Ft. Sill Deer Survey Results.....looks like a bad year ahead of us

[sesh]

4) Are more hunters really a bad thing???? We need more hunters to preserve our hunting tradition and the world could benefit from the lessons that are learned in the woods.

^^^^^This^^^^^^

 

[rlt7272]

You dont have to look too far back to recall 2 State records coming from Push Co.

The 200# buck may be mythical in SE Ok, but if my memory serves me right the largest # of B&C bucks in Ok, have come from that area.




Good points! Still I cannot find the weights of those deer, only points and scores.

Deer hunters can have different goals, mine are meat first, pictures second. Of course if I happen to knock down big horny, you can bet I will be cheesing it up for the camera.

 

[r00s7a]

OK, I'm a dumbbutt then. Wasn't it 3 just last year?

Actually, sorry; come to think of it, I think I may have known that - outstanding then - love it!

So the rule now is "Hunter's Choice" - any two bucks however you like? (2 archery, 2 ML, 2 gun, 1 archery/1 ML, 1 archery/1 gun, 1ML/1 gun, etc.)?

Thanks and sorry - my memory is crap anymore. I did pick up the hardcopy of the regs today - I just don't look at the online one in detail like I'd planned to (to save mother earth and all that).

NO! It is not hunter's choice as you have described. You can take 2 with archery, but only 1 with a rifle and 1 with muzzleloader, not to exceed the season limit of two antlered deer total.

 

[300WSM]

What he said. dont shoot to many with your muzzleloader.

 

[r00s7a]

The 200# buck may be mythical in SE Ok, but if my memory serves me right the largest # of B&C bucks in Ok, have come from that area.




Good points! Still I cannot find the weights of those deer, only points and scores.

Deer hunters can have different goals, mine are meat first, pictures second. Of course if I happen to knock down big horny, you can bet I will be cheesing it up for the camera.

This may be one of the ones you are talking about... not the current record, but was for a few days. Only 160#, dressed, I would imagine.

A 17-point whitetail taken in November, 2007 by deer hunter Jason Boyett from Glenpool is the number one typical deer in the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation’s Cy Curtis Program Record Book.

The buck, which was harvested during the regular deer gun season, scored 191 and 4/8 Boone and Crockett (B&C) points and weighed 160 pounds. The buck grossed 210 4/8 B&C points but had almost 27 points of deductions because the antlers were not symmetrical. The deer was taken in southeastern Oklahoma in Pushmataha County.

 

[dennishoddy]

Its a little further north, but at Big Mac, last year, I looked at the stats of the pope and young bucks taken off the place over the last several years.
Bucks that were 5 1/2 - 6 1/2 yrs old scoring 140-160 points only weighed 135 - 145 lbs.

 

[rlt7272]

SE does grow some nice racks but the body sizes are hardly ever in the 200# range.

 

[Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow]

210 4/8ths gross!? Where would that put it on the non-typical list?

 

[Huckelberry75]

Sad thing is there is a growing group of people who would not consider that a trophy.

Oh, and in SE Okla you would have a better chance finding big foot versus coming across a 200# 10 point.

Nahh, you just duct tape a couple 100# forkies together. I know I know.

 

[Stillhunter]

I just did a spotlight count for DMAP. There were plenty of fawns. I'm not done with all the surveys but I bet the total numbers and buck/doe ratio is not changed from last year. This is in Western Ok. Dewey County.