Big Racks Craze
#41
Typical Buck
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Where animals get eaten
Posts: 671
I'll take a stab. "Trophy Hunter" never pulls the trigger but to shoot a Trophy male mature game animal. they never do herd mngmt. and also on the TV show's most of the time's those guy's do show herd mngmt, it's not all big rack's. I can't think of one show I watch that they don't pull the trigger on some does. I don't watch them all some just piss me off.
#43
Typical Buck
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Where animals get eaten
Posts: 671
I'll take a stab. "Trophy Hunter" never pulls the trigger but to shoot a Trophy male mature game animal. they never do herd mngmt. and also on the TV show's most of the time's those guy's do show herd mngmt, it's not all big rack's. I can't think of one show I watch that they don't pull the trigger on some does. I don't watch them all some just piss me off.
#44
What have I done? I think I've created one of those threads that makes enemies of fellow hunters and goes back and forth and gets nasty at times. Lets call it a draw and do what these two are doing> Have a cold one and a basket of hot wings.
#45
#48
I recall one year, I took a big bodied buck with a poor rack (DEC check point said he was 5 years old). I did this for two reasons, the primary reason was genetics, I didn't want him breeding does if I could help it. The second reason was for meat. I hunt private land that is not fenced but if I can do my share to help larger bucks pass their genetics on then I think that benefits everyone hunting in the area, including me.
It's nice to bag a big rack (IMO) but you also have to be willing to take does and bucks with poor genetics to get a big rack down the road. So if I get a chance at a big rack one year, I'd like to think the efforts I put in those previous years helped. If I don't bag one, I'm still happy because I'm doing what I think works for me.
It's nice to bag a big rack (IMO) but you also have to be willing to take does and bucks with poor genetics to get a big rack down the road. So if I get a chance at a big rack one year, I'd like to think the efforts I put in those previous years helped. If I don't bag one, I'm still happy because I'm doing what I think works for me.