Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Now.... About all Those 130 Class Whitetails Running Around.....

I've read - right on this forum - guys pimping for some deer hunting place....... "Most of the bucks are only gonna be in the 120 - 130 class...".

The truth is that a majority of Whitetail hunters will never kill a 120 net typical buck.

Now... that's MY opinion.

Yours?

Most of 'em around here don't let them live long enough to get to the 50" class...

Agreed. A 130 class typical is a pretty damned nice deer. Pope & Young minimum is 125, for reference, and that takes a VERY nice 8-pt to make it, or a solid, decent 10. Either way, it's going to have to be a mature buck of 3.5 or older, or a 2.5 year old with crazy genetics and great feed.

I've taken quite a few 130 pound deer.

You've taken quite a few 30 pound deer.

Hmmm don't know if this one makes the cut

I'd say he goes 130 pounds easy.

Shoot it.

I kill a Buck over 130 every year...We take about 5 bucks every year over 130 off our place in KY.. Last year we took 7 over 130...


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Does this one?

21-22" beams, 17-18" spread, G2s and G3s around 9" each, G4s at 6", brows at 4". Without going with mass at all, that's pushing the 120 class.

It's moot. He's been shot.

You are way under estimating all your measurements

Yes, I know.

But, you'll have to kill him to prove it. :evil:

Any more to me I could give a crap about score...If he looks good and gets the ticker pumping without shooters remorse after the fact I'm good

I hunted a deer hunting camp where they talked nothing else but what class a deer was to the point it was an obsession. Never went back.

Understood, but you're still saying I'm under-estimating. Go get him and prove it.

I hunt them like hell to take care of the wife's meat needs (no double entendre).

Then I can spend the rest of the season taking it easy - and maybe catching a few naps up against a log somewhere in a ravine...

Guess if I see a big 130 class deer in the process, I'll worry about it when it happens.

Guess it depends where you hunt. 130's and 140's pretty common in South Texas. Now if you say 150 that changes every thing. I'm not talking inside a high fence but large managed ranches. Hasbeen

That's why I specified "most hunters"."most" will never hunt S Tx.

Nothing horns me up like a nice 8 point. My biggest 8 to date is 130.


The 'least' impressive measurement in the B&C scoring is spread. It's just air.