cwtaylor89

What is the smallest buck that you would shoot?

Shootstuff4570

up in whitecloud where we hunt, if the buck gets to a 6 pointer its called a whitecloud trophy, they dont get big at all round where i hunt, so the smallest i would shoot would be a big spike

max the dog

I would like to only shoot 8 pointers with thick beams and long tines. For most of the season I pass up the runts and small 6 pointers. If my buck tag is still unfilled late in the season I'll drop my standards and go for the average deer. On the last day of the hunt, "if it's brown it's down".

Does are a different story, I let the big mama's pass so I can shoot their veal daughters. That's good eatin.

timbercruiser

Depends on the tract I am hunting on. Some are meat hunts and I will shoot anything I want to as I give a lot of deer away. Other areas are mature bucks only.

Moose75

At my place in Florida I shoot any buck with 5 in. or more. In Alabama I only shoot 8 pointers with 15in spread.

cardeer

Depends how hungry I am. In pa we have pt restrictions

hoyt3

depends on too many situations to list. I shot a sixteen inch six this year that I thought was a very large six or eight, and was not happy because I didn't have time to really look at him and my first observation (as he was looking at me from downhill, I thought his main beams were his g 2s) and before I knew it the bullet was gone. I am happy though, because my little hunting buddy saw very little action in the woods this year. didn't even get a shot at one (he had seen only 18 all season) until I pushed some cover for him on the last day. he got three shots and actually had the rifle knocked out of his hands by a big doe on her way out of the brush. that was funny

jeg3455

I used to do the same thing till I found out that those big mama's will run my little bucks off of my food sources, now I take those big mama's and let the little ones feed.

To the question at hand, if I think it is mature (5 1/2 or older) I will shoot it if it has less than 8 points I try not to shoot anything under that age or that point total. However, I will shoot a spike or small four point if I know they are mature, I guess it just depends on where you live and the type of deer that you are accustom to seeing.

Moose75

If you kill the big does, in years to come you will see more bucks.

Double Lung23

I shoot does as soon as I see them Big Small whatever. We have a high doe population. As for bucks Six or better. We don't usually see big buck in N.Y. but we try to manage on our property. and the other property owners around us do the same. In four years i'v shot only one buck an 8.