I don't really care if it's sporty or not. Lol. The biggest draw back to me is outfitters acting like you're doing them a favor but yet you still pay.
On my soapbox again...
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I don't really care if it's sporty or not. Lol. The biggest draw back to me is outfitters acting like you're doing them a favor but yet you still pay.
I tell you what, thus guy takes "cull buck" to a whole new level.
For those of you who aren't familiar, he has a pretty dry sense of humor
For those of you who aren't familiar, he has a pretty dry sense of humor
I was hunting a big 10pt a couple years ago, had him come by one morning with one side of his rack broke off. I let him walk and haven't seen him since. I was sick for a while.
more like 99.9%
I only kill very mature B/C or MAYBE P/Y bucks on heavy pressured PUBLIC land! With my bow.
From the ground! While self filming.
In mosquito infested swamps!
Wearing a loin cloth!
(Actually let me correct that.. I kill as many legal deer as I can, with my bow, mostly on public, some private, and enjoy killing every one of them)
(And then enjoy giving the meat to people who want it but have no idea how to get it)
BSK...after all these years, we STILL agree!
From the ground! While self filming.
In mosquito infested swamps!
Wearing a loin cloth!
(Actually let me correct that.. I kill as many legal deer as I can, with my bow, mostly on public, some private, and enjoy killing every one of them)
(And then enjoy giving the meat to people who want it but have no idea how to get it)
BSK...after all these years, we STILL agree!
Dean Parisian
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I'm glad you made the executive decision to come back to the TNDEER fray BSK! We all appreciate all your time and effort in putting down to share so much for all of us to learn, ponder and execute. Thank you Sir.
Hymie3
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Hunting shows are about selling product.. period. I stopped watching few years ago after I realized it's nothing but a big commercial for whatever product. If you only want to shoot big bucks fine. If you want to shoot young bucks, fine. They taste better anyway. And neither is as good as a fat doe!
I try to kill bucks before they get too old myself. 
TheLBLman
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Truer words never said.
Albeit, SOME times, the products CAN be more worthy than gimmick.
More rarely, the "product" COULD be the show itself, in which all the negatives of a particular product would be greatly elaborated. How often have you seen that?
The problem is that we have typically had to buy those products, use them ourselves, before determining they were as much or more a liability as an asset.
That's how I generally feel about turkey decoys, i.e. overall more liability than asset (at least to me).
Yep, there are exceptions. It's just that they make "marketing" videos of "hunting" mainly on those "exceptions", without showing the more consistent general pitfalls of using a particular product.
A renowned fisherman (with his own TV show) could take a new bass lure, cast it 10,000 times over a week, catch 10 bass, then put that "catch" footage in a 20-minute video. Everyone wants that new lure, because they saw it work wonderfully 10 times in 20 minutes. But maybe, maybe even likely, he could have caught more bass, with fewer casts, simply by using a different "old" lure or method.
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BSK
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That's how I feel about many products highly touted for deer hunting these days LBLman, especially any type of "call" or decoy used to draw deer closer to the hunter. Yes, we've all seen, and even possibly experienced, a positive response to using such equipment/techniques, but I've watched deers' reaction to these things many, many times, and the vast majority of times the reaction is negative.
TheLBLman
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Kinda like bottled deer pee sold at a high price.
In many situations, "free" human pee works just as well.
In many situations, estrous doe urine (i.e. the really "good" stuff!) spooks does, which then in turn carry away the buck that was just about to walk into your shooting lane behind that doe.
In many situations, "free" human pee works just as well.
In many situations, estrous doe urine (i.e. the really "good" stuff!) spooks does, which then in turn carry away the buck that was just about to walk into your shooting lane behind that doe.
BSK
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Well said!
Sasquatch Boogie Outdoors
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And then clean him and eat that rascal!!!
BSK
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HA! Like that reply!
moondawg
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I haven't been hunting in several years. The last time I actually went hunting was probably 2014, maybe 2015. That said, I would let small bucks walk, especially early in the MZ/gun season. However, I wasn't as picky when December came around. If a small buck came in range, and if I felt like gutting and dragging, I shot it. I hunted to fill the freezer more than my wall.
Sasquatch Boogie Outdoors
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Hamburger: 4$ per lbs.
I ground up over 100 lbs. Of venison last year, free beef fat from grocery butcher and a little work...that there friends is cost analysis at its finest!!! Organic, leaner, cleaner, cheaper,healthier, and cheaper...
I ground up over 100 lbs. Of venison last year, free beef fat from grocery butcher and a little work...that there friends is cost analysis at its finest!!! Organic, leaner, cleaner, cheaper,healthier, and cheaper...
I agree 100 per cent. I despise the term cull buck or management back. No it means you wanted to shoot one and could not find one bigger. Amen!
Great thread. For me And my area. A 130 inch is rare. I hunt because I enjoy it. I love hunting and taking my son. If the deer makes me happy or my son. We shoot. I'm not worried about score or filling tags. I simply enjoy being out in God's country.
