New 196" state record buck out of Morris county?

[BowhunterNJ]

Also listed on the Mountain Trail Whitetails - Finest Trophy Deer Hunting in New Jersey Facebook page.
 
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[BowTechExperience]

He is still a beautiful majestic animal, and a shame not taken under fair chase conditions.  I don't think though that it would qualify as a NJ record deer if  not taken as "fair chase'".

[BHC]

Yeah don't take anything away from the deer, but this dude will now consider himself a NJ PROSTAFFER!!!!

[BowTechExperience]

Yeah don't take anything away from the deer, but this dude will now consider himself a NJ PROSTAFFER!!!!

 

 

Haha... Dick's might sponsor him... Heard he used a new custom deer attractant called "High Fence". Very popular with all the new age Mall Ninja hunters dressing in all black while wearing a Fidel Castro military style hat.

[Axiom]

 

Haha... Dick's might sponsor him... Heard he used a new custom deer attractant called "High Fence". Very popular with all the new age Mall Ninja hunters dressing in all black while wearing a Fidel Castro military style hat.

 

 

   

[runum n gunum]

The truth comes out

[mickrazz]

Preserve deer don't count.

[Matty]

That's a lot of coin just to shoot a buck. 

 

I mean, yeah, it's huge....but it's not like putting in the time to scout a real, wild, buck, then matching wits with him for a few years, or even just one season. That's the part I enjoy. Killing them is the sad ending to a much enjoyed journey.

 

[Axiom]

 

I mean, yeah, it's huge....but it's not like putting in the time to scout a real, wild, buck, then matching wits with him for a few years, or even just one season. That's the part I enjoy

 

 

 

Yeah.. I'd probably get about as much enjoyment out of that hunt as i would hunting for domesticated cows...

[PV216]

Ive gone on a preserve hunt before, about 10 years ago. Its not something id do again except for maybe a pig hunt. I would think certain preserves are more "wild" than others but nothing beats true fairchase conditions imo. To each his own.

[Bucksnbows]

With many of these preserve hunts, it's not just that you are shooting a huge buck in a relatively small enclosure, but you are mostly shooting genetically selected bucks grown just for antler growth and fed special diets to augment size.  To me personally, the entire thing smacks of a fake hunt.  But to each his or her own.  My biggest fear of high fenced hunts is the potential to spread CWD.  It's only a matter of time until we get hit with that here in NJ.  

[Haskell_Hunter]

You're spot on about the breeding.  The folks who own the preserve advertise their stud buck for breeding.  His lineage (pedigree, maybe?) is also listed on his breeding page.  I found it yesterday while Googling the contact number for the preserve.  It was a couple of pages back, but I think the buck is housed and bred in PA, but I wasn't sure of that.

[Bucksnbows]

You're spot on about the breeding.  The folks who own the preserve advertise their stud buck for breeding.  His lineage (pedigree, maybe?) is also listed on his breeding page.  I found it yesterday while Googling the contact number for the preserve.  It was a couple of pages back, but I think the buck is housed and bred in PA, but I wasn't sure of that.

 

As a breeder of big bucks, one would buy a proven big-racked buck's sperm in a straw and then uses that to impregnate a doe to begin the stud lineage.  I'll leave to your imagination how the buck's sperm gets into the doe via the very expensive filled straw.  There is nothing remotely natural about the process of breeding pen raised monster bucks which is why, in addition to the high fence aspect, that they don't qualify for B&C or P&Y record books.   

[Nomad]

A spike shot on public land is a greater "trophy" than that buck.