Buddy called last night and said he shot the buck he was after. But, said the shot looked a little too far back. I drove over to help him this morning and we looked for about 5 hours. Only a couple spots of blood. The deer was eventually found, but because it got warm we didn't trust the meat. Such a shame to waste meat like that. But that thing stank really bad. Anyway, he has the antlers and I guess that is better than nothing. That is the reason I haven't hunted yet. Just too warm.

It was a really nice buck. Especially for archery. I did have him long arm that picture, but it is a great deer anyway.

Amazing deer I don’t care how he killed him. That might make book as bow kill. Congrats! How far did he go and how’d y’all find him?

The shot was only about 30 yards but he said he thinks it took a step right as he shot. The deer ran 30 yards and bedded down. He waited a minute and decide to shoot at it again. But he could only see the antlers in the grass. Aimed lower and it got up and ran off. We found out later that he did hit it in the neck but only cut about 2 inches deep. The arrow had no blood but some short white hairs. (seemed like a good idea at the time, but probably was not). The other arrow looked good. The blood we found was dark, but not crazy. At first I was thinking liver. But when we didn't find any more blood I figured it was too far back for liver (and it was).

The deer was found about 700 yards from the shot. We spent most all our time looking out to only about 500 yards. Though we were probably 40 yards from it a couple hours prior to recovery.

It won’t might make it. It’ll blow net 125 out of the water. Great bow kill.

155" Sound about right Matt?

I thought about an ask aldeer about the score.

I guessed 154. My buddy thinks it could be in the low 160's. I would like to hear the thoughts from guys on here. I'll post the green score when he gets it. I can post a picture of it alive if that helps.

Semo I was thinking 158-160 as a guess but with the long arm I went a little conservative.

Yeah buddy me too...thats a shore nuff Goodun.... WOW!!!

Here is a picture without my exaggerated camera angle

Mid-High 50's low 60's. Great buck.

172

I’m gonna go low 160s

162 8/16”

Probably be a 180 in Alabama on camera 😂

This and yes high 150's score

Beautiful deer, congrats to the hunter!

I don’t understand why people just don’t get a tape measure, make some half ass measurements, beams roughly xx, g1-4 roughly x,x,x,x a couple of circumference numbers, now it gives all the guessers a baseline,

Great deer

Thats a alabama buck??

Great deer with a rifle, MONSTER deer with a bow!
Congrats!

Impressive
Great tines amd width

What would be the fun in that?

BTW, I have never scored any deer I've killed. I seriously doubt I ever will. The score is just a conversation piece, but some people seem to really be serious about them.

no

What a deer!

Probably a Missouri Stud

I score everything, including deer I know won’t score well. It’s become more of a way to keep records of each deer than anything else. What drives me is maturity, and score is just the bonus points.

I totally get that. I have gone the other way and have tried to not make it "scientific" on purpose. I guess it is just a nostalgia thing longing for the old days.

I really don't kill big deer, but I try not to shoot young bucks when I can help it. If I find a big buck I'll tell my buddies so they can kill it or try to get a good old buck for my kids. A couple of my dad's friends are still alive and getting an 80 yr old to kill a big one just means more.

I did try to kill a buck a couple years ago and had him at 15 yards but he never gave me a good angle. In hindsight I should have shot because he got killed before I saw him again. Wish I had killed that one.

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I didn’t think blackface was allowed anymore.

That was a guy hunting a neighboring property. I don't want to post his face.

But, I've been watching many of these leftist politicians and they were in blackface, so it must be fine.

Fine 5X5 160-165 would be my guess.

That buck has mass for days. Sheeeeesh

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Buck has it all - mass - width - time length

I love to hav a deer scored

I came up short again (as usual). Whatever I guess you can pretty much bank on it being 10-12 inches too low. The score came back at 166 3/8. Several of you were spot on.

I really enjoy guessing these scores in the pics. Didn't mean for my earlier post to come across as I am not interested in guessing. I just have never had any of my deer officially scored.

Dang I was 5” off. Story of my life