King Ranch Buck

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Some of it's high fence and some low fence. Most bucks that size were grown on deer farms and transplanted. Most of the King Ranch can't support that size deer even with the feeders and food plots.
 
The King Ranch is 825,000 acres (biggest ranch in U.S.) located entirely in some of the best white-tail habitat in the state. They do get that big down there, and last I was aware, they were not bringing in any outside deer.
 
XD 460, long before anybody even heard of high-bred, pen-raised deer, 200-pound whitetails were brought out of that south Texas brush country--the brasada. There was a lot less hunting, then, and more bucks lived to the 6-1/2 and 7-1/2 ages. Don't ever believe that habitat doesn't "grow 'em big".

Back before screw worms were eradicated, there were fewer deer, as well, and the habitat was not over-stressed.
 
Just reading their web-site, only year I saw specific numbers for was 1998. Top 5 that year avg. grossed over 200. Biggest grossed 246...and they say that fair-chase, and habitat preservation are the lynch pins of their operation.
 
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$8,000 to $20,000 !!!
Go to my friend John's ranch and shoot one for free.
(he shares a gate with the King Ranch)
 
$8,000 to $20,000 !!!
Go to my friend John's ranch and shoot one for free.
(he shares a gate with the King Ranch)
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Please introduce me to John...I would love the opportunity to hunt a low fence 200 inch buck for free!!
 
The King Ranch also has the biggest d#@n rattlesnakes in the world. Yes, habitat grows em big.

Also my Dad and his buddies used to run coyotes with hounds on adjacent land to the King Ranch.
 
It's amazing what rich people will pay to shoot a high fence deer...
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The first time I heard of that kind of thing I almost laughed till I puked. What do these morons do, go back home and tell stories about stalking the great stag? That's about as bad as the guy on TV riding around on a game preseve in Africa with a jeep full of rangers. They see a lion sunning itself in the bush, sleeping. They stop the vehicle and walk about 20 yards, and with one of the guides/zoo keepers standing right beside him with an elephant gun, the rich guy puts an arrow into the cat. The poor thing is like "***?" and finally gets up and walks about 10 feet to fall over while the great white hunters are high fiving like the gaggle of Brokeback Mountain warriors that they truly are. Geez ... some people really need a good beat'n. :rolleyes:

BTW ... nice buck, regardless of the measurements.
 
Maybe someone could explain the difference between Texas of 2010 and Sherwood Forest of Robin Hood's day, because for the life of me I can't see much.
 
Sherwood forest (Shirewood) was roughly 200 Sq Miles, Texas in 2010 is roughly 268,601 Sq miles. Sherwood forest is about 1/7 the size of the Modern King Ranch.
 
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So about the only difference between the Sheriff of Nottingham's hereditary land and King Ranch is that King Ranch is larger. Sounds about right.:)
 
RockinU luv ur signature But still think its a black n tan, but anywho wth is he in the pic for, are they dogging deer? Like to have me a dog like that.
 
The more I've looked the more I think you are right, it's too tall to be a bavarian. More than likely it's a tracking dog. In most of Texas it is legal to use up to two unleashed dogs for the recovery of wounded deer (I recently posted a thread with a recovery one of my dogs made).
 
My two "A-team" dogs are Blue Lacy/Black-mouth Cur cross. I have a man with a bench champion Black and Tan wanting to breed to the gyp for pick...still undecided.
 
They don't define it...the Boone & Crockett club does. How do you define it?

ETA: Link to Boone & Crockett's fair chase statement
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Ok then....

FAIR CHASE, as defined by the Boone and Crockett Club, is the ethical, sportsmanlike, and lawful pursuit and taking of any free-ranging wild, native North American big game animal in a manner that does not give the hunter an improper advantage over such animals.
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That's so vague and circular as to be meaningless. What is "sportsmanlike", exactly? What is "ethical", exactly? What advantages are proper and what advantages are "improper", EXACTLY? See, you don't get anywhere at all with that definition. To many people, use of feeder is "unethical", "unsportsmanlike", and give an "improper" advantage. So even if we were to agree that the Boone and Crockett definition were the "right" definition, which we don't - but even if we took that as a given, it still doesn't tell us one whit about what really IS fair chase and what is not fair chase. Other than the legal part, it tells us nothing about - is or isn't a feeder fair chase? It's certainly legal in Texas, but that doesn't necessarily make it ethical and sportsmanlike. If the outer limit is "what is legal", and nothing less, then why not just say "fair chase is hunting using any method that is legal in a given jurisdiction"?

I couldn't give a rat's butt about feeders, and use them myself. But it's really pointless and gets us nowhere to say that "King Ranch uses fair chase, dammit!" until you know exactly how THEY define fair chase. Some might laugh at their definition. Not me, but many would.

Me, I have no idea how to define it. But someone who is using the phrase needs to define it (in a meaningful way), not me - I'm not the one who used/ uses the phrase.
 
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It is more constrained than that. "Free-ranging" precludes any "high fence" deer from being considered fair chase. If feeders are your hang-up, then I would argue hunting food-plots, or any agriculture should hang you up as well. Not sure why you have to make this so difficult, most serious hunters are aware of what is, and what is not ethical and sportsmanlike, and most jurisdiction's laws see to it. No use of electronic equipment, no hazing, etc. I think that most states are doing a fine job of regulating the hunting of their wildlife resources, and quibbling semantics is silly.
 
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