I know that there are quite a few deer hunters here. Thought you might appreciate a rack that was found on a farm about ten miles from my house. Two quail hunters found it in a patch of warm-season grass. No way to tell how it died. Green scored 246". The farmer told me that he put up a 200" buck with double-drop tines this fall while cutting corn, so it appears that the big fella has passed on his genes.
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Sweet Jesus!
Nice find!
I can’t beat that.
You are all nothing but barbarians!!! What did that poor defenseless animal ever do to you!?! LOL.
One of these days, I’ll actually have to go hunting. I think I’ll do so with a bow and arrow as opposed to with a gun. Make it a lil bit more ol’ skool. Good find, OP.
Damn, that’s a monstrocious whitetail rack!
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Did he find it like that, or was it on a body?
If it’s the former, I can tell you exactly how it died. Hunter shoots a big buck out of season, gets scared and doesn’t want to get caught, but still doesn’t want to waste the meat. So, he cuts the head off before leaving the field and ditches it. A pretty dispicable act, but it happens frequently.
Huge rack. Huge.
Mostly corn/hay/soybean farms where you’re at or is there some sort of super-crop that’s being grown?
Hope that dude banged plenty of does before he kicked the bucket, that’s one helluva rack, even for the midwest.
how is it hunting when all you do is sit in a deer stand and wait? 
Damn that is a huge rack. Need to get out to ILL. to hunt some time.
[quote]tedro wrote:
Did he find it like that, or was it on a body?[/quote]
[quote]tedro wrote:
Did he find it like that, or was it on a body?
If it’s the former, I can tell you exactly how it died. Hunter shoots a big buck out of season, gets scared and doesn’t want to get caught, but still doesn’t want to waste the meat. So, he cuts the head off before leaving the field and ditches it. A pretty dispicable act, but it happens frequently.[/quote]
Whoa there Sherlock of the hills. While the scenario you described does occur and may have in this case, that great buck could have just died of old age. “I can tell you exactly how it died,” is a tad presumptuous.
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[quote]matt74 wrote:
Damn that is a huge rack. Need to get out to ILL. to hunt some time.[/quote]
Many hunters are speculating that the ILDNR and the legislature have essentially over-sold the deer herd (unlimited NR tags, special seasons, etc.) to the point that big bucks (ie- over 140") are becoming increasingly rare. It has been estimated that the majority of bucks taken by NRs w/outfitters are 2.5 years old.
You would be better off spending your money in Iowa where they actually have biologists, rather than Chicago bureaucrats, manage their wildlife.
[quote]jehovasfitness wrote:
how is it hunting when all you do is sit in a deer stand and wait? :D[/quote]
Not all people hunt in that style.
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[quote]jehovasfitness wrote:
how is it hunting when all you do is sit in a deer stand and wait? :D[/quote]
Would it be better if I sat on a stump? What about if I hid behind a shopping cart and snuck up on a shrink-wrapped package of pork chops? No malice intended, but I find it humorous that people think that hunting is as simple as putting a stand in a tree. Way more to it than that. Even under optimal conditions, the odds are tipped way in the favor of the deer.
To me; (and I’m not a hunter, just not my thing), but hunting should involve more than just sitting their and putting deer piss on you .
Hell, I have deer come outside my house all the time. If I could half shoot I could sit on my picnic table and kill one in an hour. That’s not hunting IMO.
[quote]BradTGIF wrote:
Mostly corn/hay/soybean farms where you’re at or is there some sort of super-crop that’s being grown?[/quote]
LOL! Mostly corn and beans, with a smattering of winter wheat. Big melon farms to the north (some crazy figure like 80% of all commercially produced pumpkins come from central Illinois between Peoria and Springfield). I do note that there is a nuclear plant about 75 miles from here.
The deer here essentially live in the grocery store (like in the rest of the Midwest). As you would expect the deer are big bodied. 150 pound does and 250 pound bucks are commonplace. They taste pretty damned good too. Fuck eating sage-fed deer.
[quote]VanderLaan wrote:
What about if I hid behind a shopping cart and snuck up on a shrink-wrapped package of pork chops? [/quote]
I like to have a friend take the package and throw it up in the air in the store.
Then I shoot while it’s in flight.
Makes it much gamier.
Spooks the other shoppers a bit, though