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Impressive NY non-typical buck on the hoof
03 September 2009, 07:07
erictImpressive NY non-typical buck on the hoof
Something to get you pumped up for the upcoming deer season - A good friend who spends more time hunting with a camera than with a gun or bow recently sent me these pics of an impressive buck from the western part of New York. I'll send measurements and more pics if he decides to hunt this brute and lucky enough to bag him.
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03 September 2009, 07:31
SGraves155Very wide with double drop tines. Nice.

03 September 2009, 08:28
Bobby TomekThat is the buck of a lifetime. All I can say is WOW...
Bobby
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03 September 2009, 19:42
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04 September 2009, 04:13
Gerrypeters375I hate to be the skunk at the lawn party but to me (and I started hunting deer in both the Catskills and Adiroundacks of NY over 60 years ago) that deer looks deformed. I'm perfectly willing to be convinced otherwise and maybe it's just me in the way I'm looking at the picture - but he just doesn't look like a really good conformation big buck of, say. 8 points or even 10 points.(There is something deformed about that rack. I admit, maybe it's just me and the way I'm looking at the picture)
04 September 2009, 04:17
LWDA couple of the pictures do seem to look like he's curling down at the end of the main beams. Even if he's not, he clearly has a lot more width than height. But I'd still shoot it!
LWD
04 September 2009, 05:09
Aspen Hill AdventuresThat's a shooter in my book! Nice buck.
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04 September 2009, 05:39
SevenxbjtNice buck.
04 September 2009, 05:46
SnellstromOh yes "deformed" and "curling down"!
Better pass on that one and take a "basket racked" deer with more of a classic shape to it!
For me I would love a non-typical with lots of "junk" on it.
Very nice buck.............
04 September 2009, 08:28
buckeyeshooterLooks pretty good to me.
04 September 2009, 08:33
SDhunterThanks for sharing,
I love double drop tine bucks, something about being a little noncomformist.
04 September 2009, 17:34
tendramsDeformed....yes... deformed right into my trophy room and right on to my plate in the best of all possible worlds.
Wow.
04 September 2009, 20:16
OLBIKERThat rack is deformed and unacceptable.I will however cull it for you to get its genes out of the pool.No charge.
06 September 2009, 07:20
308Sakoquote:
Originally posted by Snellstrom:
Oh yes "deformed" and "curling down"!
Better pass on that one and take a "basket racked" deer with more of a classic shape to it!
For me I would love a non-typical with lots of "junk" on it.
Very nice buck.............
For many years in New York a "classic rack" was a perfect eleven pointer... two tiny spikes.
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06 September 2009, 18:56
Snellstromquote:
Originally posted by 308Sako:
For many years in New York a "classic rack" was a perfect eleven pointer... two tiny spikes.
I like that!
I shot a lot of "that kind" of 11 pointers growing up in Oregon but never heard them called 11 pointer.
07 September 2009, 05:56
wetdog2084double drops are cool

07 September 2009, 06:52
HerrMesserThere was one year I shot a spike and when I saw it laying in the snow I thought "wow I shot a doe". It turned out to be a 1 pointer as one side had been shot off.
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09 September 2009, 23:57
Gerrypeters375Olbiker:
Glad to have someone agree with me that the rack was deformed! I'm only sorry that I had to go as far west as Wisconsin to get support!

(You have great ruffed grouse hunting and I have seen pics of real Wisconsin white tails so I do appreciate hearing from an authority!)

Your offer to cull, I suspect ,will be refused by a lot of guys between Wisconsin and NY!

14 September 2009, 22:33
doccashThat is a great buck by anyones standards, thanks for sharing the photos. Dr.C
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15 September 2009, 00:26
Gerrypeters375doccash:
Too bad you don't identify what state you are from - It would give the rest of us a chance to decide how close you are to their own state's typical bucks. Frankly, if you think that is a typical buck, I have to wonder where you have been hunting white tails!

I'm sure we all want to visit the area. - or you are from Texas where they raise practically all white tail deer on preserves or else bait the area after feeding them corn for ages (which probably results in deformed racks). (Yeah, I love to fight with Texans!)

Either way, don't say that's a "great buck by anyone's standards". (That's a really long limb to get out on)

15 September 2009, 08:51
Bobby TomekGerrypeters375 wrote:
quote:
you are from Texas where they raise practically all white tail deer on preserves or else bait the area after feeding them corn for ages
Here we go again: another poster who tends to shoot off his mouth before his brains are loaded.

I suggest you actually come to Texas and get the facts before spewing your senseless blather.
And as to olbiker's post: He was using something called SARCASM.

Lastly, who cares if the buck is typical or not? I'd be willing to bet that he'd be the buck of a lifetime for 98 percent of all whitetail hunters -- and I for one would not hesitate for even a split second when it came down to deciding whether to shoot or not.
Bobby
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15 September 2009, 10:51
doccashgerrypeters: I never said he was typical. I said he was wonderful. I came to Texas in 1957 from N.J-NY so I have seen both sides of the coin. I have a DVM daughter that at present lives in Brooklyn Prospect Park. I would not give three rotten eggs for the whole damn cith and all the people in it! While were at it you do not know a damn thing about Texas hunting or probably anything else for that matter Dr.C
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15 September 2009, 18:41
mmaggiI've been hunting in the Catskill mountains for over 20 years and never, ever seen anything like that. That's why I keep hearing that western NY is the place to hunt.
That's a nice rack.