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

I'm of the opinion that during rut Whitetail bucks can often travel over a relatively large area, especially once the shooting starts. We never knew our two largest bucks existed anywhere around the property we hunted prior to killing them.

Net mid 180's.

With the asymmetrical rack? Must have Hell for stout beams and be wider and longer than I thought. The G4 on the left has no match that I see in that pic on the right, and therefore it would lose that from the total and the extra circumference measurement.

But, I'd rather guess under in the field than over.

[quote=RIO7]Hasbeen, That's a very nice deer your wife shot. I'll bet that tickled you big time. Rio7 [/quote

Thanks, you and I both know how lucky she was. She had killed some 140's and one 150 then she jumped to this. I've delegated to killing the management deer for a long time. Hasbeen

Looks like northern monster to me. Hasbeen

Still the oldest buck I've ever killed.
Taxi said all he could tell me was the deer was older than 6.5 years.

Whopping 130"

Either you're a runt, or that is a TOAD!

What do you think this one scores???

That is a very, very big bodied deer.. Wow!

That's when it's good to be hunting with friends. Or have a power hoist.

I've been in the tree over 40 times since September 3rd. I have over 200 pictures of him this year alone. Only two daylight pictures since August 30th.

It's still too hot to be right. I'm not giving up though...The bow will go on the hook November 11th...

Nets are for fishing.

99.99% of folks are discussing gross scores.

Wish folks would focus the big picture rather than just a number.



This.

I think the obsession with score has really tainted hunting, but also understand its use in helping compare/contrast good racks.

I'd die perfectly content if I never shot a 130" deer but sure would love one or bigger.

Experiences like hunting which defies quantification get ruined quickly for me when I put expectations upon them, and it's that poison that the numbers obsession has introduced into hunting over the last couple decades. Fishing too.

Pages of talk and no mention of the rackulator?

This place is slipping.


That said - never shot something close to 130, seen some I'm sure were 170, never connected.

Don't care if I ever do. I like spending the time at camp more than looking at some number.

I'd only be considered on the smallish side to an NFL offensive lineman.

I figured out a long time ago that I can't kill a deer bigger than the biggest one in the pasture I'm hunting.

So.... it keeps me from becoming bored with deer hunting if I set out each year to identify and then kill the biggest buck in the pasture.

Game cameras would detract from the experience so I don't use them.

btw.... I figure I accomplish my goal about 1 in 4 years and I'm a damn good deer hunter.

+ 1!

Yep..... but it has become a rich man's sport around here.

My Dad started me deer hunting in 1950 and it has not been a hobby; more like onto a way of life! I've shot just about everything that can be shot....hunting sometimes 5 different states within a season. My biggest gripe these days is that when I was young and shot a small 4 or 6 point buck I felt proud that I had accomplished something good whereas in this era a young man can't go out and shoot a small buck and feel the same way because these friggin 'hunting shows' always show most often huge racked bucks (in their view) that make one shooting anything smaller feel as a felon!! Incidentally 95% of the stuff they make videos of I let walk these days.

Here's a free ranging buck I took in 2014:

Brandon Mulhern with his Dad's 2014 Kansas whitetail buck. by Sharps Man, on Flickr

Good Lord what a pig! (Not you SKane..... :))