When I showed the photo of the buck to the land owner, he classified him as a "Trophy Buck", which is a very rare designation on this ranch.If someone is very lucky, they will harvest him this year. The best one I saw was a very heavy ten pointer. We were hunting for does only and we saw several magnificent bucks. Two weekends ago, I was on a Youth Hunt on one of the great ranches in our area. I watched him for ten minutes as he walked through the timber near me. BUT, I only briefly saw the buck cross a road and could not see for sure that he was 13" inside. I have not hunted by myself in years and would have been thrilled to harvest a big buck. When I mentioned that this subspecies of whitetail has shorter ears than deer in other parts of the state,the game warden quips "His ears spread 13 inches".) One buck is harvested by a hunter (not my group)and it is a dandy 12 pt.Only one is less than 13" (again more like 12.5" and the deer is obviously old). It is a TP&W managed area of several thousand acres and much better than what the average hunter gets to hunt on around here. The game warden ages the deer at 4.5-5.5 years.Ģ. I age the deer and he appears to be a 5.5 year old trophy. Soil is acidic and minerals are leached out of soil.) The buck is 12.5" wide.
(Shooting is in heavy timber with quick evaluations. A father and son (not part of my group) harvest a beautiful, heavy 10 pt. Let me give some examples of experiences I have had with this:ġ. bucks have you seen that have more than a 12" spread? The answer is.very few. My question is why the radical approach? The hunter's rule could have been to shoot outside the ears and the spread limit for fines could have been set at 11" or 12". buck and I have seen hundreds of older bucks in my 45 years of deer hunting in this area, that are less than 13" inside spread. Yet, I have never seen a 13 inch inside spread 18 mos. I am a Hunt Project leader for a Youth group and as such I have seen the effects of AR in the areas we typically hunt.įirst, the law was supossedly to protect 18 month old bucks from making up most of the harvest. I think you have hit the nail right on the head. East Texas is just not condusive to short, weekend type "feeder" hunts. You just have to put in the time to hunt them.
This is especially a problem if they are coming to a lease for a weekend and feel the need to shoot something before they have to go home Sunday evening.Įast Texas is loaded with good mature bucks. Hunters just get impatient and want to use a tag. I think that is why so many young bucks are harvested in East Texas compared to West Texas. They just don't come to feeders like they do out west. Not because they are not there, but because there is so much more food in East Texas for them to eat. The difference is that you have to sit for HOURS in a stand in Gregg County in order to get a really nice mature buck. My son and I each harvested one Gregg County buck last year and they were really nice bucks, even comparing well to Sterling County. I don't have any problem finding good bucks to harvest in Gregg County. I hunt Sterling, Baylor, and Gregg (East Texas)counties.
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