BUT the satisfaction of shooting a nice buck or turkey off public land is so so sweet
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xcaliber wrote:You hunt the National Forest land at all up around Bloomington area? I almost hit a huge buck near Tipton Lake last fall while visiting my youngest daughter. Big deer in them hills for sure.
What do you use to measure that 15" inside spread with before shooting the bucks and how do you get them to stand that still when measuring?xbowholic wrote:Arkansas is blessed with "millions" and I mean millions of acres of Public Land; here where I live, it is swamps and thickets galore and some huge bucks are killed every year; a great friend of mine has bowhunted this paticular public land for over 20 years and he has 28 deer mounted and none of them are under 140 and his best is 189 3/8 monster, all coming off public land; I hunt both as I have over 900 acres of private but I love hunting the public land here b/c of the big boys that live and roam there; Arkansas is a great place to live with 5 full months of bowhunting, september thru feb 28 with no breaks;6 deer limit with only 2 leagl bucks that must have 3 points on one side and have a inside spread of 15 inches or more;