If you were a buck?

YellCoAR

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Just consider if you were a buck. How long of a life would you expect?
I figure I would not of made it many years. I don't think the free food in states that allow bait would have got me. But chasing ever doe during rut as a young buck would have been the end of me.
 

WCB

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I figure I would have done pretty good. Didn't chase the lady folk like a stupid teenager normally does. I picked my shots pretty good. Still had fun but didn't cruise the bait pile (bars, parties, etc like most others in college). If I was in that area there is not a night I don't remember and learned early from watching buddies be dumb that there is zero reason to "chase" a woman. The ones that were for fun don't need chasing and one I enjoyed being around more than a night had the same view on it.

There was one doe that could have ended it for my but as I realized pretty quick I dodge a bullet with that one. she definitely was the CW of CWD. Thats the one slip up I had. Only time I almost had to square off with another "buck" but before it went that far realized she wasn't worth officially breeding anyways.
 
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Well living in california I would have probably been killed as a forked horn. Either by a lion or from the cab of an old tacoma on opening day. Maybe if I was lucky I would be living in a suburban neighborhood and die of old age?
 

Sherman

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I would have rolled my ankle sometime during the first year and became immobile. Hell, I’ve been rolling my ankles for the past 40 years. The amount of scar tissue I have in those bad boys in unmeasurable.
 
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I would never move during daylight hours and likely live a long life. Well, as long as some a$$hole didn't shoot me with his AR equipped with a thermal scope and a silencer while he was out "Hog Hunting".

The thermal "Hog Hunters" are VERY hard on our big bucks here in GA during the last several years.
 

Hnthrdr

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Would have been an up and comer with solid genetics but killed by some instagrammer who had to fill his tag for some content and then claim I was some 170 when I was just a spindly 130
 

Westernduck

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I’d probably take a long walk to this area I’d think would have a lot more deer in it. I’d see no other deer then get shot by a surprised hunter
 
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I like hiding from human activity and free food.

So I'd die young, or live to be real old.

Flip a coin.
 

IdahoBeav

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Not long, I live in Idaho, which means everyone would be shooting at me the minute an antler broke the skin.
 

DillanF

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Not much of an early riser if I don't have to be.. most guys would be headed back to camp about the time I was ready for some breakfast and off to chase some tail...
 
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