Check out this Florida buck....
 

I live & hunt just a few miles below the Ga line. Most folks think of Florida & picture flat pine forests & sandy beaches. Our region around the Panhandle is more like South Ga than Fl.

We have managed our family farm for about 4 years & are beginning to see good results. When we first got the place, you were hard pressed to see a spike, much less a good buck. We had a renegade hunting club across the road that dropped anything that moved. The lease was St Joe' s land & bought by an individual who is more a bird hunter than deer, but he has a few family members & guests that are only permitted to take does. And, they must take 2 does before they are permitted to even hunt for a buck. This has helped us a great deal.

The buck below was harvested last fall on the Friday aftet Tgiving day. Our gun season opens Tgiving day. He took him just barely before dark which proves he was nocturnal and the season had barely begun. By Fl standards, he was a good buck, very thick rack, and heavy. Guestimated age was 5 and a half.

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very nice buck !!

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Nice looking rack, I have to say it amazes me the difference in size of deer, living in Va. it seems as though we have medium sized deer, the further south the smaller, the further north the larger. I know this doesn' t hold 100%, in Va. most mountain deer are small in comparison to those in the piedmont region where there is a lot of agricultural stuff, and I am sure that holds true in most states where the deer vary in size drastically depending upon where they are.

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Nice![8D]

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nice deer congrats on the QDM

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That buck has some nice mass, especially for a Florida deer. Glad to hear that you' re reaping the rewards of your deer management! Thanks for posting the pic!

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That is a nice buck, congrats to whoever harvested it. And yea us southerners got them tiny deer.

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Nice buck Sweetwater. I mostly hunt in north central Fl and we dont see ' em like that very much.

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That' s a bute!