berryblaster
Like others have said, personal preference has a lot to do with it. The auction hunter had good looks at all the best bucks he could hunt, and thats the buck that tripped his trigger. Maybe he knew the girl had her heart set on the trashy buck, and passed on it for that reason. He didn't care about score, he just liked the look of the wide buck. There were a few dandys that were in the no hunt zone.
Roadless hunter,
Me too. Surprisingly, the buck he shot had 4 inch eye guards, until the last 2 years.
eelgrass,
The girl was the 1st of 12 hunters to not kill on day one. She could have killed a lot of nice deer, but she had one buck only for her tag. She killed him in nasty weather a long ways from any road. His buck was the 1st one I've seen drop, but it was 1.83 miles from the road, just below the top.
Not quite Bessy, even all that cash couldn't buy him any buck. DD was off limits.
Slammy, now you know how I feel. I don't even break out the camera for the 180 bucks. Friends call me a buck snob. lol
Yelum
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