With the Lowndes County Smasher proven to be a high fence buck and the 27 pt. N ALabama buck proven to have been poached, here's the question. How many of the biggest 100 bucks taken in the state every year were poached or high fenced bucks taken by lying scumbags? I have a suspicion it might be pretty high, what do you think?

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Who cares. It's just a pine goat. I dont understand the antler fascination/envy.

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List the Top 100....and let the ALdeer detectives go work.

Should have a good preliminary figure by dark! LOL

Just sayin...

Lmao prolly any state that way. Egos are ridiculous

I'm gonna say somewhere between 10 and 15.

If you're considering any buck shot after 30 minutes past sunset as illegal (according to the law, it is), I'd say a decent number of them.

If you're talking strictly high fence and the traditional meaning of "poached" (meaning shot at night with a spotlight or on someone else's land)...then quite a bit fewer.

who cares ? you a game warden ?

I'll say this for myself and hold my head high for it. I've never taken a deer by illegal means and have no intention on doing so. I may not ever get that big buck that these guys get to brag about but I'll get to keep my job and my lease. Just don't understand wanting a big deer so bad that you need to break the law to get it.

Don't hear me wrong either. I'm a flawed man.... I eat too many donuts, I dip tobacco and I cuss fluently so I'm not saying the people that do it are any worse or better than I am, it's just not my cup of tea.

I think it is because some people are insecure and want to be able to brag. I dont hunt illegally and consider myself an ethical hunter.

There are rules, I play by the rules.

Any nitwit can will at monopoly or solitaire if they cheat. They get to puff out their chest and brag "look at what I did", but down deep in their soul they know they are a worthless cheat.

The question, as posed in your subject line is pretty specific. However, the body of the post opens it up to "high fence" deer, which is not illegal. As another said: "Legal" meaning within state game laws? I'd bet a fairly large number were taken with what would be considered "aid of bait" or not within legal shooting hours. If you factor in all the other nitpicky things that might make a hunter technically "not legal" ie: without proper orange etc. then a great number. Truely poached deer? Far less, but a few. High fence deer? Who knows, and who cares?

I thought the season of hate ended a month ago.

Around 20.

Yup. Keep a towel handy.

What I suspect he means is entering a high fence deer in a record book dedicated solely to fair chase taken bucks. That may or may not be technically "illegal" but it IS fraudulent and unethical. This was the case with the "Smasher" taken in Lowndes County.

I don't care how long you boil 'em, you can't eat antlers. Of course I want to kill a big deer over a small one, but that is mainly because big deer = more meat. Sure, if there are 2 bucks that are the same body size but one has a bigger rack, then yeah I'll shoot that one. But I'd MUCH rather shoot a deer with a nice, symmetrical rack of average size than one of these bucks with a massive, mangled twisted up looking rack. Those do nothing for me.