting their picture took with their dad's deer.

I am 43 years old and spent most of my adult life in the woods hunting deer on public land and nobody ever gave me a deer, although more than one person took a deer off me.

I wouldn't tag a deer that I didn't shoot - so I could say that it was mine and my dad never took me into some honey hole and let me shoot some monster buck - so I could go to school and brag what a good hunter I am.

I worked for every deer I shot and I earned every deer I shot - because I hunted for every deer I shot.

There is no way in H3ll that some 11 year old kid is going to know where to go on public land, without bait and posted signs and a pet deer to shoot, where he can just walk into the woods and shoot a trophy deer.

I have been hunting for 30 years and I never got a single one that I would consider a trophy to anyone except me!

I have seen them and I have missed them, but I never shot one.

There is no way that some kid is going to go out in the woods and find a good place to sit on his own and not make noise and not go for a walk and not get lost in the woods and not get bored or cold and want to go home.

Sitting in a tower stand with a kerosun heater with video games and a television and listening to the radio and shooting out a window at some tame deer that shows up at the same place every day isn't hunting.

It's shooting!

You made a nice shot!

That's all they ever say on TV.

Give the same kid to me and I will put him on some old tree stump in the middle of the Game Lands and he can sit there for a week and not see a deer and then we will see how many people will say " Thank you Gary Alt!"

Do I detect a hint of bitterness to your post rifleman?


As for the original buck in the picture, its huge and from the perspective is very tough to get an accurate size estimation to score it.

Cry a little bigger river Rifleman.

The original poster said the deer was a 170" buck as told to him by a co-worker,,he busted his a$$ to get a pic of it posted and still so many want to doubt the legitimacy of the story,,,whats so hard about saying congrats to the shooter instead of bustin the guys balls for wanting to share a story????????????????????

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