Episode # 318: Trophy Bucks of Iowa – Brandon Dahms

Yeah, one thing we all like to instill is us at Trophy Bucks, there’s four of us, we really like to shoot mature deer. Four and a half or older, really it isn’t about inches at that point in time, it’s about letting the deer get to maturity.

But one thing we do is, we don’t just share people’s deer if they are over a certain amount of inches.

We want to instill that, you know, a trophy to me may not be the same meaning of a trophy to a young boy that went out on his first hunt and he only shot a fork horn a year and a half old.

And now, that’s something that we wouldn’t do, but it’s a trophy to them.

And it’s about the memories that they’ve got to go out and, you know, they can probably remember the exact moment they shot the deer and what it meant to them.

And they’ll remember that for the rest of their lives. It may even be a doe, but it’s about their trophy and what it means to them to take that animal. Trophy Bucks of Iowa Brandon Dahms http://bit.ly/2j9aOK7

Well, it’s…you know, and we’ll get sometimes where people will comment, “I can’t believe you took that deer.” Again, it’s all about what it means to that person.

You might have a five-year-old deer that’s never going to get to be 180 in its class. People see hunting on TV in Iowa, and they think they are going to come to Iowa and automatically shoot a Boone and Crockett deer.

You know, that’s just not the case. It does take great managing, having the right property, but to some people, their whole dream isn’t to shoot a Boone and Crockett, it’s just to have the memories, and get out there and have a successful hunt with family and friends.