On a 150" or better buck on a low fenced lease? And how many of y'all have killed a 150"+ buck on a low fenced lease. Just curious how many big bucks are passed during a hunting career. Would love to see pics also of those harvested big bucks

I've had to pass on several over the past few years, but they are on the in-law's wildlife refuge.

I have seen multiple 150+, and a few B&C bucks on low fence, but we were only doe hunting, so I didn't exactly pass them, because I couldn't shoot them.

I have never shot a 150 before.

I have passed probably over a hundred 150's on low fenced property. I've also passed a bunch of 160's as well. If you want to kill 170+ deer you have to let some 160's walk. Here are two of my best.

son!!!!

I have killed a 152 on my ranch, I have never passed on one. Can't really pass on that kind of deer here, to much hunting pressure and the ranch is not that big. I wish I had a big enough ranch to pass on 150's

Nice bucks M16!

Stompy, do you have any pics and is your place in Breckenridge?

Killed one 150+ never passed one. Have seen some that were 150+ and did not get a shot off. We only have 363 acres to hunt off of so, when one is seen, it gets dead!!

I killed a 147 5/8 this past season on a low fenced ranch in the Hill Country. It was the biggest deer I have ever seen on our place. I have been hunting the place for 46 years, so for all intents and purposes, I may be done for the next 46 years.

Tye, yes my place is in Breckenridge. I do have pics but I'm new to the hunting forum and haven't learned to post them yet.

I killed a buck 3 years ago that scored 152.5 on a low fence lease outside of Woodson. This year I had the privledge to hunt south texas with a buddy who runs 5400 acres in the middle of a 24000 acre ranch. We were only shooting doe and spikes but I saw 150 inch plus deer every hunt. Other than that rare opportunity I have never passed on a deer that big.

IMO the quality of a deer for low fence operations have been diminished by TV and publication of all these huge deer. Where I hunt anything over 125 inches is considered a trophy to me. In south texas that wouldn't be the case.

I haven't broken the 150 mark yet, have gotten close, but have passed on several younger 150's in the last three years. I had a chance at a 6.5 154in 8pt that I hunted hard all year and blew it at 75 yards with a ML couple years back, and even passed on a 10, 12 that would of broke 160. unfortantley i know the score of the 8 b/c family memeber got him the week after that. Kind of have a thing for big heavy 8's.

speaking of M16 love the wide main frame 8!!

I figure I'll break 150 at some point. Deer need to learn to be cooperative!

Have passed on quite a few over 150 with the biggest being 165 inch at 3.5-4.5 yrs old. I saw him twice that year during the rut and never saw him after that and this will be the third year. I hope he is still out there, but who knows. I hunt a family place that is a little over 2000 acres. M16 said it best if you want to shoot a book deer you have to let the young 150's and 160's walk.

I agree 100%. But I figure that most people have either never seen a 150" let alone kill one. So when/if that buck shows up, he takes a dirt nap. It would be hard for me to pass up a 150"+ buck on a low fenced property especially a smaller place. Now if you had 3000-5000 acres, that would be a different story.

I'm just seeing what size of bucks people have shot. It goes back to one of the other threads where an individual thought that 150" buck isn't like a holy grail. I have to disagree. Seeing and killing a 150" buck in my area would definately be a monster. Shoot, a 140"+ is even a monster.

I don't think it would have been 150, probably around 140, but I watched a buck on a ranch that was already sold. Told the ranch owner about it when I got back to the house and he said,

"Yeah, I've seen that deer. You probably should have shot him. He's old."

My biggest buck is a 128 8-pt, so needless to say, I was disappointed.

Also had a buddy get an opportunity at a free 140ish 9-pt this past season and he got the definition of buck fever. Just flat missed from about 90 yards. Never saw the deer again and it was killed a couple of weeks later.

150 is enormous in my opinion. The biggest deer where my land is are probably in the low 130s.

I was on a 6000 acre low fence ranch for a 3 day hunt where I could take 2 cull bucks, and 3 doe. I was also allowed to shoot a trophy buck if I wanted to but the cost was the same as the total for the other 5 deer combined. Anyway, we arrived on Friday after noon, and around 4PM headed out in the truck to look around. We had only gone about 1 mile on the dirt road, when a 160+ buck walked across the road about 25 yards in front of us, angling away, and paying absolutely no attention to the truck! I whispered "Stop, stop!" because my buddy driving had somehow not seen this deer. In the meantime, I jacked a round into my rifle, and rolled down the window (which was squeaky as hell) and found the buck in my scope. I watched him walk to a brushy fence line about 125 yards away, and he never seemed to even know we were there. I decided not to shoot him because of the money factor.

On leaving the ranch at the end of the 3 days, I mentioned all this to the ranch owner, and he said "Oh, you saw 'the old man'." I'm guessing that deer was senile, or completely deaf.

BTW, this was not a normal occurence for me -- I've never had anything larger than 120 in my sights before or since.

I have. My dad has. I have a friend who does on a larger (~2000 acres) low fence place west of Wichita Falls, and a friend who's done so on a place near Brady that I think is ~1500 acres.

I passed on these two last yr. several times. The first one has great mass and character w/ stickers and crab claws in the front. I was really tempted on him but, later in the season he got all broke up in the rut. The 2nd buck is a 6x6 that I think is going to be really nice this yr. Why did I pass on em? I have another place that is over run w/ numbers and 130-145 bucks down the road. I guess I just wanted to get some age on these and see what happens.

That's a monster, westtex.

I'da smoked that buck


i've never seen on low fence that was over 140ish while hunting, I've seen two that would have topped 150 but both were driving down back roads.

that's one heck of a buck...and varmint guard!

I have only gotten Camtrakker pictures of one 150 class buck on my place here in east Texas, but on our place in Oklahoma, I have passed on several 150 class bucks because they were young. I have killed a couple of mature bucks that scored in the 150's and one 178 incher.

The buck in the first pic is actually a more impressive deer. That is a terrible picture of him. Got some great mass for a tx. deer.
pretty sure both of these deer made it thru the season so its gonna be a fun yr. next nov.




yea the coons ate us out of house and home until we got out the welder and came up w/ that magnum varmit cage.

I saw this buck on Thanksgiving evening last year, I let him walk in hopes my dad would get a shot at him-but it didn't happen. Low fence lease in west tx Lost the lease though, so someone else gets to shoot him next year.