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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HtMakoSica" data-source="post: 443609" data-attributes="member: 8398"><p>Gonna reply to this very old post. I hunt the Badlands religiously every year. 30 days minimum I spend bow hunting every year, I only go after Big mature bucks only there. I’ll just say this in my honest opinion, the badlands quality for mule deer gets worse every single year. I’ve gotten political with it little more as I get older because I care about the place so much. I’ve heard lots of opinions from everybody who shares the badlands, generally speaking i think its a general consensus for the majority of people that quality as gone downhill. I think it’s a combination of many things… I don’t know if I could ever give up my OTC archery tag it’s still a great opportunity and I look forward to it every year. I absolutely love it out there even tho the hunting has gone downhill. It’s just so rewarding to see the same bucks every year as they grow bigger but I can honestly say with out exaggeration I’ve seen one and only one buck that realistically would’ve scored 190 plus, and I seen it completely on accident well eating lunch on the side of the road when I jumped it out of its bed on public. I’ve seen maybe realistically 5 or 6 175-185 class deer. I see a few of 145-150 class bucks every year but it’s like you don’t seen many deer that make it to that 160 jump and up because they usually don’t make it through rifle season. I hunt all 4 units wouldn’t say one’s any better than the other. But that’s just what I’ve seen. People take nice bucks every year and if you get on private you might be golden with enough time. It’s crazy seeing a few old timers back in the heydays of the ND badlands with just these gnarly bucks hanging in there garage and every year they’d always bring a good buck home from public land</p></blockquote><p></p>

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