Thread: Grandson is on fire

Originally Posted by lowe175

That's impressive. Where I live a 130 is a buck of a lifetime so congrats to the young man.

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130 was a good deer around here 20 years ago but, hunters have decided they want a trophy rather than anything that walks by. I will have to give it to the younger generation as they have led the charge. I am 68 and a lot of guys my age still want to shoot any buck. They just have to understand that there are no 150 and up class bucks that are under 2 1/2 years old. You just have to let them grow up. Getting rid of running dogs for the most part has helped as well. You can't judge a deer's age and score when he is running 100mph through the woods.

You are 100% correct. I have seen the difference and it is way better than it was but you have to have land that will grow bucks of that size. There are places in my state that will grow good bucks but I hunt public land and it's even harder to get people to let them walk. I do hunt some private land but it just doesn't have the ability to grow deer much over the 100in Mark. I guess at trophy deers size really depends on what part of the country your in. All that said it's very impressive that a 8year has killed 2 bucks of that size. I tip my hat to the kid well done! I know you are proud.

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He killed one with a 44 mag and the last one with a 243. I am buying him a7-08 for Christmas next year. I was going to buy it this year but his Dad wanted to wait another year, so I got him a compound bow because that is what he really wanted.

Very impressive! Congrats to the young hunter!

Originally Posted by deltarat

We are trying to teach him to only take mature bucks. He looks at mine and wants deer in that caliber. I have 5 that score from 155 to 168 5/8. I won't shoot anything under 150 and 4 1/2 years old unless it is cull and needs to be removed from the herd.

you would not need many shells where I hunt lol . This was the first buck that I have taken in several years . why ? only saw 11 deer all season and hunted almost daily . Unusual to see 7 of 11 be rack deer (could not see any doe ) . Having lived all over ms. I will say the tel-check system would have been a good thing in Mississippi . Legislature was to worried about revenu to make it mandatory . jmo

I thought you would have had more deer in that area. I work around Holly Springs some and the farmers say they can't raise soybeans for the deer. One farmer got a permit to shoot does year round, even at night. He killed over 100 one year and they still gave is crop a hard time. He had to quit hunting at night due to the drug dealers from Memphis are coming out there at night disposing of their bodies they get rid of.
What is tel-check?

tele-check was going to be a mandatory call in (phone) system so that deer herds were to be managed by county . Like you say some farmers are getting permits to shoot year round. They must get permission from those that surround them . One near me was allowed to harvest / shoot 300 (so he claimed ). When you gut shoot them so they will run into the woods as not to die in the fields , how would you know ?The m.d.w.f.p . did the tel-check a few years on a voluntary thing but was a total flop . Marshall ,Lafayette , Panola counties are on a different planet than union . There are areas that have good deer but the clubs in this area are lucky to harvest 10 "legal" bucks . MY nephew harvest a 4 pt. that was 165 lbs, and was 3.5 yrs. of age . The deer would have been not legal for an adult to harvest . If you have family land quality goes up to some degree but of the clubs (4) that I have hunted since moving here are over hunted with "brown and down " mentality . I would not pay 100.00 to be in all four clubs and the cheapest was 450.00 . My better deer have come from Choctaw, Grenada, Claiborne and Yalabusha counties . 141, 133, 123,120 . On state land we meat hunt .

Eagle 1 it's the same all over the south east. A 100in 8point is a great buck in a the places I hunt. I have done better on public land over hunting clubs myself. A 130 is a buck of a lifetime in Alabama.

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