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Whether it has any or not. Winner!Winner! Chicken dinner! Yeah for me, if there's a drop tine at exactly a 61.27 degree angle that reaches the end of the nose, but doesn't exceed it, man I'm all in. WHAT A BUNCH OF CRAP! Just give me a legal buck-any legal buck. You can't eat horns, and tag soup really sucks.
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Symmetry with mass and/or character. I will take a thick tight 6 point over a spindly 8 point. But sometimes; "Holy crap... look at the size of that thing!" trumps everything. Case in point.
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I've always wanted a 20" wide deer. Short tines wouldn't bother me if he was 20"
"If you got it, you got it!" In memory of Pops, gone but never forgotten
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either dinks, injured, or it has to be greater than 10 points.
My biggest so far is a 10 point, so shooting another 8 or so is moot.
I just go out and kill meat, and will generally let bigger bucks walk.
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Tall symmetrical 6-point! Exactly. I think a large 6 point is an under-appreciated masterpiece.
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I'm like RWE,
As a dedicated meat hunter, spikes & forks are by far the tastiest !
Paul.
"Kids who grow up hunting, fishing & trapping, do not mug little old Ladies"
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Have to agree here. I've always had a thing for a drop-tine. I've only seen one in the wild...and he was about 40-50 yards away, while I was hunting with my compound. It was the day before gun season started. I sat that stand a lot that season, hoping to get him, but he never resurfaced.
I'd rather have a bad day hunting than a good day working!
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Mass. I don't care about score, nor do I much care about width. But I like to see consistent mass This! and drop tines! but long points and width added in don't hurt none.
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I like atypical oddballs. Given a choice between a massive typical and a massive atypical, I'll pop the atypical.
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#1. Chocolate colored antlers!
#2. I would love to get bigger than an 8 one day. I have a couple, need a chocolate 10.
Also, over the years I've seen a couple with double main beams. Never had a shot at them. I'd love to get the chance.
Enjoy the hunt while it lasts!
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#2. I would love to get bigger than an 8 one day. I have a couple, need a chocolate 10.
My BIL has been an avid whitetail hunter all his life. He's killed tons of 8 and 9 points, never a 10. I started hunting about 7-8 years ago. My first buck was a 20 inch wide 10 point. My BIL couldn't believe it!
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Tall symmetrical 6-point! Exactly. I think a large 6 point is an under-appreciated masterpiece. x3 - I have only seen one while hunting. Tall, long, wide 3x3 whitetail - very cool. Makes me think of how much I would also like a huge, heavy 5x5 elk over an equivalent 6x6
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Doubt I will ever see one like this again so I jumped at the chance to take it.
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#1. Chocolate colored antlers!
#2. I would love to get bigger than an 8 one day. I have a couple, need a chocolate 10.
Also, over the years I've seen a couple with double main beams. Never had a shot at them. I'd love to get the chance. Here's a Chocolate horned buck for ya! Horns wet with the morning dew. Elk
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Here is a very symmetrical 10 point my son killed a few years back. Made a great looking mount!
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A true friend is someone who reaches for your hand but touches your heart !!!
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I'm a width kind of guy. I also like uniqueness and drop tines but width is my biggie.
In Moscow, Idaho I once saw a euro mount of a smallish mule deer/whitetail hybrid that was absolutely amazing. It was a small (20" wide or so) typical 4x4 mulie rack with a basket 5x5 whitetail rack (maybe 12" wide or so) growing out of where the mule deer rack's eye guards should have been.
I would faint if I got something like that.
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This one Did it for me!!!!!!Fog is your friend. [img:center] [/img]
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#1. Chocolate colored antlers!
#2. I would love to get bigger than an 8 one day. I have a couple, need a chocolate 10.
Also, over the years I've seen a couple with double main beams. Never had a shot at them. I'd love to get the chance. Here's a Chocolate horned buck for ya! Horns wet with the morning dew. Elk Yup, that's exactly what I'm talking about. Gorgeous and not all too common.
Enjoy the hunt while it lasts!
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