Video - Muzzy Moment - Awesome young 11 ptr makes rub, gets pass card. Age/score?

[layin on the smackdown]

This is a video i shot November 8th 2010 in East Central Illinois, and was originally 26 minutes long but i had to shorten it to put it on youtube. I waited to post it here because i had submitted it to North American White Tail and wanted to wait for it to air before putting it on youtube. It aired In August 2011, and i did get a muzzy moment for it...

Anyhow, this buck came in around 4 pm, and at first i thought he was a possible shooter, but the longer he hung around the more i sized him up and finally concluded that he was a 3 1/2 year old and needed another year...After watching this a thousand times, i honestly think i may have videod a 2 1/2 year old with booner genetics. This was on the same farm i harvested the booner in my signiture...

Check it out - he makes an intense rub on a tree the size of a two liter bottle...I never knew how much scent they put on rubs like that - pretty neat.

let me know what you guys think his age was then, and what he may have scored. If he made it last year and makes it this year, i really think he'll be booner material.

Awesome young IL 11 pointer making intense rub - gets pass card - YouTube

thanks,

dan

[redkneck]

Dan that was great, you definitely have a great piece of land to hunt there. I didn't watch the entire clip, will watch it later, but you surely did well to pass that one up given his potential, he would not have gotten the pass card in front of me down here. I didn't pause it to try to guess score but surely impressed me into the P&Y class, will no doubt be something to look at if he can stick around for you one more year.

[Mathews XT Man]

2 and 1/2 yr old 125 gross

[slickhead101]

Based on body size and the mass of his antlers I would say hes a good 2 1/2 year old. I would put him grossing out anywhere between 120-135. Not much mass but in a year or 2 your gonna be at full draw before passing him up would even cross your mind! Great video too I just started self filming my hunts, sure hope I can get some good footage!

[Straight Shooter]

Definately 2 1/2 year old buck, in my opinion. Good call on letting him walk, he in my book is probably in the 100-110 range on scoring. He loses alot on spread and mainbeam length. Definate shooter in a year or two for Ill.

[00DodgeGuy]

I am going to disagree and say he is 3 1/2.... With that being said you did the right thing by passing.

[dbHunterNY]

good you let him walk. i wish i could let something like that walk. rarely see much of anything that's that big where i hunt. imagine that buck at 6.5 yrs old! who knows what kind of buck he'd blow up into.

[wtnhunt]

Think with where you are at letting that deer walk was the right thing to do, and think probably a 2.5 year old. Really nice potential, but not enough mass or length to go much over 125 as he was in the video.

Did you see the deer in 2011?

[layin on the smackdown]

Think with where you are at letting that deer walk was the right thing to do, and think probably a 2.5 year old. Really nice potential, but not enough mass or length to go much over 125 as he was in the video.

Did you see the deer in 2011?

Actually William, i didn't even step foot on that farm one time (well not hunting anyway) in 2011. The land owner didn't hunt either...Its a small farm, only 60 acres, but it sits right between a 180 and a 200 that only get gun hunted for 3 days a year - and across the street is a big chunk of ground (don't know how many acres) that does not allow hunting either, so im confident he didn't get shot by anyone...that and he would have shown up on Stewarts Archery's web page if he did, legally anyway. So unless mother nature had other plans, i willing to bet he's still around.

dan

[hoosierhunter]

I'd say 2.5 max 3.5 and around 125 inches.! I personally would have passed him,but I know a ton of hunters who would stick him in a heartbeat. I know that having prior knowledge of a buck really helps when it comes to determining shoot or pass on stand. It seems that unknown deer always get judged higher in person than what the trail cam or video shows upon further inspection.

[pointing_dogs_rule]

Not outside the ears. A young deer. Maybe 120-125. He'll be bigger next year.

good luck to all
the dog

[Ethan Givan]

Id say that was a good choice to pass him. Not gonna try to guess if he 3.5 or 2.5 but I will say he scores 115-120 in the video. Should be a good deer in a couple years.

[fly]

Looks like 2.5 years and gross the same as my 10 point I have pictured in the Deer hunting room under guess the score. You may recall, from my stand I thought he was mature, but once I walked up to him I knew he was young and wish I had let him walk another year or two.