This is a pic of one of our last years bucks that we wanted to pass on for one more year...we hunt on over 2k acres and he sticks around so we wanted to take the gamble...anyways my uncle came out to shoot one of our many culls...MISTAKE...he shoots this one (a 4.5yr old) even though we showed him photos of him and told him NO...when i got the call from cousin that he shot it, i went into immediate dipression...lol...notice the mass and the sweeping beams on this guy...anyways im over it but i just saw the pic again on my computer and it made me think of him again...as for my uncle...i still love the guy, but i sure hope this guy did some speading of the genes!

Nice buck. Too bad he didn't get another year.

yea stinks...this is me and my cousins operation, and for one of us not to be able to take him was hard to bite off and chew...we fed that deer a lot...he was actually a 12pt year before...main frame 10 with double split brows...the next year he was a 10 with a kicker off of one of his 3's

That sucks. I never understand the decisions some grown men make when you put them in a deer stand and a set of rules.

your uncle thought that was a CULL? Man, what are the GOOD deer like where he normally hunts?

+1

Can I come shoot a "cull"?

x2!!!

One of you should have been with him to prevent this.

Next time give me a call.. lol

what yall score him at

here's a pic of him alive

I have him at 156" but I blew the hell out of my last guess

same thing happened with me and my dad...i had a nice tall 8 that i had seen a few times and on the last day of season my girlfriend shot a doe and then i took a doe that was with her. then 25 min later that 8 point showed up and we passed on him cause i wanted to let him grow another year even though my gf really wanted to take him. so that evening the last day of the season i told my dad about the 8 and told him not to kill him, he goes to the stand for like the 3rd time that year and shoots him....grrrrr you talk about ticks you off, we got into a big fight about it

This. If he was that important to you.
Whole deal doesn't say much about Uncle either. Incompetent at best, inconsiderately selfish at worst.

Great deer, though. Love the mass.

Not sure...when you show a man a picture of a deer and he goes out and shoots it, that is on the man. No Nephew should have to hold his uncles hand.

Some people are selfish.
Some people are idiots.
Some people are just selfish idiots.

I'd tell him he can.keep the meat but I want the mount lol

LOL!

This is why I rarely let people hunt alone when hunting with me.

I'm certainly not defending the uncle in this but showing a picture of a deer to someone who isn't part of the management crew and expecting that person to recall that image when the blood is pumping isn't exactly setting yourself up for success. Certain deer can be readily identified, this deer looks like a regular deer. No twisted antler features etc. A printed picture could have helped also.

That would be the last time he ever hunted my place.

this deer without a doubt was easy to identify...he was set apart from the others in herd...plus the 4 in kicker off one of his 3's should have given him away...but twisted antlers??? come on

I don't know if I would go that far, but I would explain to him what a management program is what we were saving that deer for. Then I would most likely tell him he was out of a year as he has taken way over what he was supposed to. After that he can come back, but if he shoots something he has been told not to he won't be coming back again, at least not to hunt.