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>>To you naysayers on this thread................is
>>this buck worth 19 points?
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>That buck certainly is, but a
>buck like that VERY few
>and far between in 21.
>I can honestly count on
>one hand the amount of
>bucks I've seen in the
>190 plus class in 21
>the past 5 years. I've
>actually seen bigger deer more
>consistently in 22 than in
>21 the past couple years.
>The last tag I had
>in 21 was in 2009.
>Hunted my A$$ of for
>7 days and shot the
>second largest buck I saw
>that grossed 178. Went out
>the following year on a
>second choice tag in a
>completely different and killed a
>187 and seen larger bucks
>in a weekend than I
>did in 7 days in
>21. Kind of brought me
>to the light in some
>sense.
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>Coloradoboy
That is exactly the point. The unit is nothing like it once was, the deer and the range are way down! To have deer you need food, the unit is horrible shape! This spring haves helped some, but the reason why other units are rebounding better than 21 is due to the horrible range conditions. There are fewer and fewer deer migrating in unit 21 every year. The number of town deer in Rangely is down as well!
Also one good buck kill 5 years ago does not prove #####! It is a great buck and when it was posted I was extremely impressed. But at the same time i also know that totale deer numbers are down, range quality is down, mature buck numbers are down in unit 21.
I also know that the idea of Eagle being full of private is bull crap, and gunny hunts will be a ways out until they can improve but any of those hunts and units are capable producing great bucks!
Of and by the way I could show you a pic of a 200 plus monster killed in a 0 to 1 point unt! However that does not prove anything about the overall quality of the unit or the hunt!