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megalomaniac said:
He's dead. Came in to check out a 2.5yo thrashing willows an hour before dark.

I couldn't decide if he was 3.5 or 4.5 last year. Couldn't decide if he was 4.5 or 5.5 this year.

225.1lbs, 19.25inside, 24in beams, 5in bases, and 4in h3s. He broke off his right browtine, so he was only a 7pt. Left brow was only 3in, other tines around 8in.

Still scored 136.5 despite short tines... would have been right at 140 if he hadn't broken off his right g1.

Jawbone is pretty typical for our wear pattern for 4.5yos, but he was a good bit heavier than our typical 4.5yos (225 vs average of 200lbs)

Still can't make my mind up whether he was 4.5 or 5.5, but I am leaning more toward 5.5.
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Congrats on a very nice buck brother.
 
megalomaniac said:
He's dead. Came in to check out a 2.5yo thrashing willows an hour before dark.

I couldn't decide if he was 3.5 or 4.5 last year. Couldn't decide if he was 4.5 or 5.5 this year.

225.1lbs, 19.25inside, 24in beams, 5in bases, and 4in h3s. He broke off his right browtine, so he was only a 7pt. Left brow was only 3in, other tines around 8in.

Still scored 136.5 despite short tines... would have been right at 140 if he hadn't broken off his right g1.

Jawbone is pretty typical for our wear pattern for 4.5yos, but he was a good bit heavier than our typical 4.5yos (225 vs average of 200lbs)

Still can't make my mind up whether he was 4.5 or 5.5, but I am leaning more toward 5.5.
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Congrats!! Great buck
 
Congrats on a FINE buck! Body says 5+, teeth say 4. I'm confident with 5+.
 
megalomaniac said:
He's dead. Came in to check out a 2.5yo thrashing willows an hour before dark.

I couldn't decide if he was 3.5 or 4.5 last year. Couldn't decide if he was 4.5 or 5.5 this year.

225.1lbs, 19.25inside, 24in beams, 5in bases, and 4in h3s. He broke off his right browtine, so he was only a 7pt. Left brow was only 3in, other tines around 8in.

Still scored 136.5 despite short tines... would have been right at 140 if he hadn't broken off his right g1.

Jawbone is pretty typical for our wear pattern for 4.5yos, but he was a good bit heavier than our typical 4.5yos (225 vs average of 200lbs)

Still can't make my mind up whether he was 4.5 or 5.5, but I am leaning more toward 5.5.
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Great buck! Congrats. Was his a dressed weight?
 
recurve60# said:
Great buck! Congrats. Was his a dressed weight?
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Ty all for all the compliments! I'm extremely happy with him as my 1 buck for the year!

I dont do dressed weights... for biological purposes and because field dressing deer is just a waste of time, I retrieve the whole deer, take it back to the farm house to collect biological data (weight, score, jawbone age), then quarter and debone the deer with the 'gutless' method. I then take the remainder of the carcass to a field beside the camphouse for disposal. It was about 1.5 hours from the time I shot the deer until he was completely stripped of all edible meat (except ribs and organs). I ended up with about 75lbs of completely deboned meat (4 quarters, backstraps, neck roasts, and tenderloins).

That deboned meat then gets dry aged in the fridge for 7 to 10 days before my final processing and freezing. When I am running low on smoked sausage, I take 25lbs of dry aged deboned meat to my local butcher shop who makes the best small batch jalapeño cheddar smoked sausage you've ever eaten (but it's 3.99 a pound).

The head gets skinned the next day and I boil it, clean the skull, then soak it on peroxide for a Euro mount done myself. The whole process is all psychological... maybe even spiritual, and way more work than most folks are willing to do, but the way I care for the meat and trophy are my way of paying respect to the animal for his sacrifice for myself and my family. I've discovered a newfound respect for the animal by doing all this myself rather than just dumping off the field dressed carcass at a processor like I used to do 25 years ago.

As an aside, if you arent doing the final processing of your animal yourself, I would highly encourage it. You will find yourself reflecting the excitement of the hunt over and over during the process... and the animal is worth that level of respect.
 
megalomaniac said:
Ty all for all the compliments! I'm extremely happy with him as my 1 buck for the year!

I dont do dressed weights... for biological purposes and because field dressing deer is just a waste of time, I retrieve the whole deer, take it back to the farm house to collect biological data (weight, score, jawbone age), then quarter and debone the deer with the 'gutless' method. I then take the remainder of the carcass to a field beside the camphouse for disposal. It was about 1.5 hours from the time I shot the deer until he was completely stripped of all edible meat (except ribs and organs). I ended up with about 75lbs of completely deboned meat (4 quarters, backstraps, neck roasts, and tenderloins).

That deboned meat then gets dry aged in the fridge for 7 to 10 days before my final processing and freezing. When I am running low on smoked sausage, I take 25lbs of dry aged deboned meat to my local butcher shop who makes the best small batch jalapeño cheddar smoked sausage you've ever eaten (but it's 3.99 a pound).

The head gets skinned the next day and I boil it, clean the skull, then soak it on peroxide for a Euro mount done myself. The whole process is all psychological... maybe even spiritual, and way more work than most folks are willing to do, but the way I care for the meat and trophy are my way of paying respect to the animal for his sacrifice for myself and my family. I've discovered a newfound respect for the animal by doing all this myself rather than just dumping off the field dressed carcass at a processor like I used to do 25 years ago.

As an aside, if you arent doing the final processing of your animal yourself, I would highly encourage it. You will find yourself reflecting the excitement of the hunt over and over during the process... and the animal is worth that level of respect.
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Your final paragraph says it all!
 

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