.... the meat looks just fine to me... can’t shoot because of an inch of spread... and swampwolf’s buddies could be waiting on me up at the road lol

I see gun season is open in east Texas. Next weekend here. As for antler restrictions, just shoot the ones that have just lost their spots and don't worry about it. Lol.

Gotta leave some for seed.

Pick a spot and shoot...
Best eating


Donnie

Kinda scrawny. No corn in your area?

Hard to measure them from up in the tree. Best to get down and put a tape measure across them.

Just tell them your kid shot it... His record will be expunged at 18

Just got to have four on one side here in Missouri. That's still poses a few problems for those who are arithmeticaly challenged in the northern part of the state...

Ol'dad

I don't care for them either

If you want big bucks, shut down the buck season and shoot does only. JMO

I never understood the antler laws myself, glad we don’t have them here.

It sure was more fun hunting 25+ years ago here in Pa. Everyone just wanted a buck, spikes were fine. What we called monsters, 8 point with 16-18 inch spread and 5 or 6 inch high points are now scrawny now adays. Used to be everyone went out at day break and everyone got shots, there were drives all over theplace and deer got bumped several times a day until they found their happy spot. 10 am or 10:30 everyone went back to the cabin for breakfast and after that the serious guys went back out an Mom and the sister went home. Now you dont dare move off your 20 acre spot or you will chase all your deer away for the rest of the day.......jk

That deer looks like its starving.
Put it out of its misery.

whats the restrictions?

I’m right there with you in that!!!! Us East Tx folk ain’t got them wide open spaces like out west so we can take all day checking out how wide something is.

Exactly. In several Missouri counties they have to have 4 points on one side. Get a big 6 come through, staring at the rack to see if he has a brow tine.... Poof he's gone

I shot one this morning about the same size as that one Savell. I'll shoot over a pile of trophy bucks to kill a doe or a 1.5 year old buck any day.

The biggest buck I have on m wall tasted like garbage. Most went to the dogs. The last thing I want is a pile of huge racked shoe leather walking around...NO thanks.

Big racks are cool if you're a teenager. The rest of us hunt for meat.

We have the same thing just different spreads for different zones. The only nice thing is we also have a beam length so we only have to meet one of the requirements. That deer would be legal here because of his right side. We can also take 1 of our 3 bucks as long as it has visible horns above the hairline. I generally don't do it that way but it is legal.

Cull deer. Take him!

I don't like them either but the results are an older age class, and larger rack, of bucks available. I've seen that both here in Georgia and Alabama. Personally, I think they are misapplied to private property as management of wildlife on private property should fall to the property owner.
The only thing I do like from the law is changing shooter mindset from brown it's down to let's think about this before yanking the trigger. But there's other ways to achieve that.