Yep, My dad shot a 9 pointer that looked very much like the buck on the left in this pic in the early 70's and won a huge buck pool with it

DougE, thanks for the insight. I'm always leary of these types of pics as they usually wind up being too good to be true. I was under the impression this was from one camp and not a collection of bucks brought in from about. No doubt the pic is legitimate, just find the tagging kind of odd.

Congrats to all those guys and especially the taxidermist. Looks like he'll have his hands full!

You guys musta had some real crap quality. That buck wouldve been a "scrap buck" here in the sw, at any time during the last 40 years.

Wrong again!

The buck pool was smack dab in the middle of the county that has acounted for the majority of book bucks in PA ever since such data has been recorded and had several hundredentries every season.


Corny

Lemme get this straight now.... Things were so terrible in the wmu that your pap won a buck contest with that little dink, yet the wmu was a superb one producing plenty of trophies?

Oh.. Ok. I understand! (LOL)(LOL) I sometimes wonder if you EVER think before you post! (LOL)


A buck like that wouldnt be entered in a contest here in the last 4 decades! (LOL) The person wouldve been laughed out of the building! (LOL) Not that we have so many giants or ever did, but that buck you speak of has always been a tiny dink around here.

You're trying too hard to be like yourhero. Yes the buck pool was in Allegheny County which has historically produced the biggest average bucks in the state even back then. The dink buck by todays standards was a real trophy back then even in the best area in PA as evidenced by the fact that no local shot a better one!

If you still don't understand, read it slower a few times and I'm sure all will clear up.

There is no doubt that the reduced pressure in 2G is saving more bucks andletting them live longer.In fact,I'll agree that the reduced pressure in 2G is a having a bigger effect on the size of the racks than AR is.However,it still doesn't change the fact thatthe hunting is far better than many of you who've never even been to 2gclaim it is.This guy has been mounting over 400 bucks a year and many of them are true slammers.Most of the hunters I know agree that there's less deer but they aren't nearly as negative as the majority on here.

BTBOWHUNTER,I won't say exactly where that 7.5 year old buck was taken but it was taken surprisingly close to a roadon Elk state forest.The terrain in many parts of 2G is so vast and rugged that huge areas see very little pressure.

Cant speak for Allegheny during that time frame.. IF it indeed was the highest quality in the state in the 70's...Then I think you are full of beans about the contest winning.

However, i Do know the herd was VERY low in Greene county back then. But My family and friendshave albums FULL of bucks bigger than that tiny dink EVERY SINGLE YEARtaken all during the 70's. Mainly from areas not even thought of as "best". Most of which were taken in the Fayette/Somerset mountains area. And the bucks they took were "the norm" not giants by any stretch.

Somebody is drinking the bong water here.
Years ago it was a treat to even see a forked antler on a buck, and here we have a guy professing to have albums full of BIG BUCKS.... EVERY YEAR from that era. Hmmmmmm.

Who was shooting them psychodelic monsters? ? ? ? ?

Betcha we'll never see any of those buck pics