would have been tastier at 2.5years. waited too long....
This is what they looked like last year. They eat good stuff with minerals. They added a lot of inches in the last year I think. I was pleased. They do not have multiple tines like the deer you have. Just main frame 8's, the deer you have has potential that those 8's do not. The right feed and minerals and 2 years. He's close to 160, I would love to have him on one of my places.Well, if you say that is what happened with those two, OK. ... It is certainly not normal. In this deer's case, he has added no more than 1.5 inches to any tine in going from 2.5 to 3.5, and that might be a generous take. He is not adding 5 inches to his G2s and G3s (almost doubling in length) in going from 3.5 to 4.5 ... or 5.5, or 6.5. Stickers, drop tines, more mass, longer main beams, maybe more tines, a couple of inches per tine, certainly.
Truthfully, youāll never know what he can do until heās 5.5-6.5. To say if he aināt got it at 3.5 heāll never have it, is just plain false.Aināt gonna happen. At 3.5, if he doesnāt have long tines he never will. He might add a sixth point on both sides though. He is showing a start to that on the right side now.
Man he is doing some traveling. Maybe I wiil see him.Nope. Different buck in a different part of the state. I see the similarity though.
MANY acres of food plots.Is this deer getting any kind of supplemental feed or is he all natural?
If he is in the 135" range right now, 160 is probably about right IF he makes it to 5.5. That IF is the problem. I was simply saying that he isn't gaining all those 25 inches in G2, G3 and G4 tine length ((5+5+2)x2=24). More than half that growth will most likely be in other dimensions or new points.This is what they looked like last year. They eat good stuff with minerals. They added a lot of inches in the last year I think. I was pleased. They do not have multiple tines like the deer you have. Just main frame 8's, the deer you have has potential that those 8's do not. The right feed and minerals and 2 years. He's close to 160, I would love to have him on one of my places.
Yep. That kind of space is not a luxury I have. Having it would make this a much easier call.If it looks like he'd top my biggest, then yes, I'd shoot. If not, I'd let him pass, especially if he sticks around. There's plenty of does and wonky racked bucks around to kill for meat. They always look bigger in velvet anyway. He could grow to be spectacular & I'd love to see him reach full potential.
I had a buddy in Pulaski, Va. that owned over 1,000 acres and he kept protein stations and food plots going year 'round. He wouldn't shoot a buck until it was 6.5 years old. He also had wounded warrior hunts to thin does and take out wonky racked bucks. His trophy room was ridiculous, with B&C bucks all taken from his own land. They looked like whitetails from Iowa or Canada. They got huge because he had the space to let them.
Jim
That's the question, how likely do you think he is to make it til next year if you let him walk?If he is in the 135" range right now, 160 is probably about right IF he makes it to 5.5. That IF is the problem. I was simply saying that he isn't gaining all those 25 inches in G2, G3 and G4 tine length ((5+5+2)x2=24). More than half that growth will most likely be in other dimensions or new points.
I have a decent sized piece of property, but am surrounded by a bunch of smaller property owners and many of them hunt. I have a lot invested in this guy and all his 'brothers'. My neighbors generally do not. Not that it matters. They have as much right to pull the trigger on him as I do.
I think you need to whack him to prevent him spreading the monkeypox to all the does....and he still has that hydrocyst between his front legs.
Or in the case of monkeypox ,all the bucks.I think you need to whack him to prevent him spreading the monkeypox to all the does.
Yeah. I noticed the same thing. He was kind of a late developer last year too.IMO, that deer still has some growing to do from that picture. Those tines are very bulging at the ends. He could put on another 1-2" on each point and main beam. I would have no problem pulling the trigger on that buck.