re: What bucks do you pass on?

I try to pass on anything less than 4.5 years old. Back in Arkansas this year I killed a lifelong spike with eye guards. I have been trying to kill him for at least the last four years, so I knew he was old. It turns out by his teeth; he was a 9.5 -10-year-old deer. I harvested him last weekend and all of his teeth were gone, besides four front bottom teeth.

In Oklahoma, same story. Want mature bucks.

Target Bucks (any of these)





Let Walk

This isn’t really deer hunting, it’s deer deer killing.



Some of us hunt in the woods.

I don't either, and my host probably doesn't. Fortunately, his dad was one of the original purchasers. Interesting mix at those places.

Easiest hunting of my life is in the midwest big timber woods. A lot of people mistake "hard hunting" w/ just hunting on shitty managed tracts of land. All about how it's managed.

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was it you or king ranch that had a place in copiah county?

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or me to shoot another buck it would have to be really exceptional and better than what I have on my wall in my study now - he was a 10-point but he had a couple if broken tines on his left. The experience of hunting him was unforgettable so it would not be easy to top. I don't have to shoot something just because it has horns.

Another reason is we don't like eating bucks. My wife and daughters like venison but they will not eat a buck and they can tell the difference when I tried to slip it past them.

I'm always looking for a good fat doe.

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I am not a deer hunter so this is genuinely a curious question: Besides the fact that they taste better, why not let does walk and shoot smaller bucks?

My thought process here is that each doe can only have 1-3 fawns no matter how many bucks are present. On the contrary, one buck can impregnate multiple does. Would it not make more sense to let most does and big bucks walk and shoot the smaller bucks? That way the good genes get passed on to the most amount of does and increases the chances of getting more bigger bucks?

I am 100% sure I am missing a key piece of information that proves my theory wrong. Someone please educate me.

I just looked it up and I am surprised that deer only live 4-6 years. For some reason I thought they lived like 10+ and if I was pressed I would have guessed 20 years.

The numbers thing makes a ton of sense.

No, we’re not…this practice has produced a 165 and 184….