What do you let walk?
05-31-2011, 09:32 AM
#11
Typical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Midlo, Va
Posts: 561
Antlers do nothing for the taste of venison. I hunt for the meat and the sport. Sorry but I have never shot or left a deer go because of the size of its antlers. Would I shot a large antlered buck over a spike if they were standing there together? YES But that has never happened to me.
05-31-2011, 11:08 AM
#12
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Sulphur,Indiana
Posts: 1,350
I prefer the Does and will take any decent size doe worth packing out to the truck. Bucks, I let 2 walk last year,both were 4 pointers. I decided after my first buck that all others must be bigger than that one or I won't shoot. I want to see the bucks get a chace to become at least big bodied if not heavy racked,thats just my standard at this time in my hunting expierence.
05-31-2011, 11:59 AM
#14
Fork Horn
Thread Starter
Join Date: May 2011
Location: St. Joseph, MO
Posts: 198
I have not always had had a restriction I would adhere to. When I first started hunting I would take whatever buck I saw. Then it was 8 points or better. Now I am looking let the young ones go. I may pass on a 130" with my bow if he is young and has potential. I will make no arrgument that a doe is better meat. I never pass a doe with my bow.
06-01-2011, 06:13 AM
#17
Fork Horn
Thread Starter
Join Date: May 2011
Location: St. Joseph, MO
Posts: 198
oh I can take it brushbustin. I am not a trophy hunter. Yes I want to shoot a large buck, but I have not killed a buck in 6 years. Plenty of does. Seen many bucks. In MO it has to have at least 4 points on one side for it to be legal. Take 75% of the bucks I see out of the mix any way you slice it.
06-01-2011, 08:32 AM
#18
Typical Buck
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: southwestern va
Posts: 753
depending on where im hunting and how full the freezer is. If im on a buddies property, ill only shoot does or a shooter buck (say a nice 8 pointer, maybe 130 140 min). If im on public land or national forest, ill take pretty much anything if im low on meat.
06-01-2011, 03:24 PM
#19
Typical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: East TN
Posts: 763
I'd have gladly traded those smaller bucks for some does,but where I hunt we have limited doe opportunities. your only allowed 2 during archery and 1 during ML season and your only allowed bucks during Rifle season and you have a limit of 3 antlered bucks for the whole season.
