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<blockquote data-quote="BSK" data-source="post: 5552254" data-attributes="member: 17"><p>For the first time in many years, this year I saw a buck I didn't have on camera. I was hunting a corner of my property we had clear-cut (about 10 acres). I'm guess he was living in the little cut in the corner of the property and then heading out in the bottomlands to feed on the adjoining duck club's corn that couldn't be flooded due to the drought and wasn't travelling deeper into my property where he would have been photographed. The buck jumped up about 40 yards away in the cut and bounded away from me. All I could see was his antlers. When he finally exited the cut, now about 120 yards away, I took one look at his body and thought, "That's a sure 'nuff mature buck!" He got in a skidder road I had kept clear through the cut and started walking my way. As he walked back towards me, I had the chance to reevaluate him, and after about 5 minutes of watching him through binoculars decided he was only 3 1/2. The smaller rack (8-point grossing 113) and his massive body had fooled me (he live weighed well over 200 lbs). I eventually decided to take him as he exited the clear-cut along the skidder road (now just 40 yards away). If I had been after only mature bucks, and it had been rifle season (it was MZ) I would have made a big mistake when I first saw him! Just goes to show, having to make snap aging decisions can lead to mistakes. That's why I say knowing the bucks on your property before season opens saves bucks' lives.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BSK, post: 5552254, member: 17"] For the first time in many years, this year I saw a buck I didn't have on camera. I was hunting a corner of my property we had clear-cut (about 10 acres). I'm guess he was living in the little cut in the corner of the property and then heading out in the bottomlands to feed on the adjoining duck club's corn that couldn't be flooded due to the drought and wasn't travelling deeper into my property where he would have been photographed. The buck jumped up about 40 yards away in the cut and bounded away from me. All I could see was his antlers. When he finally exited the cut, now about 120 yards away, I took one look at his body and thought, "That's a sure 'nuff mature buck!" He got in a skidder road I had kept clear through the cut and started walking my way. As he walked back towards me, I had the chance to reevaluate him, and after about 5 minutes of watching him through binoculars decided he was only 3 1/2. The smaller rack (8-point grossing 113) and his massive body had fooled me (he live weighed well over 200 lbs). I eventually decided to take him as he exited the clear-cut along the skidder road (now just 40 yards away). If I had been after only mature bucks, and it had been rifle season (it was MZ) I would have made a big mistake when I first saw him! Just goes to show, having to make snap aging decisions can lead to mistakes. That's why I say knowing the bucks on your property before season opens saves bucks' lives. [/QUOTE]
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