That’s the kind of buck that makes we wonder if I’m not totally bored by Whitetails after all….
You may have something there, the bow is almost as big as her.
Congratulations on a great buck.
I grew up with Mule deer, so those (and ELK, of course) are what really make me catch my breath. Next door neighbor had one on the wall that had to be solidly into B&C range. Forks on top of forks. Well over 30” spread. And there are skulls & sheds just nailed to the siding at gas stations up in North Park that would blow your mind. Bases thicker than my wrists.
When I started hunting whitetail up in MN, there were bucks dressing out at around #230 every year, with “average” bucks in our camp at #180 — which is more than the typical live weight here, I suspect. And I’m mostly in this for the meat and the time spent outside, just trying to get better at the whole game. So I haven’t arrived at the Trophy Hunter stage yet, I suppose; there are some things that just can’t be measured in inches.
But just about Deer… The buck in this thread… *maybe* it’s the camera, but that looks like a real Horse; just an astonishing example of a mature, typical buck, IMO. Scoring systems can take their deductions and stuff it. And I won’t lie — if I ever get a respectable opportunity at one like that, you can bet your last broadhead that I will do everything within my skill-set to take my best shot. But I’d probably not do anything more/different than I would if it were a 2.5 YO or older doe.
And I would sure prefer to run across a deer like that somewhere well off the road than “down the street from [the] house.”
“Hunting” here is what it is because the deer are where they are, but given what it is about hunting that matters to me…. It’s not really hunting.
I've got family and friends who live in New Mexico, Utah and Colorado and all they think about is chasing Whitetails here in New England. I guess everyone has different ways to get excited.
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Ummmm…. Because this is where I live??
@BD — it’s not so much the size of the rack as the size of the places where the animals live. The racks do seem to have a way of embodying that, though…
