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Re: "That's a good, mature buck!"
[Re: Clem]
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11/19/19 10:07 AM
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CarbonClimber1
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We ustah take all kinds of measurements on deer captures in texas, we measured stomach girth, length of the skull,width of the ear tips, how pronounced the roman nose was, the amount of loose skin under the chin,on the neck,between the front legs,along with jawbone age and overall facial and body coloration(graying of the face)...we took the weights as well but that was worthless for aging..i honestly think appearance,loose skin in the right places, and body types..combined with the jawbone is about the most accurate way you could do it..other than a known history with camera footage and on the hoof sightings. Which is how i aged deer most of the time...and when i aged deer..i never said hes 2.5 or 3.5...i always said hes 1.5-3.5,3.5-5.5,5.5-6+...cause past 6 years they are very hard to age without having the abouve criteria..and thats from me dealing with hundreds of deer and pulling hundreds of jawbones...and sorting and editing thousands of pictures..with a known age database with several years of history to look back at. All that said...i will shoot the fist spike that walks by me on public land with my recurve.🙂
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Re: "That's a good, mature buck!"
[Re: CarbonClimber1]
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11/19/19 11:32 AM
11/19/19 11:32 AM
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ikillbux
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We ustah take all kinds of measurements on deer captures in texas, we measured stomach girth, length of the skull,width of the ear tips, how pronounced the roman nose was, the amount of loose skin under the chin,on the neck,between the front legs,along with jawbone age and overall facial and body coloration(graying of the face)...we took the weights as well but that was worthless for aging..i honestly think appearance,loose skin in the right places, and body types..combined with the jawbone is about the most accurate way you could do it..other than a known history with camera footage and on the hoof sightings. Which is how i aged deer most of the time...and when i aged deer..i never said hes 2.5 or 3.5...i always said hes 1.5-3.5,3.5-5.5,5.5-6+...cause past 6 years they are very hard to age without having the abouve criteria..and thats from me dealing with hundreds of deer and pulling hundreds of jawbones...and sorting and editing thousands of pictures..with a known age database with several years of history to look back at. All that said...i will shoot the fist spike that walks by me on public land with my recurve.🙂 I like how you lump the years together, that's sensible. 99% of us would know a pencil-neck 2 year old from a filled-out "grown buck", and for me that's really obvious at 3 years old. A 2yr old looks like a kid deer, but in the woods to the untrained eye there's not often a difference in a 3 and a 5 unless they're all together and you have lots of calm time to look at them. Even still, if the 3 yr old has a bigger rack, I'm killing the 3yr old. I can't mount the age, and where/how I hunt I'll likely never see that deer again. Heck, there's a good chance he won't make it till dark if he walks over the hill from me. I mean, I know scientifically a 3 yr old isn't mature, but my arbitrary rule is "grown" means 3 years and up. He's "adult" at 3 is I guess what I'm saying. I'm looking for adult, not "mature".
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Re: "That's a good, mature buck!"
[Re: olemossy]
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11/19/19 12:29 PM
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This may be odd to many of you so dont hate on me for judging this way.. If it makes me pic my rifle up, its old enough. Sound judgement coming from a barner! LOL
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Re: "That's a good, mature buck!"
[Re: Clem]
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11/19/19 12:38 PM
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9 times out of 10 i know what buck i'm looking at when I see him so i have a history, ample amounts of pictures to look at and judge and have usually already determined if he's a shooter. however, last year i had a buck that i called a shooter on camera and when i saw him in person, i let him walk
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Re: "That's a good, mature buck!"
[Re: Clem]
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11/19/19 03:06 PM
11/19/19 03:06 PM
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I can only sum this up to variations from one piece of property to another, but I'm impressed by local Bama folks who identify deer on cameras and actually see them and kill them throughout the season, because my experience with this is to get several deer on cameras repeatedly up until early bow season, at which time they vanish from earth to never be seen again.
We were on the edge of Eternia, when the power of Greyskull began to take hold.
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Re: "That's a good, mature buck!"
[Re: ikillbux]
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11/19/19 03:11 PM
11/19/19 03:11 PM
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I can only sum this up to variations from one piece of property to another, but I'm impressed by local Bama folks who identify deer on cameras and actually see them and kill them throughout the season, because my experience with this is to get several deer on cameras repeatedly up until early bow season, at which time they vanish from earth to never be seen again. Yeah, that's a foreign concept to me.......I've never hunted a place where you have a real "history" with deer............get them on camera multiple years, be able to compare yearly progress, see a deer on-the-hoof and know which one it is, pattern specific deer and know when/where to expect them. I have never had that luxury.
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Re: "That's a good, mature buck!"
[Re: GomerPyle]
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11/19/19 04:32 PM
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I can only sum this up to variations from one piece of property to another, but I'm impressed by local Bama folks who identify deer on cameras and actually see them and kill them throughout the season, because my experience with this is to get several deer on cameras repeatedly up until early bow season, at which time they vanish from earth to never be seen again. Yeah, that's a foreign concept to me.......I've never hunted a place where you have a real "history" with deer............get them on camera multiple years, be able to compare yearly progress, see a deer on-the-hoof and know which one it is, pattern specific deer and know when/where to expect them. I have never had that luxury. This is stuff that only happens to Midwest TV hunters
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Re: "That's a good, mature buck!"
[Re: blumsden]
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11/19/19 04:41 PM
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This may be odd to many of you so dont hate on me for judging this way.. If it makes me pic my rifle up, its old enough. Sound judgement coming from a barner! LOL I thought so. LOL
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Re: "That's a good, mature buck!"
[Re: ikillbux]
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11/19/19 05:29 PM
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Goatkiller
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I can only sum this up to variations from one piece of property to another, but I'm impressed by local Bama folks who identify deer on cameras and actually see them and kill them throughout the season, because my experience with this is to get several deer on cameras repeatedly up until early bow season, at which time they vanish from earth to never be seen again. Yeah, that's a foreign concept to me.......I've never hunted a place where you have a real "history" with deer............get them on camera multiple years, be able to compare yearly progress, see a deer on-the-hoof and know which one it is, pattern specific deer and know when/where to expect them. I have never had that luxury. This is stuff that only happens to Midwest TV hunters Seriously that is because of 2 things: 1) hunting pressure in general 2) someone doesn't shoot them. Billy Bob ain't riding the shooting house 60 days popping deer up there. We have about twice the number of deer those States have yet many fewer good bucks. Some would say we lack the genetics. I say that is BS... Alabama has better genetics than we give our state credit for I have seen many deer over 150 and some 170's killed within an hour of Birmingham. I can lower my expectations and that's fair. However, the reality is we don't have the age structure they have. A 4 year old deer in Illinois has a larger rack no doubt but show me a pile of 4 year old deer shot in Alabama.... You can't. They are all somewhere between 35lbs and 3 years old stacking them up like cord wood. Y'all think we have vast expanses of un-hunted property throughout the State? We don't. There are a few but nearly every stitch of ground here is hunted.
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Re: "That's a good, mature buck!"
[Re: Clem]
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11/19/19 09:10 PM
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It's ALL of that, plus a very different paradigm from the hunters themselves. From the day they are old enough to go with dad, all they know is they've got ONE tag, so it better count. On the converse, most folks our age in Alabama (I'm 45) grew up in the 1 doe / 1 buck per day for 3-1/2 months paradigm. And for some reason there's just this goofy mentality in the South to act like unemployed hillbillies who'll starve to friggin' death if they don't "get some meat in the freezer". Seriously, for so many (it's REALLY prevalent with the old guard) that's all hunting is. They aren't serious enough about it to bowhunt, so all they're really looking for is gun season to start, they go shoot a 3 point for "meat in the freezer". Are they wrong? Nah, but it's just a different paradigm from the rest of the country. The Midwest guys bowhunt about the percentage that we gun hunt down here.
I hunt because it's FUN. I can buy food, I don't HAVE to kill for food. I don't mind eating it, but I don't usually. It's not cheaper, but folks act like they'd never go buy 75# of meat from the local grocer or supplier, but by golly they'll jizz their shorts to pay stupid money for bloody deer meat. In the South it's disproportionately "food" hunters...we don't give a crap about management, or antlers, or really being all that serious about anything hunting, just "get some meat in the freezer". In fact, most hunters down here angrily reject those things. Really bizarre for a 1st world country in the year 2019.
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Re: "That's a good, mature buck!"
[Re: Clem]
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11/20/19 06:09 AM
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All good points ikillbux. My problem is we have been spoiled for generations with a very liberal deer season & I don't want the gubberment telling me when & what I can kill on my own property. Another thing is I'm not an antler farmer & that butterball 6 is my favorite deer to take. Now excuse me while I ride up to my killing house, over looking my killing field & see if I can get some meat for the freezer.
"When you've stared down the barrel of a shotgun in your own home, 3rd & 20 don't seem too bad"......Ken "Snake" Stabler
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Re: "That's a good, mature buck!"
[Re: Clem]
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11/20/19 09:06 PM
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How I got my Aldeer name is my answer. Even though it is not perfect, it is about the best way for an easy and relatively quick way to age them.
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Re: "That's a good, mature buck!"
[Re: Clem]
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11/20/19 10:12 PM
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I don't care how long it lived. All I care about is how long it takes to get the meat cooled.
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Re: "That's a good, mature buck!"
[Re: ikillbux]
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11/21/19 12:54 PM
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Clem
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I can only sum this up to variations from one piece of property to another, but I'm impressed by local Bama folks who identify deer on cameras and actually see them and kill them throughout the season, because my experience with this is to get several deer on cameras repeatedly up until early bow season, at which time they vanish from earth to never be seen again. Yeah, that's a foreign concept to me.......I've never hunted a place where you have a real "history" with deer............get them on camera multiple years, be able to compare yearly progress, see a deer on-the-hoof and know which one it is, pattern specific deer and know when/where to expect them. I have never had that luxury. This is stuff that only happens to Midwest TV hunters I know a few people who do this with regularity. They don't pressure the deer, don't have scads of people running around their property, and they know which bucks are which. After 4-5 years if the hunt goes as planned, they'll kill one or two really nice "wow!" bucks a season. On a previous property I hunted, I had two bucks with relationship issues. One, I played cat-and-mouse with for a couple of seasons. He's the one I could've shot but it would have been after "legal shooting hours," which IMO are completely f'king stupid (but that's a different rant). Smart buck. Got some photos of him on camera now and then. The other was a truly "wow!" buck that showed up in the same spot the same week three years in a row. He was, as ikillbux said, one of those that just vanished. Traveling buck, moving from one area to another. I think I knew where he was coming from and going to, but lost the land before I could hunt him more seriously. He was a good one. I have a buck now that I have a two-year relationship with. If I can kill him this year I'll be pretty darn happy since he's one of the most weirdo non-typical bucks I've ever seen other than the Cryptorchid 'cactus' bucks.
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