Booner Survey....

[Fletch]

Just out of curiosity how many on the site have shot an Ohio deer that would qualify as a booner or bigger....Alot of nice deer have been harvested, but I don't recall many booners or bigger... So let's post them up...

 

[switchhitter]

@Boarhead for sure

 

[Buckmaster]

Not it! They top out around 140” the areas I hunt.

 

[GoetzTalon]

Not close

 

[switchhitter]

Not me either
There booners in Knox county but I have not killed one yet.
I haven’t quit trying

 

[Hedgelj]

I've only laid eyes on 2 maybe 3.... got blood on 1 but poor shot placement and he survived.

These are deer that at 300+ yards through woods and fields you can still tell they are good bucks.

 

[jagermeister]

I’ve been close several times but haven’t gotten one that big yet.

 

[Buckmaster]

Come to think about it…. I might have seen one in 43 years of deer hunting. I missed with the 12 gauge off hand around at 80 yards around 1987. The 14 pointer was killed a couple weeks later by car crossing the road at that farm. 0-1. I only heard about it.

 

[giles]

No joke, I've never cared enough to look, what makes a booner a bonner? Gross, net, typical, nontypical?

 

[Buckmaster]

No joke, I've never cared enough to look, what makes a booner a bonner? Gross, net, typical, nontypical?

Enough to say, “O Shit”.

 

[giles]

I'll be damned. I always thought it was 180" and gross.

 

[Bighoun52]

I shot a gross score booner in pa a couple years ago. 172 3/8 Buckmasters score. Nothing that big in Ohio… yet

 

[Fletch]

I've maybe seen 2 since I started hunting Illinois in 2003... And I'm sure both of them were 200 inches + ...
One I passed on as he was right on the property fence row and another came up through the woods with a doe and they bedded about 60 yds. Out.... They stayed there all day then got up and went back where they came from... I only planned on hunting till around 9 am and dressed lightly and had no food to eat... Bastards...

 

[Curran]

Proud card carrying member of Spoon and Crockpot Club.

I’d love to shoot a Booner but I have too many other outdoor pursuits to dedicate myself to finding and hunting exclusively for a deer of that caliber. The guys I know that do it consistently are way more dedicated than I am. I have a great respect for what they do, I just like hunting all the things.