How much does history with an animal mean to you? (ex cam pics, sheds, passed shots, etc) It didn't mean much to me when I was younger, but the older I get the more it interests me. Give me a 140 that I have history with over a 150 I know nothing about.
I just put up a thread on one that I am chasing from last year! LOL It is a nice one too! Have three trail cam shots and full match set of sheds from last year! Hope he is more than 12 points he had last year and more mass!
Me thinks your spoiled. :D I'll take the first 150 that walks by and I could care less if I've ever laid eyes on him. :p No seriously, an animal that you have some history with and hunt that particular animal and then connect, hell yes that means more than just a random deer but I'll still shoot a random deer if he's "the" one. ;-)
Don't get me wrong.. I wouldn't pass a good buck that I don't know to old out for another buck that I do know.... Just saying.... How cool would it be if Gary shot Mr. Mass? Much cooler than just another random buck with a nice set of antlers
Definitely. I've only had a history with one deer before, and it was neat simply to see him progress every year. Just getting to see him in the field each year was cool, actually getting a crack at him would be that much cooler.
My last buck I got with my bow was a deer I had passed on 3 different times that year and then almost took on October 3rd of that year. He wasn't a giant but a solid 3.5 yr. old. I thought it was pretty neat to actually see the whole let a young buck grow. Come to find out my cousin had pictures of this buck a week before I shot him working several scrapes about a mile away.
I have a history with one buck and it would mean a lot to finally get him. The first year he busted me. The second year I busted him but could not get the shot on him. Now we get to this year. I know where he sleeps. I found his secret trail. I just need the right "time". It would mean a lot.
Until I started messing with you guys on HNI and now here I never gave it much thought. Kind of like I passed him last year so he could get bigger but nothing more. Now the stories from some of you tell intrigue me and I think it is cool as heck.
I think it would be cool, but as you said I will never be to the point that I pass on an equivalent buck because it isn't the one I know. History makes for a cool story but not enough to make me hold out on another big buck. Its all about them antlers!
Personaly I could care less if I seen the deer I was about to kill before, makes no difference to me. .
Funny you posted this. I've got trail cam pics that -- if I'm right -- is of the same buck I've seen every year and that would put him as a 4 1/2 this year. He walked right under me as a 1 1/2 year od and hooked a huge community rub and scraped it up and down about 8 yards from my tree in a very tight pinchpoint. He had incredibly long cowhorn spikes that wrapped out almost to the tip of his nose. Nothing else, just those long old spikes. The next year, as a 2 1/2 year old, I saw him skirt through som CRP about 75 yards away and could tell it was the same buck -- same old long cowhorn spikes out to his nose, but now he had short little tines coming off it. Last year, when Matt and I were hunting together and he was filming, he came in as a 3 1/2 year old and I ALMOST got him on film; he put on one of the best shows during the rut you could imagine, making a couple scrapes and pawing the ground like a bull for nearly 30 minutes 45 yards away through some thick, gnarly brush. We later found out he had a doe on the other side of him we hadn't seen -- but I still got him to almost come to me by throwing everything but the kitchen sink at him. This year I've got him on trail camera right outside his bedroom: His beams and tine length are the giveaway for my area... Contrast that with this guy, which normally I would take in a heartbeat over the first one -- even though Matt and I rough-scored them from the photos using their faces for scale at 154" EACH, respectively. I just like how tall this guy is: So... even though I would normally prefer the tall one which I think is way cool, it'd be super-neat to kill the one I've had encounters with for the last four years.
Buckeye, it would mean a lot to me. The closest I have come to history was a bucks whose rubs I had found for years on cedar trees. The trees were ripped to shreds in a unique fashion, on the same trees year after year. One crisp November day the buck appeared after I had hunted the entire day. He was an older buck with a crazy looking rack. I had already killed a buck that year and was hesitant to shoot for god knows what reason even though I had a buck tag. He was a thick racked 6-8 pointer, with mangled looking points with crap all over his brow tines. I should have shot him, he would be and have been my first mature buck. I thought I was going to shoot a better buck that year. Stupid me.
At this point of my career, not a damn thing. I could care less about history, presently. Perhaps if I were to be more concerned with that, I could possibly be more successful, learn a little more. But I'm just about shootin 'em right now. History or no, matters not.
Absolutely would mean alot. This year i only know of one buck for sure that we've been watching the last 3 years. Nice 8 point. I'd love to get a crack at him and then frame all of his previous years pictures beside him
I have some good couple / few years of history with two bucks this year, would love to take either one... Neither one of them are giants either.
The buck I took last year was a deer I had seen for three years. The year before he was a little bigger, and he seemed to run the other bucks out of the area by November. Knowing it would likely be my last year hunting the spot something came over me and I wanted to shoot him after passing on him the two previous seasons while trying to shoot a larger 10. I watched that deer on numerous sits over the course of three years and I have a picture of him in velvet from last year with his 11th point still on his rack. He is the only Buck I have shot that I know several years history on.
I'm getting some history with a few on my place that I would love to kill. One 10 point in particular that I drew back on 3 times last year and never could get the shot off. I'd love to tag him this year.
In order to have a history with a buck it would have to live to get older.Very few bucks in my home area have that opportunity. Yes if I had a history with an animal,it would make the success of outwitting it that much sweeter.
