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Offline bobcat

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Re: Legal? Shoot?
« Reply #15 on: September 30, 2015, 11:38:03 AM »
I'd need to be about 25 yards from that buck to see it good enough to know if it's legal. Based on the pictures I wouldn't shoot.

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Re: Legal? Shoot?
« Reply #16 on: September 30, 2015, 11:44:07 AM »
That little crab claw isn't big enough to be a three point.  I wouldn't shoot.

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Re: Legal? Shoot?
« Reply #17 on: September 30, 2015, 12:06:18 PM »
Very hard to tell from pics.

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Re: Legal? Shoot?
« Reply #18 on: September 30, 2015, 12:20:59 PM »
Noooooooooooooooooo

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Re: Legal? Shoot?
« Reply #19 on: September 30, 2015, 12:21:56 PM »
Assuming this is a 3-pt or better unit, I wouldn't shoot with those views.  I'm about 70% sure it is 1" but that isn't enough to risk it.

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Re: Legal? Shoot?
« Reply #20 on: September 30, 2015, 12:33:04 PM »
No way.... But I would pass on him even if that sticker was 2" anyways   :chuckle:

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Re: Legal? Shoot?
« Reply #21 on: September 30, 2015, 12:36:16 PM »
I don't see that kicker being 1", he walks.

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Re: Legal? Shoot?
« Reply #22 on: September 30, 2015, 12:42:14 PM »
I have the same exact deer that hangs around my house. He's tall and wide and a 2 point..
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Re: Legal? Shoot?
« Reply #23 on: September 30, 2015, 12:52:32 PM »
Shoot first and ask questions later is what I say!
If that little tang isn't an inch long, you have 3 choices, 1.  Leave it as it lays, 2. pack it up at night and head home, 3. which is always my favorite, duck tape a 6" branch on it, then it will be a legal 3pt.....
I read it on the internet, its gotta be real

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Re: Legal? Shoot?
« Reply #24 on: September 30, 2015, 12:53:55 PM »
I would let this guy go...unfortunate. I have let deer like this go before.



Must be something in the water, Grant Co. Seems to have a lot just like that guy.
Wonder how many times that deer has been to. Cross hairs,safety off, finger on the trigger. :chuckle:
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Re: Legal? Shoot?
« Reply #25 on: September 30, 2015, 12:56:18 PM »
From those pics i would pass, an inch is not much but that looks way to close to call.
Why do i the feeling you may have a pic from a different angle to show us.
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I shot a buck almost exactly like this years ago, saw him at dusk and he was a slick 2, but some other bucks same in after shooting light that were legal so i went back the next evening to wait them out, out came this 2 again and with a different angle he had grown a front 2inch crab over night.
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Re: Legal? Shoot?
« Reply #26 on: September 30, 2015, 02:53:56 PM »
Too close to call, it's a 2.5× lol :chuckle:, have to let it walk.
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Re: Legal? Shoot?
« Reply #27 on: September 30, 2015, 02:54:20 PM »
They need to open up a youth 2point mule deer draw...

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Re: Legal? Shoot?
« Reply #28 on: September 30, 2015, 02:56:19 PM »
No, Id pass, to close. 

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Re: Legal? Shoot?
« Reply #29 on: September 30, 2015, 02:57:55 PM »

They need to open up a youth 2point mule deer draw...

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Why? I thought the restriction was in place to let some bucks survive the hunting season.

 


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