Murder mystery!

[Sligh1]

I get to blind hour ago. Settle in. “What the heck!?!?!?!” Right in front of me. I pop down real quick & quiet. Puss around skull cap. Tiny bloody hole as well in skull cap. I should have taken pics of that. 90% sure from fighting. He was just walking around & a buck we wanted kids to try for. Life in the wild!!!!

 

[letemgrow]

That’s nuts!!!

That’s part of the reason why we keep coming back-you never know what you’re going to see.


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[jkratz5]

Unreal. You guys are having some bad luck with the fighting this year

 

[203ntyp]

Bummer. Part of the whitetail reality, they can be best friends all year long and then for a couple months they mean business and all previous friendships are forgotten. Just for little nookie, I guess humans would fight too if it only happened once a year, oh wait, at my age it rings true but just can't fight for it anymore

 

[Obsessed]

That was an old bully buck in my opinion. I'll bet he kicked a ton of ass in his life. There's always, eventually, a bigger badass on the block though. Love it.

 

[Hardwood11]

That crow is just waiting

 

[ReinertsonTaxidermy]

I’ve gotten in 3 that would have been dead anyway in the next few hours. All from fighting. One guy stalked on a 180 and realized he was screwed and shot him barely standing at 10 yards. His whole brain cavity looked like pistachio pudding, gross skin job!

 

[Wi transplant]

Too many older age bucks in an area lots of serious fights! Need to thin more old non trophy potential bucks out! Lots of fun!!

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[crietveld]

Some days I think getting shot is the least of a bucks worries in surviving.

 

[Sligh1]

THIS is why we pound the 4+ year old bullies…. Or any older buck that might not have a great rack or he’s maxed out. We will pass NONE of them.
Text my brother about this- he replies… “we have too many bucks!!” & he’s right. It sounds insane but the population has gotten up & there’s a good handful of bucks that need targeted. *when I say “too many bucks” - many of those are 110-140” older deer. We always shoot them but there’s quite a few around this year.

My boy charlie- his deer was a prime candidate. Broke off part of brow & he was a fighter. We got 2 other lower scoring deer that often would have been passed as well. Dead. IMO- any bully, maxed out buck or low scoring deer that’s old, etc- never should be passed. It’s critical to hunt those deer (& rewarding/fun when you get one - not minimizing the “trophy” of them). They take up several spots… how aggressive, dangerous & dominating they are is very real.

 

[meyeri]

That's pretty crazy. Wonder how many concussions these bucks suffer over the years, you'd think they suffer some sort of trauma from all the fighting they do. Tough animals!!