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Re: Ever pass a buck early season and kill him later on?

Unread postby cwoods » Tue Aug 30, 2011 9:13 am

Not yet but, I aint sayin it wont ever happen.


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Re: Ever pass a buck early season and kill him later on?

Unread postby Stanley » Tue Aug 30, 2011 9:51 am

cwoods wrote:Not yet but, I aint sayin it wont ever happen.

I hear you.
You can fool some of the bucks, all of the time, and fool all of the bucks, some of the time, however you certainly can't fool all of the bucks, all of the time.
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Re: Ever pass a buck early season and kill him later on?

Unread postby BigHunt » Tue Aug 30, 2011 10:01 am

nope
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Re: Ever pass a buck early season and kill him later on?

Unread postby Arrowbender » Tue Aug 30, 2011 10:08 am

Mud said
Never shoot one the last day you'd pass the first day or never pass one the first day you'd shoot the last day!


I don't understand this mentality.
I have several times passed up deer in early season thinking that I would surely shoot them late season if given a chance and freezer space. The main reason I pass deer is to stay afield longer not because my standards are high. - last year I shot a two year old on my last chance to hunt in WI. for the year, I had passed several larger deer prior.
Several seasons ago I passed a real nice deer in the Poper minimum class. It was too early to shoot another buck like that when there may have been something else around, but had I had a shot at him late season I would have probably mounted him or at least made a nice Euro.

I too have had close calls on deer with-out getting an opportunity only to kill them on a later outing.
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Re: Ever pass a buck early season and kill him later on?

Unread postby Ack » Tue Aug 30, 2011 5:56 pm

Not in a season, but in the same day. I passed the buck in my avatar pic early in the morning just after legal shooting hours because of how narrow he appeared. When he wandered back through at around 1:00 and I was able to see he was a 200 lb-er it convinced me to let him have it.
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Re: Ever pass a buck early season and kill him later on?

Unread postby Stanley » Wed Aug 31, 2011 1:25 am

Arrowbender wrote:Mud said
Never shoot one the last day you'd pass the first day or never pass one the first day you'd shoot the last day!


I don't understand this mentality.
I have several times passed up deer in early season thinking that I would surely shoot them late season if given a chance and freezer space. The main reason I pass deer is to stay afield longer not because my standards are high. - last year I shot a two year old on my last chance to hunt in WI. for the year, I had passed several larger deer prior.
Several seasons ago I passed a real nice deer in the Poper minimum class. It was too early to shoot another buck like that when there may have been something else around, but had I had a shot at him late season I would have probably mounted him or at least made a nice Euro.

I too have had close calls on deer with-out getting an opportunity only to kill them on a later outing.


I agree.
You can fool some of the bucks, all of the time, and fool all of the bucks, some of the time, however you certainly can't fool all of the bucks, all of the time.
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Re: Ever pass a buck early season and kill him later on?

Unread postby jclaws » Wed Aug 31, 2011 3:10 am

Stanley wrote:
GRFox wrote:
jclaws wrote:Yep.In 2006 i was urban hunting for a giant deer.On opening day i had a double main beam buck that is just an oddball come in right under me.I passed him and a mid 150s 8 pointer with forked g2s.I earned another buck tag later in the year so i decided that if i saw the oddball buck come in i was shooting him.I shot him a couple days later.I had tons of trail camera pics of the oddball from earlier that fall.Still one of my favorite deer on the wall.


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Love to see the oddball too, Joe.



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Re: Ever pass a buck early season and kill him later on?

Unread postby Zap » Wed Aug 31, 2011 3:22 am

Sweet.

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Re: Ever pass a buck early season and kill him later on?

Unread postby tim » Wed Aug 31, 2011 5:44 am

i like those nontypicals. id shoot him too
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Re: Ever pass a buck early season and kill him later on?

Unread postby jclaws » Wed Aug 31, 2011 7:57 am

The trail cam pics make his body look small.When i shot him he was anything but small.I have his left shed from the year before and he didnt grow 2 inches.I actually shot this deer on the same farm 2 years later.
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Re: Ever pass a buck early season and kill him later on?

Unread postby Stanley » Wed Aug 31, 2011 2:28 pm

Talk about character. That buck is all character. Thanks for posting Joe.
You can fool some of the bucks, all of the time, and fool all of the bucks, some of the time, however you certainly can't fool all of the bucks, all of the time.
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Re: Ever pass a buck early season and kill him later on?

Unread postby GRFox » Wed Aug 31, 2011 2:44 pm

Awesome bucks Joe. You sure have killed some giants.

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Re: Ever pass a buck early season and kill him later on?

Unread postby RaisedByWolves » Wed Aug 31, 2011 2:49 pm

wow, awesome bucks jclaws :shock: i would love to hear more about that buck in your avatar
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Re: Ever pass a buck early season and kill him later on?

Unread postby BuckHunter1988 » Wed Aug 31, 2011 3:17 pm

yea i passed up the one 9 point i have waitin for a bigger racked deer 4 years ago even tho this buck was 4 1/2 years old but he came back around in the late season and i wacked em hes a pretty cool deer he has a split g3


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