nyantler

I meant that I have never killed a buck that I knew the age because I'd seen it in prior years and was able to age it... I have a few that might be 5.5 but without Cementum annuli analysis one can't know for sure... it would be just a guess.

Never had one aged or killed a buck that I saw the year previous... I'm sure I have quite a few that are at least 3.5, but beyond that I can't be positive.

Read the story of this bruiser http://www.nyantler-outdoors.com/tripp-buck.html

That is one BIG 4-pt... nice story

and here is proof!!

They forgot the truck door slammer... the guy that slams the vehicle door shut when your trying to be quite entering the woods. I know a bunch of those guys.

Nobody allowed in camp that doesn't know how to have fun!

I know Charlie quite well, and although I believe that he is a good steward of deer management.. he first and foremost made and still makes a living photographing big whitetails and writing books about them. He saw an opportunity to get big bucks to photograph and a new topic to write about on his own property when the Avery deer farm went south around 1997. In fact he started his own little deer farm with a buck from Avery's that I believe he named David. I think maybe Charlie's motives were a bit different back then... He did have a lot to do however with the promotion and success of QDM.. not really sure how involved he is with the QDMA.

I must be a billionaire then... LMAO.. I have 2 suits and once owned a 1977 $4000 Mercedes!! ... I'm pretty sure a rich guy wouldn't be doing his own shopping at Country Max. Maybe he just had a job. I apologize, sometimes I just can't help myself.

I remember some of those bucks

How do you know he was rich?

I can't believe how many hunters I've come across that had no idea where the doe only areas were... some thought it was the whole State. I wonder how many will shoot a buck in those areas out of sheer ignorance.

I have a funny feeling that when the numbers are in at the end of the year the DEC will be surprised how their little plan didn't work... unless they fudge the numbers that is... nah, they wouldn't do that would they?

It changes every so many years... lately WNY seems to be the hot spot with long island areas right on their heals. Madison County is pretty good as well in CNY.

So now he's telling us that the his SAFE ACT wasn't good enough? ... we need more??

Yeah.. usually there, Monroe and Wayne have quite a few bucks posted by now... believe me those guys have had plenty to say about the doe only thing since Thursday. But still lots of nice bucks coming in from elsewhere

Can there ever really be too many sporting goods stores??? LOL The outdorrsmen population in the Victor/ Rochester area just may be big enough to sustain that many... not sure.

Some of the bigger 2015 bucks so far... keep checking back to the page... there are more coming in every day. http://www.nyantler-outdoors.com/2015-new-york-whitetails.html

Cool Rack!! Lots of character... and GREAT photos!

I guess I just never thought much about it... usually I don't have anything in mind until I actually get in the woods, then everything depends on what's going on there. I suppose my first goal then would be getting my ass out of bed early... and I don't always accomplish that one.

That would be a good goal

I'd go in an hunt the hell out of the land.. thats why you bought it. All this pussy footing around the property to keep from spooking deer is a bunch of crap. Hunt the dang thing! Then go back and hunt it some more the next day... and the day after!

Hard to say for sure its the same buck... that buck would have trouble scoring 105... whether or not he's a keeper is up to you.

Has anyone heard of these?... I believe it's called patch and ball.

You have to think of the scoring system as merely a number used kinda like the Dewey decimal system... I tell the folks at the annual NYSBBC banquet every year that the scoring method is just a way to keep track of the deer that we record every year so that folks can see what an exceptional specimen of a whitetail looks like... kind of like knowing the height of the tallest man in the Guiness Book of World records... or the biggest fish... fastest human.. etc. It really means very little in the scheme of things... Its the hunters that have made it more than it was ever supposed to be.