Largest Group Of Bachelor Bucks You Have Seen?

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What Is The Largest Group Of Bachelor Bucks You Have Seen

1. 2 Bucks
3
4%
2. 3 Bucks
6
7%
3. 4 Bucks
9
11%
4. 5 Bucks
13
15%
5. 6 Bucks
13
15%
6. 7 Bucks
7
8%
7. 8 Bucks
8
9%
8. 9 Bucks
2
2%
9. 10 Bucks
2
2%
10. More than 10 Bucks
22
26%
 
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Re: Largest Group Of Bachelor Bucks You Have Seen?

Unread postby Net Guy » Fri Sep 01, 2017 5:42 am

Saw 6 once but usually the bachelor groups I see are 3.


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Re: Largest Group Of Bachelor Bucks You Have Seen?

Unread postby WV Bowhunter » Fri Sep 01, 2017 6:43 am

I saw 10 bucks in a 5-10 acre field a couple weeks ago all together. That's the most I've ever seen in one bunch. The biggest was maybe 120" and probably a 3 1/2 yr old. All the rest were 1 1/2's and 2 1/2's.
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Re: Largest Group Of Bachelor Bucks You Have Seen?

Unread postby Greg4579 » Fri Sep 01, 2017 7:00 am

I see 2-3 typically. My "big" group was 5.
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Re: Largest Group Of Bachelor Bucks You Have Seen?

Unread postby basspro05 » Fri Sep 01, 2017 7:52 am

3 on multiple occassions.
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Re: Largest Group Of Bachelor Bucks You Have Seen?

Unread postby brancher147 » Fri Sep 01, 2017 10:52 am

I have seen more than 10 in one field recently, but it was a big field, and I would consider them separate groups as they were not all together. I don't know the largest group I have ever seen. It's not something I typically keep track of.
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Re: Largest Group Of Bachelor Bucks You Have Seen?

Unread postby Tennhunter3 » Fri Sep 01, 2017 11:00 am

In a public land field I once saw 8 but all were under 2 and a half.

It was during pre rut.

Most groups I see have 2-3 bucks.
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Re: Largest Group Of Bachelor Bucks You Have Seen?

Unread postby Lockdown » Fri Sep 01, 2017 11:13 am

7 or 8 years ago I saw 7 in one group. Biggest was a 3.5 year old. Came around a corn field and they were standing 30 yards off the road in the beans and took off. Pretty cool.

I did see 9 at once this year but they weren't in what I would call a bachelor group. They were spread out.
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Re: Largest Group Of Bachelor Bucks You Have Seen?

Unread postby Wlog » Fri Sep 01, 2017 12:15 pm

It was 13 or 14 in the bean field behind my house a couple summers ago. It's a secluded field that can only be seen from my house not from the road. Every year that it's planted in beans, especially later beans that were planted behind wheat or barley, it will have a bachelor group staying here.

There is good bedding all the way around the field. The hunt club that hunts it usually stops by a couple days before bow season to cut trails and bang nails into their stands. They never have a clue that any of these bucks exist and unknowingly blow it. Works out rather nicely for me because it butts up to public! ;)
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Unread postby Ghost Hunter » Fri Sep 01, 2017 1:47 pm

I voted 4 then an had stop an think about time that I hunted Holla Bend. There 10-15 good bucks were common.
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Re: Largest Group Of Bachelor Bucks You Have Seen?

Unread postby Uncle Lou » Fri Sep 01, 2017 2:00 pm

I voted 4. Dont actually remember, but I have seen 4 a couple times that I can remember. Once I was in my stand and they all came towards me. Tried to get into position to shoot and my stand creeked :o . Oh well
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Re: Largest Group Of Bachelor Bucks You Have Seen?

Unread postby JoeRE » Fri Sep 01, 2017 2:11 pm

I can't remember seeing more than 6 or 7 in a group ever.
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Re: Largest Group Of Bachelor Bucks You Have Seen?

Unread postby mipubbucks24 » Fri Sep 01, 2017 3:04 pm

I voted 8 but just remember that I have video from about 10 years ago of a group of about 15. The most I have seen during the season is 8. One year had this huge bachelor group that kept coming out of this one bedding area. It was on a neighboring piece of private. Biggest was a 140 inch wide 8 point. The deer was only a 3 year old but was very wide. My dad had him at 45 yards but did not feel confident with the shot. I missed a 7 point from the bachelor group 2 days later. Then a couple days after that I called 2 more of the bucks in but ran out of day light. It was the last time I saw them. They were out every night for about the first 6-7 days of the season. The big one was very killable if I would have had access to the tree line they kept coming out of but it was all neighboring private and they would make their way over to the private I had permission on but it was always after dark.
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Re: Largest Group Of Bachelor Bucks You Have Seen?

Unread postby swampyak » Fri Sep 01, 2017 3:25 pm

I think 19. This summer the family was out of town for a few days so i ranged far and wide. They were in an out of the way soybean field Mostly younger bucks
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Re: Largest Group Of Bachelor Bucks You Have Seen?

Unread postby Hooks1 » Fri Sep 01, 2017 4:20 pm

Years ago(August 1970) in Alabama bedded in a kudzu patch there were 14 bucks. This is the most I've seen together.
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Re: Largest Group Of Bachelor Bucks You Have Seen?

Unread postby Mschmeiske » Fri Sep 01, 2017 4:28 pm

4 bucks


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