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I’ve never hunted outside of Kansas where it’s one buck per year. Probably killed about 20 in 26 years of hunting. I’ve only killed a few does. Every year I plan to thin does out in the late anterless season but never seem to get around to it.
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You wouldn’t believe it if I told you
You only live once, but...if you do it right, once is enough.
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Started killing bucks when I was 11 and have killed a few more since then. At one time I wanted to kill a buck in every state. I'm lacking a couple of states in the north east and a good many states west of the Mississippi. Once I bought property and started wildlife management practices I pretty much gave up traveling around and killing deer. Y'all can have my share.
Life is good live it while you can.
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I have killed between 150-160 bucks (All Whitetails) in My 40 years of hunting deer but about 10 years ago i started only hunting for trophy whitetails (150"+) so since then I have only killed 11 bucks from the three States I hunt every year. I could easily see me going 2 or 3 years between kills now days....Good hunting..Hb
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Not that many. I keep good notes. Not because the numbers matter. Just because I like to have good notes.
14 bucks.
I've been hunting for 22 seasons.
31 doe.
-Jake
Small Game, Deer, Turkey, Bear, Elk....It's what's for dinner.
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In God We Trust.
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We adopted a distant relative of my wife.
He's been hunting two seasons now.
Got two 8 points and a nice 9 point and three doe already.
He's off to a good start.
Our oldest boy, 9 , got his first doe last year as well.
So I expect my numbers will go down for the next fifteen years or so while my four kids are learning.
That's just fine with me.
-Jake
Small Game, Deer, Turkey, Bear, Elk....It's what's for dinner.
If you know how many guns you own... you don't own enough.
In God We Trust.
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Been killing deer since 1967. Over the past 55 years, I have no idea. I'd say 70 or so.
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crap…didn’t know I was supposed to keep track.
probably somewhere between 40 and 50 counting some mulie bucks thrown into that total.
Livin ain’t killed me yet, but it’s workin on it!
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In 45 years, I always tagged out, which is 3 bucks, probably 50/50 Mule deer and Whitetails, last couple years have been poor for a buck hunter, its looking better this year. In my youth I shot a few does but now I don't bother to shoot them, deer pops are down anyways, otherwise I would. I only want to shoot smaller bucks now lol.
I have never shot a Blacktail.
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The real question is how many button bucks
Small Game, Deer, Turkey, Bear, Elk....It's what's for dinner.
If you know how many guns you own... you don't own enough.
In God We Trust.
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Not counting button bucks, I've got 67. If it has horns, they get cut off and screwed to the walls of my shop unless they get mounted.
Back in the day, "if it's brown, it's down" was my motto. Between like 2000 until 2013, we were allowed to take up to 6 per year (2 with a bow, 2 with a ML, and 2 with a firearm). In 2014 (I think) they started the antler restrictions and cut us back to only 4 per year. Then, in 2018 they cut us back to only 3. When they started the antler restrictions, I quit shooting little bucks and now I don't shoot anything less than an 8 point. I only killed 1 this year.
"Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem." Ronald Reagan
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Not counting buttons, 16. But I did shoot an antlerless deer once that was a buck that had already shed its antlers. I never know if I should count that one or not. If I do then it's 17
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Not sure, always killed 2-3 deer per year when younger with bow. Last 22 years I've killed at least 2 bucks per year with an average of 5 doe per year. I've passed a many that didn't meet the mature requirement. We eat a lot of deer meat for sure... I killed around 8 deer this last season.
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My guess is 60 some deer…
We could shoot 5 deer here a year and I did so for at least 6 years, and shot 3 for another 7… then we have the 1 deer a year couple of decades.
So… yep.
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Quite a pile. First one in 1961. 2 Black tails, a dozen Mule deer and the rest Whitetail.
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Quit counting years ago but if I averaged it out it puts it at 81 I’m more selective now and target specific bucks
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That’s spike bucks included all legal
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