Ive heard that you only get a chance to stick a buck over 150 once in a life time. Is that the norm for you guys? Shooting a buck over 200 is what I would say is a buck of a life time, but im sure its all different around the country.
Yeah I think its different everywhere. Also, for each person. Like if theres a person with the time and money to travel a lot and hunt all over the country its different for them. Or someone with an enormous amount of land who can manage deer better then the guy with 50 acres or only public land. With that said, for me I think it would be over 170. I may not ever shoot one, or even over 150 for that matter, but I might. And who knows, I might get lucky and some how manage more then one buck over 170, but in my opinion, in my current situation, that would be a freak event lol.
Being from Alabama and the fact that my personal best is a 131 5/8, I would say a 150 would be a dream buck for me. I do take a week trip in november every year to hunt some public land in the midwest, but have yet to connect on a real good one. That would be my best chance for one, because a 150 here is almost unheard of.
200" or more while I have not connected with one over 135" I've seen countless deer over the 150" mark, that's including the 200"+ buck I missed in Rifle season last year.
I would say any deer 5 1/2 or older that you have history with and have been outwitted by numerous times. I saw an argument today about the scoring of a particular buck and how Milo Hansen has had his drawers in a twist over the scoring since it was killed. At the end of the day both deer were killed by lucky S.O.B's sitting on their asses while others pushed the deer to them. To me that is not how I would picture taking a buck of a lifetime. There was a buck Graf took by bow a few years ago that he had history with and scored around 193 or the one his buddy killed last season that they both hunted and had history with that scored over 200. There was Shipwreck which was taken by Sam Collara and hunted by Dan Johnson who shot it but didn't kill it. Bucks like that are bucks of a lifetime to me. For me there is a 160" 8 point that I hope is still around where I hunt, he gave me the slip in 2009 and 2010 but I never saw him last year. For me he would be my buck of a lifetime based on the countless hours I have obsessed over taking him and I could care less if his rack has taken a turn for the worse with age.
Start sending love pm's to Cole (iHunt), that dude knocks down a 150 plus every season and acts like it is just another day in the woods of Kansas.
Haha hey now. I did have another 150 standing 15 yards broadside from me this morning, it was just too dark. But I agree with my fellow Kansan, over 150 is a shooter and over 200 is a buck of a lifetime. Sent from my pocket computer using Tapatalk
Strick nine Would be the deer of my life time. He isnt a 200 inch deer but I have been hunting him for 4 years. I guess If I get to write the script it would be my Dad kills Strick Nine late season with me running the camera and he myself and the kids get to go find him. That would be the buck of my life time.
in CT, the biggest buck i've ever heard being taken was somewhere around 230, but that was also on a well managed property. aside from that monster, the biggest i've ever seen taken from my area was a shoulder mount of a 145. i've seen deer that would be close to 130, so given what i've seen so far where i live, i would shake like a leaf for a week if I shot a 140. that would be my buck of a lifetime
Hope I can never definitively answer that question. I enjoy going after the next one too much to ever benchmark one as once in a lifetime. I am 95% confident I missed a buck over 200" with my rifle while I was still in middle school. Can't say for certain, but a month later a 206" was killed 800 yards away. I had no clue how big it was at the time, and looking back it may be a good thing I didn't bag that deer. If I would have connected on every big buck I had a chance at before the age to legally drive even, I'd have likely been burnt out on deer hunting with 4 160"+ deer on the wall. All the failures early on are what fueled my fire to get into hunting.
