WNY Bowhunter

Congrats again to your uncle on his huge WNY buck and thanks for taking the time to share the pics with us. It's pretty unfortunate how taking a big deer can breed such jealousy and skepticism from some people...

Zoom in on the tag...it's a NY kill. This is the info given by the guy who posted it:

Correction...tjhe hunter lives in Seneca County...the deer was taken in ONTARIO County.

Saw this absolute slob of a buck on another forum...was supposedly killed this morning in Seneca County. Man, what a buck!!!

Yep, if he/she is within reasonable range and you have a steady rest that deer should be going home in the back of the truck...

Good post. I see that you accomplished your goal this year for sure!!! No mature buck for me at this point, but make no mistake...I have NO regrets for passing on the bucks that I have. Maybe I'll cross paths with some of those little guys again down the road, maybe I won't...not much more that I can do beyond not dropping the hammer on them myself. Until then, I've got several does resting in the freezer and will enjoy every bite of venison from now until it's gone. If you are happy tagging a young buck (with your own tag not your wife's) than more power to you. I just can't stomach the guys who kill several yearling bucks every year and than stand behind it with the excuse that there are no big bucks around. The old stand-bye saying of "if I don't kill him the neighbors will" only goes so far too. Many times so-called "trophy hunters" are seen as greedy and ego-driven by the so-called "meat hunters." Yet, they have no problem with taking a little buck just so their neighbors won't get him. That's a pretty selfish act in my book... The bottom line is: IT'S YOUR TAG. USE IT AS YOU WISH!!!

Looks like he's as old as he's gonna get!!! Seriously, he looks like a good 1.5 year old. I would definately pass...but, congrats to you on your buck!

Had a couple of does come out into the cloverfield that I was set-up on this AM. I watched them for 10 minutes waiting for mr. big to show up. He didn't. They started feeding off back towards the woods so I let the 7-08 bark and dropped this old girl like a ton of bricks.

Past his prime and on the downward slide...lol!

I kid you not, the DEC staff in Avon aged this deer @ 2.5!!! I guessed him @ 4.5 based on his tooth-wear and previous years shed. The cementum annuli test said 6.5 year old. I can not imagine a 140 class 5.5 year old blowing into a upper 190's (if unbroken) the following year?

May I asked who aged him? I'm guessing a taxidermist. I think that people put too much stock in what their taxi's say when it comes to aging deer. He does look really young to me. I'd guess 2.5, but definately no older than 3.5... That certainly is a great looking young buck, one that would have been a bruiser had he lived another year or two. However, I don't think that he was "one-in-a-thousand" by any means. Here are a couple of two year olds on a farm that I hunt. I've got my fingers crossed that at least one of the two will make through season...

Dang, I can't believe that this thread is still so active...

I think that you correct. Looks to me like he would have scored a bit more last year too.

The photo of the live deer is from 2010...meaning it's the same deer but not the same set of antlers. The general frame of the two sets of antlers is still very similiar.

Not true.

Boy, it sure does look like the same deer. That's a giant no doubt, but i don't think he'll hit the 200" mark. Here's the Cornell buck from 2010:

I hear you man. I'm a hardcore turkey hunter too; every fall I get upset that here in Region 8 our season opens during the third week of October and it conflicts with my bowhunting (sucks I'm in a 1-bird area too). Usually, I'll save my fall turkey hunting for the crappy weather days... So, I was hunting some winery property yesterday afternoon and saw a monster longbeard heading for roost right at 5:00. I knew that he'd be close by this morning and it was too good of an opportunity to pass up. Got set up at daybreak and discovered that there was a whole flock roosting along this steep ravine. They carried on in the tree and flew down across the gulley. The were picking/scratching there way up towards me but I couldn't see them due to the thick cover I was sitting in. They headed up towards a field and I belly crawled down to where I could get in a better position to shoot. Started calling with my mouthcall and the boss hen got all fired up. I finally irritated her enough that she came on in to kick my butt with the rest of the flock in tow. I was laying prone and only had a small opening to shoot through. I couldn't locate the longbeard from the evening before...it was a now-or-never scenario as the birds were starting to get all clustered up...I opted to take a nice fat jake before it was too late. So, I didn't get the big gobbler I was gunning for, but it was a fun time with all of the suspense and thrill of a spring-time turkey hunt. Now that the turkey tag is punched it's time to endure this crappy weather and get back after the task of putting a nice buck on the ground...

He has a three-cusped third premolar meaning he was a yearling (year and a half old)... Here's his head compared to that of a buttonbuck (fawn)...

Here's the 3-cusped third premolar that tells that this guy was a yearling buck, not a fawn...

Here's deer #2 for the season. My big doe ended up being a buck that never grew antlers. All he had were fawn-like buttons...

Nice work. I killed a big one with my bow in '08. I typically don't see too many of them while bowhunting.

It was a year and a half old buck (had 3-cusped third premolar).

Nope...he had a very prominate package.

Here is its head compared to that of a normal buck fawn (buttonbuck)...

Well, I shot what I believed to be a mature doe last night. Upon recovery, it ended up being a buck that never grew antlers...all he has were little nubs indicative of a buttonbuck. I guess that he was a good deer to get out of the herd...