Maybe next year…

Spurchaser

Spurchaser

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If you saw my “let’em go, let’em grow” thread I mentioned how we like to find bucks and figure them out.
Well my son put up a feeder to watch deer out his back door and lo and behold he started getting this guy.
He actually found his sheds last year but blew him off due to the other buck. He will now become his focus the rest of the year and see if he can figure out his routes throughout the year.

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That’s what I said, but he’s either thinking 3.5 or letting him get to 6.5. He’ll follow him this year and get better pics, find sheds and see how much he grew from last year, then see what he looks like next year and make a decision.
Unfortunately their rut hasn’t kicked in yet and we still have a lot of season left, but that’s his plans right now. As I stated in the other post, it’s all a gamble. He could get hit crossing the highway and killed somewhere else this year. He’ll definitely give my son something to concentrate on.
One of my bucks just made an appearance after being gone for over 2 weeks. I figured he’d been killed off the property. But, they don’t get that mature by being stupid.
There was a 190” killed South of us about 1-2 miles and we had no pics of him and the guy that killed him had no pics nor had ever seen him. I have a message in to one of the landowners where I trap to see if he knew of that deer. He’s about a mile South of where the deer was killed. We know someone somewhere was after that deer, lol. Just always interesting to see where they hung out and pull up OnX and try and figure their routes.
 
That is a good buck, I would age that deer as 3.5 by his body. The way the hunting pressure has gotten surrounding my place, I would guess only one in seven or eight bucks survive to the following year. I used to look at certain deer and get hopeful to see how they grow to the next, but started getting let down cause most disappear.
 
I miss the old days before we got ran over with commercial hunters, the ones who pay or just pass thru with no real commitment or investment tied to the ground they are hunting,

This is one I always remember, I called him high and tight. He had a small home range and I had a lot of encounters with him in the off season, doing ranch work and coyote hunting. Even when he was in velvet he was always recognizable with his narrow tall frame, when I shot him I felt a sense of loss, I wrote a post about it on here years ago. I’ll never forget it, I shot a coyote early morning, before noon I decided to take a break and walked the ridge line to go get the coyote, as I walked the ridge a snorting doe came running thru the cedars with him in chase. Had I not shot that coyote I would have went straight down the hill and never would have seen him;

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