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257wthbylover, Where abouts in IA do you live? We hunt near Sydney. Should be back up this Dec for 1st gun season. It must be nice to live in giant whitetail country. There are some very friendly folks in that area, seems just about everyone you meet in the rural areas invites you to their house for coffee. Always amazed to see their trophies hanging on the wall, true giants. I thought I had seen giant deer after seeing 160 class bucks where we hunt in Texas. That was until we started hunting your area  When our IA buddies say big buck, WOW! is about all that comes to mind. Gross is all that matters, got to give 'em credit for what they grow IMO. Have a good one, loder
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OK.... i will post pics later today/this evening. I have 9 over 160", 5 of which go over 170". If you added the ones I did not shoot....but have "swamped hunts" adn guided fellas to....well.... add a couple more 170-180 bucks the last few yrs and about 8-9 more in the 160" arena. I will post some of those pics as well. Some get there by mass--- some by points---some just have it all! None of them over OVERLY wide! I dont want to hi-jack this thread so i will start a new one with "deer hunting". All of them have been taken wiht a bow or a muzzleloader and all here in Iowa. Oh---the net/gross question.... that is gross. I have NEVER entered one into the book, nor do i plan on it. If a deer grows it, he deserves credit for it IMO.  I agree, but you still suck until you post pics 
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HA.... pics are coming! I have golf league tonight...but by late tonight or tommorow evening I will have a new thread.
RELOADER7RM..... I live about 20-25 miles from the town you mention. I posted a deal on one of these threads a few weeks ago about 4 Lousianna folks who have a lease up here that got in major trouble this past season---- they didnt draw but hunted anyways, baited, poached, etc.... THey got busted and fined pretty good! Yeah.... big bucks grow in the area and its all private ground. The problem is some people let the "big buck" get to them and will break all sorts of laws to make it happen---- residents and nonresidents.... I HATE that like no other!! I Lived here all my life and worked for farmers when i was in highschool moons ago so I am forunate to have lots and lots of access, and family owns a lil as well.
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Yep, it will get to some guys, especially some of the Southern Rednecks that are known to bend the rules.
I don't know anyone else from LA that hunts up that way except for my brother and Dad. We have friends in the area that have lived there many years. We also just get permission to hunt the local farms. A few of the farmers hunt with us as well. Always a fun time had.
We didn't draw last year, but I expect to get drawn this year hopefully. We had a streak of getting drawn every year, but last year had to settle for PPs.
Have a good one,
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ok... My photobucket sucks right now. i cant post pics to start that thread. I am happy to send the pics to one of u to post if you sooo desire. Let me know.
I will ck later tonight...have spent 30 mins on this already and got to go.
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JRaider is working on this with me.... he has the pics, at least 12-13 of them. If he can figure it out...gREAT. There are other pics (8-10 others), once photobucket issues figure themselves out.
EYEGUY.... if u have some pics of the bucks you shot with us, post them. I know you have got at least 5 in the 160's with me!
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ok... My photobucket sucks right now. i cant post pics to start that thread. I am happy to send the pics to one of u to post if you sooo desire. Let me know.
I will ck later tonight...have spent 30 mins on this already and got to go.
Our friend 257wthbyloverjok emailed me some pics for me to post on photobucket, and then post here for him. I downloaded them no prob to my photobucket album, but they're not there, they didn't show up. I've done it hundreds of times. Maybe PB is fouled up right now. I'll keep trying. All I can safely say after seeing about 10 or so of his whitetails is WOW! I don't think he sucks anymore either BTW.
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Thx JGRaider!
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Check it out....I'm one smart sucker for figuring this out so quickly......(not) 
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I left out a bigazz alligator and a big black bear pic because we're killing whitetails right now...... 
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I feel so inadequate....... Dat IS some nice stuff!
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You ain't the only one poobah.......I took my whitetails off the wall and stuck them in the attic.....
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I've really got to hunt somewhere outside of Florida........ great deer for sure.
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Holy smolly (spl?) you're my new hero 257 Wby!!
You taken these my grande's on your own or outfitted?
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And who would pass on one of those?
There is no accounting for taste.
Experience is a great thing as long as one survives it.
Generally, there ain't a lot that separates the two however,
Barely making it is a whole lot more satisfying than barely not making it.
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Wow!! what a collection...
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Wow!! what a collection... Amen to dat! Dober
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So....OK......tell me ,to the populace at large, which one is easier to kill? A whitetail grossing 160+? Or a mule deer grossing 180+.... Sorry to have to nail numbers but we need a common frame of reference to define "big"........ So?   50/50 toss-up.
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I'll agree with Bighorn on his many thoughts on mulies, and one of them stands out.....a mule deer is much more difficult to put in B&C than a whitetail, not really close. I'll also agree that older, mature bucks of either species are equally tough to hunt and kill. Everybody who has hunted them both knows that they are very different from each other with different habits. I'll give my pat answer as to how hard a big, mature mule deer is to kill. We can't hunt the rut, as it's a month later than the season. We usually only see the very biggest bucks during a 10 day period of the rut, and no other time of the year are they ever seen, much less killed. 10-4 there. the rut is a month after the muley season is over in texas.
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