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Big Game Hunting => Deer Hunting => Topic started by: buck man on August 05, 2011, 10:07:49 PM

Title: another big 4x4
Post by: buck man on August 05, 2011, 10:07:49 PM: Thought I would keep these to myself but the similarities of matts buck are cool , so even though these are last years pics I will still share. Got pics of this big guy breeding a does also. Fortunately he winters near my stands. Haven't pinned down his core summer area. He's one of those big woods buck that covers alot of ground :) ;)

One more pic
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Post by: bobcat on August 05, 2011, 10:13:47 PM: That last picture is great. You don't see that very often.
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Post by: 7mag. on August 05, 2011, 11:05:02 PM: HEY, this is a family site! :chuckle:
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Post by: carpsniperg2 on August 05, 2011, 11:22:55 PM: Atleast he is passing on some good genetics.
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Post by: wsucowboy on August 05, 2011, 11:59:20 PM: he's doing work :chuckle:
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Post by: Button Nubbs on August 06, 2011, 12:21:08 AM: giggity giggity GOO!
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Post by: alwinearcher on August 06, 2011, 12:25:17 AM: I believe the term is "a role in the hay" lol
I got another big 4 point from last fall I will have to find and post.. Be may be a familar deer to you buck man..
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Post by: alwinearcher on August 06, 2011, 12:51:15 AM: Here he is.. came by one time.. Nov 30th 2010 :drool:
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Post by: Bean Counter on August 06, 2011, 03:53:45 AM: Quote from: alwinearcher on August 06, 2011, 12:25:17 AM
I believe the term is "a role in the hay" lol
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:lol4:

get some!!! :rockin: :rockin: :rockin:
Title: Re: another big 4x4
Post by: buck man on August 06, 2011, 06:37:53 AM: Quote from: alwinearcher on August 06, 2011, 12:25:17 AM
I believe the term is "a role in the hay" lol
I got another big 4 point from last fall I will have to find and post.. Be may be a familar deer to you buck man..
:tup: nice matt! I have seen that deer...and hopefully I'll see him again. :)
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Post by: BOWHUNTER45 on August 06, 2011, 07:04:16 AM: nice bucks :tup:
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Post by: alwinearcher on August 06, 2011, 07:47:36 AM: Quote from: buck man on August 06, 2011, 06:37:53 AM
Quote from: alwinearcher on August 06, 2011, 12:25:17 AM
I believe the term is "a role in the hay" lol
I got another big 4 point from last fall I will have to find and post.. Be may be a familar deer to you buck man..
:tup: nice matt! I have seen that deer...and hopefully I'll see him again. :)

Have you gotten pictures of him or seen him in person?
He is one that i know nothing about.. :dunno:
Title: Re: another big 4x4
Post by: buck man on August 06, 2011, 04:58:56 PM: Quote from: alwinearcher on August 06, 2011, 07:47:36 AM
Quote from: buck man on August 06, 2011, 06:37:53 AM
Quote from: alwinearcher on August 06, 2011, 12:25:17 AM
I believe the term is "a role in the hay" lol
I got another big 4 point from last fall I will have to find and post.. Be may be a familar deer to you buck man..
:tup: nice matt! I have seen that deer...and hopefully I'll see him again. :)
Only a couple trail can pics and a couple hunches. That's it :dunno:

Have you gotten pictures of him or seen him in person?
He is one that i know nothing about.. :dunno:
Title: Re: another big 4x4
Post by: huntnnw on August 07, 2011, 11:39:24 AM: to keep with the 4x4 thread .....heres a big 4 I tried to get last year

(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi200.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Faa139%2Fshanewa300%2FTrail%2520cam%2520and%2520scouting%2520pics%2FSTAND3020.jpg&hash=0dca116826fde7ad83a73856a3c9d0914d20c9b8)
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Post by: NWBREW on August 07, 2011, 11:57:48 AM: :yike:
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Post by: buck man on August 07, 2011, 11:59:46 AM: Quote from: huntnnw on August 07, 2011, 11:39:24 AM
to keep with the 4x4 thread .....heres a big 4 I tried to get last year

(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi200.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Faa139%2Fshanewa300%2FTrail%2520cam%2520and%2520scouting%2520pics%2FSTAND3020.jpg&hash=0dca116826fde7ad83a73856a3c9d0914d20c9b8)
very nice :tup: I love big fours!!
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Post by: bobcat on August 07, 2011, 03:02:45 PM: Looks like a "big three" to me. But, probably just me. Very nice buck though, regardless of how one labels it.
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Post by: DBHAWTHORNE on August 07, 2011, 08:50:46 PM: Love big 4x4's!
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Post by: PA BEN on August 08, 2011, 06:05:01 AM: I hate to tell you guys this but here in washington we call those bucks 3X3's. Just because the game dept. calls them 4x4's it's not. 4X4 is 4 points on the main beam. :chuckle:
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Post by: DBHAWTHORNE on August 08, 2011, 06:51:01 AM: I am pretty sure all tines (including eye guards) grow off the mainbeam...so if that is the WA standard he would still be called a 4x4. :chuckle:
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Post by: Skyvalhunter on August 08, 2011, 06:54:29 AM: Don't count the eyeguards myself but everyone has their own way. :twocents:
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Post by: alwinearcher on August 08, 2011, 08:16:21 AM: There is nothing I love more than a group of guys who don't want to count eyeguards... And yet everyone still counts them toward their score.. Haha
I can't wait till I hear of of these guys say they shot a "3 point" in 117 lol
Title: Re: another big 4x4
Post by: BULLBLASTER on August 08, 2011, 08:28:34 AM: Quote from: PA BEN on August 08, 2011, 06:05:01 AM
I hate to tell you guys this but here in washington we call those bucks 3X3's. Just because the game dept. calls them 4x4's it's not. 4X4 is 4 points on the main beam. :chuckle:
Looks like there are plenty of guys here in Washington who call a 4 point what he is.
I have a few pics of a big one from last year I will see if I can dig up and post. Might be on Tue hard drive from my old water logged laptop... need to have them recovered.
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Post by: huntnnw on August 08, 2011, 12:47:55 PM: That cracks me up... That's a 4x4 not a 3x3... as u can see it has points longer than 1" so. The next time u shoot a Whitey that has 7" brows make sure u deduct 14" from the score
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Post by: Skyvalhunter on August 08, 2011, 12:51:15 PM: Everyones entitled to their opinion.
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Post by: boneaddict on August 08, 2011, 12:57:12 PM: I'm even weirder, I don't count them for muledeer, but do count them for whitetails. No real sound reasoning to defend what I do for whitetails either, but I know some that have eyeguards bigger than the rest of their points. :dunno:

(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fv47%2Fboneaddict%2Fwhite1.jpg&hash=bd55a331a6c4501cd7eac708be446c98c36e31fe)
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Post by: huntnnw on August 08, 2011, 01:06:32 PM: How I count mule deer.... I think mule deer guys count whiteys that way cause they count muleys That way. Mule deer generally have none to very small brows unlike whitetail they almost always have brows and a huge part of their score.
Title: Re: another big 4x4
Post by: PA BEN on August 08, 2011, 05:03:57 PM: Shot my first deer at age 14 in 121, 32 years ago. My family settled in the Bluecreek area north of Chewelah in the 1800's. And that's the way you count them. Great, great grandpa to my great grandpa to my grandpa to my Dad to me and to my kids. You count the points on the main beams. NOT THE EYE GUARDS. It's funny that all the people who hunted with called it that way. And yes, as far as score, all points. Back East all points. But not here in Washington. :tup:
Title: Re: another big 4x4
Post by: alwinearcher on August 08, 2011, 06:45:55 PM: Quote from: PA BEN on August 08, 2011, 05:03:57 PM
Shot my first deer at age 14 in 121, 32 years ago. My family settled in the Bluecreek area north of Chewelah in the 1800's. And that's the way you count them. Great, great grandpa to my great grandpa to my grandpa to my Dad to me and to my kids. You count the points on the main beams. NOT THE EYE GUARDS. It's funny that all the people who hunted with called it that way. And yes, as far as score, all points. Back East all points. But not here in Washington. :tup:
Are you saying a eyeguard doesn't grow off the main beam? :dunno:
Title: Re: another big 4x4
Post by: PA BEN on August 08, 2011, 07:06:21 PM: The main beam is above the eye guard. Us local boy's know this. If you didn't have a Washington home grown person showing you the way, you wouldn't know. :chuckle:
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Post by: BULLBLASTER on August 08, 2011, 08:19:09 PM: Quote from: PA BEN on August 08, 2011, 07:06:21 PM
The main beam is above the eye guard. Us local boy's know this. If you didn't have a Washington home grown person showing you the way, you wouldn't know. :chuckle:
:dunno: :chuckle:
Title: Re: another big 4x4
Post by: ashersdad on August 08, 2011, 08:40:09 PM: hears is a couple 4x4 i had coming in last year .the one that is blurred is bigger than the one u can clearly see but some how i deleted the ones you can really see how big he is.
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Post by: ashersdad on August 08, 2011, 08:42:14 PM: another pic
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Post by: huntnnw on August 08, 2011, 09:20:10 PM: maybe your family did..but anyone who targets whiteys around here calls it what it is ..brows and all
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Post by: RidgeRunner_07 on August 09, 2011, 01:48:33 AM: Way I look at it is if that bucks chasing you down and stabs your hind end with one of them eye guards...I think i'd be counting it?? (i'm born and raised in the heart of Washington's whitey country and COUNT THEM!!)
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Post by: PA BEN on August 09, 2011, 05:24:03 AM: Must have been a Stevens County thing. I know my Uncles who were born and raised in Valley just off Bulldog called it that way. My Dad's sister married a Spokane man and he called it that way. BTW, those are some nice 4x4's in those last pictures.
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Post by: RidgeRunner_07 on August 09, 2011, 01:27:24 PM: Definatly is a Steven's Co thing,...Ferry Co has become the new target of Deer and Bear for this guy thou!