Posted: 11/15/2008 7:13:49 PM EDT
Got it with my getto ar 15. I use this one all the time because its a franken gun and I don't care if I mess it up. The next one I shoot will be with my spr. It was rainy this day so I took my junker rifle. 55 grain TAP=red jello in chest.
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| Extreme North West end. Our property, from some reason, has really funkey little racks even on large bodied deer. We are trying to cull out the bad genes. We have seen a couple of good deer on our property, but most of them have these little racks that go straight up like this one. I'm going to use my SPR with 75 grain tap next and see how it does. I'm hoping for an exit wound with it. |
you need any help culling those bucks out? 
I live in Coal Mountain and my hunting lease is 2 hours away on the Meriwether/Coweta border. I'll be glad to bow hunt! Bow season is open til the end of January. (no shit, I'd really like a place closer to home to bow hunt in). |
| navvet 89, I'd really like to invite you over, but it's only 110 acers and we've got 4 members and strict rules about no guests. I'm very lucky to have it and It'll probably be developed before too long. I'm not really sorry the real estate market is bad right now, mabey we can get a few more years out of it. I'm only 10 minutes away from it and It's damn nice just to wake up and decide to go hunting at a moment's notice. |
| That looks like a pretty young deer. Did you have him aged by someone that knows how? He might have had a little potential to do something better next year. You never know what you'll have until you start giving the deer some protein and a little time to grow. A mature doe is good for putting venison on the table, it's a shame to see such a young deer slain before he even has a chance. If it's a 2.5 year old deer then he isn't really all that bad. |
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navvet 89, I'd really like to invite you over, but it's only 110 acers and we've got 4 members and strict rules about no guests. I'm very lucky to have it and It'll probably be developed before too long. I'm not really sorry the real estate market is bad right now, mabey we can get a few more years out of it. I'm only 10 minutes away from it and It's damn nice just to wake up and decide to go hunting at a moment's notice. Hey man no problem, I can sympathize :) I was asking on the chance you guys owned a dairy farm or something 
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That looks like a pretty young deer. Did you have him aged by someone that knows how? He might have had a little potential to do something better next year. You never know what you'll have until you start giving the deer some protein and a little time to grow. A mature doe is good for putting venison on the table, it's a shame to see such a young deer slain before he even has a chance. If it's a 2.5 year old deer then he isn't really all that bad. Ditto, if your trying to manage the property for bigger bucks in the long run. If not and you just get out every now and then for fun, then good shoot! If it's a 1.5 yr old deer, he never had a chance to get big. If he's older, well you make the call. QDMA has a lot of good articles. Here's one on culling deer. http://www.qdma.com/articles/details.asp?id=124 Last paragraph, as the article is kinda long and the QDMA artilces get into alot of biology... So, should we be culling “inferior” bucks? If they are young bucks, the answer is ‘no’ for most of the whitetail’s range because they may have been born late or have been nutritionally deprived. If they are older bucks, the answer depends. If you have a surplus of bucks and you really dislike a certain buck – regardless of age - then go ahead and cull him. However, don’t expect it to make a big difference in what you see for antlers in the future. He’s likely not siring a lot of fawns and of the ones he sires, the doe contributes half to their offspring’s antler quality. Also, about 50-75% of yearling bucks disperse one to five miles from where they were born, so an average of ½ to ¾ of his sons will leave the area anyway. Unless you’re involved in a trophy management program with a balanced buck-to-doe ratio, good buck age structure and optimum nutrition, I wouldn’t cull him.
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| I bought the upper with no name flat top from a friend who had about 4000 rounds through it and he dremeled off the front sight. It is a colt A! barrel. I stuck that upper on a home built up superior arms lower and an a-1 butstock off the EE. I then toped it off with a used nikon I bought at the pawn shop. I own several really nice AR's, but I like shooting this one for some reason. It's funny in a way. All the bucks taken from our property since about 2002 have had funky racks like this one. The last really good deer anyone saw on our place was about five years ago. We all hunted him, he was a monster. No one got him, the next year he was gone. Now only funky rack deer. Weird. We don't seriously quality manage the property and have no rules about what to take. There's only four of us and we try to get at least one deer per year. To be honest, most of the guys spend more time squirrel hunting than deer hunting. |