I wish I saw more Northeast hunters on the show

How's this for starters?

 

Zoom in and check out the brow tines on this guy. He was 261 live weight.

 

Here's another one. Not as big as the first but still nice.

 

I will get you pictures of more. I have a 10 that had 6 on one side and 4 on the other that weighed 284lbs and a couple of monster 8's. They are there but they are difficult to hunt with a bow.

 

It takes years of shooting spikes and crotches and does to create this. It also takes years of providing quality food and eliminating predators. If you have a bunch of hunters in your group and neighboring properties that shoot 1.5 year old 6 pointers that weigh 110lbs you can forget about shooting mature bucks with measurable inches. We have 1100 acres to hunt and all of the guys know the difference between a 90lb 4 or 6 pointer and a 180lb 4 or 6 pointer. Make sence?

 

Unfortunately, that seems to be the problem in Vermont. Too many hunters that dont have the patience for growth. If they see a legal buck, its gone. I do most of my hunting in NY because of this. Dont get me wrong, there are uneducated folks everywhere, but it just seems like there's more cohesive efforts in NY.

 

There isn't a large enough continuous piece of private property in the state of Vermont to regularly produce 150" bucks, once every 10 years, maybe. The problem is with such low deer density and most land owners or non land owners having access to smaller parcels, they're going to shoot the first legal buck they see (2pts on one side). I have control of around 600 acres in the north east kingdom of Vermont with an additional 1500+ acres that borders our back line, this other property has very little access and is remote to the point of getting very little pressure. Our property has the food, bedding and lots of year round water. We were productive in holding far more does and fawns than normal this year, however from August through October we never had a single buck on camera, 9-11 cameras, 20+ does and fawns that Could be identified as different. I'm not saying that with time we couldn't produce more and better bucks with this specific property but not 150 class bucks. The first week of November we had 4 bucks roll through one of the food plots, one time each. I assume a doe come into estrus early. We just don't have the natural deer density to promote genetics and productive growth in a reasonable amount of time. We also have more trespassers than deer, and laws that make it basically impossible to keep people off your land, and prosecution doesn't exist.
We also average less than one buck a year taken off our property!

This was the best of 4 bucks on camera all season


You are blessed to grow quality deer in the north east, it's not like that everywhere.

 

I am also from the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, tough place to hunt for sure! We certainly don't have the deer numbers like the midwest but we do have some nice bucks running around.

 

Here is a NEK buck.

 

I would like to see them have someone from Iowa on the show. I'm surprised they haven't gotten anyone from there, or if they do I must've missed them from the past few seasons.

 

I live in the corn belt and still shoot 100'' deer. Shoot what makes you happy
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Guess ill have to get a camera and try to film some hunts! Would love to represent the Northeast!

 

well here in CT if you have a good block of timber you can have some good bucks on it.