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Message: <blockquote data-quote="retrieverman" data-source="post: 4348040" data-attributes="member: 24452">You can’t kill big bucks if you don’t hunt on a place that has big bucks.  If I never hunted anywhere but east TX, my biggest buck to date would be a 140 class I killed in 1997.  I’ve killed quite a few 125-130 class bucks which is a really nice mature buck for my places.  Antler restrictions in TX has given alot of young bucks a chance and has made a difference, but where I hunt doesn’t have the genetics or food quality to grow big racks.  It just is what it is.For several years, I got obsessed with hunting up there to the point I completely quit deer hunting here other than taking my daughter, but I finally came to the realization a couple years ago that the challenge of getting on a 130 class in east TX is exactly the same as getting on a 150-170 class on the Salt Fork.  I’ve had to adjust my expectations, but I now enjoy hunting in east TX again.Over the last couple or three years, the drive has started getting to me, but I’m not ready to throw in the towel yet.  My youngest son actually called yesterday and wants us to look at a piece of hunting property in Kansas, but I told him I wasn’t interested in buying anything else that far from home but would be happy to help him get it set up with stands and feeders if he bought it.</blockquote>