AM I NUTS??

[kennym]

Sometimes I wonder!  This mornings buck at 10 yards. Looked him over thru the brush before he came in the timber with me , looked narrow, so when he came in I snapped a few poor pics of him(need a better camera)

He looks like a fine mature deer, but just didn't trip my trigger. After he moved out of range, I saw the lil droptine and 2 more vertical stickers!! LOL


 

MAN, am I having fun tho!!  

[Rusty Snuffers]

Send that "little one" down to SE LA.  I'll take care of him for you!  

[Dirtybird]

Well if you know you have bigger bucks on the property that helps.  I think this deer will be a real bruiser in a few.  You can't shoot a big one if you shoot a little one.  

[BenBow]

   

[MCS]

Yes. Lol.

[stik&string]

It may be nuts to some but your last sentence sums it up well. As long as you are having fun it's okay to be "nuts".

[joe ashton]

I've only got 8 days to hunt whitetails per year... I sure  I would have 'let' him hold one of my arrows.

[Bob B.]

Well ... um ... yeah, you are nuts.  I would have tried to take him.  

Heck, if you were not feeling it, then good on ya for letting him walk.  I jsut hope you are not like me ... I usually regret it when I let bucks walk because I rarely get another chance to see them again ... lots of pressure by me.

Here is hoping a better buck comes your way.    

Bob.

[Hoyt]

Naw..he's too fat.

[MCS]

I would have missed him anyhow.

[John Scifres]

I've found that if you have to ask that question, then yes, you generally are nuts.  Not for passing the deer though  

I like those big, fat, bruiser deer like that one.  they sure are hard to drag though.

[kennym]

I brightened the pic a lil, you can see the 2-3" drop ,looks like a lite spot on his left main beam(I think)     :D    

 

I  must be nuts as well. Last year I would have shot the deer in the photo without a second thought.  This year I have let a gang of four 8s that that size and perhaps even with better racks go past me a number of times.  But then I do have a reason for it,  they ain't does and none of them have that 26" wide rack I saw them following a couple of times.
I do not think the deer in the photo will grow all that much of a better rack than he has, I would guess that he is a fairly mature deer, judging by his body shape and size.

[Wind D Ranch]

Nope, acting nuts is taking the shot when you don't really want to.  Good job!    

[Whip]

That buck should be thanking his lucky stars that he lives in your woods and not mine!!

[wislnwings]

That's certainly better than what we see around here.

[KentuckyTJ]

Impressive bod thats for sure Kenny. He is definitely mature. You've got better ones. Good pass. Plus those big fat ones are harder for your wife to drag out.

[kennym]

Thats what I told Bro, he probably won't get much more bone.

 And, Tom, wife has a strict "YOU KILL IT YOU CLEAN IT" policy. That includes gettin it home too. Bro's back is out, so might have had to quarter him up!  :p  

She don't mind cookin wild game, but the year we cut up 13 deer(not all mine) hasn't left her mind just yet....  

[ron w]

Originally posted by Whip:
That buck should be thanking his lucky stars that he lives in your woods and not mine!!

Amen to that........      

[David Flanrey]

Kenny, remember what you told me about holding on to those tags too tightly?  Better start shootin.