With the rut in full swing the resident coyote population will get a temporary reprieve.

Here is a solid South Texas buck I thought the T-Man Crew might like to take a look at.

What do you folks think this old buck will score?





I’ll be interested to see if someone can come up with the right number.

I'm not a great judge of scores and it's always harder to tell in pictures, but I'm going to say 161.

195"

Those ears are awful droopy. Something fishy going on. I throw the BS flag. Is this a Rompala Buck?

Something about a 135 lb buck with a nice rack. Just sayin 155 is my guess.

188

Those bucks are not the hill country little bucks with big antlers,lots of feed and minerals most are 200 lb live weight.

Having seen the price list, more money than I care to spend. But still a nice buck.
Gonna say 50” on the mains.
Give him 19” spread.
Mass at the bases is thick, but loses it a little going up, but the fact the tines are close together it’s going to give a little more than actually has…so I’ll give 34”.
Tines, oh boy, 32” left side and 34” right side.
169” total. Only thing I’m really not sure about which could be plus or minus a couple of inches are the main beams.

There are a couple of good guesses so far.

Keep in mind the ear is about seven inches long.

That gives you a good gauge to work with.

These old bucks will weigh in at 200-250 on the hoof depending on the time of year.

Thank's for the little tips,the more I look at the G6 and don't know if it's long enough to count and if there's a matching one on right antler,I'm changing my score by 1" to 194".

Surprised me but I’m coming up with around 190”.

CK, Rick Olson, & T67 were all pretty close.
He scored 193 and change.
Good eye fellas.

The old Ghost Buck finally slipped up.

He sure did . Nice South Texas buck.That dude has some long main beams.You get him or a client?

Wow, more pics please!

Congrats James

More pics and some detail of the hunt please

This wasn’t my kill Slip.

And yes, his beams are really long. This buck had zero ground shrinkage.

We believe he is around nine years old

They have a FB and IG page. Showed up on my feed one day on IG and saw the bucks he was posting. Some huge deer on that place!

BT, we really wanted to get some good field photos of him before we started the hunt. He had other plans.

Here is the recap.
Unfortunately I was unable to sit in on the final hunt.
Here is the short version of the final minutes.

To start off with the old buck came in with only fifteen minutes of good shooting light left. He came in from the opposite direction he was expected. That is no surprise on either count. The big surprise was that he showed up at all. That was only the third time he was seen in daylight this year. This was the last evening hunt, and the best opportunity to get a shot at this elusive deer.

He rolled in just before dark tending a doe. This old fella took date night very seriously. No other suitors were allowed anywhere near his new girlfriend. It's a miracle his rack remained unbroken with all the fighting we have witnessed in the last few weeks.

The doe tempted him out of the protection of the brush on to an old out of the way sendero that crossed though his stomping grounds. He probably wouldn't have moved before dark if it wasn't for her,The blind was basically set up in the buck’s bedroom.

They got a good broadside shot at him around 125 yards out.

It was a good death, as it should be.

You Betha T67!