Deer age poll

[LPJR]

2 hours ago, nmc02 said:

I got a guy that is 10 miles from your house that makes the nicest longbows around...........

Nick, if he agrees to it post some of his bows on here. Literally the nicest I have seen. Osage orange wood I believe, no? 

[nmc02]

1 hour ago, Bojaffa said:

NMCO2 Who is your longbow guy?

Frank Falotico out of Stillwater, NJ....his are as good or BETTER as any out there

[nmc02]

20 minutes ago, LPJR said:

Nick, if he agrees to it post some of his bows on here. Literally the nicest I have seen. Osage orange wood I believe, no? 

All custom, so customers pick wood type. Osage is a very good & popular wood type for bows

[TDietz]

How about spikes?  I’ve been hunting this state along time boys and years ago I hardly ever saw a spike. Now it’s gotta be about 25 percent of the bucks I see are spikes. You know they gotta be breeding. I think it’s every thing mentioned on here and high grading. 
 

And there’s a lot of people feeding deer all the time. I have two different people close to my house that feed deer out of livestock feed pans. One of them has a goat pen and when I drive by there will be a deer inside the pen eating out of a livestock feed pan. Probably corn. And when you consider what modern day corn products like high fructose corn syrup does to humans that get addicted to it…. I think that along with habitat degradation there’s a possibility that some bucks eat too much crap. All the big time midwestern deer hunters I watch on YouTube feed their deer stuff that’s been developed just for deer. Just saying 

[KBfishing]

13 hours ago, JHbowhunter said:

been thinking of that and other ideas to change things up to relieve the boredom.   

Go goose hunting 

 

Oh wait...you don't like shooting guns. 

[Michael Britt]

9 hours ago, TDietz said:

How about spikes?  I’ve been hunting this state along time boys and years ago I hardly ever saw a spike. Now it’s gotta be about 25 percent of the bucks I see are spikes. You know they gotta be breeding. I think it’s every thing mentioned on here and high grading. 
 

And there’s a lot of people feeding deer all the time. I have two different people close to my house that feed deer out of livestock feed pans. One of them has a goat pen and when I drive by there will be a deer inside the pen eating out of a livestock feed pan. Probably corn. And when you consider what modern day corn products like high fructose corn syrup does to humans that get addicted to it…. I think that along with habitat degradation there’s a possibility that some bucks eat too much crap. All the big time midwestern deer hunters I watch on YouTube feed their deer stuff that’s been developed just for deer. Just saying 

What's wrong with a spike breeding? It's not like because it's only a spike at that moment, all the male offspring are doomed to be spikes. 🤣

[TDietz]

2 hours ago, Michael Britt said:

What's wrong with a spike breeding? It's not like because it's only a spike at that moment, all the male offspring are doomed to be spikes. 🤣

not sure if you are joking or serious, but there is definitly some genetics involved and if I had achoice as to which bucks do the breeding I wouldn't want spikes doing any of it

[MGHunter66]

This thread needs an enema

[megavites]

Not a single buck over 3.5 this yr on 3 properties. 

[nmc02]

Plenty of mature bucks. Just because you don't see them, doesn't mean they are not there!!!!!!!!!! Ask LittleM.

How many times have you heard of guys killing a monster that no one has on camera?????!!! More common than not. 

[archer36]

19 minutes ago, nmc02 said:

Plenty of mature bucks. Just because you don't see them, doesn't mean they are not there!!!!!!!!!! Ask LittleM.

How many times have you heard of guys killing a monster that no one has on camera?????!!! More common than not. 

You can't come to any conclusions based on about a dozen guys on a hunting forum. There are lots of guys out there that do not participate in such forums. When I go to the butcher and see the bucks hanging in the cooler, I realize what we do and post here is insignificant. 

[Live to Hunt]

Oh god Harris you didn’t