Meat or antlers
10-14-2006, 04:13 PM
#21
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location:
Posts: 1,785
RE: Meat or antlers
I am a registered Brangus cattle breeder, and if I want meat, I will have a calf slaughtered. I hunt as a wildlife manager. I shoot what needs to be killed to benefit the deer herd. I may not kill a buck every year, but when I do, it WILL NOT be an 18 month old spike. I hunt mature bucks with quality horns. I killed 9 deer in two states last season and donated every one to Hunter's for the Hungry.
10-14-2006, 05:42 PM
#22
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Greendale, Wisconsin, USA
Posts: 6,356
RE: Meat or antlers
ORIGINAL: JimPic
I hunt for meat.If it has bone on it's head-great.I'll take the 1st legal deer that gives me the shot I want to take.
I hunt for meat.If it has bone on it's head-great.I'll take the 1st legal deer that gives me the shot I want to take.
10-14-2006, 07:38 PM
#25
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Saskatchewan Canada
Posts: 6,921
RE: Meat or antlers
I like em' both
. I buy doe tags but my either-sex tags are held onto, if I need more meatI will shoot a doe vs an immature buck with the either tags as my season dwindles down.
. I buy doe tags but my either-sex tags are held onto, if I need more meatI will shoot a doe vs an immature buck with the either tags as my season dwindles down.
10-14-2006, 09:37 PM
#28
Fork Horn
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Central Iowa
Posts: 228
RE: Meat or antlers
I use the "restaurant" method. (Smoking, Non-Smoking or first Available?)
(Buck, Doe, or First Available?)
I go with 'First Available".
That said, I'm still looking for 'The Rack' to put above the fireplace (the only thing the wife said that I can hang).
If presented with a 4 point and some does, I'll take the biggest doe.
A button by himself, to the freezer he goes.
If presented with a nice 8 or 10 point and some does, I'll take the buck. After that, if there's a buck and some does, if the buck isn't nicer than the one currently above the fireplace, a doe is going down.
Right now, my son and I have only put does in the freezer.
(Buck, Doe, or First Available?)
I go with 'First Available".
That said, I'm still looking for 'The Rack' to put above the fireplace (the only thing the wife said that I can hang).
If presented with a 4 point and some does, I'll take the biggest doe.
A button by himself, to the freezer he goes.
If presented with a nice 8 or 10 point and some does, I'll take the buck. After that, if there's a buck and some does, if the buck isn't nicer than the one currently above the fireplace, a doe is going down.
Right now, my son and I have only put does in the freezer.
