Meat Buck?

[Foggy47]

Chute ‘em!

 

[bigboreblr]

That chubby one with the average horns, he still walking around.

I'd shoot him.

 

[hunts_with_stick]

OK....so discussion around our family camp can center around what we should shoot for our (two deer) community sausage making bucks / does. We generally take two deer and I have sausage sticks and snack sticks made from all the meat except for the backstops and tenderloins which the shooter keeps.

Thus we all have a good amount of sausage for parties and such. And with our MN party hunting abilities......we all continue to hunt for a more "Trophy" racked buck (or any other deer that we select) to have individually butchered. It's been our camp policy for a few years now.

So.....what say you....do you take a big bodied deer like this shown.....which displays a rather small rack....or let him go in hopes of a better rack in the next seasons? I'd say this guy has little chance of growing a beautiful rack in the future......and should be killed for sausage. What do you think?

( dang, I cannot post the pic I want here. It's a large bodied buck - 8 pointer and pretty small basket type rack. Will try to get the proper extension on the pic)

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I'm estimating this deer to be 2.5 or possibly 3.5 years. Meat?..... or let him grow?

Ha ha, you said sausage parties. Those definitely aren’t that fun and we’d leave if none of the ladies showed up. Back in my college days…

 

[Foggy47]

Ha ha, you said sausage parties. Those definitely aren’t that fun and we’d leave if none of the ladies showed up. Back in my college days…

Sounds like you have played the game: "Hide the sausage" a time or two....or have heard rumors. lmao.

 

[Howboutthemdawgs]

Sausage stick buck