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Here is the one thing that I think most people do. You have a herd of does in front of you, the biggest doe gets hammered. Reason 1, probably not gonna be a button buck, and reason 2, I think guys feel better if they shot a huge doe instead of just a doe. In general a bigger bodied doe and one...

Awesome awesome statement. I have often said that we should be managing doe quality more than buck quality. Missouri pushed a trend of shoot the biggest doe and leave the young ones. To cut the population down Well if you shoot the does that will raise the biggest healthiest fawn and always go...

I was about to get into front tooth aging, but then came across way to many cases where a guy had a buck on camera for 7 years worth of pics and they aged him at 5. The guy figured he was 3 or 4 in his first set of pics. Of course he thought they were 4 to 5 years off in their analysis and was...

Here is what I an getting at though. Your county has probably 4 - 5 times the deer mine does. No deer lives solely on 60 acres unless he is a very old wise wise wise deer(rare) and that 60 has zero human intereference. Mine is not all in one piece. I wish it was. I have a 65, 85, 150, and 300...

I wish I could reassess my neighbors to somewhere else. LOL The NW corner of MO does not have antlerless season anymore and reduced does tags. We were devastated by EHD in 2012. Have never fully recovered. We used to kill 18 - 22 deer a year off our farm every year. Now its 1-3. You are...

This is where MO and IA probably differ a lot. Over the last 7 years of running 20 cameras on 600 acres. We have maybe had a dozen bucks on camera 2 years. Only 1 buck that I know of, we had him on camera 3 years. My boys would say maybe 2 or 3 bucks more have been on there several years but...

I have heard it said that in general the average buck makes it to 145 regardless of age. Here in northen MO I would about gaurantee that there are very few 4.5 year old bucks period. The huge majority are killed at 2 and 3. I think way to many people assume that all deer will make 170 if given...

A lot of people will spend big bucks to try and beat their neighbors to the big buck!

Some big deer in that there article!

Congrats on the old bruiser.

Reading back through this I should have replied, " Si Senor.":D

I will tell him congrats. (my daughter shot the big one though LOL)

Congratulations. Love to see family memories being made together. Hopefully in a year or two we might be able to head west.

That’s why I shared it. I figure in the next 30 years none of the 8 of us will shoot an 8 pointer bigger than this one. Thanks!

To me he looks like he would fit right in with many of the "studs" at the Iowa Deer Classic.

Hopefully this link works. I have been told this is a buck along highway 2. GIANT regardless.

Biggest deer I have ever seen or shot was a doe. This was back about 1980. We did not get a weight on her. The check station guy in Albany MO said he thought she would go 275-300 gutted. I was in Jr High. I had no clue I may have shot a record deer weight wise, she was just a big doe to me. The...

Yes I have a pile of 1980's racks in my basement that I show the kids every now and then. They are reaping the benefits of 40 years of deer learning and education, truly living in the golden age of whitetails. Back in the day my wife shot a 115" 8 pointer. It had 11" G2s, fairly long G3s, a...

Yep. Northern Missouri. Haha.

My 14 year old son and my 24 year old daughter had a hunt that may never be topped. They doubled up filming and shooting a couple of good 8's. I taught them how to shoot, but otherwise I can't claim any credit for this video. They did it all! Best part of this to me is the "family" part of...