Blue Water Buck
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Glad to see this 8 made it. We're saying 4.5 possibly 5.5. Beans and wheat fed this guy well this year!
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Old Boy Survived
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Glad to see this 8 made it. We're saying 4.5 possibly 5.5. Beans and wheat fed this guy well this year!
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TheLBLman
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Kinda exciting to "follow" a particular buck over a period of years.
Kinda like you get to hunt them, and hunt them and hunt them, and maybe some day even enjoy the harvest of that long journey. I greatly enjoy the journey even if I never kill him, just makes it better if I ultimately am that hunter or know the hunter who gets him.
Kinda exciting to "follow" a particular buck over a period of years.
Kinda like you get to hunt them, and hunt them and hunt them, and maybe some day even enjoy the harvest of that long journey. I greatly enjoy the journey even if I never kill him, just makes it better if I ultimately am that hunter or know the hunter who gets him.
TheLBLman
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I found a fresh shed last Friday from a very identifiable buck, and I really had believed he had either died or been killed. Was very exciting to find his fresh shed, and know he survived thru the 2015 deer season.
I found a fresh shed last Friday from a very identifiable buck, and I really had believed he had either died or been killed. Was very exciting to find his fresh shed, and know he survived thru the 2015 deer season.
easy45
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Cool
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:super:
:super:
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Nice buck
Nice buck
AllOutdoors
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Cool
TNTony
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cool
cool
wobblegobble
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he looks 3.5 max
he looks 3.5 max
Blue Water Buck
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with that much belly sag?wobblegobble":35gql0by said:
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cool
cool
BSK
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Do you have a history with this buck (years of pictures of him)? I ask because I too question how old that buck is. Now I'll be the first to say aging bucks by body conformation is VERY difficult far post rut. If a picture is taken in late January or into February, I don't think I could accurately judge age from body conformation at that time of the year. But I would also be careful of using "belly sag" as an aging criteria. I've heard hunters mention this characteristic on many occassions, but I've personally NOT found this to be a consistent indicator of age. For example, this VERY mature buck (6 1/2+) has very little if any true sag in his belly:
Do you have a history with this buck (years of pictures of him)? I ask because I too question how old that buck is. Now I'll be the first to say aging bucks by body conformation is VERY difficult far post rut. If a picture is taken in late January or into February, I don't think I could accurately judge age from body conformation at that time of the year. But I would also be careful of using "belly sag" as an aging criteria. I've heard hunters mention this characteristic on many occassions, but I've personally NOT found this to be a consistent indicator of age. For example, this VERY mature buck (6 1/2+) has very little if any true sag in his belly:
