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Post by Dutch on Mar 23, 2023 21:36:09 GMT -5
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Post by fleroo on Mar 24, 2023 9:01:49 GMT -5
All together now... ONE MORE YEAR!... ONE MORE YEAR!  |
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Post by ridgecommander on Mar 24, 2023 9:23:36 GMT -5
Fleapoo would call that a toad, stud, swamp donkey, hoss and a slammer.
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Post by Dutch on Mar 24, 2023 10:25:16 GMT -5
Fleapoo would call that a toad, stud, swamp donkey, hoss and a slammer. Well it is BIG. 😊 |
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Post by bushmaster on Mar 24, 2023 10:31:39 GMT -5
Dink!
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Post by Loggy on Mar 24, 2023 11:22:01 GMT -5
WOW!!!
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Post by rusty on Mar 24, 2023 13:18:16 GMT -5
That is one impressive rack.
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Post by Dutch on Mar 24, 2023 19:01:02 GMT -5
That is one impressive rack. I think Fleroo would say that Raquel had a better rack. 😂😂 |
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Post by ridgecommander on Mar 24, 2023 20:34:10 GMT -5
I think Fleroo would say that Raquel had a better rack. 😂😂 Everybody has a nice rack when it comes to Fleapoo. |
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Post by rusty on Mar 25, 2023 5:51:53 GMT -5
That is one impressive rack. I think Fleroo would say that Raquel had a better rack. 😂😂 I share his fondness for racks of all kinds |
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Post by ridgecommander on Mar 25, 2023 6:30:16 GMT -5
Off course the haters are now coming out of the woodwork. I guess some are now saying it was an escapee from a hunting preserve so it doesn't deserve recognition.
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Post by rusty on Mar 25, 2023 9:24:08 GMT -5
Off course the haters are now coming out of the woodwork. I guess some are now saying it was an escapee from a hunting preserve so it doesn't deserve recognition. Have they presented any proof? Until they offer some evidence they should not given a minutes consideration. Lord knows some folks will believe any conspiracy that come down the pike. |
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Post by ridgecommander on Mar 25, 2023 19:47:38 GMT -5
I know a guy who shot a #650 black bear in archery. When the locals found out their target bear was shot they called the PGC and said the bear was shot over bait, when it wasn't. Jealousy is a terrible thing. The PGC did their check and everything was on the up and up.
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Post by Dutch on Mar 25, 2023 20:36:04 GMT -5
I'd guess people in the area would have seen this buck in multiple years, if it was a free range deer.
If it just showed up, out of the blue, and if there is a deer farm in the area, maybe there'd be reason to be skeptical?
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Post by ridgecommander on Mar 26, 2023 6:54:20 GMT -5
Here is one of the pics from the area of this deer in velvet.  |
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Post by rusty on Mar 26, 2023 8:18:40 GMT -5
Was this an urban buck? Some of them grow up safe from hunters their entire lives.
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Post by acorn20 on Mar 26, 2023 9:19:39 GMT -5
Some of those urban bucks are not dumb and seem to know what they've got habitat wise. When I worked in Hagerstown, Maryland in the early eighties, I traveled Interstate 81 and got off at the Halfway Blvd. exit. It had a right hand ramp and the triangle between the ramp and I-81 was wooded and had a dense understory of bushes and vines. One of the largest bucks I remember seeing on my travels lived there...or at least stayed there most of the day. I saw that buck on and off for at least two years.
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Post by dougl on Mar 30, 2023 13:45:55 GMT -5
Off course the haters are now coming out of the woodwork. I guess some are now saying it was an escapee from a hunting preserve so it doesn't deserve recognition. If someone has some inside information,I wouldn't call them a hater.I don't know the detail,nor do I care. The year before last a guy I know killed a massive tame buck in Treasure lake and posted the spiritual quest all over several facebook pages.Normally I wouldn't care but this guy is a blowhard.He's a field tester,field staffer and posse member for several companies I never heard of.He stuck his nose into a completely legal kill my son made the that year so I got some perverse pleasure out of posting some pictures of that same buck being hand-fed by different people.He ended up deleting every post.This past year another guy I know killed one of the biggest bucks I've ever seen alive in the same place.He didn't do anything illegal but he did transport the deer to some property he owns for a photo shoot,trying to pass it off as a truly wild deer.He ended up making a fool of himself.Big bucks cause people to do some really dumb things.I'm not saying that's the case with this deer and I don't care but usually where there's smoke,there's some fire. |
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Post by Dutch on Mar 30, 2023 21:23:10 GMT -5
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Post by rusty on Mar 31, 2023 4:48:49 GMT -5
I've seen photos of some huge, semitame housing development bucks. The racks they grow can be very impressive. Killing one not so much. Gaining access is probably the biggest challenge.
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Post by ridgecommander on Mar 31, 2023 6:42:45 GMT -5
The year before last a guy I know killed a massive tame buck in Treasure lake and posted the spiritual quest all over several facebook pages.Normally I wouldn't care but this guy is a blowhard.He's a field tester,field staffer and posse member for several companies I never heard of.He stuck his nose into a completely legal kill my son made the that year so I got some perverse pleasure out of posting some pictures of that same buck being hand-fed by different people.He ended up deleting every post.This past year another guy I know killed one of the biggest bucks I've ever seen alive in the same place.He didn't do anything illegal but he did transport the deer to some property he owns for a photo shoot,trying to pass it off as a truly wild deer.He ended up making a fool of himself.Big bucks cause people to do some really dumb things.I'm not saying that's the case with this deer and I don't care but usually where there's smoke,there's some fire. A truly wild deer lives in the wild. People hand feed deer in Allegheny County all of the time but they are still wild deer. I am not familiar with the details of Treasure Lake. Are they fenced in and not free to come and go in or out of the community? I hunt deer and turkey in highly residential areas sometimes where feeding is quite common. When I get out of my car after parking by a house deer usually just stare at me from 10-20 yards and sometimes the turkeys walk up to me. Once I get into the woods, the same deer and turkeys act wild. |
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Post by bushmaster on Mar 31, 2023 8:19:45 GMT -5
The year before last a guy I know killed a massive tame buck in Treasure lake and posted the spiritual quest all over several facebook pages.Normally I wouldn't care but this guy is a blowhard.He's a field tester,field staffer and posse member for several companies I never heard of.He stuck his nose into a completely legal kill my son made the that year so I got some perverse pleasure out of posting some pictures of that same buck being hand-fed by different people.He ended up deleting every post.This past year another guy I know killed one of the biggest bucks I've ever seen alive in the same place.He didn't do anything illegal but he did transport the deer to some property he owns for a photo shoot,trying to pass it off as a truly wild deer.He ended up making a fool of himself.Big bucks cause people to do some really dumb things.I'm not saying that's the case with this deer and I don't care but usually where there's smoke,there's some fire. A truly wild deer lives in the wild. People hand feed deer in Allegheny County all of the time but they are still wild deer. I am not familiar with the details of Treasure Lake. Are they fenced in and not free to come and go in or out of the community? I hunt deer and turkey in highly residential areas sometimes where feeding is quite common. When I get out of my car after parking by a house deer usually just stare at me from 10-20 yards and sometimes the turkeys walk up to me. Once I get into the woods, the same deer and turkeys act wild. I'm of the opinion that a truly wild animal is born in the wild, not just lives in the wild. A deer born on a game farm is far from wild. Kind of like a pheasant or stocked trout. The fact that this deer came off a game farm and survived on it's own a few seasons doesn't make it wild, just wilder than a deer confined by a high fence. With that being said, I would have shot it in a heartbeat! |
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Post by dougl on Mar 31, 2023 9:39:23 GMT -5
The year before last a guy I know killed a massive tame buck in Treasure lake and posted the spiritual quest all over several facebook pages.Normally I wouldn't care but this guy is a blowhard.He's a field tester,field staffer and posse member for several companies I never heard of.He stuck his nose into a completely legal kill my son made the that year so I got some perverse pleasure out of posting some pictures of that same buck being hand-fed by different people.He ended up deleting every post.This past year another guy I know killed one of the biggest bucks I've ever seen alive in the same place.He didn't do anything illegal but he did transport the deer to some property he owns for a photo shoot,trying to pass it off as a truly wild deer.He ended up making a fool of himself.Big bucks cause people to do some really dumb things.I'm not saying that's the case with this deer and I don't care but usually where there's smoke,there's some fire. A truly wild deer lives in the wild. People hand feed deer in Allegheny County all of the time but they are still wild deer. I am not familiar with the details of Treasure Lake. Are they fenced in and not free to come and go in or out of the community? I hunt deer and turkey in highly residential areas sometimes where feeding is quite common. When I get out of my car after parking by a house deer usually just stare at me from 10-20 yards and sometimes the turkeys walk up to me. Once I get into the woods, the same deer and turkeys act wild. There are no fences Gene but a deer that walks up on someone's deck and waits to be fef by hand does not fit my definition of a truly wild deer.Most of the area surroundingTL that can be hunted are full of wild deer.When they see or smell humans,they avoid them.However,there's multiple small woodlots called parklets that are scattered amoung the residential areas.These are handfed,tame deer that depend on people to survive,no different than cattle do.I have no issue with these deer being hunted as the population needs reduced.However,I find it embarrassing that grown men fight over who get's to shoot them with their crossbows.Yes,they fight over who get's to hunt the "best"parklets. |
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Post by ridgecommander on Mar 31, 2023 9:45:36 GMT -5
There are no fences Gene but a deer that walks up on someone's deck and waits to be fef by hand does not fit my definition of a truly wild deer. IMO, that is a wild deer. Born in the wild and free to come and go as it pleases. With that said if I shot it there, I wouldn't pose it in the wilds of Cameron County and call it a mountain deer taken 2 miles back in. |
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Post by dougl on Mar 31, 2023 10:01:10 GMT -5
They're wild but tame.
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