big enough or one more year??
10-04-2004, 07:46 PM
#11
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Sackets Harbor, New York
Posts: 2,509
RE: big enough or one more year??
shoot him!! i would definitely take that buck. But it depends on the quality of your deer, and the number of hunters. I wouldnt pass on him because the next day a neighbor would shoot him, and id be eating my tag.
10-16-2004, 09:34 PM
#15
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Harford Co. Maryland
Posts: 1,574
RE: big enough or one more year??
I have to agree with Dave H... He's plenty big enough that if I let him pass, he'll get waxed by anther neighbor... It all depends on the size of your hunting ground and the liklihood that you'll see him again someday.
10-16-2004, 09:46 PM
#16
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Western Wisconsin
Posts: 728
RE: big enough or one more year??
ORIGINAL: luckyone
There are 3 rifle hunters and 2 other bow hunters in the same section. I don't know who they are, but there is a fair amount of pressure all over this area anyway. I would say he has a 50-50 chance of making it through the year. Our area is about 80 acres of trees and 220 of beans and long grass. I am going to let him walk and hope he makes it. If someone isn't willing to let deer this size go, we will never get any real big ones...
There are 3 rifle hunters and 2 other bow hunters in the same section. I don't know who they are, but there is a fair amount of pressure all over this area anyway. I would say he has a 50-50 chance of making it through the year. Our area is about 80 acres of trees and 220 of beans and long grass. I am going to let him walk and hope he makes it. If someone isn't willing to let deer this size go, we will never get any real big ones...
10-19-2004, 02:27 PM
#17
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Posts: 618
RE: big enough or one more year??
Yeah, with the other hunters around I'd take him. If I saw him where we hunt in MN, I'd take him. But if I was over in WI with my brother in law, I'd let him go. Depends where you are and the size of the deer.
10-19-2004, 03:51 PM
#18
Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 638
RE: big enough or one more year??
if i didn;'t shoot him someone else would.
He's plenty big enough that if I let him pass, he'll get waxed by anther neighbor...
Those are such poor excuses......[:'(]
Some of you guys make it sound like the only reason you would/do shoot a buck is because your so afraid your neighbor might kill him before you do. You make it sound like you dont consider this buck a trophy but you would kill him any way just so your neighbor cant. Thats such a sorry way to think. Bucks in some states are never going to see 2 winters.
10-19-2004, 04:02 PM
#19
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: a van down by the river
Posts: 8,939
RE: big enough or one more year??
Luckyone, I agree with your decision to let him walk.
I would let him walk, but that is because of where my goals lie. For me to shoot a buck, it has to be a monster. Not everyone I hunt around would let a deer like this go, but I feel like someone's gotta start somewhere. You might try to visit with the other hunters if you get a chance, and make a gentleman's agreement to let younger deer go. You don't have anything to lose, and they probably share the same concerns when letting a deer walk that you do.
Many hunters would probably shoot this deer, using the logic that if they don't shoot him, someone else will. IMHO, the probabilty that someone else will not do their part to manage the resource is in no way an excuse for me to do the same.
I would let him walk, but that is because of where my goals lie. For me to shoot a buck, it has to be a monster. Not everyone I hunt around would let a deer like this go, but I feel like someone's gotta start somewhere. You might try to visit with the other hunters if you get a chance, and make a gentleman's agreement to let younger deer go. You don't have anything to lose, and they probably share the same concerns when letting a deer walk that you do.
Many hunters would probably shoot this deer, using the logic that if they don't shoot him, someone else will. IMHO, the probabilty that someone else will not do their part to manage the resource is in no way an excuse for me to do the same.
10-19-2004, 04:07 PM
#20
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Sackets Harbor, New York
Posts: 2,509
RE: big enough or one more year??
You make it sound like you dont consider this buck a trophy but you would kill him any way just so your neighbor cant.
And that deer is big for my area, so i would take him if i were given the chance, regardless of whether another hunter will shoot him if I don't. I am not a trophy hunter, i hunt for the meat and experience, not the bragging rights.