Biggest whitetail you ever seen and didn’t get a shot at.

[59FLH]

Excuse my ignorance, what are those yellow tags for?

They match his purse.

Its a Gov installation in a DC suburb, it drives me nuts. The place is packed with these giants milling around like they own the place. One could hunt with a golf club.

They started tagging just the females to monitor birth control efforts (Gov Fail) now I guess they tag for urban movements, etc. Those guys will most likely get hit by a car, or something.

 

[LVJ76]

They are earmarked to be culled.

They match his purse.

Its a Gov installation in a DC suburb, it drives me nuts. The place is packed with these giants milling around like they own the place. One could hunt with a golf club.

They started tagging just the females to monitor birth control efforts (Gov Fail) now I guess they tag for urban movements, etc. Those guys will most likely get hit by a car, or something.

LOL. Thanks guys, they might as well be before they cause an accident.

I'm sure some of them eat trash and crap so that might be a deterrent to taking them home.

And of course a government way of wasting money (useful research spending).

 

[59FLH]

They are earmarked to be culled.

Funny story. I hunt an 800 acre grain farm, that backs up to several more hundreds (thousands) of acres of grain farms. The 800 acres are owned by friends of mine from before kindergarten (long family history). They had a new guy (green as a bean) from their church show up to hunt and they asked if I would take him under my wing and show him the ropes of deer hunting. Well after a few hunts and some TV time he was "Joe Deer Hunter". I used to tease him by texting him pictures of an 8 , a 10 and a 14pt I had killed that year, he got so mad he stopped talking to me. One day I was out doing some early/mid summer prep and he found out I was on the farm and asked the farmers what was I doing, they told him I was out with a paint ball gun marking the bucks I wanted for the fall season, you know ..getting first pick. He blew his top and they kicked him off the property.

 

[59FLH]

I'm sure some of them eat trash and crap so that might be a deterrent to taking them home.

No trash, its not a land fill, its about 300+ acres LOTS of hard woods, Bear, fox, geese, ground hogs, you name it. People bring corn sacks and feed them, its crazy.

 

[LVJ76]

Funny story. I hunt an 800 acre grain farm, that backs up to several more hundreds (thousands) of acres of grain farms. The 800 acres are owned by friends of mine from before kindergarten (long family history). They had a new guy (green as a bean) from their church show up to hunt and they asked if I would take him under my wing and show him the ropes of deer hunting. Well after a few hunts and some TV time he was "Joe Deer Hunter". I used to tease him by texting him pictures of an 8 , a 10 and a 14pt I had killed that year, he got so mad he stopped talking to me. One day I was out doing some early/mid summer prep and he found out I was on the farm and asked the farmers what was I doing, they told him I was out with a paint ball gun marking the bucks I wanted for the fall season, you know ..getting first pick. He blew his top and they kicked him off the property.

Just out of curiosity, those painballs went on the shoulders or behind the shoulders? LOL

 

[LVJ76]

I'm sure some of them eat trash and crap so that might be a deterrent to taking them home.

No trash, its not a land fill, its about 300+ acres LOTS of hard woods, Bear, fox, geese, ground hogs, you name it. People bring corn sacks and feed them, its crazy.

I've heard of some deer in urban areas that feed on trash thats why I asked.

It does sound like a nice place for kids to feed the animals and enjoy nature.

Thanks again

 

[Buckfever34]

My list is long cause I spend so much time hunting, scouting, and running cameras that there aren't many bucks that could "appear" that I hadn't seen previously. However, this one is probably the toughest other than a couple back in my childhood that were the Hanson buck in my mind but the honest size was probably much smaller.

I have no idea how a deer like this can live in the core area it did, could get a ton of pics, but never a single daylight sighting during a hunting season after he passed three years old.

Rumor has it he was poached with a spotlight last winter; no pics of him this year yet but I'm holding out hope he's still on the hoof.

 

[Buckfever34]

Same farm and same story. I did get one glimpse at him in daylight but no time for a shot. Trail cameras told the story that if I would have been on stand on two separate occasions he would probably be on the wall; but odds are If I'd been there he probably would not have been.

You can see the wound in the last pic (either from fighting or a bow shot) that I'm afraid got infected and killed him a couple years ago in winter.

Had a solid 6 year relationship with this buck.

 

[Troutslayer2]

I saw the biggest whitetail that I've ever seen last year across a coulee. He only stood still for a minute and there was no way to get set up in time. He made us and took off across the prairie. Some time later I heard about 20 shots from miles away. Came to find out that he got shot by a friend of a friend. He scored 183. I have a picture of him dead but I don't want to post it because I don't even know the guy. Had I been 100% set up and ready to go I could have taken him. Definitely the biggest one I've seen that was standing somewhere that I could legally take him.