I'd call up one of my pathetic hunting buddies and we would shoot both of them.

I'd call up one of my pathetic hunting buddies and we would shoot both of them.

I'd call up one of my pathetic hunting buddies and we would shoot both of them.

I'd call up one of my pathetic hunting buddies and we would shoot both of them.

I'd call up one of my pathetic hunting buddies and we would shoot both of them.

Would you shoot the bigger one, or the mature one?

my buddy shot a 181" 16pt at LBL as it was dragging a dead 142" 9pt thru the woods. I'd say that was definitely a mercy killing. Game warden let him keep both deer after taking bunches of pics and calling all his buddies. This was about 10 years ago.

In accordance with the pithy platitude in your signature line?

Take pictures and leave them alone. Your chances of getting injured trying to "help" are high.

Really?So if a B&C,and a P&Y come up from behind you,start fighting,and get locked up,your gonna take pics?,I would too,a little later.

If they aren't locked up yet, I'm shooting. But if I walk up on locked up bucks, why would I kill one? Where is the sportmanship? Where is the pursuit of game in a fair manner?

A buck killed that way would mean nothing to me, no matter how big he was.

Again, I guess I've been doing this too long and already accomplished too many goals. I'm way beyond wanting a trophy buck so badly I would do anything to get one. I'm at the point in my life and my hunting career that how I kill a buck is more important than the buck's "stats." I know some find this hard to believe, but that's just the way it is.

Don't get me wrong; I would be thrilled to kill a record-book buck. But only on my terms. Anything less would be devoid of meaning.

"How" I kill a buck is very important to me too

exactly what i was thinking..... but i would shoot the biggest one...Plinker would have to settle for the smaller of the two...

Whats cheap about hunting 13 weekends 12 with a bow. Most were 3 and 4 day weekends, normally one week straight. Around 45 days in a stand, Id say a fair average of 10 hours a day in the weather. Doubt I hunted a time that I didnt walk a mile to my stand up hill both ways LOL. Sleeping in my truck many nights if I sleep at all. Did I mention its a 4 hour drive to where I hunt each way?

I look at it as an opportunity. Would you shoot a B&C buck with 3 legs or blind how about one that was jumped up out of a corn field by a combine. Right place right time thats all, no differet in my mind. Yeah the buck would have an * beside it but, it would most certainly get shot.

Ill add, I rely on mature buck to slip up when he does Im gonna be there and take full advantage of it.

what is more important to you.One stuck in a fence or two locked up?lol

I said nothing of "walking up on locked bucks",only it happening in front of you,while hunting