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Originally Posted by invmp12 (Post 3958431)

Your .308 will be more than enough. Wingbone, A 250lb buck in certain parts of Ky is common for a mature buck. When the state only allows you to take one buck, with a 14 day rifle season, a little longer bow season, they have plenty of mature whitetails. The Good Lord has allowed me to take two deer in Ky. One field dressed 203lbs and the other 238lbs. You get real picky when you only get one, and you pay that $190.00 out of state tag fee. I live in Tenn. where the buck limit is 3, and we have no where near the avg body size Ky does. Both of my deer were aged by a Tenn. Wildlife Officer at 5 1/2 the other at what he guessed at 7 1/2 he told me when they get passed 5 it gets difficult to tell, that's a whole new forum. If you haven't never hunted there, you need to go. I hunt in the Western part of Ky.

Well I guess I learned something today. You guys must have some pretty special living conditions down there to get them to regularly get them to that size.

invmp12, I live here in NC so the dog deer as they call them down here rarely hit the 160-180 mark, does are considered HUGE at 120 lbs.

I lucked up and got in on a 2400ish acre lease in Todd and Muelenburg(sp?) county. Turkey season was nothing short of amazing! I was shown some pics of a 181lb doe taken last year in the soybeans. GL this fall!!

Kentucky is a true sleeper state. There record making deer taken every year. If you get the North American Whitetail magazine, August edition, there are two wonderful stories of absolutely great deer taken last year. The people that I have met while hunting there are super. They are deer hunters, I listen to them and they regularly pass up deer knowing they only get that one deer. The deer are allowed, for the most part, to live to that 3 1/2 and up. The doe tags are somewhat liberal, so if it's meat they want, they will take that doe. Thier bow season starts early September, so just about all of them bow hunt. I know one guy who took an awesome buck opening day of bow season, but that ended his season, for a buck anyway. That deer was an awesome velvet buck. If you ever have the chance to hunt there, respect those that live there and they will take you right in. I will be returning and look forward to seeing friends that I have made there as much as the hunt. A special friend I made a couple years ago, who is wheel chair bound, hunts with us. Every morning of our hunt, we helped him into his ground blind and he would stay all day just as we would. We had trail cam pics of an awesome deer we nicknamed " dreamer" . My friend killed " Dreamer" on our 4th morning. We think 6 1/2. Years old, scored 183 field dressed over 200. Made several grown men cry that day, because if anyone should have killed that deer, my friend should have.