Meat Hunter's?
07-02-2010, 11:28 AM
#21
Spike
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: oregon
Posts: 98
im with ya, obviously i always hope to see the big one but whatever comes my way i know that i will enjoy taking any animal and will use all that i can of it. i would rather get the big guy, but ill take what i can get
07-02-2010, 11:33 AM
#22
Fork Horn
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Northern IL
Posts: 268
I have 6 deer tags, that equates to 12 loins……Ummmmmmmmm
Can only take 2 bucks in IL, has to be at least a P&Y or better for me to make the squeeze.
Will arrow a doe early or late in the gun season.
I only take does with my bow or hand cannons.
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Can only take 2 bucks in IL, has to be at least a P&Y or better for me to make the squeeze.
Will arrow a doe early or late in the gun season.
I only take does with my bow or hand cannons.
bb
07-02-2010, 12:40 PM
#23
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Pa
Posts: 4,647
"because if I don't shoot it, my neighbor will" needs to stop being said/practiced.
The more neighbors who stop practicing the more bucks that will get lucky and make it another year.
I'm not saying wait for a 180" deer in an area that really only can produce a 130", but don't take a spike or button buck simply because your neighbor would...
I say if you want meat, shoot a doe. Nothing wrong with being a meat hunter or a trophy hunter. I think you can be both. I think almost all trophy hunters still eat their trophy.
The more neighbors who stop practicing the more bucks that will get lucky and make it another year.
I'm not saying wait for a 180" deer in an area that really only can produce a 130", but don't take a spike or button buck simply because your neighbor would...
I say if you want meat, shoot a doe. Nothing wrong with being a meat hunter or a trophy hunter. I think you can be both. I think almost all trophy hunters still eat their trophy.
Yea right... It would be nice if everybody thought like you... But unfortunatly... We all dont live in a fantasy land... Or hunt private property
Go ahead and let your 2 1/2 year old bucks walk... I'll be more than happy to put them in my freezer
07-03-2010, 12:06 PM
#26
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location:
Posts: 1,837
Both. I kill a doe or two for the freezer then hunt for a decent set of horns. I have killed my share of 1.5 - 2.5 year old bucks in my lifetime so I let them pass now. I get my meat and get to hunt for horns too.
07-03-2010, 06:37 PM
#27
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Cove City, North Carolina
Posts: 256
oh yeah, i'm in. we don't really have nice bucks around here anyway. it's not because people haven't tried different self imposed restrictions, and supplemental feeding, and mineral licks, we just have a small deer, genetically i guess. television makes the nearly impossible seem all to easy. i just go for the fun and the meat.
07-03-2010, 07:11 PM
#28
Typical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Central PA
Posts: 829
If the rack isn't bigger than what I already have mounted I see no point in killing it. to get meat I hunt out of state where the deer pops are higher and do the thinning on our lease as it needs to be done. I am not putting anyone down, I just don't see the mindset in continually killing a 125 pound buck or yearling or 80 pound fawn and then saying I am a meat hunter. I get more meat out of a 3 or 4 1/2 year old 200 plus pound buck and if he don't come along that is what those older long nosed doe are for.
