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My dad got busted by a buck he swears was close to a B&C today..  I've hunted with him four years now, and he doesn't normally exaggerate.  We hunt in east Texas, so it's not some high fence ranch where they breed em big.  Wish he would've gotten a shot, but we had high winds today and it came out in just the right spot to smell him
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saw a shooter once I glassed him.... he gave me all of  5 to 8 seconds to process(legal not legal) then he was gone.. wish I would have picked up the rifle instead of the binos! Could have killed two birds with one stone or at least one buck. LOL  More daylight pics as of the 11th on my cameras
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[img]http://img818.imageshack.us/img818/7563/img5514g.jpg[/img]

[img]http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/9596/img5789e.jpg[/img]

I got the one i was after!  What was surprising was we had gotten a bunch of pictures on one stand, and i shot him all the way across the property (425 acres) when i was down in a bottom hunting for hogs.  This is my first buck... might be hard to top for awhile.
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[quote name="tvc" post="1342053" timestamp="1353821463"]
[quote author=bullets13 link=topic=103777.msg1342040#msg1342040 date=1353820691]
only 14.5 inches wide, but tall and had mass... good mature deer, weighed 170.
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About 140"?
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didn't fool with all that last night.  i would expect he's a 130"=140" deer.  what i've seen says that width isn't as important as height and number of tines, and he's got plenty of both! 
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[quote name="bullets13" post="1342038" timestamp="1353820606"]
[img]http://img818.imageshack.us/img818/7563/img5514g.jpg[/img]

[img]http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/9596/img5789e.jpg[/img]

I got the one i was after!  What was surprising was we had gotten a bunch of pictures on one stand, and i shot him all the way across the property (425 acres) when i was down in a bottom hunting for hogs.  This is my first buck... might be hard to top for awhile.
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Nice buck, Bullets.  Gonna' be hard to beat the rest of your career unless you get to go down to south Texas sometime. :)
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[quote name="bullets13" post="1342114" timestamp="1353851465"]
[quote author=tvc link=topic=103777.msg1342053#msg1342053 date=1353821463]
[quote author=bullets13 link=topic=103777.msg1342040#msg1342040 date=1353820691]
only 14.5 inches wide, but tall and had mass... good mature deer, weighed 170.
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About 140"?
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didn't fool with all that last night.  i would expect he's a 130"=140" deer.  what i've seen says that width isn't as important as height and number of tines, and he's got plenty of both!
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Let's say you have a 120" scored deer that has a 15" spread. If you increase that spread to a very impressive 20", you only made your score 125". The 20" rack looks more impressive (maybe way more impressive) but the actual score doesn't change much or from a 120-125".

Tine length and number and mass is what really adds the score up.
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usedtobe, i'm with you on that one.  as far as East Texas deer go, that's going to be dang tough to beat outside of a high fence ranch.  i was shocked when we started getting pictures of this guy, and was pretty sure i heard the neighbors shoot him Monday night.  Couldn't believe it when he walked out yesterday evening.  The good news... he's got a brother!  we have a couple of pics of an 8-point with almost the exact same structure... not real wide, but very tall, very symmetrical, and mainbeams that curve around to where they almost touch. 
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[quote name="tvc" post="1342360" timestamp="1353881890"]
[quote author=bullets13 link=topic=103777.msg1342114#msg1342114 date=1353851465]
[quote author=tvc link=topic=103777.msg1342053#msg1342053 date=1353821463]
[quote author=bullets13 link=topic=103777.msg1342040#msg1342040 date=1353820691]
only 14.5 inches wide, but tall and had mass... good mature deer, weighed 170.
[/quote]

About 140"?
[/quote]

didn't fool with all that last night.  i would expect he's a 130"=140" deer.  what i've seen says that width isn't as important as height and number of tines, and he's got plenty of both!
[/quote]

Let's say you have a 120" scored deer that has a 15" spread. If you increase that spread to a very impressive 20", you only made your score 125". The 20" rack looks more impressive (maybe way more impressive) but the actual score doesn't change much or from a 120-125".

Tine length and number and mass is what really adds the score up.
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well, he's got plenty of all three of those!  The taxidermist said he figured it was between 130-140.  Said he'd let me know at some point.  He said he knew for sure it was big enough for the Texas Big Game Awards.  I thought that was pretty cool.  I went and looked at them from last year, and there was only 1 that qualified from the county i hunt in.
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