Michael J?

[WACATHUNTER]

I just wanted to see if you have seen that beaut of a buck that you found last shed season, woulf love to see what he look like this year, if he made it through the season. THnaks
WACAT

 

[MichaelJ]

I myself have not seen him this year, nor has anybody else in the 'Valley (that I know of). The thing is, we know he was atleast 9 1/2 years old last winter so he was deffinately getting up there. Compared last year's NT side to the year before's NT side and he definately regressed (still grossed 190" though). Seen a lot of bucks this winter, just none of the monsters that we saw the year before.

Michael
"What I could do, I was doing, and that was simply putting my butt on the line for my country, the country that I loved, so that all the protestors and the academics and the liberal intelligentsia back home could enjoy the right to protest against people like me, the hated middleclass." --Gary R. Smith, US Special Forces

 

[WACATHUNTER]

Thats too bad, he was a great buck. Good luck, thanks for the reply.
WACAT

 

[MichaelJ]

No problem, I'm curious to see if he is out there still however. A member here on MM.com contacted me in late November and said he'd seen "my" buck the last day of the general rifle season up one "helacious canyon" just after he'd tagged out on a smaller buck. I asked for a little more details but never got a reply. If he made it through the general season, then I think there's a good chance he made it through the late season as a friend of mines family owns a couple thousand acres above where he winters so I don't think a late season hunter could've gotten to him either...

Michael
"What I could do, I was doing, and that was simply putting my butt on the line for my country, the country that I loved, so that all the protestors and the academics and the liberal intelligentsia back home could enjoy the right to protest against people like me, the hated middleclass." --Gary R. Smith, US Special Forces

 

[washingtonbuckhound]

To Michael J:

How do you know its 9 1/2 years old? You would think if its that old it would be going way down hill. If it is just now starting to regress wouldnt you think it would be a six or seven year old deer?

 

[MichaelJ]

buckhound, hows it going?
As of a year ago my buddy has known a guy that watched this buck for approx. 5 years as a mature buck on the same winter range. So even if you start him as a 4 1/2 year old buck, that would mean last year he was 9 1/2 years old, and this year would've been 10 1/2...

Michael
"What I could do, I was doing, and that was simply putting my butt on the line for my country, the country that I loved, so that all the protestors and the academics and the liberal intelligentsia back home could enjoy the right to protest against people like me, the hated middleclass." --Gary R. Smith, US Special Forces