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I need your opinion..

Post by ColoradoV » Fri Jan 24, 2014 10:11 pm

There has been a ongoing, passionate, and many times a heated discussion among my family members of who has got the biggest buck. This has been a ongoing discussion for many years and there there has never been a measurement taken of either buck so as you can imagine sometimes during a family gathering for a birthday, Thanksgiving, or Christmas someone brings up who shot the biggest buck so the discussion continues. Well the last time it was brought up I said I would put it out on the great WWW and neither hunter cared and we all thought it would be fun.

Well in this age of the great internets and for the fun of it - I thought I would ask you guys for your opinion. What buck do you think is the biggest?

So what do you guys think? Of the below bucks which is the biggest? If they were side by side which one would you take a shot at?

Choice A, the real or current measurement is 32.5" kicker to kicker.

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Choice B, the real or current measurement is 32.1/4" wide

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Thanks for your help that will only add to the never ending discussion :)..

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Re: I need your opinion..

Post by JBird » Fri Jan 24, 2014 10:49 pm

Is both an option? Ha I like them both. I like the mass on the second one but the top one probably scores better.

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Re: I need your opinion..

Post by MuleyMadness » Sat Jan 25, 2014 7:22 pm

No wonder there is a heated debate, those are both pretty similar IMO. Obviously the one has trash, but score wise they can't be really to far apart can they? Crap that would be a TOUGH decision on which one I'd shoot side by side. Sometimes 'live' one just looks cooler/better so I'm a bit stumped here. Normally I'd almost always take that trash and extras over a Typical. But that's extra ordinary 5x5 Typical.

So which bucks bigger to me and which would I shoot. The 5x5

Final Answer B...

Sort of...

:)

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Re: I need your opinion..

Post by ridgetop » Sat Jan 25, 2014 10:23 pm

I like the second buck a little more.
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Re: I need your opinion..

Post by coloradobone » Sat Jan 25, 2014 10:36 pm

I go with "option B." It's the mass that does it for me. Did grandma shoot dat thing?

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Post by a_bow_nut » Sun Jan 26, 2014 2:48 pm

B all the way. :thumb
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Re: I need your opinion..

Post by ColoradoV » Mon Jan 27, 2014 10:34 am

To keep it fair I cant say who shot either buck but my grandma is a hunter she even worked for a outfitter as a camp cook for many years! She is almost 95 now so she does not get out much but that old 30-30 there has taken its share over the years.


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I would have thought that choice A might get a few more votes. I believe the top buck will score better as the pics dont show all the trash that well or there are points on the back that dont show up. The top buck is a 11x9 + eyeguards and I think it will score higher on the sheet. The bottom buck does have the "wow" factor and is a 6x5 + eyeguards as there is a tripod thing on the right antler. I will also keep my choice to my self of awhile as I am personal prejudiced against one and will tell the story when I get some time.

Sad part but as goes with the old racks is that so many of my grandfathers rotted over the years. My grandma says when they moved out of town in the mid 50's that her and my grandfather sold a "big pile of antlers" but who cares as tracks dont make soup and you cant eat horns! She swears up and down that these 2 bucks would be #3 and #4 on the list if the 2 largest my grandfather took (in the same year and same area as these 2 came out of - as you could get 2 licenses then). Yea can you say honey hole as these 2 bucks were shot 8 or so years apart not half a mile from each other. Anyway the largest buck for the grandfather was a non-typical with more than 10 points on each side n 37" wide and the other was a 35" wide typical with a matching inline (imagine that! lol ). All my aunts and uncles confirm the story and I wonder where the 2 bucks ended up or if they just rotted away.

Thanks and let me hear your opinion! Is B going to run away with it or is there someone out there who would like A?
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Re: I need your opinion..

Post by dahlmer » Mon Jan 27, 2014 10:50 am

Both great bucks; I think I would shoot B. I like the mass and the frame just looks a little better.

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Post by BIG R » Mon Jan 27, 2014 1:27 pm

B for me :thumb

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Re: I need your opinion..

Post by killerbee » Mon Jan 27, 2014 11:30 pm

I gotta go with"B" also, but would be on cloud 9 with"A" any day as well. Both dandy bucks

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