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re: Hunting Club - Buck restrictions?
Posted on 10/28/22 at 10:02 am to AlxTgr
Posted on 10/28/22 at 10:02 am to AlxTgr
i guess my point by my original post was the "rules" - we have been members of both places for nearly 30 years...historically, we've always killed mature bucks with no rules in place...the shame of coming in with a 2 year old basket rack was enough....i would get the need for rules if it was a bunch of first time hunters
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Posted on 10/28/22 at 10:18 am to AlxTgr
I too, get invited to a place once a year to deer hunt. There are two rules for me when I go. A Buck has to have 4 points on at least one side, and a doe must weigh at least 80 pounds. Even with those seemingly simple rules, I still get nervous shooting a doe. I'm always scared I misjudge a button buck for a doe. That happened to me on my first ever deer (public land), and ever since then I've been nervous.
Posted on 10/28/22 at 10:20 am to Homey the Clown
quote:Yeah, especially if it is alone.
I still get nervous shooting a doe. I'm always scared I misjudge a button buck for a doe
Posted on 10/28/22 at 10:53 am to hubreb
This was one of the reasons we closed our place, constant behind the truck grumbling about buck to young or too small.
Easiest fix: Weight
our 4.5 year olds will never go below 175 pounds. 3 year olds rarely go above.
175 lbs minimun and any cripple. Easier for members to judge size of the body and they learn quickly.
Find your 4.5 year old minimum weight and it works.
Easiest fix: Weight
our 4.5 year olds will never go below 175 pounds. 3 year olds rarely go above.
175 lbs minimun and any cripple. Easier for members to judge size of the body and they learn quickly.
Find your 4.5 year old minimum weight and it works.
Posted on 10/28/22 at 5:37 pm to OGhunter777
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Doesn't sound like hunting clubs. Sounds like deer growing clubs. We like to eat deer and kill deer. Of course we conserve habitat and do what is right to make sure our heard maintains, but essentially, we are there to kill deer, so that is what we do. To each his own.
This is how I see it. You can boil bake and roast antlers and never got them to be edible.
I want a pretty place to enjoy and deer to hunt. Not interested in a lot of silly games. Wasting time and emotion quibbling over deer stats would not be my idea of a good group.
Posted on 10/28/22 at 6:35 pm to Rabby
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This is how I see it. You can boil bake and roast antlers and never got them to be edible.
I've heard you can grind it into a powder and make some kind of spray that is valuable in Chinatown and won Bama a championship or two.
Posted on 10/28/22 at 6:53 pm to Rabby
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want a pretty place to enjoy and deer to hunt. Not interested in a lot of silly games. Wasting time and emotion quibbling over deer stats would not be my idea of a good group
Then you have the largest hunting club in all of America. It’s called a WMA
Posted on 10/28/22 at 7:04 pm to hubreb
I kill 2-3 deer a year and that's it. I got room in deep freeze for 2, and usually kill one for wife's uncle. I shoot what walks out, don't care, get over it. I work a lot, have kids, only so many opportunities to hunt and mostly hunt public land. I don't care about saving a deer for someone else to mount, means nothing to me, want just the meat. I understand the older a deer gets the more meat it has, doesn't matter, want deer now.
Posted on 10/28/22 at 8:05 pm to Sparetime
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This was one of the reasons we closed our place, constant behind the truck grumbling about buck to young or too small. Easiest fix: Weight
That’s a problem for me because we have 235lb 12” spread 8 points
This post was edited on 10/28/22 at 8:48 pm
Posted on 10/28/22 at 8:16 pm to hubreb
We try to shoot 3.5 -4.5 yr old bucks= ~180lbs or more that’s what we try to shoot and if someone screws up then it’s no big deal.
We only have 3 members that truly hunt and it’s never been an issue, we also have let each member get a “any deer” to use for kids or the old father in law tbat can’t see and prolly won’t make it another 3 seasons.
We are lucky because we are a small group that all get along and all have the same ideas and goals in mind.
We only have 3 members that truly hunt and it’s never been an issue, we also have let each member get a “any deer” to use for kids or the old father in law tbat can’t see and prolly won’t make it another 3 seasons.
We are lucky because we are a small group that all get along and all have the same ideas and goals in mind.
Posted on 10/28/22 at 8:48 pm to The Levee
Posted on 10/28/22 at 9:08 pm to jchamil
quote:im sorry but this sounds like an absurdly stupid rule
If an adult kills a buck, you're getting it mounted no matter how big it is.
Posted on 10/28/22 at 9:26 pm to The Levee
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Easiest fix: Weight
Not sure how that would work. We've killed 175lb does fairly often.
Posted on 10/28/22 at 9:42 pm to Pelican fan99
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im sorry but this sounds like an absurdly stupid rule
And unenforceable
Posted on 10/28/22 at 11:28 pm to OGhunter777
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Doesn't sound like hunting clubs. Sounds like deer growing clubs. We like to eat deer and kill deer. Of course we conserve habitat and do what is right to make sure our heard maintains, but essentially, we are there to kill deer, so that is what we do. To each his own.
Can’t eat them horns. Manage your does and put in an age restriction. I’m team let them grow.
Posted on 10/29/22 at 11:31 am to Rize
We have a group of guys that own our place and couldn’t really come to any sort of agreement…. So decided each “owner” gets 3 deer/year - whatever u want. I do harrass them about shooting little ones and would like to require adults to mount bucks they kill (sans culls). Haven’t run into an issue but I’m sure it’s coming one day. Several of our guys never pulled the trigger. Mainly a duck club …
I normally shoot a young doe because they are the most tender… let my kid shoot something and save one incase a mounter comes along. Typically only kill 2 a year so we have meat n the freezer. Happened to harvest a couple big ones over the past few years so we had 3… but that’s rare.
I normally shoot a young doe because they are the most tender… let my kid shoot something and save one incase a mounter comes along. Typically only kill 2 a year so we have meat n the freezer. Happened to harvest a couple big ones over the past few years so we had 3… but that’s rare.
Posted on 10/29/22 at 12:17 pm to LSUFAN227
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sorry, but if you are killing young immature bucks on private property, which have potential to grow, then you have no clue what you are doing. Public property is one thing, but without rules on age and size then, in a Club that is not a solo, or close knit operation then you are not in a good situation. Unless you are cool with hard work not paying off. If you are in for just a meat haul then shoot does, no one shoots enough of those anyway.
Why would y’all downvote this?
It’s 100% true
Posted on 10/29/22 at 12:22 pm to Seen
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so many opportunities to hunt and mostly hunt public land.
Key statement to the point you’re making
Posted on 10/29/22 at 1:19 pm to R11
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Why would y’all downvote this? It’s 100% true
Probably the general douchebaggery and assumption that everyone who hunts does so to kill trophies.
Posted on 10/29/22 at 1:40 pm to TheDrunkenTigah
Cool
Kill does then hoss
Kill does then hoss
This post was edited on 10/29/22 at 1:40 pm
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