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Could've..should've..didn't part 2

wobblegobble

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I saw the buck one a.m. and watched him for an hour. I think he is 4.5 years old, I had him on camera last year as well however he was a 6pt then. I probably should have killed him being that he wouldn't score much at a mature age...but he made it and will be 5.5 this year!

This is a pix of last yr versus this year
 
Maybe he'll blow up into something. I had a 7 pt i watched from 2.5 to 6.5. He was just a short tined 16-18" wide from 2.5 to 5.5 . I decided the next year i would take him at 6.5 no matter how big. When i started getting pics of him at 6.5 i couldn't believe it. I didn't kill him but know of someone who did. He was 24" inside with 14 pts. All short tined and same brows but i couldn't believe it. I'll try to pull old pics up and post them.
 
rem270":3gt02fc4 said:
Maybe he'll blow up into something. I had a 7 pt i watched from 2.5 to 6.5. He was just a short tined 16-18" wide from 2.5 to 5.5 . I decided the next year i would take him at 6.5 no matter how big. When i started getting pics of him at 6.5 i couldn't believe it. I didn't kill him but know of someone who did. He was 24" inside with 14 pts. All short tined and same brows but i couldn't believe it. I'll try to pull old pics up and post them.
That would be very interesting to see!

Yes Wobble, that will be a trophy regardless!
 
I think that we all encounter deer that have reached the apex of their development and are subsequently declining. For me it was a 7 year old 6 point. This deer had the biggest body I have ever seen, but a ragged, short, dark thick 6 point rack. It was very obvious that he had spent his entire life (or most of it) on the back few hundred acres of my farm. He was likely also nocturnal most of his life. He got a pass that day and I am sure he fell somewhere on my farm the following summer. No point in burning a tag.
 

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