One for me...always looking for number two.    

As more and more states realize the benefits to managing for quality, I belive the opportunities for such bucks will increase.  Many of you guys are no doubt very good deer hunters, but simply do not have the opportunity to hunt P&Y class bucks. I see it all the time. A guy comes from Virginia, or PA here to Illinois and shoots his first P&Y buck during their first week.  Did that guy all of a sudden become a better deer hunter?  NO.  He simply had access to a better area thats all.

Jon, that was very well said my friend...I absolutely agree 100%!

I have three that would make it....all out of state, I live in eastern NY (MO., Conn., and MT.)

My two biggest east coast deer are from Conn.....and I've hunted there a maybe 1/2% as much as I've hunted in NY over the years.

Ya gotta hunt where the big ones live!

QuoteOriginally posted by jonsimoneau:
As more and more states realize the benefits to managing for quality, I belive the opportunities for such bucks will increase.  Many of you guys are no doubt very good deer hunters, but simply do not have the opportunity to hunt P&Y class bucks. I see it all the time. A guy comes from Virginia, or PA here to Illinois and shoots his first P&Y buck during their first week.  Did that guy all of a sudden become a better deer hunter?  NO.  He simply had access to a better area thats all.

Agree fully, and very well said, Jon.  I live and hunt in FL...no P&Y's to be had here.  I also hunt my home state of PA.  These are mountain deer and just don't get that big...antler restrictions are helping, however.      

All mine are P&Y - Poke em Young    

Jon said it best , I have bowhunted 34 years and can count the P&Y Bucks on one hand that I have ever saw.

Jack

I only entered the first one I killed. I don't remember what it scored and couldn't find the certificate if my life depended on it. I've shot a few more since then that would have made P&Y, but didn't enter them because it just doesn't appeal to me anymore. That's not to say it's right or wrong though, but I've already scratched that itch once and it hasn't come back.

Yes, it's fun to shoot something with a large rack, but sometimes I think "deer hunting" would be much better in this state if the highest scoring set of antlers roaming the woods was about 100 inches or less. Trophy deer herds fall under the category of "be careful what you wish for." I'd trade every rack in my house over 125" to go back to the time when access in this state required a knock on a door, and handshake, maybe some chores, and a promise of respect, instead of a checkbook, a bidding war, a legal document.

Maybe that's why I hunt in Wisconsin more than Illinois.

QuoteOriginally posted by Jason R. Wesbrock:
I only entered the first one I killed. I don't remember what it scored and couldn't find the certificate if my life depended on it. I've shot a few more since then that would have made P&Y, but didn't enter them because it just doesn't appeal to me anymore. That's not to say it's right or wrong though, but I've already scratched that itch once and it hasn't come back.

Yes, it's fun to shoot something with a large rack, but sometimes I think "deer hunting" would be much better in this state if the highest scoring set of antlers roaming the woods was about 100 inches or less. Trophy deer herds fall under the category of "be careful what you wish for." I'd trade every rack in my house over 125" to go back to the time when access in this state required a knock on a door, and handshake, maybe some chores, and a promise of respect, instead of a checkbook, a bidding war, a legal document.

Maybe that's why I hunt in Wisconsin more than Illinois.

im to young to remember those days, but i dream about em.  asked a farmer last year if i could hunt his land, he said no, i rent it out to a couple of clubs, and get thousand$ a year for it.

I hear ya, Jason.

100 inches- thats a dang nice deer for my neck of the woods.

0 , but those does taste good. I saw my first P&Y this season at about fifty yards: exciting. Most deer don't make it past forkhorns where I hunt. Oklahoma is still working on a better management system but every year seems to be better than the last. Jon hit the nail on the head. I'll be out tomarrow and the wind is supposed to be perfect for that same stand so maybe I'll have an encounter, who knows?

Those numbers are used to quanitify a hunter, not a deer, and it has put a bad taste in the stew.  High-fiving, immature idiots permeate the so-called hunting shows on television and do more harm than good to the real sport of archery and hunting.  I don't measure antlers....I measure the experience.

IMO,the reason hunting is called a sport.You keep score.0 that I know of.Got one that I've been told I should score.

I have two,a 164 10pt,and a 130 9pt. I truly love to match witts with mature whitetail bucks.But I've found mature does at times harder to fool. I love hunting all deer, the hunt with traditional gear is what really,I think,puts the icing on the cake.I'm thankful God created the hunter spirit in me.Bowtough.