hunting around Mason

[mathewsoutback]

one of my buddies claims that on his grandparents place in mason county has a couple of 150 class deer on it and they saw a 180 class a couple years ago and it is a low fenced place how many of yall believe this oh and they have never killed anything bigger then a 115 class deer on there

[Tommy_V]

I would dare say that he has got "B.E.S." or Big Eye Syndrome. He prolly sees 130's as 150's and 150's as 180's. I guess it could be possibe, but that takes some pretty dedicated management to get deer like that for that area...or they could have a high fence ranch close that has a neighbor with some wire cutters?

[Moose]

When I was in school we had a field trip to a ranch in between Johnson City and Mason somewhere. They had several deer that they had killed on it that were over 150"s including one deer that was over 170". Of course the deer were killed back in the 1930's though Our place in Mason over the last decade has made great strides and now regularly produces deer over 130"s. And it's only a little over 400 acres low fenced.

[mathewsoutback]

Tommy V I'm going to have to agree with you on that one i didn't even think about it he has an 8 pt that he says scores in the 130's and it might score in the 110's when I have an 8 pt that scored 124 and was scored by an offical that has more mass longer tines greater spread so i think he does have the B.E.S.

[Tommy_V]

LOL most people like that have never put a tape on an animal, and can't really understand what it takes to get to the 150's much less 180's...they look and spit out a number that sounds good, rather than taking the time to look at tine length, mass, and width which is what scoring is about...remember I said scoring not hunting.