What size bucks do you shoot and why?
10-11-2008, 02:21 PM
#42
Spike
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: MT, currently at Beale AFB, CA
Posts: 70
RE: What size bucks do you shoot and why?
Bob,
i guess when i first started hunting, i wanted a buck so bad that i passed on does and fawns and ended up getting skunked for a couple seasons. looking back, i should have taken a doe or fawn butobviously,i was young and stupid. Luckily, the past 3 years i've been able to take decent bucksearly in the seasonso i havn't been faced with the decision of shooting a fawn.
i suppose if i was faced with the decision now, i would take a fawn if it came down to it, but not until the end of season. that makes sense that they would be the best eating but i've never eaten one. maybe it's something i ought to try. thanks for pointing that out.
oh yeah, i hunt in western montana and there's definately no shortage of deer.
i guess when i first started hunting, i wanted a buck so bad that i passed on does and fawns and ended up getting skunked for a couple seasons. looking back, i should have taken a doe or fawn butobviously,i was young and stupid. Luckily, the past 3 years i've been able to take decent bucksearly in the seasonso i havn't been faced with the decision of shooting a fawn.
i suppose if i was faced with the decision now, i would take a fawn if it came down to it, but not until the end of season. that makes sense that they would be the best eating but i've never eaten one. maybe it's something i ought to try. thanks for pointing that out.
oh yeah, i hunt in western montana and there's definately no shortage of deer.
10-11-2008, 06:54 PM
#44
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location:
Posts: 94
RE: What size bucks do you shoot and why?
any buck that I want to take, that I can safely estimate at 4.5 years old or older. I shoot my deer by age class, I do not consider a 1.5 or 2.5 yo a trophy no matter what the rack size. If I feel like shooting, I spend enough time in the timber each season, so I will take does out. Everyone has to start somewhere, but when guys start realizing that basket eights or sixes at 2.5 yo are not trophy deer, and set their sites a little higher, we all will benefit. A mature doe, is far more a trophy to me, than a 120" buck with any amount of points and immature. Its hard to do, but by filming my hunts, I shoot some video of them instead of shooting an arrow. Watching it over and over is more enjoyable for me. Just my .02
Jason
Jason
10-12-2008, 06:20 PM
#48
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Hampton Virginia
Posts: 1,607
RE: What size bucks do you shoot and why?
I said 130 and up because we have a 15 by 12 inch rule and I am tring to not even be close to that. I have a 140 inch 8 point and a 143 inch 9 pointer but it has been a few years. I am really just hoping for my son's first buck.
10-12-2008, 09:43 PM
#49
Spike
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Des Moines,Ia
Posts: 28
RE: What size bucks do you shoot and why?
ORIGINAL: MTairman
Bob,
i guess when i first started hunting, i wanted a buck so bad that i passed on does and fawns and ended up getting skunked for a couple seasons. looking back, i should have taken a doe or fawn butobviously,i was young and stupid. Luckily, the past 3 years i've been able to take decent bucksearly in the seasonso i havn't been faced with the decision of shooting a fawn.
i suppose if i was faced with the decision now, i would take a fawn if it came down to it, but not until the end of season. that makes sense that they would be the best eating but i've never eaten one. maybe it's something i ought to try. thanks for pointing that out.
oh yeah, i hunt in western montana and there's definately no shortage of deer.
Bob,
i guess when i first started hunting, i wanted a buck so bad that i passed on does and fawns and ended up getting skunked for a couple seasons. looking back, i should have taken a doe or fawn butobviously,i was young and stupid. Luckily, the past 3 years i've been able to take decent bucksearly in the seasonso i havn't been faced with the decision of shooting a fawn.
i suppose if i was faced with the decision now, i would take a fawn if it came down to it, but not until the end of season. that makes sense that they would be the best eating but i've never eaten one. maybe it's something i ought to try. thanks for pointing that out.
oh yeah, i hunt in western montana and there's definately no shortage of deer.
10-13-2008, 07:46 AM
#50
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Lake County, Florida
Posts: 3,313
RE: What size bucks do you shoot and why?
due to hunting public land (which is alot harder to hunt), i will generally shoot any legal buck that walks by. in Florida we are allowed to kill 2 bucks a day, every day. so we generally don't have to "hold back" for a big buck like states that limit you to 1 or 2 bucks a year.