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How?!? Teach me your ways!

He must have terrorized the other bucks wanting to fight him!! Great deer.

Awesome stuff!

Awesome haul!

Contact the DEC rep for your area. There are wild game waste laws on the books.

Stop showing off your 20 yard groups!

Rob, did you settle on a slug for savage? My buddies shoot the 20 gauge mag Rem accutip.

I have seen a deer tagging study where a buck had a home range then during the rut, he shifted to a soybean field 4 miles away with lots of does then returned back to home range after rut. Food on property is critical.

After the blow, make sure you are on stand in a travel corridor.

Or shot from road.

Looks like he is in a nocturnal mode.

You could put out an APB for a large pear-shaped man with a beard but that would describe 95% of the hunting public.

I wonder if they are looking for a downed deer. They have no weapon.

Was the wind swirling lol?

Rob, check out Kentucky for a DIY at Big Rivers WMA. Lots of land .....and doe permits.

I am picturing some white Gambler rigs, sprayed with doe’n heat, twisting gently in the wind while dangling from a tree stand.

Great buck. I think you shot him at his peak.

I think it has to do with our winters killing bucks weakened from rut and the fact we can shoot two bucks per season. Kansas only allows one buck per season and has easy winters.

Yes, your doe ratio appears “off”. The week I spent in Kansas was an eye opener for me. In 2011 CWD and blue-tongue wiped out a ton of deer out west. The diseases killed indiscriminately buck or doe, young or old, at all times of the year. The result of equal killing of the sexes is a buck to doe ratio that is dam close to one-to-one. The intense competition for does was evident. I had a close encounter chase scene every day in the woods. Here in NY, I may see one per year!

Great bucks guys!!

It’s all were you hit them. Were I am hunting the group has a policy of draw blood = done hunting + $200 fine that goes to food plot fund.

We have found one. The story is the same. Either hunter got excited and tried a quartering-to shot hitting the shoulder with minimal penetration or they are gut shot. The problem with the gut shot ones is there are coyotes everywhere out here and they find them quick. Once jumped out of their bed by the coyotes, there is no blood trail to follow just clumps of hair here and there.

I went on some more deer track calls the past two days. All calls were from Rage broadheads users.