re: Big buck killed by little girl in Texas

What is the old saying. The less you deserve or will appreciate a record kill or catch, the more likely you are to get it.

Don’t be so sure.

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Doesn’t sound like a recent escapee if it’s a pen deer.

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Why would it have to be “recent”? Just because someone says “pen” that doesn’t mean a breeding pen/operation. It could have escaped a 5,000+acre high fence (especially in Texas) where it was basically as “wild” as any deer you have ever hunted.

I don’t know the area, but it could have come from anywhere. I’m not saying it was an escaped deer, but most wild deer that I have seen, expect and know of in Texas don’t seem to have those characteristics. You think wide, tall and typical. I’m sure that isn’t always the case, but you can’t sit here and convince me that the deer didn’t come from a high fence someway or another. It could be the offspring from a pregnant doe that escaped a fence. Until DNA evidence says it wasn’t from a pen, it is all speculation to me.

I don’t care one bit if it was from a pen. Everyone hunting that land had the opportunity to kill it, and the hardest worker got the trophy. I don’t don’t know why you are so gung-ho over convincing people it was a wild deer.

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I used to work with a guy that lives around there he sent that picture to me the other day and then texted me a few days later and said it was confirmed that deer was 1 of 3 bucks that escaped from a high fence two years ago. Apparently there is still one that hasn’t been killed yet. Regardless of where it came from, it was free ranging for 2 years before she killed it.

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Bowie County High Fence Escapee killed 2020 Link above (hopefully works), same county. Army Corps land . 269” high fence escapee killed in 2020. Not saying it proves anything, but it’s happened before in that area. FTR, I’m not the one insinuating the hunt was high-fence, I do feel it likely that this deer spent some time in a fence.

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Dad hunted it for 3 years and there were known bucks to escape a pen in that county in 2020. Maybe, just a little coincidental? Like I said, that doesn’t take away from her killing it.
Hell, if you had a high fence that is over 10k acres; is it really a “pen deer”? The fricker probably never even knew what a fence was, much less saw one. I have a bigger issue over people that hunt in Texas where you get dropped off in a stand and then the guy turns a spreader on slinging corn down 4 senderos and waiting for a big enough deer to step in one. I also understand that in certain areas in Texas/Southwest that might be the only way you can realistically hunt, so how can I bash them for doing it?

I know people that try to brag over shooting big deer in small fenced in areas. Some try to act like it was a huge feat, and I just roll my eyes, but I also know a couple guys and women that do it and never try to brag about them. They go shoot that 1 deer to get the itch out of their system, and then they feel more comfortable/ at ease hunting “wild” deer the normal way the rest of of the season.

Just don’t try to profit/benefit on a High Fenced/genetically improved deer by trying to portray it as a wild deer. That is where I will lose all respect and doubt everything you say regarding hunting.

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Never been in a Bass Pro Shop or any other large retailer, I see.

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I have. I put 2 on my wall. They aren't on my wall anymore. Im just not into it. It's expensive and it's only for me to look at. Nobody else cares what I killed so I won't mount another one. Every buck I've killed since then, I've cut the racks off. Some were thrown away and others I left at the camp.

It's cool to look at in bass pro but I won't be spending my money on it. To each their own.

Your “Seek -One” comment involves deer (plural), in the 180-200” range. That genetic is there. Just like big Midwest bucks.

Show me three other wild deer in the 200” range from this area and I’ll believe this one never saw a fence.

Those Atlanta deer get hunted very hard.

There are a few arrogant a-holes that truly believe that big deer only grow behind high fences. They seem to believe that as soon as a deer is placed behind a high fence it grows tremendous headgear. It is beyond them to acknowledge that the young lady has had the experience of a lifetime and they cannot find it within their hearts to allow her to enjoy the event without them deliberately trying to tear her down to satisfy their own selfish overgrown egos.
Those genetics have to come from somewhere and it is not the areas where hunters have ready access to take anything that walks. Those genetics were here long before our "civilization" and individual bloodlines have been selectively bred behind high fences over the years to create more massive headgear.
Massive headgear also spontaneously develops in the wild but not in areas where every buck with more than two points on one side is considered a trophy. Trophy hunting decreases the potential for massive headgear as dead bucks don't sire many fawns.
I regret to say that reading this thread has convinced me that there a few "sportsmen" on here that I am glad that I will never have to personally meet.