This was a gaint in E Tx 35 yrs ago.

[GatorBait]

Gotcha, thanks. I have always wondered about it. I say I don't hunt trophies but if the choice is a small one or a big one, well it's not a hard decision

[Bish]

Didn't know Giant was spelled Gaint 30 years ago, had to do that.

God Bless
Bish

[BigThicketBoy]

Didn't know Giant was spelled Gaint 30 years ago, had to do that.

God Bless
Bish

Sometimes the dyslexia wins, what can I say?[emoji31]

[ajm2nac]

Good lookin buck

[jerp]

Back then if you saw a deer while hunting in east Texas, you shot it - just like if you were duck hunting and saw a duck. If it happened to have a decent rack, all the better but nobody passed up an opportunity to put one on the ground. If you said "I think we should give him another year" nobody would understand what you were saying.

[tps7742]

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East Tx around 20 years ago from the Angelina NF. My Dad's biggest deer prior to his death

[tps7742]

It has been remounted a few years ago. Sorry on the sideways pic, this is my first posting a pic. This wasn't meant as a hijack. Sorry

[Booner Sooner]

It has been remounted a few years ago. Sorry on the sideways pic, this is my first posting a pic. This wasn't meant as a hijack. Sorry

FIFY


Good buck in any decade.

[tps7742]

Thanks

[TxDispatcher]

So the racks are bigger, but are the herds healthier? Not arguing or trying to start anything, I'm just curious. It would seem the AR would let a lot of animals slip through that would normally get taken. Just an honest question, I have never really hunted for trophy deer, just meat so I don't keep up with it. Plus I'm still kind of a young buck.

This was answered, without being a direct answer to your question, by jerp

Back then if you saw a deer while hunting in east Texas, you shot it - just like if you were duck hunting and saw a duck. If it happened to have a decent rack, all the better but nobody passed up an opportunity to put one on the ground. If you said "I think we should give him another year" nobody would understand what you were saying.

[BolilloLoco]

1987-1992 Anderson Co. Texas- I remember sitting in an 8ft lean-to ladder stand made out of 2"x4"s all weekend and not seeing an animal. Most weekends went that way for all 3 of us that were hunting. I can only remember one buck being killed during that time. It was a spike buck. I never fired a shot at a deer on that piece of property.

[Froggy]

I killed this 8 point 49 years ago in the heart of the Big Thicket. 20 gauge 00 buck. He was sneaking out way ahead of my Grandpa's red bone hounds. He was following a doe and literally crawling through some deep grass when I blasted him. My first buck.

Deer were scarce in the 60's and 70's. My Grandpa told me that back in the 20's and 30's if they saw a deer track they went and got the dogs.

Taxidermy has come a long way.

[hoythunter02]

I killed this 8 point 49 years ago in the heart of the Big Thicket. 20 gauge 00 buck. He was sneaking out way ahead of my Grandpa's red bone hounds. He was following a doe and literally crawling through some deep grass when I blasted him. My first buck.

Deer were scarce in the 60's and 70's. My Grandpa told me that back in the 20's and 30's if they saw a deer track they went and got the dogs.

Taxidermy has come a long way.

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Thats awesome man. Thanks for sharing.

[Preacher Man]

Me and Dad saw six deer in a nine year span beginning in 1979 thru 1988 in Jasper County. My first "big" buck was a 105" 8 point I killed in 1990. It was considered huge. We drove it thru town all the way to my grandma's house to show it off.

[Preacher Man]

I remember my grand father telling the same story about seeing a deer track and going to get the dogs. They'd hunt that deer until they killed it. Those were different times for sure.