200" public land buck

Discuss deer hunting tactics, Deer behavior. Post your Hunting Stories, Pictures, and Questions/Answers.
  • Advertisement

HB Store


moarcher88
Posts: 270
Joined: Fri Nov 16, 2012 6:55 am
Status: Offline

200" public land buck

Unread postby moarcher88 » Wed Oct 20, 2021 5:39 am

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.


upwind predator
500 Club
Posts: 666
Joined: Wed Aug 22, 2018 12:19 am
Location: NW IL
Status: Offline

Re: 200" public land buck

Unread postby upwind predator » Wed Oct 20, 2021 6:23 am

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.
User avatar
hcooper84
Posts: 428
Joined: Fri Jun 07, 2019 7:51 am
Location: Southern Illinois
Status: Offline

Re: 200" public land buck

Unread postby hcooper84 » Wed Oct 20, 2021 6:33 am

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.
User avatar
Hawthorne
500 Club
Posts: 6217
Joined: Mon Dec 15, 2014 2:13 pm
Location: michigan
Status: Offline

Re: 200" public land buck

Unread postby Hawthorne » Wed Oct 20, 2021 7:05 am

Dan had one on video he shined on public land
Ahawk116
Posts: 227
Joined: Fri Jun 08, 2018 3:16 am
Status: Offline

Re: 200" public land buck

Unread postby Ahawk116 » Wed Oct 20, 2021 8:02 am

Never seen one.
User avatar
Stingray713
500 Club
Posts: 956
Joined: Fri Sep 13, 2019 10:14 am
Status: Offline

Re: 200" public land buck

Unread postby Stingray713 » Wed Oct 20, 2021 8:04 am

Don’t grow em like that around here
Strategically Inefficient
Usi05
Posts: 385
Joined: Thu Oct 08, 2020 11:11 am
Status: Offline

Re: 200" public land buck

Unread postby Usi05 » Wed Oct 20, 2021 11:58 am

Uncle killed one in UP when I was a boy that was 179 1/8.
Burningbootleather
Posts: 101
Joined: Wed Jul 01, 2020 11:40 am
Status: Offline

Re: 200" public land buck

Unread postby Burningbootleather » Wed Oct 20, 2021 12:25 pm

Have yet to see a 200” deer but do hunt places in KY they have been killed
User avatar
WV Bowhunter
500 Club
Posts: 1629
Joined: Thu Dec 15, 2016 5:39 pm
Location: West Virginia
Status: Offline

Re: 200" public land buck

Unread postby WV Bowhunter » Wed Oct 20, 2021 12:56 pm

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.
Luck is when preparation meets opportunity!!
moarcher88
Posts: 270
Joined: Fri Nov 16, 2012 6:55 am
Status: Offline

Re: 200" public land buck

Unread postby moarcher88 » Thu Oct 21, 2021 12:41 am

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
User avatar
szwampdonkey
500 Club
Posts: 1755
Joined: Tue May 21, 2019 3:44 am
Status: Offline

Re: 200" public land buck

Unread postby szwampdonkey » Thu Oct 21, 2021 12:48 am

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.
SEMObowhunter
Posts: 418
Joined: Fri Aug 21, 2015 11:47 pm
Location: SE MO
Status: Offline

Re: 200" public land buck

Unread postby SEMObowhunter » Thu Oct 21, 2021 12:58 am

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.
User avatar
1STRANGEWILDERNESS
500 Club
Posts: 1159
Joined: Thu Sep 12, 2019 4:01 am
Location: upper MI
Status: Offline

Re: 200" public land buck

Unread postby 1STRANGEWILDERNESS » Thu Oct 21, 2021 1:11 am

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
don’t be broadcasting when you should be tuning in
User avatar
seuss79
Posts: 147
Joined: Fri Jan 11, 2019 12:05 pm
Location: Illinois
Status: Offline

Re: 200" public land buck

Unread postby seuss79 » Thu Oct 21, 2021 2:07 am

Seen a pic from a CPO who said it was taken on public I was on. He claimed the deer was 200+
Chad Gus 715
Posts: 246
Joined: Sun May 17, 2020 2:52 pm
Status: Offline

Re: 200" public land buck

Unread postby Chad Gus 715 » Thu Oct 21, 2021 2:16 am

I know of 2, 200 inch non typicals shot on public near my house, one was shot by a friend of mine.
equal opportunity hunter


  • Advertisement

Return to “Deer Hunting”

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: Findian and 75 guests