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Ski said:
I never had idea how dramatic and sudden the change could be by taking out a bully. I've heard about it before and thought folks were over emphasizing the urgency to cull a bully. I really thought folks were using "bully" as a justification for shooting a young or small buck. To be honest, I felt really conflicted about pulling the trigger because he wasn't a buck I really wanted, and I'd liked to have seen him go another year. But I let him walk a couple weeks ago in ML and soon regretted it because he was bulldogging all the other bucks into the surrounding properties. So this time I felt ok about it, and now feel even better about it.
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Congrats!

And yes, a buck with a terrible disposition and body big enough to hold his own on in a fight is a real danger to your other bucks. I don't see them often (maybe every 3rd or 4th year), but I want them gone ASAP.

The bully I killed that completely took over that particular location and chased off all the other older bucks was an A-hole. Just 2 days later, 3.5yo's and 4.5yo's moved back in.
 
megalomaniac said:
Congrats!

And yes, a buck with a terrible disposition and body big enough to hold his own on in a fight is a real danger to your other bucks. I don't see them often (maybe every 3rd or 4th year), but I want them gone ASAP.

The bully I killed that completely took over that particular location and chased off all the other older bucks was an A-hole. Just 2 days later, 3.5yo's and 4.5yo's moved back in.
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That is literally what I just experienced. He was even aggressive & mean with does. It wasn't hardly 24hrs after killing him that the deer were back to acting normal again. I would never have guessed or believed it had I not personally experienced it.
 
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Ski said:
Killing the bully is what I truly believe scored me this buck. He was actually about 50-75lbs heavier than the 10pt, much bigger bodied. And he knew it. He's been beating up everything.
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I think the worst bully buck we had here even ran does off plots in the early season. My youngest daughter and I watched him one afternoon of the juvenile hunt in 2017 and his antlers were already broken badly by then. She could have shot him a half a dozen or more times. As he came in, he kind of charged and grunted and the does we had been watching took off. We saw him a lot that season and let him walk, probably should have killed him, but hoped his antlers would be better the next year. Wife did kill him early on the following year, muzzleloader season 2018. He was a heck of a fighter even with his antlers splintered badly. His body language when he would come out, you knew it was him.
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Ski said:
Shot the bully buck yesterday morning. He'd been breaking his own and other bucks' tines and keeping good bucks away. Sure enough this morning rolls around and two bigger bucks are tending does in the woodlot and pasture. I never had a chance at this 10 last season, but the Lord graced me with him today! Been an outstanding two days of hunting.

After the bully was gone, a new scrape opened over night and still had wet spots in it this morning, that weren't frosty. Pretty sure a was just minutes behind the buck who did it.
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Congratulations
 

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