How do you define a "top end".....
07-07-2008, 08:21 AM
#23
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Phoenixville, PA USA
Posts: 5,541
RE: How do you define a "top end".....
I view "top end" in relation to what I see on the properties I hunt either through scouting or trail cams or spotlighting. If I'm seeing a lot of scrappy 1.5 year olds and there are 2 or 3 2.5 and maybe a 3.5 year old those are my "top end" bucks. They stand out from the others. Now those deer may not qualify as the "top end" on another property, and may qualify as unheard of on yetanother. If it stands out from the "norm" on a property then to me it's top end for that property and thus a target.
07-07-2008, 08:37 AM
#26
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Oct 2005
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RE: How do you define a "top end".....
Fair enough, DC.....
But what you're saying is.........MANYyears a hunter has NO CHANCE of killing a "top end" buck (according to your definition).
Nothing wrong with that.....but it seems a dismal outlook to the season.....and just trying to clarify.
But what you're saying is.........MANYyears a hunter has NO CHANCE of killing a "top end" buck (according to your definition).
Nothing wrong with that.....but it seems a dismal outlook to the season.....and just trying to clarify.
07-07-2008, 08:48 AM
#27
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: PA
Posts: 8,167
RE: How do you define a "top end".....
Around here the easiest way to tell is by looking at edges of their birth certificates,if they are torn & tattered you know hes been around a while and been carded for several years by less than knowledgeable hunters whom couldn't properly age he.
07-07-2008, 10:04 AM
#28
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Inverness, MS
Posts: 3,982
RE: How do you define a "top end".....
ORIGINAL: GMMAT
Fair enough, DC.....
But what you're saying is.........MANYyears a hunter has NO CHANCE of killing a "top end" buck (according to your definition).
Nothing wrong with that.....but it seems a dismal outlook to the season.....and just trying to clarify.
Fair enough, DC.....
But what you're saying is.........MANYyears a hunter has NO CHANCE of killing a "top end" buck (according to your definition).
Nothing wrong with that.....but it seems a dismal outlook to the season.....and just trying to clarify.
Yep, thats what I'm saying. To me, a top end deer is once in lifetime, if that often... Its one of those bucks that people remember and talk about for years....
I've yet to kill one.
I don't really see it as dismal... It really just proves how rare they are. I don't start the season with the goal of killing a top end buck. I just want a CHANCE at a nice deer for my area.
07-07-2008, 10:11 AM
#30
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: West Ky.
Posts: 1,161
RE: How do you define a "top end".....
I consider top end the best 6-8%. Which would bejudgedin three differentcategories, 4 1/2+ year old, 150+ inches or filed dress 220+ lbs. This standard is just fore myregion andsubject to change for other regions. I also base the top end onyear to year, if it were based on all-time for my region the weight and inches would be much higher.