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Quote from: walkabout on November 13, 2019, 06:17:38 AMTippen im thinking 2.5 look at its back line its still nice and straight . Deer has no muscular characteristics of a muture deer. Long legs no pot belly no block head and neck and body junction very small. Its a young buck with a nice rack.. JMO. I agree
Tippen im thinking 2.5 look at its back line its still nice and straight . Deer has no muscular characteristics of a muture deer. Long legs no pot belly no block head and neck and body junction very small. Its a young buck with a nice rack.. JMO.
In westchester there are alot of mature bucks because of the archery only rule but there are less then ever now a days. My theory is that forever it was always Nov. 1st was opening day archery. For at least 10 years now its been Oct. 1st. Thats 31 more days of guys shooting bucks in general big or small.
See what you started Pat? I’m all for AR. Started hunting about 30yrs ago in 3C and you very rarely saw someone with a really nice buck. And nowadays more and more guys are seeing and harvesting mature bucks in the same unit. I’m also seeing an increase in doe population. I would however like them to allow hunters over 60 or 65 to be exempt from AR just like the youths.
Well, if you look at the bucks in 3j and 3c,( like stated original pilot program areas) the results speak for themselves. And I have been noticing a lot more yearling bucks with 8 pt racks for there first set of antlers, which leads me to believe that the genetics have gotten better since program has started. Those young bucks with 7 or 8 point racks turn out to be slammers. Young hunters can still shoot a spike or 4pt until 17 years old, I really think the DEC got it right. Plenty of legal bucks out there, for hunters to harvest.Like Tipping scales said, let's here from the folks in not AR units.