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<blockquote data-quote="TheLBLman" data-source="post: 4543068" data-attributes="member: 1409"><p>It can be a pipedream even when you do have a private property where you can strictly control things.</p><p>Location is everything, including which state, and/or which part of your state that property is located.</p><p></p><p>Then of course, the actual size of that property is a huge component, and most private properties in TN don't even approach having enough acreage to "manage" for 150-class buck of <em>ANY</em> age.</p><p></p><p>Even Ames, despite roughly 20,000 acres under some very intense buck management,</p><p>how many bucks over 150 are killed annually?</p><p>Do you even have trail cam pics of a half-dozen that would appear to break 150??</p><p></p><p>The odds of taking a 150-class buck (any age) can actually be higher on some "public" property than it is on most "private" property, and much of this opportunity has as much to do with geographical location as it has to do with any private management. Give me most any 50 acres in Southern Illinois, and I suspect the odds of killing a 150-class buck are greater than most intensely managed much larger properties in TN. This especially becomes the case when 150-class 3 1/2's are regularly produced in Illinois (goes back to the soil), whereas in TN, a buck with the same antler genetics at birth might need to survive to 5 1/2 to reach a 150-class rack.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheLBLman, post: 4543068, member: 1409"] It can be a pipedream even when you do have a private property where you can strictly control things. Location is everything, including which state, and/or which part of your state that property is located. Then of course, the actual size of that property is a huge component, and most private properties in TN don't even approach having enough acreage to "manage" for 150-class buck of [i]ANY[/i] age. Even Ames, despite roughly 20,000 acres under some very intense buck management, how many bucks over 150 are killed annually? Do you even have trail cam pics of a half-dozen that would appear to break 150?? The odds of taking a 150-class buck (any age) can actually be higher on some "public" property than it is on most "private" property, and much of this opportunity has as much to do with geographical location as it has to do with any private management. Give me most any 50 acres in Southern Illinois, and I suspect the odds of killing a 150-class buck are greater than most intensely managed much larger properties in TN. This especially becomes the case when 150-class 3 1/2's are regularly produced in Illinois (goes back to the soil), whereas in TN, a buck with the same antler genetics at birth might need to survive to 5 1/2 to reach a 150-class rack. [/QUOTE]
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