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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2014 1:03:39 GMT -5
What is the largest Buck you have ever seen and where did you see it ?
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Post by drs on May 9, 2014 4:44:44 GMT -5
Largest Whitetail Buck I've seen taken, is the one a Bow Hunter took on adjacent property back where I lived in Indiana's, during the 2006 Season. Buck had 15 points and an estimated weight of some 280 pounds. The Hunter phoned and told me that he hit a Buck earlier that morning and it ran over on my property. He had to go to work so I looked for the Buck, but due to the thick growth in the area, I couldn't locate him. That afternoon, when the hunter got off work he came to my home, and my Brother, Me and him looked and found the Buck. I've never seen a Whitetail that size!! Made him a great mount!! He was going to e-mail me photos but never did.
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2014 5:38:16 GMT -5
The one I missed with my crossbow (too far) season before last. I have killed 2 bucks that grossed 150s. This one was noticeably bigger. I'd guess easy 160s, maybe 170s. Possible Booner. He still haunts my dreams...
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Post by antiwheeze on May 9, 2014 5:42:52 GMT -5
170's in the middle of the road about 2 hours before daylight on the way to hunt.
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Post by dbd870 on May 9, 2014 6:28:49 GMT -5
Good wide 10 in Brown Co., didn't see it long or well enough to hazard a guess at a score. Snuck up behind me and it took off just as I shot. Still have the white hair I found at the shoot site - no blood, just grazed it. Only deer I have ever shot at with my 44Mag lever gun besides the one I killed last season. That Max has accounted for a half dozen deer since I've had it. 2 for JW & 4 for me - it's becoming my favorite IN deer rifle. Handgun's - impossible to choose!
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Post by MuzzleLoader on May 9, 2014 6:45:19 GMT -5
170 plus, had him at 20yrds with a bow but his vitals were behind a limb. Didnt shoot. Week later a guy down the road brought him over to show me. He was not wide but tall and points going everywhere.
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Post by swilk on May 9, 2014 7:34:35 GMT -5
Net typical .... several in the 170's and maybe one that would touch 180.
Gross typical/nontypical .... over 200.
Only ever deer hunted in the counties across southern Indiana.
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Post by GS1 on May 9, 2014 8:11:04 GMT -5
On the hoof, I saw one in Muscatatuck, one on the farm I hunt regularly and one at Sloughs WMA (KY) that I just feel fortunate to have been able to see.
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2014 11:47:00 GMT -5
I forgot to add location. Mine was in Franklin County,Indiana...as were my two biggest kills.
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Post by DEERTRACKS on May 9, 2014 12:40:12 GMT -5
A Morgan County, monster-body, very symmetrical, tall, & wide 14 Pt. standing beside a really nice 10 pt., standing on a private lake dam watching a doe on my way to town 5 yrs. ago. I counted the points that I could see from the road @ around 70 yds. 170+ my guess!
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Post by drs on May 9, 2014 12:44:28 GMT -5
The one I missed with my crossbow (too far) season before last. I have killed 2 bucks that grossed 150s. This one was noticeably bigger. I'd guess easy 160s, maybe 170s. Possible Booner. He still haunts my dreams... Largest Buck I've harvested down here, in 2009, a 10-pointer which would score in the 170's. He weighed 230 field dressed
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Post by 3ptbuck on May 9, 2014 13:44:13 GMT -5
2 come to mind. 1 was around 2007 that I only saw a couple times at night close to home. Huge clean 10pt, almost looked too big. He was running with another stud that I found a shed to that would go mid 150s. The big 10 dwarfed that buck in every way. Easy net booner+. The other was 2 years ago while driving through the area I hunt on public ground 50yds off the road, mid day the first week of November. Another huge deer with all kinda of character. A friiend killed him opening day of gun season and he scored 176" if I remember correctly.
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Post by 76chevy on Jun 11, 2014 6:00:49 GMT -5
180+ deer on public land while spotlighting. Never saw him in daylight.
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Post by lawrencecountyhunter on Jun 11, 2014 13:12:10 GMT -5
Biggest dead buck: 15 pt, 199 Gross, co-worker killed and had in his truck.
Biggest while hunting: Probably 170-180. My biggest kill is mid 150s, and it was quite a bit wider and heavier than that buck. Shot over his back at 30 yards.
Hard to tell, I've seen a handful at low light, thick brush, etc. that made me think "Holy #&%$!" where it just didn't work out for one reason or another. Probably not anything over 180 or so though.
All of my whitetail hunting so far has been in Lawrence and Martin counties.
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Post by Jamie Brooks 1John5:13 on Jun 12, 2014 17:14:30 GMT -5
You guys have done well. The only buck that I've ever seen is hanging on my fireplace.
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Post by steve46511 on Jun 12, 2014 20:18:30 GMT -5
Yeah.........BIG BUCKS!! The biggest, weight wise I actually saw WEIGHED tipped the scales just over 260 lbs ( I just forget if it was 262, 263, 264???). Wife and I (20 years ago) were in line at the local check station. The smallish pickup in from of me had and obvious deer rump side sticking up over the tailgate. I kept looking at that, my eyes realizing SOMETHNG looked "odd" but my brain was not collecting all the facts my eyes gave it till, Jenny said "What do they have that laying on??" ......THEN my brain went O M G !!! and out the door I went to look at it. WOW what a hog!!! Very heavy beams and average width rack but the body was just enormous. Just two years ago, again at the local check station now closer to me, I saw this buck laying in the back of a full sized pick up.......and it was enough for me to turn around and go back. The MASS on this rack was so big it was ugly!! The neck on the deer was easily half again the size of a 193lb dressed out buck I shot, in full rut. MONSTER. I tried AND TRIED to get a photo with my cell phone but the dang thing would not "click" and only when I was at the gas station five minutes later did I think to RESTART the cell phone. IT WORKED......off I drove to get back there but the guy had left. EASILY a 250 lbs plus buck but there are no scales there but Ive weighed over 3000 deer. I have a "pretty good guesser" due to that, IMO. The INTERESTNG part of this story was this buck had had it's butt kicked HARD by another buck!! One eye gone face cut open, holes in it's hide. This was the LOSER of a fight!! ? The heavy beamed rack was an easy 150 class animal but the mass of the rack and mass of the animal itself was the real brain numbing thing for me...not the inches. ON the hoof, the biggest one I have ever had in range still gives me nightmares. Keep in mind I am NOT a "horn hunter" but do appreciate a really good buck regardless. It was maybe 9-10 years back and opening day of firearm season and I was out with my TC Renegade but had taken OFF the scope for some reason....that is killing me yet. lol I had three dink bucks chasing a "hot" doe back and forth for almost an hour. Expectations were high. Signs said there was a HOSS in the area but I had not seen him. Another hunter sat JUST off the property I sat on about 10 feet off the line/ditch but way too close to me. I didn't see him till well after sun up but the action was hot and heavy so I stayed put. I was sitting maybe 50-60 yards south of the heavy creek bottom where they mostly bedded. Close enough to shoot but not so close I'd scatter them like quail coming in if I paid attention. As the bucks ran that doe back and forth, I waited.....watched......looked around. SURELY "HE buck" would hear this and come busting in??? Scanning the heavy brush I caught a movement about 15 yards in so I sat with my eyes glued to that spot till I confirmed I saw movement again. RARELY do I carry binoculars but this day I had them (no scope remember?) and I slowly glassed the spot focusing the lense.......and about dropped my gun. Standing stock still watching those other deer, occasionally raising his nose to sniff the breeze was the largest rack I have even seen......dead or alive other than at the Indy show. The other hunter was actually CLOSER to the buck but behind the hunter but the buck was WAY too close to even think of a shot and way too much cover making it risky anyway. For more than 30 minutes I watched this buck at about 75 yards with 8x glass in ever increasing light. At least 8 tines EASILY over a foot long, a couple I guessed more like 14 inches, 5 inches OUTSIDE his ears on both sides and I could never quite tell if he was a 5x5 5x6 or 6x6 but the mass was just immense. Nope......he never ventured out. Slowly he melted back into the horseweeds without the other hunter ever even glancing that direction. My hands shook for hours. Honestly I would have traded my gun for a good camera with a decent zoom on a tripod. What an animal!! I've seen nothing close to his ilk there since and now the area is bomb-barded with hunters annually. It was a successful hunt for me and one I will never forget. I can look outside any time and re-visit the sight he gave me of a true monster whitetail. God Bless
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Post by archerytackle22 on Jun 14, 2014 11:42:58 GMT -5
Largest bodied field dressed 259lb. 7pt net 123 5/8" hanging on my wall from 2012. Bow kill at 12yds on Oct 7 2012. Butcher shop owner who is an avid hunter said he was the biggest bodied whitetail he's ever seen. Only my second bow kill ever pretty proud of that one.
Biggest racked buck I've seen was a typical 10 I'd guess in the 160s that I had to watch within gun range on opening day of shotgun for ~3 straight hours. Had already tagged out on the fatty I spoke of above. Great deer.
Both on same property in northern indiana
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Post by varmint101 on Jun 15, 2014 9:48:22 GMT -5
Officially, 185 and change if I remember right. It was a toad! It was unfortunately taken about a mile and a half from where I saw it by a lady on opening day of shotgun in Jackson County. I think maybe 2003.
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Post by scrub-buster on Jun 15, 2014 11:30:16 GMT -5
This is the biggest one I have seen. I got pictures out the car window of it. I have no idea what it would score. I'm guessing pretty high.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2014 19:34:48 GMT -5
In Indiana I have seen 7 or 8 Bucks over 160 inches around the Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge Office, on the south end of the old Jefferson Proving Grounds. Several years ago, I saw 14 Velvet Bucks standing in one field there. They were in a soybean field that was planted around the old military buildings. In that one field alone, there were at least 2 Bucks over 160 inches. I also saw a Buck that would go 180 inches or more with a Doe standing on the Railroad Tracks near the main gate of Big Oaks NWR.
I have also seen some giant Bucks in Camp Atterbury over the years.
In Kentucky I have seen several Bucks in the 160 to 170 inch range, most during the summer with Velvet standing in soybean fields in groups. I saw a Buck that would probably go 170 inches in a field along the western Kentucky Parkway a few years ago.
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