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Sonny you are turning it into a thread about this. Four Seasons gave you input addressing your exact question. You didn't like the answer and talked about how you owe it to try. I gave my thoughts also basically by agreeing with Four. If you wanting people to blow smoke up your dress then you should have said so. However we assumed you wanted truth. If you want to spend money collecting semen and such go ahead. In fact, yes he looks so great you should not only collect him. You should sex the semen also. Last I heard that was only $7k per buck to do. And you never know, he might give you a good collection. If you can get about 20 male straws you can sell them for about $350 each and break even. What you can also do is run a contest and pay out $50k to whoever grows the biggest yearling from a straw they bought from you.
Ok yes, now I am being a dick. But these are the silly games that are played in the breeder world. And Four Seasons and myself tried to help you see it isnt worth it.
But what do we know. I have only been in deer about 25 years now. Four, how about you?
I was just trying to give an honest answer really. As far as time its been 19 so far for me. These bucks although nice names and such just will not have what it takes to make the cut i the breeding world. I will look forward to what they turn out to be, I asked about the width thing because i dont see anything near 26 inches but pic's sure can be tough at times. If he is that wide then i cant wait to see my own finish out. The average deer is more like 14-16 inches tip to tip although some huge 300lbs brutes out of Canada have pushed 18 inches. We all will learn one way or the other, some of us that have been around for awhile have seen the best in deer farming pass on by and try to help someone new to maybe save a few grand and not be dumping semen down the ******* at a later date.