dan wrote:By the way, many of you may be surprised by this, but Andrae told me he could care less how old the buck is, for him its all about rack size. The younger ones are just easier to kill.
you mean the "Cage"
dan wrote:By the way, many of you may be surprised by this, but Andrae told me he could care less how old the buck is, for him its all about rack size. The younger ones are just easier to kill.
Stanley wrote:
I have some drops off him to historically date him (he doesn't look that old but surely is).
rudy78 wrote:Stanley wrote: My opinion, the #1 reason they are harder to kill; Rarity. They don't smell better, they don't run faster, they don't jump higher, they don't see better.
Right but they also don't move as much, I think every year their core area they move during daylight hours shrinks in half, so add that to less of them & they are way harder to kill.
They also have survived another fall of avoiding hunters & surviving so they are smater in that way.
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BackWoodsHunter wrote:Bucky wrote:Spysar wrote:I think one thing that makes a 4.5 harder to kill.
It's because they are rare. There are less of them than younger age classes.
Yes, they are smarter, but the rarity is what factors in to make it harder, as most people(myself included) have a hard time passing a 3.5.
Agree 100%
Exactly the same reason a guy should consider letting that "nice" looking 3yr old walk in certain situations where you think you will have a shot at the deer living another year in the given environment... so you have a rare 4yr old to chase. Standards can change on heavily hunted public (mine do), but on a large or secluded chunk of private you are esentially shooting yourself in the foot
Sometimes that extra year is the difference between a good buck 130"ish and a gagger 160"s+
So aside from fearing a guy would burn his spots out why even hunt the public ya know? If you know you have massive deer roaming a piece of secluded private because you passed them last year, why are you messing around on public land that gets pounded and produces deer than don't even come within 30" of the deer you have on private? This isn't a shot at you Bucky its a hypothetical open to the group
So aside from fearing a guy would burn his spots out why even hunt the public ya know? If you know you have massive deer roaming a piece of secluded private because you passed them last year, why are you messing around on public land that gets pounded and produces deer than don't even come within 30" of the deer you have on private? This isn't a shot at you Bucky its a hypothetical open to the group
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