Biggest Big Guy Son?

Would love to see pics of him this year, as stated i have that buck fawn from him, but i also have a straw of semen from him to use.

Seems he always wants to damage one of his antlers, annual event for him.

Thanks for the update.

I was hoping that today I could add to the discussion the official scores of the 2 Big Guy sons we have here. Today during our TB testing we knocked down both Updraft and Downdraft. Unfortunately I was unable to get an official scorer to attend today. I did however have 4 other farmers here besides my wife and I and the vet and his assistant to do the first circumference measurements, the beam lengths, and the width measurements. I will still need to give the cutoffs to an official scorer now to see what they come up with.

We also tried a new technique of molding the burrs to allow the antler replicator to have greater success in replicating the entire antler to the most exact dimensions. The molding stuff worked REALLY well, and I was lucky to have a taxidermist here to assist with the molding of the burrs on both Updraft and Downdraft.

Each of the 4 other farmers did the measuring for us and recorded the numbers. This was the best we could do this year to this point. I don't know what more I could have done to be as legit as I possibly could.

i seen that deer in person and fell in love with him pictures do him no justice along with jailbird wildman and the rest ive said it before and ill say it again i would love to have some of the shooteres he shoots for breeders great people great deer youll know what im talking about had you ever met them keep up the great work guys see you soon

Well Kurt, My post was in no way saying anything about how or who did the scoring on Barkley's bucks. The thread is about Big Guy sons and since I own a couple I was just jumping in is all.

If the buck you guys are talking about is the biggest so be it. Updraft to this point was the biggest I knew of and if he isn't as of this year that is fine too. I still like my bucks and am proud of them.

I guess if we raised 80 bucks we would toss antlers to the side on a pile also. But since we only own 10 bucks total on the farm I feel we do pretty well on our production here and we like to have them officially scored the day they are cut. But I made several calls before hand and couldn't find any one available. Not even Scott at Apple Creek could send his scorer over to help yesterday. It is just a really busy time of year.

I guess it is good to see Big Guy getting some credit now for the sons he is producing. He is a fine buck and am glad I still have more straws of him to use at some point here.

It sure is fun to make the various crosses and see what results. Glad Barkley's made their cross and had success with it.

See there is a straw of Big Man (Barkleys buck) on whitetail exchange this week!

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barkley and cole cant wait till next year to see what your group of deer bring visited many farms this year and you guys were the most consistent farm ive been to everythings right there for you to see nothing hidden yearling with yearlings 2 yo with 2yo etc not like some farms where they had there best to be showcased and who knows where everything else was jailbird is one heck of an animal as well kurt looks like you were blessed to purchase wildman and jailbird they shoud do great for you as you allready know that

IndependenceRanch said:

I was hoping that today I could add to the discussion the official scores of the 2 Big Guy sons we have here. Today during our TB testing we knocked down both Updraft and Downdraft. Unfortunately I was unable to get an official scorer to attend today. I did however have 4 other farmers here besides my wife and I and the vet and his assistant to do the first circumference measurements, the beam lengths, and the width measurements. I will still need to give the cutoffs to an official scorer now to see what they come up with.

We also tried a new technique of molding the burrs to allow the antler replicator to have greater success in replicating the entire antler to the most exact dimensions. The molding stuff worked REALLY well, and I was lucky to have a taxidermist here to assist with the molding of the burrs on both Updraft and Downdraft.

Each of the 4 other farmers did the measuring for us and recorded the numbers. This was the best we could do this year to this point. I don't know what more I could have done to be as legit as I possibly could.

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We got the numbers back from the official scorer who scored both Updraft's and Downdraft's cutoff antlers. Although he is an official scorer since he was not present for the antler removal we will be only advertising Updraft and Downdraft as estimated this year.

Also the scorer decided not to credit all of Updraft's circumference measurements since he thinks some of them could be considered "palmation." Therefore he used the first 2 smaller mass measurements in place of the others.



Updraft 317 6/8" at age 3



Downdraft 225 7/8" at age 3



Not a bad set of triplets Dolly had there. I only wish the third boy had lived



Take note that a very special 2010 Poncho doe fawn maybe be selling at auction this season out of Dolly.



As always I thank you all for looking

held the horns in person yesterday and this deer is no joke mass mass mass he has a womb brother that aint to shabby eithert 218 6x6 and these deer are only 2 who knows what they wil do at 3 no brainer these deer will produce big guy over orange 23 hoss's mother been to barkley and coles 3 or 4 times now and every tme im there im just amazed barkley gave the kids candy yesterday for haloween told trrick or treat ill take a doe fawn just kiddin thanks again for eveerything

Pear Orchard Whitetails would like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank Russ JR for purchasing BigMan. Best of Luck ...Thanks Barkley Young