doecomander

This deer will get the pass from me. Hopefully other hunters in the area do the same. Thanks for all the opinions and input.

Awesome bucks! Good luck

Will this buck always be without brow tines? Should it be culled from the herd or given another couple years? If I don't shoot any doe I won't hesitate to shoot it late season, but usually I am lucky enough to fill the freezer with doe meat.

Pictures have been hard to come by with this buck and the 8. Still have not had any more of the 8 pt. Here is an updated picture of the 11pt. Thanks for all your replies!

I am pretty sure the big 8 point is the buck pictured from last year with the broken rack. It took everything in me to pass on him last year. Hopefully it pays off. The 11 point has a unique sticker growing on his right side.Any rough guesses on the age of these 2 deer and what they might score?

Hail mary shot tonight. Sat in brush near soybean field after work at 4:15 to 4:45. Saw the 9 point I have been waiting on all year. Half the rack was broken off. Let him go for next year. Only 2 1/2 this years old this year, probably scoring 115, probably a 130-150 deer next year. Thought he was dead until tonight. Never saw him all bow or gun season. 3 doe popped out 3 minutes after sitting down. 5 minutes later here he came. Had him dead to rights. I have 3 big doe in freezer otherwise he would have been sacrificed for meat. Only buck worth shooting in my 8A hunting spot. should have shot a doe on my last DMP. Muzzleloader will be fun. I am going to miss this!!!

Mast crops, warm weather. The deer are there. just have to work for them. Saw them in drones all bow season, they then disappeared when gun started. Big boys have been nocturnal though.

My family and I eat 5 deer by june every year. I shoot doe. i have never shot a buck. Won't shoot buttons, yearling does. I pass on many bucks. Just out there to eat or possibly get a monster. i take my 6 legal does from 4 different areas and spot up to 19 a day during archery in 2 of the areas in 2 of these locations w 0 buck sightings being included in the 19. See way to many doe wasted on the road where i hunt all year. Better to feed my family the best meat in the world then see it wasted. I hunt for me and my family( not to reduce accidents)and would even if cars didn't hit them. I could shoot 7 legal doe but only take 6 and they are back in droves every year.

You did the right thing, and obviously hunt like a truly ethical sportsman should. I haven't seen any deer like this yet but my opening day, and both my hunts this weekend were ruined by trespassers trampling around. I know that they would shoot at any brown they would see. One guy even walked in front of me today and started dragging a doe i just shot. Amazing I even saw her with his stomping around. So both properties I work hard and pay to hunt on have had 0 buck activity and one is a no doe zone. These areas were flooded by bucks during archery. So are people these dumb, don't give a shit, or completely ignorant. i confronted this guy today and he was like," I was just trying to kick stuff up." The other guy on my other property openly admitted he was trespassing, what a joke.

I have 2 8M, 2 8A. Looking for a 9p. Longshot, but might as well put it out there.

hunted 9p with family today. passed a 4, spike, and 7 pt. saw 3 doe and 2 button bucks. dad saw 7 doe and 3 6pt bucks. he took a shot at one of the 6pt and missed. the deer was rutting so hard it then mounted the doe right in front of him. my brother saw 17 doe and missed the one he shot at. so I guess you could say they were ripping our clothes off out there. what an amazing day. this is what its all about.

glad to hear others are seeing this, some old timers at work think I am bullshitting them. grunted in a 5 point tonight, passed 4 buck this week, waiting for a big guy

Is it me or are the bucks chasing pretty hard right now? I witnessed a big 7 make a scrape, chase a doe while making a tending grunt. Then today had a 4 chase another doe past me.

congrats, a real trophy!

Passed on a 4 pt that ended up chasing some doe that were walking towards me away. Nice morning out here in hunt, NY, nice SW winds