Steve Bartylla's Stand Setup for a Mature Buck
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- Опубліковано 26 бер 2024
- Welcome to a new series with Steve Bartylla! In his online shows, Grow 'em Big and Hunt 'em Big, Steve has been giving hunters advice for nearly a decade on how to grow and hunt big bucks. 🦌 In this series, he gets into the details of his own hunts, his stand and food setups, and more. Check out this week's episode where Steve shows the stand setup he used to bag a monster 6.5-year-old buck. Chalk Talk. Season 1. Episode 1.
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Thank you for sharing your tips & knowledge with specific examples.
Great video thanks for sharing. And awsome stand access
It has been scientifically proven that the only way to age a deer is by the teeth with a microscope. I don't understand why hunters, specially "professional" hunters insist on putting an age on a deer that they see. Is it mature? Maybe you can tell because it's got a lot of grey around the muzzle and head, but you can't with seriousness or certainty that a deer is of any age by seeing it in the field. Almost as bad is when a seasoned hunter is passing on wives tales about a track being a buck or doe. The only thing you can tell by a track is the size of the deer. Yes bucks get bigger and may have a large track, but a small buck and a big doe are going to have the same size track. When you feed a new hunter with this type of bull, you are setting that new hunter up for failure.
Yes and no. You are correct about the teeth if you're seeking certainty. Steve was able to follow this deer year after year with his trail cameras on a larger property that he has managed for a very long time. This allows him to estimate with relative certainty the bucks age. No where in our content do we insist that aging deer on the hoof is an exact science. It is commonly known and accepted as an estimate.
@@DDHONLINE If the deer was 2 seasons old before he caught him the first time? If genetics created an antler twin? Many factors involved could throw even that off by more than a year.
@@demoman5707 You're just pointing out the scenarios that make aging on the hoof not 100%, which again is universally known and accepted. It doesn't change the fact that we can't ask a buck to provide us with his dental records before pulling the trigger, unless you know something we don't?
@@DDHONLINE I'm absolutely pointing out that fact because too many young hunters and new hunters believe that this is an absolute art form because most "pro" hunters claim on camera what a deer's age is. Watch any hunting show and you'll hear the hunter say "Oh that's a 4 1/2 year old, let's let him pass", or some such nonsense. This half year thing is just ridiculous too, because fawns are born in varying months. I've seen fawns born between the end of march up to mid August. So even saying a deer is whatever and a half is inaccurate. These new hunters and young hunters should be taught truth above all else, not old tales of hunters that claimed things just to look like they knew everything about it, when they didn't. Maybe we should start by standardizing that aging is a guess, in some instances an educated guess, because it absolutely is NOT universally known or accepted as you say. I've had so many young hunters come up to me and say, "well so and so says this is how old a deer is if you see this." Here's a suggestion, let's start out young hunters with usable terms and facts. Fawn is from newborn to a season old, yearling is a season old, then let's go with seasons, a deer looks to be a couple or a few seasons old. Using the terms that are used, "2 1/2 years old" for example, is way to precise a term for aging to be as much of a guess as it really is. What I know for certain is that teaching a young hunter false information or "readily accepted" lies, is setting them up for failure.