What I mean by this is are you a Trophy hunter or do you just want to kill deer? By now most everyone on here knows this will be only my second hunting season. As of right now I have one target buck but, if its a doe she going in the freezer. We don't have a limit on does. 2 bucks is our limit and once you fill all six tags you can buy more doe tags. Now if that buck walks out and presents a shot. He will join the does. I do have standards on bucks though. I won't shooting just anything that walks by as far as bucks go. It will have to be as big or bigger than my target buck. Now we do have some older guys that have little tiny messed up looking racks that we need to get out of the gene pool and I will take one of those if they come out. What about you??
I like to fill my freezer with elk meat, not real picky and then focus on hunting the big bucks. Good luck this season.
Filling the freezer is my main goal, so i'll prob try to get 2 bucks and a doe or 2. depends on what walks past my stand. I'm not to picky on buck size, because once gun season opens, it's a sea of orange...
In high school, college and law school, I was mega-broke, so I basically lived on nothing but about a half-dozen variations of deer meat. I'm so damn sick of deer meat that I can barely even think about eating it. You can't even imagine how good it feels to finally be able to afford good old, farm-fed beef. What I'm saying is that a lardass doe could walk up to my stand with saddle-packs full of butchering equipment, lay down on the ground, slather herself in marinade and wrap herself in freezer paper, and I still wouldn't dirty my arrow. I hunt nothing but big bucks. I don't have much time to hunt, so my stand time is too precious to waste dragging does, especially when I'm just going to give them away. When my buck's head hits the ground, my first set of phone calls goes out to all of my extended family members who might be in the market for about 60# of fresh deer meat. I'll even drop it at the butcher's and deliver it to their door. The King is full-service. I hope to see these two wrapped in vacuum paper this winter:
My main target this year is to get my 10 year old son on his first whitetail. For myself I want to harvest a couple of does and a mature buck. The other goal for the season is to capture all of this on film.
this is my first year out in a long time plus first real season with the bow (i don't count last year) so i will try to get a kill or two this year. not too picky about it either this year.
Any doe that I see i'm going to shoot but the buck has to be big for me to shoot unless its on public land then I will shoot at a smaller one
I'm generally look for a buck that is 125+ inches If I see a buck that I think would look good on my wall I'll let an arrow fly
A little buck and a doe for the freezer then another buck for looks.....well that's my plan anyway it doesn't mean that's how it's gonna work out
Being that I only have public land to hunt, I take what I can get. I will let the little guys walk early in the season though. I try to hold out for a respectable mature buck, but that oppurtunity doesnt always arise.
