Definition of "Giant" and "Monster"???

[LBrandt]

I guess that keeper for fish or eater for deer ( four years without tag). So if I get tag this year first legal is going in the freezer. I will not watch those deer feeder hunting shows, they suck.

 

[BrokenBackJack]

I agree with you KDM but i guess monster or giant is in eyes and mind of those that harvested the animal. Different areas have much bigger or much smaller animals and it boils down to that. When i was a young whipper snapper all we had were willow bucks, small racks about the size of ones hands. Also you were darn lucky to see a deer during deer season and this was back when you could drive with pickups. We had to go to hills south of Bowdon and Hurdsfield to find a deer. 2 1/2 day season and it was the talk of the town if you did see a deer and that didn't mean you harvested the animal either.

 

[JayKay]

I suppose it depends on the body of water it comes out of. I caught a 27" walleye on an 800 acre lake over the weekend, that i would definitely consider a monster from that body of water. Now if that came out of DL or Sak, then it's probably just an average catch.

27" walleye is nothing to sneeze at, regardless of where it came from. I think sometimes the pecker-wagging on this site and others, convinces us that 27" is "average". We're all liars, but I've fished Sak and DL a lot over the past four decades, and while I've caught fish that big, and slightly bigger, never have I experienced 27" being "average".

 

[Kurtr]

28" 8 pound walleye has always been a gold standard. A true 160 whitetail and 180 muley are both huge in my eyes. An otc spike bull elk is even more of a trophy than either in my eyes

 

[Bfishn]

I consider the following for ND.

8lbs walleye, 150" whitetail = BIG
10lbs walleye, 160" whitetail = HUGE
12lbs walleye, 170" whitetail = MONSTER
Anything bigger = F*#! YOU


Out of those, I've only shot a BIG whitetail

 

[Vollmers]

I have found that the definition of a "slab" crappie is quite different between ND & MN.

I don't know KDM,sligthly lower,walleyes@ 10lbs are certainly respectful these days and pushing 30"s unless pre spawn,13lb'ers are rare these days,whitetails 170 class,"Huge" and again rare in our area,drop the bar to 150 and let the shooters imbellish a bit,most guyz would'nt know the diff between a 130 class to 150,a 170 class would truely be a monster.

I see the same with sunfish and crappies,"monster slabs that are 12"ers sometime less(not slabs in my book),gills called monster@10's...no dice. good eaters tho.

 

[Bowhunter_24]

28" 8 pound walleye has always been a gold standard. A true 160 whitetail and 180 muley are both huge in my eyes. An otc spike bull elk is even more of a trophy than either in my eyes

a spike elk is more of a trophy than a 180 muley? you need to settle down. ha

 

[deleted]

That chicken in the Young Guns movie musta been huge!

 

[Kurtr]

a spike elk is more of a trophy than a 180 muley? you need to settle down. ha

the key is in an otc unit in some of the most rugged country a few miles back in. the inches matter less and less every year to me. I have a 160 whitetail that is a cool mount but the hunt its self was just sitting it walked out and i killled it drove the pick up and threw it in back. So an elk would mean more to me than the deer. An otc high country muley at 11000 plus feet would be a hell of a challenge adding to the trophy factor.

 

[Bowhunter_24]

ya I know what you were saying. just giving you shit.

I would still rather shoot a 180" muley on opening day of season a mile off the road than shoot a spike bull after walking to mordor and back with a broken femur in a blizzard while hunting every day of the season and then shooting him on the last minute of light.

come to think of it I wouldn't even do that. lol

 

[Buckmaster81]

Brokenbackjack,

My grandpa told me many similar stories. I believe he was born in 1929 and he never saw a deer until he was 9 or 10 and he had no idea what it was until he went home and told his father who came to ND from the woods in MN and had seen deer there as a kid.

 

[luvcatchingbass]

Sooo what would be considered a giant or monster size for Jackalopes? Is it the weight or antler size or does it need to be a combination?

 

[guywhofishes]

Sooo what would be considered a giant or monster size for Jackalopes? Is it the weight or antler size or does it need to be a combination?

tusk length. duh.

 

[Kurtr]

Sooo what would be considered a giant or monster size for Jackalopes? Is it the weight or antler size or does it need to be a combination?

nut sack dragage

 

[guywhofishes]

LOL

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so... how is that done exactly? Depth of the furrow made?

 

[Kurtr]

ya its how you know your tracking a big one

 

[guywhofishes]

LOL again

 

[KDM]

Do they drag'em in parallel or tandem??

 

[guywhofishes]

Do they drag'em in parallel or tandem??

depends - typical or non-typical?

 

[Kurtr]

Do they drag'em in parallel or tandem??

The shorter the space in the drag marks is the bigger the jackalope​. When they jump the big ones don't get there nuts off he ground for long