Great write up. Definitely a great refresher right before season.
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Agree with everything you wrote FC. I personally started seeing less tooth wear across the board last year on the bucks we took. It was our 7th year feeding protein. Im on a low fence place with pretty decent neighbors so I have changed our target age for trophy bucks to 7.5 with some 6.5 if they live near a fence line. Like I said, they are pretty good neighbors but they shoot trophies at 5.5. Im hoping this is the turn of the corner for me. Up till now the only real difference I have seen in 7 years of feeding protein has been a significant increase in body weight and a significant increase in droptines. Im hoping now that the bucks' teeth are lasting longer and enabling them to get old, the protein will start showing a significant increase in antler size as well. I will post up some pics as well when I get a chance.
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Great write up. Super pics and lots of wisdom. The only thing that I have not seen on our place or on our corp lease is better racks once they go past 7. We have had many go WAY down at 7 and 8 with some having their best set at 7. Our tooth wear still looks similar to the boards and cementum tests are in line with our judging. Could be the sand and gravel or we just don't protein feed as heavy as heavy as others. Lots of fun learning about other's experiences and results. Thanks for taking the time and posting.
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I aint got a dam deer one thats over 5.... they get shot by neighbors! The 90% of weekend warrior deer hunters age deer by antlers... if its over 13 inches shoot it!Last edited by ducks-and-bucks; 09-15-2013, 12:23 AM.
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Originally posted by ducks-and-bucks View PostI aint got a dam deer one thats over 5.... they get shot by neighbors! The 90% of weekend warrior deer hunters age deer by antlers... if its over 13 inches shoot it!
You ought to hear all the shots opening morning, and all the 1 and 2 yr old deer on my camera.
More than once I've passed on a deer, watched it cross the fence... BOOM!
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