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Originally Posted By: Tamid
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Why would you say an older buck? By the look of his antlers and very small G4 and G5 I would say he was 3 years and very symmetrical. Leaving him for another year may have seen a significant improvement on his tines.


By his overall look, Tamid, including his head shape and coloration, the flatness of the main beams of his antlers, and his emaciated condition. It's been my experience that antlers that have a more flatter main beam appearance are usually older deer here. More upright main beams are usually younger deer.

John, I'd say the rut here is 80 to 90% done.

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Originally Posted By: Stan
John, I'd say the rut here is 80 to 90% done.

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That's just crazy, Stan. I assumed Miss. and Ga. were on about the same timeline for the rut. Over here, there won't be any scrape activity for 2 weeks at least, and will go into early January. Have a feeling it will be late this year as well, even though it's the sun angle and not temperature, that drives it. You can't tell the good ol' boys that, though. "Rut ain't gon' kick off real good 'til we get some sho nuff cold nights."
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I don't know why it's like that, John. But, we start seeing scrapes here in September.

You can tell by the looks of the buck Geo. posted that they've been running does hard, and neglecting eating, for some time now.

I'll be glad when it's over. They won't be quite as bad a road hazard when the bucks bunch back up together. I saw about 25 on the roadside coming from the peanut field to my house about half hour ago.

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I took this buck from my shooting house, a week ago today.The gun is a 12-bore double rifle that I built about 20 years ago. The load that it's regulated with is the Lightfield Hybred 1 1/4 ounce sabot slug. One shot through the lungs at 123 yards dropped him in his tracks. I have no way of weighing him but his live weight was certainly over 300 pounds.




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Amazing buck Ron! How wide is the antler spread on that one? We don't grow'em like that in the South...Geo

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Hi George. I rough-measured it using the rifle barrels at about 23 1/2". I've probably killed 40 whitetails and 20 mule deer in my long life but this guy is far and away the biggest!
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Some friends and I spent 4 days hunting in NW Kansas for the opener, pheasant numbers were ok, quail numbers were very good. We had a great time. Here are a few photos.

























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