Shoot or Pass on This Deer?
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People should not be demeaned or insulted for the size or type of game they hunt. If a person is content with a nice tender spike or two-point for the freezer, that is their choice.
If someone feels so inadequate and inferior that they have to brag about the antlers on "their" deer, how many acres they own or their claimed superior hunting skills, they still have no business putting other people down who are comfortable in their own skin and happy with the game they take.
If someone feels so inadequate and inferior that they have to brag about the antlers on "their" deer, how many acres they own or their claimed superior hunting skills, they still have no business putting other people down who are comfortable in their own skin and happy with the game they take.
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Very well said.
But it’s always fun to watch the OP flounder around after he gets called out on his thinly veiled attempts to humble brag. Every thread he’s ever started follows the exact same pattern.
I would pass on any of those bucks, the biggest scores 148-150 gross score. I've passed-up bigger bucks in the past 4 hunting seasons, because I'm searching for the super buck, not an average size. If you like the buck and would be happy with him, go for it, and don't be ashamed of anything, or what anyone states. Best of luck!!!
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I feel positively humbled and chastened whenever I read one of the OP's posts. I have never in my life even thought about measuring a deer or any other trophy; assigning a "score" to an animal you have killed just seems completely wrong to me on every level. I have a grand total of two trophies whose "scores" are known to me. One, because a mischievous guide told me despite my protestations about not caring or wanting to know; the other, because it was a bear that required two quick measurements added together, and the skull was quickly measured right on my bookcase by a "friend" who just had to know, and apparently couldn't keep his mouth shut.
But the OP has gotten better and smoother during his tenure here on CGN. Back in the old days, in his "Classic Umchorn" phase, he was blathering on about breeding grizzlies and elk and who-knows-what in his own little fenced section of Hell, and doing a hardsell on the benefits of paid hunting preserves. Now, he has toned down his approach, painting himself as the sensitive lover of nature who is saddened by the crude indelicacies of the Neanderthals around him; he's just so misunderstood...
He'll hang around a bit, maybe try to sell some antler sheds or moose scapulas, and then quietly fade away, waiting for another unsuspecting crop of new CGN members whom he deems worthy to hear the Gospel of Umchorn.
But the OP has gotten better and smoother during his tenure here on CGN. Back in the old days, in his "Classic Umchorn" phase, he was blathering on about breeding grizzlies and elk and who-knows-what in his own little fenced section of Hell, and doing a hardsell on the benefits of paid hunting preserves. Now, he has toned down his approach, painting himself as the sensitive lover of nature who is saddened by the crude indelicacies of the Neanderthals around him; he's just so misunderstood...
He'll hang around a bit, maybe try to sell some antler sheds or moose scapulas, and then quietly fade away, waiting for another unsuspecting crop of new CGN members whom he deems worthy to hear the Gospel of Umchorn.
I'd feel lucky just seeing a legal buck in front of me. The decision to shoot or not would be as simple as if I had a good shot and he was within my comfortable shooting range.
In the end it's all meat for the freezer, and I don't bother with trophies, maybe a selfie with it for my own memories or if there was something unique about it.
In the end it's all meat for the freezer, and I don't bother with trophies, maybe a selfie with it for my own memories or if there was something unique about it.
I think you're selling those deer short on gross scores. I'd say all 2/3 of the bigger ones are 160-165 gross, with the other maybe topping out at 160 but not likely getting there. OP it looks like you've got a steady supply of bucks coming in. Can you trace them back to previous years to get an idea of age? If not I'd think they're around 5 too. If you're looking to get into the 170+ class range I'd leave them all. There'd be a decent chance one of them is 170 next year. If you're desperate for meat shoot the smallest of the 3, and leave the littlest guy to grow out over a few more years, although you probably have a number of smaller bucks coming in too.
