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Post by DEERTRACKS on Oct 8, 2009 9:26:37 GMT -5
How many of you have seen the buck that you are going to holdout for this year? Maybe?  Mine is a 4-1/2 year old 140-150 class smart, big bodied, heavy, & tall symetrical 8 pointer that is almost exclusively nocternal except during the pre-rut frenzy. I have had 3 shot opportunities the past 2 years but they were too marginal for a "clean kill shot" at this fine beast. Last year I killed a nice 10 pointer in archery season that I just could not pass on. Then on opening weekend of firearms season this big fella stepped into one of my shooting lanes @ 20 yards for a perfect standing broadside shot. All I could do was watch him browse & move on up the ridge to one of the briar thickets he regularly beds-down in........ |
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Post by oldhoyt on Oct 8, 2009 11:02:58 GMT -5
Not me. I've hunted one day, saw 7 deer, no bucks with visible antlers. Saw a nice deer in the area last year. If he's still around, he'd be worth holding out for.
Then again, if a hunt is particulary unique for whatever reason, say I put a stalk on a bedded deer and manage to get into bow range, and he turns out to have at least an average rack, I could be persuaded.
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Post by jackc99 on Oct 8, 2009 11:55:52 GMT -5
No such thing as a hold out buck for me...I hunt birds except for the one deer that stumbles into me at 8 AM on opening day of gun season.
Jack
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Post by dbd870 on Oct 8, 2009 12:05:17 GMT -5
Nope - looking female heavy around here.
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Post by trophyhunter1 on Oct 8, 2009 17:21:50 GMT -5
ohh i got one...
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Post by johnc911 on Oct 8, 2009 18:23:52 GMT -5
Nope i dont scout much anymore my stand produces every year. To much time scouting birds
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Post by Woody Williams on Oct 8, 2009 18:37:51 GMT -5
We-l-l-l-l... not really.
I will usually take the first nice buck to come along......if I am so lucky.
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Post by wileyonetoo on Oct 8, 2009 18:39:08 GMT -5
if it's brown and breathing, I hope to have a shot.
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Post by vectrix on Oct 8, 2009 18:48:17 GMT -5
I like to think I do, saw them from the road last year. 2 giant bucks in the beans 200yds from where I hung a stand this year. Could not put a score on them but it was up there, somewhere around "it will probably be rotted and me out of gas when I'm done showing him off". I will wait until the first "True" 130 or 135 shows up then I probably will let 1 fly.
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Post by inrecordbookbuck on Oct 8, 2009 19:22:13 GMT -5
Seen "My buck" 3 weeks ago, about a 100 yards from my stand. it will be him this year or just doe for the table. He has stumped me for the last 2 years, I am guessing he is 5 1/2 and he is a brute, mid 170" 10 point main frame with a few kickers for character.
I don't plan on another stumped year, already have his spot on the wall picked out!!
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Post by scrub-buster on Oct 8, 2009 20:01:45 GMT -5
I am holding out for the first decent one that comes close enough.
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Post by jajwrigh on Oct 8, 2009 20:11:08 GMT -5
I haven't seen a buck yet this season and I usually don't until the end of the month. There are more does than bucks, but the boys that call this area home and generally pretty nice. I sailed an arrow over the back of a fantastic buck last season and I saw 2 more as big or bigger. I will take a shot at any doe I can and take a shot at a nice buck, if the opportunity arises.
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Post by vortex100 on Oct 8, 2009 20:18:21 GMT -5
I've been out twice and only seen does, but it will take at least a 140 buck for me to shoot this early. I did see one doe that was about 175lbs that is going to get it if i see her again. She is the old lady of the farm and I'm pretty sure is not reproducing any longer.
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