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Realistically what is your goal for the year.

Postby Razorback Randy on Thu Jul 29, 2010 9:46 pm

Alright I would love to shoot a 14 point double drop tine but I know that is not going to happen. My hope is that I finally get an 8 point. I have been hunting for almost 20 years and have killed many deer but a 7 point is the most points I have ever taken and a 6 point with a 15 inch spread is the biggest overall I have ever killed. Three years ago I was hunting a lease with very strict rules and passed on a 120 to 130 class 8 point :bang: . It was not old enough. Two years ago I passed on many 110 to 120 class 8 points (again not old enough). Last year I passed on a wide but short 8 point and then shot at a large 8 or 10 point that same evening and did not recover the animal. :oops: :sick: . I am no longer on that lease and the goal for this year is to take a legal 8 point - thats it! I think it is about time I let my standards drop a little - you gotta start somewhere right?
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Re: Realistically what is your goal for the year.

Postby BAJackson16 on Thu Jul 29, 2010 9:52 pm

My goal for our Rusk county lease is realistically a 3.5 to 4.5 year old 8 pt.... the last week of the season 3 young 8 pts were on camera in the SAME PICTURE , so REALISTICALLY I think there is a chance for at most a 110 class 8 pt...

On my in-laws place in Jefferson however, now thats a different story; have seen some monsters up that way, but I only hunt there on the holidays...so not very realistic...

and the last goal is to throw lead at any pig, hog, boar, or sow that even sniffs my deer corn!!!!!
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Re: Realistically what is your goal for the year.

Postby darren on Thu Jul 29, 2010 10:38 pm

Shoot does and shoot at least a 15" wide old buck that is on his downhill side. It will have to be with a bow. It takes a whole lot of a buck to get me going anymore. I focus mainly on getting my Dad a buck each season once general season starts but do occasionally slip off and do a little serious bowhunting. :thumbup:

Randy. I hunted 12 years before I got my first 8 point. Then I waited another 5 years to get the next biggest which was an 11 point. Then 6 years later I got my best - an 11 point with a bow. The wait was worth it :thumbup:

There should be some good bucks on your place near Diana :thumbup: We have a small parcel about 10 miles to the east of you and it has yielded some 18" wide 8 points over the years :thumbup:
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Re: Realistically what is your goal for the year.

Postby Rack'em Jay on Thu Jul 29, 2010 11:25 pm

Razorback Randy wrote: the goal for this year is to take a legal 8 point - thats it! I think it is about time I let my standards drop a little - you gotta start somewhere right?


not showing you any pics from red hill until season strarts then ;)

with your trip to the pan handle i think you will get a 140'' or better

then with Diana you already know :!!!: :!!!:


my goal is a bobcat,10 hogs, and one wood duck.

I don't care about shooting any deer, i would rather put somebody else on them.

can't believe i just wrote that :lol:
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Re: Realistically what is your goal for the year.

Postby five0pd310 on Fri Jul 30, 2010 5:00 am

Goal:

I want my son to get another deer and I'd like to ge tmy first ever trophy. I got my first deer when I was 11 and have been hunting steady ever since, with no trophies. That's 23 years. I've never even seen a trophy excpet on TV. Fortunately, I'm finally on a lease that has some bigguns. Hopefully this wil be the year....(God, how many times have I said that? :sick: )
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Re: Realistically what is your goal for the year.

Postby Booyah on Fri Jul 30, 2010 10:27 pm

Thats a hard one, of course I would like to shoot a big old drop tine buck ( who wouldn't) My biggest is a 9 point with 20" spread and like Randy, many small bucks before the antler restrictions started. But I have to admit I was pretty excited last year when I got my first doe with a bow. Many years of getting nothing makes me want to favor being able to get a good mature legal buck but I guess what I would like to get would be some type of non typical , something with a lot of big palmation type antlers. But is I see a spike this season I will gladly fling a arrow or a bullet at it.

Better yet we all would agree. This coming Youth Hunt, our young hunters get a good legal buck. Priceless
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Re: Realistically what is your goal for the year.

Postby Robby on Sat Jul 31, 2010 7:23 pm

Right now my goal is just the get out in the woods a few times! Looking at my daughter's schedule to cheer at Saturday ball games, it may be after Thanksgiving before I get in the woods!
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Re: Realistically what is your goal for the year.

Postby Texar on Tue Aug 03, 2010 7:14 pm

I just hunt for the meat!!! :think: :think:
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Re: Realistically what is your goal for the year.

Postby TeamHillbilly on Mon Aug 16, 2010 3:06 pm

Robby wrote:Right now my goal is just the get out in the woods a few times! Looking at my daughter's schedule to cheer at Saturday ball games, it may be after Thanksgiving before I get in the woods!

same and the only way I'm going to get in the woods is with the help of you guys,I would really like to kill a couple does this year,I missed last season freezer is empty. :cry: hopefully I'll get one at brushy creek hunt or caddo hunt,and another at clear springs :thumbup:
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Re: Realistically what is your goal for the year.

Postby tazzer on Thu Aug 26, 2010 1:57 pm

well Im just after the first legal thing that walks in front of me :twisted: that has 12 points :mrgreen: :evil:
and maybe a doe on the other place
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