I am looking for this book. Any ideas where I can get one? I saw a few online but much more expensive than I thought, and I am not sure it was from a reputable website.
I am getting excited. I usually try and wait until after the first week of July so I have a decent idea of what I am looking at. When are you all going? How is the antler growth in your area, report back, thanks!
Well, that's fine but just check the stats.
Many units are much much higher than 30% success on a rifle hunt.
https://wildlife.utah.gov/hunting/main-hunting-page/big-game/big-game-harvest-data.html
Not limited entry, not limited quota and not private land. Yeah Colorado's a little different. I would be referring to units in Colorado that take 0 to 2 points.
Agree, there's plenty of 7, 8, or 9-year-old deer that will never hit 160. At 4 and 1/2 years old they've hit 95% of their potential. By 5 1/2 they have pretty much maxed out for all intents and purposes.
Are you saying that a 160 buck was most likely not a mature deer? That would be absolutely false. Maybe it's not a giant Buck but it most certainly has a great chance of being four and a half years or older.
Got it, thanks. I am talking out of bucks that are actually legally harvested. Say there is a that unit gives out a thousand tags and 300 bucks were killed. How many of those 300 bucks that were killed will go 160+.
Bucks killed, honest question how is that different than tags filled? Are you thinking about doe tags or about people killing bucks and not finding them?
We got talking on another thread on here about how common a mature buck is. On a general unit how rare is a harvested 160 inch buck? For sure different areas or different states will have a little higher percentage, not but without getting to specific and anal I'm just talking overall.
A podcast I recently listened to said that on public land the average for a mature mule deer is 160. First of all, how many bucks on public land even make it to maturity. Second of all just because the average is 160 for the mature buck doesn't mean that is the average of the ones getting shot...