#1881706 - 04/12/10 01:52 PM
Re: My Progression/Regress as a buck hunter and yours?
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Buzzard Breath
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Ohio, Canada won't let me in.
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#1881800 - 04/12/10 02:51 PM
Re: My Progression/Regress as a buck hunter and yours?
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Awesome buck Buzz! Everyone should shoot what makes them happy! Just dont bust anybody else up for shooting a small buck, cause you know what can happen??? Right Wes?? lol just hunt
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#1881836 - 04/12/10 03:29 PM
Re: My Progression/Regress as a buck hunter and yours?
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woodchuckc
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Like most, back in the 80's and early 90's any buck was fair game. Except for one huge spike buck 7 years ago (~150 pounds field dressed with 11" spikes, that I didn't save the jawbone for aging) and one late season button buck mistake (thought it was a doe), every buck I have taken the last 10 years has been 2.5 or older. The last 5 years, all have been 3.5 or older. None have had huge racks - the biggest is about 118", but that is o.k. with me. I don't intend on progressing or regressing any, as long as there are does to shoot for meat.
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#1882718 - 04/13/10 07:08 AM
Re: My Progression/Regress as a buck hunter and yours?
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stik
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i shoot whatever i feel like at the time.
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#1882766 - 04/13/10 07:52 AM
Re: My Progression/Regress as a buck hunter and yours?
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I've gone from a shoot anything with antlers hunter, to a shoot anything that's 2 1/2+ hunter, to a shoot anything that's 3 1/2+ hunter, to a borderline mature buck/trophy hunter. But now I think I'm turning into Bowriter and regressing.  After some long, hard evaluation of why I hunt and what I enjoy, I may just go back to shooting whatever makes me happy. I can't imagine ever knowingly shooting a yearling buck, but everything else is fair game, depending upon how I feel that day! I completely and totally agree with that but like this past season when I killed the 2.5 9point, I still think about man what would he have been this season and I think that for me is the biggest reason why I stopped shooting young bucks cause I want to see what they will be, if you kill em their dead end of story!
Very true BigWes50. You will never know what a buck you killed when he is younger would have become. But the way I look at it, I'm not running out of 2 1/2 year-old bucks anytime soon. We have a plethora of them, and losing a couple each year appears to do no harm. We always have 3 1/2 and a couple of 4 1/2+ year-old bucks around, so dropping a 2 1/2 doesn't really decrease my chances much of seeing something older/bigger in future years.
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#1884338 - 04/14/10 08:44 AM
Re: My Progression/Regress as a buck hunter and yours?
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megalomaniac
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Registered: 10/28/05
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Make yourself do a 'european mount' on everything you kill. That's what I do... and it'll make you cuss killing a 2.5 yr old as you spend 6 hours skinning/boiling/picking/bleaching that darn skull. Besides, does the buck really deserve just having his rack cut off and pitched in a box of little antlers?
(I'm in a pissy mood... just got done cleaning skulls from this past season )
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#1884348 - 04/14/10 08:49 AM
Re: My Progression/Regress as a buck hunter and yours?
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smstone22
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Started out at 10, taking whatever buck came through. Mostly young ones of course. After killing 15 some odd young bucks, and limiting out on bucks in the first couple days of season, I realized it was way to easy and something had to change. Then I killed my first good buck and knew then that I wouldnt look back. Now I have a totally different perspective on it from when I decided to hunt more mature deer. Now I see it totally from a conservation view point. Killing young bucks doesnt accomplish anything that cant be accomplished by shooting a doe. Young bucks get harvested around me in a alarming number, theres no need to make it worse if you have one iota of conservationist in you. Now I do encourage young hunters to take whatever they please though. Killing all those young bucks when I was young myself did accomplish a few things, it made me a very effective killer, good practice at shooting you might say, not much else but a good skill nonetheless. Now Ill take a mature buck or two a year, some does in bow, and work on habitat the rest of the Fall and Winter.
Here are some pics, I havent saved enough in photobucket to show it real well but this does a decent job.
1st buck
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#1884528 - 04/14/10 10:28 AM
Re: My Progression/Regress as a buck hunter and yours?
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BigWes50
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Registered: 03/04/07
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Loc: Chattanooga, TN
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Great looking bucks!
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#1884610 - 04/14/10 11:49 AM
Re: My Progression/Regress as a buck hunter and yours?
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mathews338
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Loc: jackson co.
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that one is a hoss smstone22
i got the same camo stock cover and sling that you do, i've had that cover for 12yrs and the stock still looks brand new
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