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Ground Shrinkage
#2002767
01/24/17 09:25 AM
01/24/17 09:25 AM
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Joined: Feb 2013
Posts: 1,406
Mobile Al,
flounderpounder
OP
8 point
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OP
8 point
Joined: Feb 2013
Posts: 1,406
Mobile Al,
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Anyone ever called you on a cold morning you planned on sleeping in to help you find a Boone and Crockett giant that they shot and couldn't find. Well, when you find the deer it ends up being a 100" 7 point... Then you hear the famous words "Well, I could have sworn he was bigger than that!"
That has happened to me twice! They are always 60" bigger until they are found.
Last edited by flounderpounder; 01/24/17 09:44 AM.
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Re: Ground Shrinkage
[Re: flounderpounder]
#2002773
01/24/17 09:30 AM
01/24/17 09:30 AM
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Joined: Nov 2004
Posts: 11,348
Prattville AL
ElkHunter
Booner
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Booner
Joined: Nov 2004
Posts: 11,348
Prattville AL
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Oh yes, years ago my cousin shot a MONSTER.....turned out to be a 1.5 year old 4 point. He got hammered on that one.
Alabama Hog Control, Inc. www.alabamahogcontrol.comBarry Estes The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke
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Re: Ground Shrinkage
[Re: ElkHunter]
#2002784
01/24/17 09:35 AM
01/24/17 09:35 AM
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Joined: Feb 2013
Posts: 1,406
Mobile Al,
flounderpounder
OP
8 point
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OP
8 point
Joined: Feb 2013
Posts: 1,406
Mobile Al,
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Oh yes, years ago my cousin shot a MONSTER.....turned out to be a 1.5 year old 4 point. He got hammered on that one. haha been there!
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Re: Ground Shrinkage
[Re: flounderpounder]
#2002791
01/24/17 09:41 AM
01/24/17 09:41 AM
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Joined: Mar 2013
Posts: 14,639
Clanton
Turkey_neck
Booner
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Booner
Joined: Mar 2013
Posts: 14,639
Clanton
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Oh yes, years ago my cousin shot a MONSTER.....turned out to be a 1.5 year old 4 point. He got hammered on that one. haha been there! My cousin had my dad bring in a dog on one like that. Problem was when they bayed him in the creek he was a spike.
Would walk over a naked woman to get to a gobblin turkey!
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Re: Ground Shrinkage
[Re: mman]
#2002811
01/24/17 09:58 AM
01/24/17 09:58 AM
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Joined: Nov 2015
Posts: 21,454
HSV AL
jmudler
Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
Joined: Nov 2015
Posts: 21,454
HSV AL
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...Shrinkage...cold morning...when you find...it..."Well, I could have sworn he was bigger than that!"... Sometimes it pays to read the whole message rather than just skim through it  turtle head 
Isaiah 5:20 Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.
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Re: Ground Shrinkage
[Re: flounderpounder]
#2002841
01/24/17 10:23 AM
01/24/17 10:23 AM
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Joined: Jan 2008
Posts: 3,346
Demop
1bamashooter
10 point
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10 point
Joined: Jan 2008
Posts: 3,346
Demop
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Get on FB and find some "what will he score?" Posts you don't even have to get out of bed. Both of these had ground shrinkage I could have kicked myself for shooting the first one.  
Last edited by 1bamashooter; 01/24/17 10:27 AM.
Keep your booger hooker off the bang switch.
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Re: Ground Shrinkage
[Re: 1bamashooter]
#2002877
01/24/17 10:59 AM
01/24/17 10:59 AM
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Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 1,964
Northport
Thisldu
8 point
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8 point
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 1,964
Northport
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The focus on "inches are the only that matters" is the root of all evil. Ground shrinkage creates guilt, and who the hell wants that when you are enjoying the gift of pursuing whitetails?
I'm so glad I hunt my own land now so whatever I shoot is not to be judged by anyone but me and the Lord above.
I have enjoyed the process of hunting in its entirety when the pressure is not there of making sure whatever deer I took met every body else's requirements.
I have taken some damn fine deer, passed on some damn fine deer, and also taken a couple bucks that elitist inch measurers would scoff at. It all depends on what I'm feeling like doing at that time. I wouldn't have it any other way.
I eat what I kill too.
To each his own but I'm sick and tired of it only being about inches.
When I take a friend or guest they always ask, "what do you shoot down here?" My answer is a legal deer that YOU would be proud of.
Last edited by Thisldu; 01/24/17 11:01 AM.
"The future's uncertain and the end is always near"
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Re: Ground Shrinkage
[Re: Thisldu]
#2002897
01/24/17 11:14 AM
01/24/17 11:14 AM
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Joined: Mar 2015
Posts: 4,502
george county ms
johndeere5036
10 point
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10 point
Joined: Mar 2015
Posts: 4,502
george county ms
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The focus on "inches are the only that matters" is the root of all evil. Ground shrinkage creates guilt, and who the hell wants that when you are enjoying the gift of pursuing whitetails?
I'm so glad I hunt my own land now so whatever I shoot is not to be judged by anyone but me and the Lord above.
I have enjoyed the process of hunting in its entirety when the pressure is not there of making sure whatever deer I took met every body else's requirements.
I have taken some damn fine deer, passed on some damn fine deer, and also taken a couple bucks that elitist inch measurers would scoff at. It all depends on what I'm feeling like doing at that time. I wouldn't have it any other way.
I eat what I kill too.
To each his own but I'm sick and tired of it only being about inches.
When I take a friend or guest they always ask, "what do you shoot down here?" My answer is a legal deer that YOU would be proud of. Yessir you said it. What I tell people I bring to my place I try to shoot mature deer no matter what they score and to shoot what they will be proud of and if it makes them excited then shoot.
Last edited by johndeere5036; 01/24/17 11:14 AM.
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Re: Ground Shrinkage
[Re: flounderpounder]
#2002913
01/24/17 11:26 AM
01/24/17 11:26 AM
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Joined: Nov 2015
Posts: 12,918
Old Florida
Geno
Booner
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Booner
Joined: Nov 2015
Posts: 12,918
Old Florida
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I have had exactly the opposite happen so far.
I've had to go looking for a friend's deer on doe days when he claimed he shot a doe. I pointed out that the only fresh tracks were a little buck. We drug a little 1" spike out of the river when we finally found it. This happened twice - the same person and both times the little buck fell in the water.
I shot a 5 point in a swamp in the TNF. When I got to him, it was an 8. Small deer and rack but 8 solid points.
I shot a 6 point from a 15' high stand at about 15 yards on family land and it turned out to be about a 90" 8.
I shot the second largest deer I have ever killed as a 100" 6. When we recovered it the next morning, all the same hunting buddy could say was "LOOK AT THE SPREAD ON THAT DEER". It was a 130" 8.
Whoever is happy will make others happy too. Anne Frank
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Re: Ground Shrinkage
[Re: Thisldu]
#2002926
01/24/17 11:29 AM
01/24/17 11:29 AM
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Joined: Sep 2015
Posts: 9,541
Montgomery, AL
jbc
14 point
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14 point
Joined: Sep 2015
Posts: 9,541
Montgomery, AL
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The focus on "inches are the only that matters" is the root of all evil. Ground shrinkage creates guilt, and who the hell wants that when you are enjoying the gift of pursuing whitetails?
I'm so glad I hunt my own land now so whatever I shoot is not to be judged by anyone but me and the Lord above.
I have enjoyed the process of hunting in its entirety when the pressure is not there of making sure whatever deer I took met every body else's requirements.
I have taken some damn fine deer, passed on some damn fine deer, and also taken a couple bucks that elitist inch measurers would scoff at. It all depends on what I'm feeling like doing at that time. I wouldn't have it any other way.
I eat what I kill too.
To each his own but I'm sick and tired of it only being about inches.
When I take a friend or guest they always ask, "what do you shoot down here?" My answer is a legal deer that YOU would be proud of. Might not all be about inches for everyone. They could not be talking about inches but age. Someones goal might just be to shoot mature deer and it "shrank" from a mature deer to a young buck.
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Re: Ground Shrinkage
[Re: flounderpounder]
#2002966
01/24/17 11:49 AM
01/24/17 11:49 AM
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Joined: Sep 2004
Posts: 36,266
alabama
BhamFred
Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
Joined: Sep 2004
Posts: 36,266
alabama
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Over the years, and bucks, I have usually underestimated, slightly, the size of bucks I've shot. I did kill the snot out of a nice up and coming three year old one time that was highlighted in the sun. It happens.
I've spent most of the money I've made in my lifetime on hunting and fishing. The rest I just wasted.....
proud Cracker-Americaan
muslims are like coyotes, only good one is a dead one
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