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    went thru some 2000 plus photos from last week on the 3 cameras I run out at my little woodlot , saw one image of what appears to be a tall 8 I don't think I have seen before .
    looks like he visits with 2 does sometimes as well .
    he looks to be a pretty tall racked deer and has my attention of course as deer season closes in pretty quickly .
    don't think I have seen him before and my bud who sat out playing with the hogs and such in the blind Saturday evening where the photo was taken said he saw a nice 8 ripping trees up to show off for 2 does on my neighbors place .
    anyway here are few photos from last week . seems one little piggy is a loner and might just wander in midday all by its lonesome as well .
    and it also appears mister big pig who has been gone all summer might have shown back up as well .
    and yes my bud did shoot a big ole fat trash panda before we left . seems my ag tax exception requires the elimination of them and hogs as part of the predator control clause .
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    Looks like a nice one. And bacon sounds good too, yum.
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    That is a nice one
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    Now you are getting somewhere!! A couple of years will make that a nice wall hanger. Be patient and get rid of them hogs.

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    sometimes i think its bad thing i like to eat deer . because a decent 8 like that might turn into smoked german sausage if i look to long at it and am in that hungry mode
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    Deer meat = good
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    If you like a nice deer on the wall, let him grow a few years. If you care for trophies, shoot him. If you just want meat, shoot a doe. You probably need to thin them anyway.
    Just my opinion and everyone has one.
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    Very pretty buck! He would definitely be a shooter here in Alabama. I don't know how big they can get in your part of Texas? It's all relevant to your area. Most of Alabama anything over 100ins is a good one. There's some places here you can grow them bigger but not many. Good thing is it's your land and your choice

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    of course he is young and you should let him grow up BUT you don't have enough land to control that so it's a tough call. Can't tell you how many times we would see a good buck with potential and put the gun down and let him go to only know he would cross the fence a while later and her KABOOM and know he is dead. Personally I like to shoot does and ugly bucks with racks with no potential for the meat. Got lucky with a old buck all rut crazy who committed suicide basically and made me shoot him last year when I was really more into catching crappie when the bite was good.

    anyway SHOOT those piggies as they need to be eliminated from your area. sure there is a food pantry who would take the meat.

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    110 inch or a little higher is about what you will see in mature bucks in that area from what i know . once in a great moon you see a 130 ish buck and i mean years apart even on larger ranches , and to be sure i have hunters all around me and only have a little over 40 acres .
    not many over 100 inches survive in them parts . i do have an old ten that is still around with a really not so great rack and he looks just like last year . and the young ten looks to me maybe barely legal and a feeder hog and that is real dangerous around there for sure . most bucks there just use my place as a staging area to complete the big circles they roam in .
    that part of Texas is known for lots of deer but not really trophy bucks .
    a handful of does call it home best i can tell and that's only a few . most of the deer just visit my place .
    the other bucks i saw last year for the most part have not shown back up just yet , but we got a stupid high number of acorns this year . i aint trigger happy and will likely shoot mostly hogs anyway , but to be sure a wide tall rack might get busted if i am in one of those moods to bust one
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