200" public land buck
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200" public land buck
Who's seen one, killed one or know of one killed on public land? How rare are they? Obviously chances go up in certain states but what are the odds of actually seeing one on public land? The biggest deer I've seen on public was probably pushing 180" but nothing close to a 200" typical.
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It takes the right buck and doe and survival to make a 200inch buck. I personally don't know of anyone who has but the one piece of public I hunt I know there has been boomers takin out of it and I have had a couple on cam the past 2yrs on it. It doesn't get hunted much because it's a bear to hunt. ya gotta start at the bottom of the bluff and walk up to the top. Weeds out the lazy which is OK with me. There out there tho, very rare obviously.
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I know of a 206" buck that was killed across the road from public. I am sure that buck ventured onto the public time to time.
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Dan had one on video he shined on public land
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Never seen one.
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Uncle killed one in UP when I was a boy that was 179 1/8.
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Have yet to see a 200” deer but do hunt places in KY they have been killed
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I’ve seen two bucks on public land that I believe were over 200”. One was shot later that fall and was on the cover of a magazine, it was around 220” non typical. I had him at 40 yards right at closing but didn’t have a clear shot. That was 13 years ago and I still think about that buck from time to time.
The other was just a few years ago, was a big typical. Looked like the biggest framed buck I’ve ever seen and likely the biggest I ever will. I had no chance at that buck as I jumped him out of his bed while scouting a new piece of out of state public. He was a giant, and I got a report of a 203” buck getting shot a few days after I jumped him. I’ll remember the sight of that buck trotting off until I die.
The other was just a few years ago, was a big typical. Looked like the biggest framed buck I’ve ever seen and likely the biggest I ever will. I had no chance at that buck as I jumped him out of his bed while scouting a new piece of out of state public. He was a giant, and I got a report of a 203” buck getting shot a few days after I jumped him. I’ll remember the sight of that buck trotting off until I die.
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To bad you weren't able to get a shot at that buck WV but man that's got to be cool to see a deer like that in the wild
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A guy named Mike Polinice shot a 205 7/8 Buck in New York i think it was in 2018 on public land.
Read an article on it awhile back. Id bet your odds are worse than 1 in a million being there might be only 1 or 2 200” deer in a state on public from year to year, if that.
Read an article on it awhile back. Id bet your odds are worse than 1 in a million being there might be only 1 or 2 200” deer in a state on public from year to year, if that.
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I have physically seen one on public land that would go 180-200 and had double drop tines. I’m talking gross score, nets are for fish. Also know of a 200 and change gross killed within a few miles of my sighting location. They are rare, but are around. Have seen a couple on private in NW MO, right On the Iowa line that would push that mark. That was around 2010 in the days of unlimited rifle antlerless tags and pre-ehd die offs.
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I knew of 2 in lower mi that pushed 200”
190 I think they both ended up at. 1 was thought to have come from a waterfowl refuge.
The other was shot not far between a huge quarry with limited hunting and a huge public cattail marsh.
I somewhat knew both guys. 1st one, he could see some horn in the brush. Figured it was a 5 pt he’d been seeing around and almost didn’t shoot as to leave it for his kid to possibly shoot on a later date. This guy generally killed anything. So he shoots.. No ground shrinkage there
2nd one the guy shot end of black powder season.. mid dec. 21pt just under 200”. It was private land but to speak to his management plan the very next yr on oct 1 bow opener he shot a 3pt. The management plan was sit the same stand and kill anything w horns and he still got the biggest buck I known of taken in that county. Not far from public at all.
I couldn’t imagine locating a buck like that
190 I think they both ended up at. 1 was thought to have come from a waterfowl refuge.
The other was shot not far between a huge quarry with limited hunting and a huge public cattail marsh.
I somewhat knew both guys. 1st one, he could see some horn in the brush. Figured it was a 5 pt he’d been seeing around and almost didn’t shoot as to leave it for his kid to possibly shoot on a later date. This guy generally killed anything. So he shoots.. No ground shrinkage there
2nd one the guy shot end of black powder season.. mid dec. 21pt just under 200”. It was private land but to speak to his management plan the very next yr on oct 1 bow opener he shot a 3pt. The management plan was sit the same stand and kill anything w horns and he still got the biggest buck I known of taken in that county. Not far from public at all.
I couldn’t imagine locating a buck like that
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Seen a pic from a CPO who said it was taken on public I was on. He claimed the deer was 200+
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I know of 2, 200 inch non typicals shot on public near my house, one was shot by a friend of mine.
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