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<blockquote data-quote="Ski" data-source="post: 5752820" data-attributes="member: 20583"><p>Hunting older bucks can often leave you frustrated eating tag soup. Like any other gamble, the reward or loss is equal to the risk. Doing so means accepting that you may be years without filling a tag. That's more than a lot of hunters are willing to do. If you want to kill big bucks then you need your tags. Killing little bucks uses the tags you'd need for big ones that may or may not ever happen. </p><p></p><p>Where you're at in your hunting journey matters. If you've not killed enough deer or bucks to satisfy that urge, then keep hunting what excites you. I've always wanted to kill big bucks but it wasn't until I had killed enough smaller ones that it just didn't feel good anymore. Killing "a" buck wasn't exciting anymore, nor challenging. So the logical next step was only killing what excited me, which is big, old bucks. It's hard. I fail a lot. But even the failure is better than killing something that doesn't mean anything to me. And if I don't get a big buck I can always take the rifle out for a doe to get meat. But man when I connect on a big wily wise old buck it's a feeling like no other.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ski, post: 5752820, member: 20583"] Hunting older bucks can often leave you frustrated eating tag soup. Like any other gamble, the reward or loss is equal to the risk. Doing so means accepting that you may be years without filling a tag. That's more than a lot of hunters are willing to do. If you want to kill big bucks then you need your tags. Killing little bucks uses the tags you'd need for big ones that may or may not ever happen. Where you're at in your hunting journey matters. If you've not killed enough deer or bucks to satisfy that urge, then keep hunting what excites you. I've always wanted to kill big bucks but it wasn't until I had killed enough smaller ones that it just didn't feel good anymore. Killing "a" buck wasn't exciting anymore, nor challenging. So the logical next step was only killing what excited me, which is big, old bucks. It's hard. I fail a lot. But even the failure is better than killing something that doesn't mean anything to me. And if I don't get a big buck I can always take the rifle out for a doe to get meat. But man when I connect on a big wily wise old buck it's a feeling like no other. [/QUOTE]
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