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Re: Difference between a hunter getting 130s bucks vs 150s b

Unread postby iowa whitetail » Thu Oct 06, 2016 7:19 am

Management, area, willpower. Passed an 8 last night close to 150. If you shoot the 130 the 150s not an option.

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Re: Difference between a hunter getting 130s bucks vs 150s b

Unread postby tgreeno » Thu Oct 06, 2016 7:26 am

iowa whitetail wrote:Management, area, willpower. Passed an 8 last night close to 150. If you shoot the 130 the 150s not an option.

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Did you mean to say you passed on 8 close to 130? If you passed on 8 close to 150, that's some crazy good land you're hunting!
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Re: Difference between a hunter getting 130s bucks vs 150s b

Unread postby iowa whitetail » Thu Oct 06, 2016 7:31 am

tgreeno wrote:
iowa whitetail wrote:Management, area, willpower. Passed an 8 last night close to 150. If you shoot the 130 the 150s not an option.

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Did you mean to say you passed on 8 close to 130? If you passed on 8 close to 150, that's some crazy good land you're hunting!
he's prolly a touch over 150 actually. Trying to keep my eyes on the prize. It's the hardest part of hunting one Buck in that area

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Re: Difference between a hunter getting 130s bucks vs 150s b

Unread postby DaveT1963 » Thu Oct 06, 2016 7:51 am

Location is every bit as important as hunting ability or prowess
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Re: Difference between a hunter getting 130s bucks vs 150s b

Unread postby cbay » Thu Oct 06, 2016 8:22 am

mheichelbech wrote: There is a difference between knowing what area to set up or focus on to knowing what actual tree to hunt and when to hunt it.

There is a lot to that sentence right there.
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Re: Difference between a hunter getting 130s bucks vs 150s b

Unread postby mainebowhunter » Thu Oct 06, 2016 9:12 am

DaveT1963 wrote:Location is every bit as important as hunting ability or prowess


Living in northeast...100% agree.

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Re: Difference between a hunter getting 130s bucks vs 150s b

Unread postby Dewey » Thu Oct 06, 2016 10:40 am

Generally speaking around here there are a good number of guys that hunt seriously who have killed 130" bucks. When you start talking 150" or bigger the list gets seriously smaller. Anybody I know of that has killed multiple over 150" is as die hard as can be know what it takes to get it done. Sure once in awhile a guy gets lucky but the ones that do it on a consistent basis are in another league. To kill a 150" anywhere is no easy task for sure. If I see a guy hunting the same areas I do and kills them quite often I start paying attention. Obviously he does his homework.

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Re: Difference between a hunter getting 130s bucks vs 150s b

Unread postby Zona » Thu Oct 06, 2016 11:15 am

Pass a 130 in PA on public? Hahahaha....... I'm dumb but I ain't crazy.
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Re: Difference between a hunter getting 130s bucks vs 150s b

Unread postby dan » Thu Oct 06, 2016 12:10 pm

Dewey wrote:Generally speaking around here there are a good number of guys that hunt seriously who have killed 130" bucks. When you start talking 150" or bigger the list gets seriously smaller. Anybody I know of that has killed multiple over 150" is as die hard as can be know what it takes to get it done. Sure once in awhile a guy gets lucky but the ones that do it on a consistent basis are in another league. To kill a 150" anywhere is no easy task for sure. If I see a guy hunting the same areas I do and kills them quite often I start paying attention. Obviously he does his homework.

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Re: Difference between a hunter getting 130s bucks vs 150s b

Unread postby olivertractor » Thu Oct 06, 2016 12:16 pm

Time, commitment, location, and luck some locations may require a lot more of time, commitment and luck than others.

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Re: Difference between a hunter getting 130s bucks vs 150s b

Unread postby bowmike » Fri Oct 07, 2016 6:04 am

TIME is a huge thing for me and the deer I choose to shoot I guess. I don't have time to scout. Heck I think actual boots on the ground this year I may have 2 hours if that. I have some general ideas on where some big bucks may be after years of hunting grounds and such. But there is pretty much no way for me to go from the general area type of hunter to the exact tree kind of hunter this year.

Looking at the calendar. I will have 8 days to hunt this year. Those day will be split in the early season to hunt a few hours in the morning and a few hours in the evening. Then starting mid October grouse and squirrel will come in and I hope to get my boy out on them. I may have persuaded the wife to give in to let me hunt all day on Saturdays but in the early season that seems to be a waste to me for the most part. So lets say 4 of those days I get to hunt a total of 24 hours and the rest I get to hunt a total of 32 hours. Hunting 56 hours in an entire archery season on 2 hours of boots on the ground scouting is tough to key in on the big boys. Now when I take my boy out for small game and such most of my focus will be on reading deer sign and such for November. LOL

TIME is one of the things that can get overlooked. It is not on my side right now, but once the girls get a bit more independent and corbin gets a few years on him, he and I will live in the woods. LOL I guess I am in the putting your time in stage and holding out for anything is tough right now, especially when you refuse to buy beef. :lol:
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Re: Difference between a hunter getting 130s bucks vs 150s b

Unread postby mainebowhunter » Fri Oct 07, 2016 6:27 am

Another big difference? When the shot presents itself, you gotta make it happen. Guys get shots at 150s but many get so rattled they cannot execute. Some guys may not get as rattled with 130 as they do with 150. And then how many are "really" getting shots at 150's? Pretty sure there is some ground shrinkage if the deer actually had been killed lol.
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Re: Difference between a hunter getting 130s bucks vs 150s b

Unread postby Octoberjohn » Fri Oct 07, 2016 6:53 am

This is an interesting topic to me. For myself in my area, I have what I would consider to be great hunting. But we just don't have many, or maybe even any deer in the 150" class. It seems to me there are always a few in the 130" class in the area, but even they are what I would consider to be a big shooter. So for me personally I would have to think that the biggest difference between a hunter getting a 150" vs. a 130" buck would be location. You can't kill a 150" deer if there aren't any there for you to hunt.
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Re: Difference between a hunter getting 130s bucks vs 150s b

Unread postby Lockdown » Fri Oct 07, 2016 8:27 am

Let's not forget that some bucks don't even have the genetics to reach 150" or better. It takes a monster of an 8, 9, or crab claw 10 to reach 150

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Re: Difference between a hunter getting 130s bucks vs 150s b

Unread postby magicman54494 » Fri Oct 07, 2016 9:01 am

If they are that big I'll score them after my tag is on them.

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