San Diego scores for mule deer
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I follow these forums and from what I see (most) people shoot 4-6 points more forks then anything...
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No sarcasm.. from talking to wildlife bios in the area and my own experiences watching deer.
As deer get older, there antlers grow differently... guess I was wrong
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I would say average score is 65”-70”. Most bucks shot are young forky’s.
Takes a minimum score of 80” to enter into the CBH record book (archery) and most deer that are shot (archery or rifle) won’t make that minimum. To me any buck over 90” is a very nice buck. This is my best D16 buck
to date at 136”
Takes a minimum score of 80” to enter into the CBH record book (archery) and most deer that are shot (archery or rifle) won’t make that minimum. To me any buck over 90” is a very nice buck. This is my best D16 buck
to date at 136”
Dang Darryl......That's a tremendous buck!
Here's one I never got, but watched from 300 yds on another prop...Heavy 4x4 ..Probably would have scored pretty good.....lol
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Here's one I never got, but watched from 300 yds on another prop...Heavy 4x4 ..Probably would have scored pretty good.....lol
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I tried to measure mine with the B&C scoring diagram and I obviously did it wrong. Steve, can I bring it over and have you measure it? I'm just curious to see how to do it right and so I have a starting point to try and beat next time.
You're not wrong, but genetics will dictate what the deer is capable of achieving. There are a lot of bucks here that will never be anything but a giant fork horn. All Mule deer are not created equal in respect to antler potential. Every year people here shoot old, mature bucks that are big forks or 2x3's. Sometimes we see something bigger, but it's not the norm. It doesn't have anything to do with feed or people shooting bucks before they reach their potential.
Here's a nice buck that exhibits what I mentioned... just a nice 2x3. I'd shoot that buck all day long.
There's some nice bucks around here, biggest one I've seen was in an alfalfa field in Temecula...looked like he had been eating it since he was born. However, most of the ones I've seen are forks.
The posted harvest numbers for D16 suggest that there are more and more 3pt and better bucks being harvested in the past couple of years. Compare those numbers from before the 2003 and 2007 wild fires in SD county and you'll notice that not only are more deer reported being harvested, but a larger percetage of 3pt and over deer are being taken! https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/hunting/deer#5477272-harvest-statistics
Personally, every buck I've harvested in SD has been a fork!
Personally, every buck I've harvested in SD has been a fork!
What’s interesting is the D16 tags never sold out till 2010. They have sold out every year since.
What changed ?
People posting spots on the net and the fires in Angeles NF...
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