How Many?

[brn2hnt]

I've been thinking this over for the last couple days, and thought this would be an interesting discussion here.

How many of your P&Y bucks have you scouted and found prior to the opener of the season?

Mike

 

[david long]

Two of them.

 

[ScottR_EHJ]

David, how many total do you have?

 

[bohntr]

How many of your P&Y bucks have you scouted and found prior to the opener of the season?

Eight of them I scouted before season and ended up being lucky enough to arrow them during the season.

 

[bearguide]

still trying to find one pre season that i actually harvest / never give up

 

[RosinBag]

None, but I don't scout the wilderness I hunt for blacktails, those bucks are there every year. This year trying mulies in wilderness and am going to scout. It is a new area and maybe I will find a buck I get a chance at during the season.

 

[Evan Williams]

2010 I had 6 scouted in Kansas early in the 21 days I was out there looking. I found them all and ended up harvesting a 188" Non-Typical. I didn't do any scouting this last season here in Colorado but I did find a new basin in my unit so I will be getting in there this year to check things out.

 

[Rick Seymour]

Evan lets see a pic even if its already on here thx

 

[Jared Bloomgren]

In the Dakotas you have much more luck scouting the deer you want to hunt with the type of terrain. A lot eaiser to do. I have scouted nearly a dozen P&Y type bucks that I have been able to put an arrow through. It is always fun commiting to one buck and deciding that is the only buck you want to kill. I have scouting numerous bucks in the high country and was able to kill two of them.

 

[david long]

David, how many total do you have?

sreekers.....only three.....the majority of my bucks have been harvested with a rifle.

 

[david long]

Eight of them I scouted before season and ended up being lucky enough to arrow them during the season.

bohntr.....very impressive.....how many of those eight were Colorado bucks?

 

[Elk_Addict23]

Only two for me.... hopefully 3 next year if I can draw my tag. I've been watching the same group of 11 bucks for 5 years now and have been able to harvest 3 of them. Every year they seem to pick another 1 or 2 up so the total always stays the same.

 

[bohntr]

how many of those eight were Colorado bucks?

Just one CO buck that I saw before season and tried to arrow.

 

[robby denning]

Possibly all 3 of mine. Two for sure. One of the three I can't be 100% certain.
BOHNTR! That is awesome.
David- you forgot to mention that it only took you a few years to get all 3? Good job, buddy! My 3 took 15 years!

 

[david long]

Possibly all 3 of mine. Two for sure. One of the three I can't be 100% certain.
BOHNTR! That is awesome.
David- you forgot to mention that it only took you a few years to get all 3? Good job, buddy! My 3 took 15 years!

Thanks Robby. I have been very fortunate.

 

[desertstalker]

2 pre-scouted kills. 1 P&Y the other just shy. The P&Y buck was a 2 year adventure in which I had watched him 6 different times but never laid eyes on him during the '09 season. The following July I found him 20 yards from where I last saw him in '09. Killed him opening day of '10 500 yards from that spot. General season public land. First pic is Aug '09, 2nd is Aug '10

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[desertstalker]

Better pic from '09

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[Evan Williams]

Evan lets see a pic even if its already on here thx

RICK,

AS PER YOUR REQUEST HERE IS A PAIR OF PICTURES OF THE BUCK I HARVESTED IN 2010 IN KANSAS. HE, HOWEVER, WAS NOT EVEN A BUCK THAT I HAD SCOUTED. I SAW HIM AND KNEW I WASN'T LETTING HIM GET AWAY. IF YOU HAVEN'T READ ABOUT IT YET PLEASE CHECK THIS OUT.

http://www.rokslide.com/other/hunting-stories/134-qmassq-by-evan-williams

 

[muleyman]

I've been fortunate enough to take three P&Y bucks, all three of them were prescouted. My biggest one was a 200 in. net buck that I watched for over 2 months. The hardest one was a 175 buck that I found during a late November hunt. I finally killed that buck over 15 miles from where I originally found him.

 

[Hoytnut]

Zero scouted out of two killed.