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 Legal or Not in an Antler Restriction County?
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12/20/13 01:26 AM
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Would you shoot?  It's genetics are finally out of our herd, but I'm not sure you could legally shoot this one anymore.
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Re: Legal or Not in an Antler Restriction County?
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12/20/13 01:27 AM
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No... not a legal buck.
But I would want to.
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Re: Legal or Not in an Antler Restriction County?
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12/20/13 01:30 AM
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It stinks that question even has to exist.
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Re: Legal or Not in an Antler Restriction County?
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12/20/13 01:31 AM
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No... not a legal buck.
But I would want to.
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Re: Legal or Not in an Antler Restriction County?
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12/20/13 01:37 AM
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Surely you do not really have to ask the question on that deer.....
I learned long ago you can't reason someone out of something they don't reason themselves into.
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Re: Legal or Not in an Antler Restriction County?
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12/20/13 01:44 AM
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No, but wasn't sure if they had an exception for nontypical. It was a mature buck that was killed about 1990. It was the largest bodied deer brought into our local processor for the first month or so of the season.
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Re: Legal or Not in an Antler Restriction County?
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12/20/13 02:18 AM
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Re: Legal or Not in an Antler Restriction County?
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12/20/13 02:38 AM
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North East Texas breeder buck thanks to AR's.
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Re: Legal or Not in an Antler Restriction County?
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12/20/13 02:50 AM
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North East Texas breeder buck thanks to AR's. He's a Camp county special.
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Re: Legal or Not in an Antler Restriction County?
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12/20/13 03:23 AM
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Re: Legal or Not in an Antler Restriction County?
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12/20/13 03:25 AM
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Re: Legal or Not in an Antler Restriction County?
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12/20/13 04:19 AM
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Not really seeing anything non typical. Just narrow.
I don't carry change, but I love breaking bills!
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Re: Legal or Not in an Antler Restriction County?
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#4853872
12/20/13 04:21 AM
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This is the problem with AR
525,600 minutes in a year don't waste one
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Re: Legal or Not in an Antler Restriction County?
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12/20/13 02:27 PM
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Would you shoot? It's genetics are finally out of our herd, but I'm not sure you could legally shoot this one anymore. How are it's genetics out of the herd? Did you also kill the female that produced him?
If you shoot a young deer because a neighbor will shoot it, you are that neighbor.
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Re: Legal or Not in an Antler Restriction County?
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12/20/13 02:31 PM
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Not even close to being legal. AR are a good and bad thing. Wish we could take one under 13in. and one over 13in. We have several that are under that need to be taken. But it is not worth the ticket or shame.
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Re: Legal or Not in an Antler Restriction County?
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12/20/13 02:46 PM
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How are it's genetics out of the herd? Did you also kill the female that produced him?
Usually the buck passes on the dominant gene that determines antler growth to the fawn. The doe carries the recessive gene. By removing the buck, you remove this dominant gene from the breeding cycle.
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Re: Legal or Not in an Antler Restriction County?
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12/20/13 03:07 PM
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Would you shoot? It's genetics are finally out of our herd, but I'm not sure you could legally shoot this one anymore. How are it's genetics out of the herd? Did you also kill the female that produced him? We don't see any narrow bucks running around anymore. We killed several bucks with this phenotype.
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Re: Legal or Not in an Antler Restriction County?
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12/20/13 03:09 PM
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Not even close to being legal. AR are a good and bad thing. Wish we could take one under 13in. and one over 13in. We have several that are under that need to be taken. But it is not worth the ticket or shame.
I agree with you Elkman. After AR's we kill much better quality bucks, and there seems to be more of them. However, it does make it harder for a kid to get their first buck, and you have to watch bucks like the one above walk around.
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Re: Legal or Not in an Antler Restriction County?
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12/20/13 03:23 PM
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Surely you do not really have to ask the question on that deer.....
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Re: Legal or Not in an Antler Restriction County?
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12/20/13 03:33 PM
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Killing one deer won't solve the problem or improve the herd. IMO he looks to have had antler damage also when growing in velvet. Still would have been narrow but not as he is there.
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Re: Legal or Not in an Antler Restriction County?
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12/21/13 12:55 AM
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Re: Legal or Not in an Antler Restriction County?
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12/21/13 01:20 AM
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Killing one deer won't solve the problem or improve the herd. IMO he looks to have had antler damage also when growing in velvet. Still would have been narrow but not as he is there. X2. Even killing 10 on a LF place won't make a difference that you would see within 15-20 years....other than few bucks being observed
If you shoot a young deer because a neighbor will shoot it, you are that neighbor.
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Re: Legal or Not in an Antler Restriction County?
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12/21/13 03:42 AM
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would sure make some good backscratchers. Cull for sure just not legal anymore in most counties.
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Re: Legal or Not in an Antler Restriction County?
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12/21/13 03:22 PM
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