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growalot

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So I only have a minute, Mr.B. turns 59 today, so I have a feast to make. He wouldn't let me take him out to dinner... But while out and about doing errands and blood work, I ran into neighbors daughter. Well her friend, who was with her had been allowed to hunt and got  one of the big 8pts in gun...I'll have to check cam pics, I believe I have him..9 in. brows and a heavy 18'' spread on the rack. The only one taken  there but  they spotted the big double drop tine...before bow season and they were hunting him hard...No ones seen him since my sighting in bow season...He showed me 2 absolute monsters gotten by friends...one 10-12...to be honest I was having a hard time processing the tine length to notice point #s..I said to him those G3's must be 16 inches ...he said 17 and change the shortest tine was 16 other than the brow guards...Poughs Hole, not sure Dansville ...the other was a massive 8pt out of Groveland. I now know of at least two monster taken in our town neither on the hill or the double drop yet ...I wish I had the cell phone..I would have had him send me the pics. So they told me straight up...the deer were not leaving the property much and all the buck stayed together really late...they told me exactly where they were crossing ...and that the guys behind them and Vermonters where hanging their lines BIG time...which is why she had a new non family member hunt..apparently the shoulder cut wasn't.  She broke her arm at the should and has pins, screws and staples...ouch...country life's not easy...

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I think it was a very good year for quality/good bucks.

Not as many "top-end" bucks in our immediate area, but lots of people got good bucks this year. If we had a normal spring/summer rather than the dryness, it'd probably have been one of the best years ever. Dry springs and summers tend to limit antler growth, and that is why the Midwest has had a bit of rebound in top end bucks this season after a few tough years (relatively speaking). They didn't have the dry spring/summer like we did.

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The Midwest is really rebounding from EHD as well.  It took a few years for those big bucks to grow back.  I agree that the dry weather had an effect.  It really reduced the quality of feed.  At least that's what I saw on my family's farm, and in my garden.

On the flip side, we saw great deer thanks to a really mild winter.  Also, Vermont has had a "no-spikehorn" law since 2005, and our deer have been getting bigger ever since.  We don't have the deer numbers of NY, so management becomes even more important.  I'm glad that the state actually got one decision right.

 

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I think it was a very good year for quality/good bucks.
Not as many "top-end" bucks in our immediate area, but lots of people got good bucks this year. If we had a normal spring/summer rather than the dryness, it'd probably have been one of the best years ever. Dry springs and summers tend to limit antler growth, and that is why the Midwest has had a bit of rebound in top end bucks this season after a few tough years (relatively speaking). They didn't have the dry spring/summer like we did.

I agree it's crazy to think what would've been without the drought. Was our best year yet.

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wolc123 Grand Master

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As a pure meat hunter, this was my best year.  I did not see any real large-antlered bucks.  I passed a few small ones and I killed the two largest-bodied ones that I saw this year.   I also killed one very large doe and another average-sized one.  The best-eating deer so far (based on the tenderloins and liver) was the button buck that a friend shot on our farm (I transferred one of my DMP's to him).   I was somewhat thankful to make it thru the year without a mountable buck but with plenty of venison.  Now I can put that money towards a new rifle for my oldest daughter.  Next year she will be old enough to hopefully help fill the freezer, not just empty it.  

The drought did not hurt me much because I live on a mucky, bottomland farm where corn grows better on dry years than wet ones.   I lost my whole corn crop to wettness the year before and killed zero deer here.  The corn I had on my best drained soil this year did not pan out very well, but in the low spots it did ok.  I sprayed the weeds and wiped out the coons by trapping to save what I had until ML season.  We ended up killing a total of 6 deer (3 antlered bucks, the BB, and two big does) in and around 4 acres of corn.   That brought the cost of boneless venison down to less than $1.00 per pound after subtracting all input costs.   I will probably have to wait for Heaven see better results than that.  God sure has been blessing me down here on earth.             

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Lawdwaz Grand Master

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Average year for me; three buck (two here and one in PA) and a couple doe.  Happily I killed a couple with the bow and couple with the rifle.  The ML'r came in last with just one notch.........

Even though our daughter is away at school a fair amount we can still eat all I kill.  Gun season continues to be my most difficult time.  I feel like I'm a pretty at figuring things out for archery season then I revert to being a Happy Day Wanger when gun opens........ :)

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