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11-24-2002, 09:04 PM
#2
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Detroit
Posts: 858
RE: Trophy Hunting?
Great Post Bowdacious. I hear of some guys that(bragging) say they don't even get worked up over anything less than a "TROPHY".
Man, When I decide in my head "I'm takin' that trash talkin' squirrel today" I get PUMPED UP! Some may call me silly, but I hope I NEVER lose the adrenelin rush.
I saw a film crew for a television show in an area very near where I hunt. I won't Say what show or who it was, but man was he a Ba$*!@&d. That kind of hunting I'll never get into.I'll take a trophy, and do my best to hunt for one, but if I never shoot a B&C or P&Y buck. I'll have had just as much fun as anyone and be lovin' every minute of it!
Trushot }}------>
Man, When I decide in my head "I'm takin' that trash talkin' squirrel today" I get PUMPED UP! Some may call me silly, but I hope I NEVER lose the adrenelin rush.
I saw a film crew for a television show in an area very near where I hunt. I won't Say what show or who it was, but man was he a Ba$*!@&d. That kind of hunting I'll never get into.I'll take a trophy, and do my best to hunt for one, but if I never shoot a B&C or P&Y buck. I'll have had just as much fun as anyone and be lovin' every minute of it!
Trushot }}------>
11-24-2002, 09:17 PM
#3
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Afton IA USA
Posts: 444
RE: Trophy Hunting?
I totally agree. What kind of deer management would we be doing if everyone shot only bucks, much less trophy bucks. On my farm I shoot does first, and mature bucks second. Does are better table fare as far as I'm concerned anyway. And they are HARDER to hunt because in my experience, they don't respond to calls or scents like bucks do. Here in Iowa we have too many does and yearlings anyway, so as "Deer Population Reduction Specialists" as one member puts it, it's our duty to take the does and yearlings as well as the bucks.
KEEP IT LEGAL. KEEP IT SAFE. OR WE MAY NOT GET TO KEEP IT AT ALL.
KEEP IT LEGAL. KEEP IT SAFE. OR WE MAY NOT GET TO KEEP IT AT ALL.
11-25-2002, 07:58 AM
#5
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Montgomery IL USA
Posts: 1,231
RE: Trophy Hunting?
I guess I've always hunted from the position that you're in now. It's all venison in the freezer, and if it's got antlers so be it.
A week and a half ago I decided to take a little doe for the freezer. When I decided to try for her my heart got POUNDING and my hands started to sweat...from just a little doe. She was about 12" of draw from catching an arrow when I spotted a BIG buck coming in behind her.
By the time I decided to try for the buck, my heart-rate was back to normal, and I'd calmed down a bit. Best yet, I was already in position for him...thanks to that little doe I wanted to shoot. I ended up taking that buck, who turned out to be the biggest one of my life, and well above P&Y minimum score.
Moral of the story...had I not been trying to take that doe, I'd have never gotten the buck. Being a "meat hunter" paid off, in spades.
JRW
A week and a half ago I decided to take a little doe for the freezer. When I decided to try for her my heart got POUNDING and my hands started to sweat...from just a little doe. She was about 12" of draw from catching an arrow when I spotted a BIG buck coming in behind her.
By the time I decided to try for the buck, my heart-rate was back to normal, and I'd calmed down a bit. Best yet, I was already in position for him...thanks to that little doe I wanted to shoot. I ended up taking that buck, who turned out to be the biggest one of my life, and well above P&Y minimum score.
Moral of the story...had I not been trying to take that doe, I'd have never gotten the buck. Being a "meat hunter" paid off, in spades.
JRW
11-25-2002, 08:57 AM
#7
Typical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: QDM Heaven
Posts: 847
RE: Trophy Hunting?
So the hunt for monster honkin' whities has finally taken it's toll on you huh Bow...what a shame...now you're sellin' out...regressing back into a regular ole plain vanilla brown it's down kinda guy. <img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>
At this point in the year, I'm deerless and seem to be just as ok with that as you are with your 6-pointer. I've passed up at least 15 different little bucks (I've lost count actually) so far this year with the most recent being just yesterday morning...a basket 8-pointer that in a year or two will be quite impressive, who I let saunter by 15 yards broadside. Last weekend I passed up 4 bucks in one day...2 6-pointers, a forkie, and a spike. And on and on and on. I still plan on harvesting a doe for the freezer but the little baby bucks are safe with me and I can't ever see myself shooting one. They are so dumb and clueless that it just doesn't seem fair. They come in so easy to calls that sometimes I think if I wanted to call one in I could actually whistle to it and say "come here boy, come on, come to daddy, fetch the stick boy, go on, get the stick boy". And in your case, you had already shot 3 does so I'm confused why you had to shoot the little 6-pointer...do you eat venison for breakfast, lunch, and dinner? But hey, if you're happy then great...at least you shot it with a bow...you did, didn't you? <img src=icon_smile_tongue.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>
At this point in the year, I'm deerless and seem to be just as ok with that as you are with your 6-pointer. I've passed up at least 15 different little bucks (I've lost count actually) so far this year with the most recent being just yesterday morning...a basket 8-pointer that in a year or two will be quite impressive, who I let saunter by 15 yards broadside. Last weekend I passed up 4 bucks in one day...2 6-pointers, a forkie, and a spike. And on and on and on. I still plan on harvesting a doe for the freezer but the little baby bucks are safe with me and I can't ever see myself shooting one. They are so dumb and clueless that it just doesn't seem fair. They come in so easy to calls that sometimes I think if I wanted to call one in I could actually whistle to it and say "come here boy, come on, come to daddy, fetch the stick boy, go on, get the stick boy". And in your case, you had already shot 3 does so I'm confused why you had to shoot the little 6-pointer...do you eat venison for breakfast, lunch, and dinner? But hey, if you're happy then great...at least you shot it with a bow...you did, didn't you? <img src=icon_smile_tongue.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>
11-25-2002, 09:32 AM
#8
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: East Texas
Posts: 1,382
RE: Trophy Hunting?
This is my 4th year of passing every single buck I've seen. I shoot does for meat and for management but I just know that 130 class or bigger buck is about to walk out all the time!<img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle> I understand what you are saying Bow. It is easy to take the trophy syndrome too far and I probably have. I just know that there are some monsters down there in my thick nasty woods and I'm going to wait it out, if it takes another 4 years. I'm more than willing to kill a cull buck but we only get one buck tag so I always wait until it's too late.
One day when I kill that big boy, it will all have been worth it. I guess that will be the only cure for my "trophy buck syndrome".<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>
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Hunting the Piney Woods of Deep East Texas.
Edited by - TxCowboy on 11/26/2002 21:47:08
One day when I kill that big boy, it will all have been worth it. I guess that will be the only cure for my "trophy buck syndrome".<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>
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Hunting the Piney Woods of Deep East Texas.
Edited by - TxCowboy on 11/26/2002 21:47:08
11-25-2002, 09:43 AM
#9
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Logan Ia USA
Posts: 678
RE: Trophy Hunting?
Great post with so much being posted on only shooting big bucks.
Nothing like the pure joy of hunting. I often find it hard to rate my hunts by the size of the antlers. I say to each his own and congrats to all as long as they are having fun.
" Anyone can be a father, but it takes a real man to be a Dad"
Nothing like the pure joy of hunting. I often find it hard to rate my hunts by the size of the antlers. I say to each his own and congrats to all as long as they are having fun.
" Anyone can be a father, but it takes a real man to be a Dad"
11-25-2002, 10:00 AM
#10
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: saint joseph missouri USA
Posts: 548
RE: Trophy Hunting?
I pass alot of smaller bucks every year. Do I take big trophy bucks every year? No. Do I take my fair share of does? Yes.
I am trying to do my part of equalizing out the herd ratio the best I can. The neighbors that hunt the properties surounding mine, do the same thing also. We have seen a drastic incline in big buck sightings in the 3 short years since we all got together in our 5 mile square, and decided to practice Q.D.M. the best we can. Now, I am almost as excited to see a neighbor take a nice trophy buck, instead of myself.
Just knowing that bucks of quality are in my area excites me. Now I know, that it is my own faults and errors for not taking a big buck knowing that they are around, instead of going thru the motions knowing someone else with level that little basket rack. Shooting small bucks should be left to the young or inexperienced hunters who have yet to take a deer, so as to get them into the sport and spirit of the outdoors.
Answer this question for me; Do you all keep a small 1/2 lb. bass?
I doubt it for the most part. It is the same for bucks. Big bucks get big because they have time to grow. But it doesn't work if you don't stick with it.
I have argued this point until I am blue in the face with 3 guys down at work. But yet, when somebody else but themselves, shoots a nice buck, they are the first to complain and say they never see trophy bucks.
It's true, you can't eat the antlers, but you can't mount a stick of summer sausage on the mantel either!
Those that say that they just want meat, go ahead and take the does.
It seems to be the only excuse small buck hunters use when they shoot a small buck. But they have no answers when you suggest they should take only does.
Once again, smaller bucks are fine for young or inexperienced hunters.
But experienced hunters should try to pass on smaller bucks.
I am trying to do my part of equalizing out the herd ratio the best I can. The neighbors that hunt the properties surounding mine, do the same thing also. We have seen a drastic incline in big buck sightings in the 3 short years since we all got together in our 5 mile square, and decided to practice Q.D.M. the best we can. Now, I am almost as excited to see a neighbor take a nice trophy buck, instead of myself.
Just knowing that bucks of quality are in my area excites me. Now I know, that it is my own faults and errors for not taking a big buck knowing that they are around, instead of going thru the motions knowing someone else with level that little basket rack. Shooting small bucks should be left to the young or inexperienced hunters who have yet to take a deer, so as to get them into the sport and spirit of the outdoors.
Answer this question for me; Do you all keep a small 1/2 lb. bass?
I doubt it for the most part. It is the same for bucks. Big bucks get big because they have time to grow. But it doesn't work if you don't stick with it.
I have argued this point until I am blue in the face with 3 guys down at work. But yet, when somebody else but themselves, shoots a nice buck, they are the first to complain and say they never see trophy bucks.
It's true, you can't eat the antlers, but you can't mount a stick of summer sausage on the mantel either!
Those that say that they just want meat, go ahead and take the does.
It seems to be the only excuse small buck hunters use when they shoot a small buck. But they have no answers when you suggest they should take only does.
Once again, smaller bucks are fine for young or inexperienced hunters.
But experienced hunters should try to pass on smaller bucks.