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<blockquote data-quote="Hunter 257W" data-source="post: 3938357" data-attributes="member: 12277"><p>Everybody seems to think that deer are like trees, "just let 'em grow and they'll all eventually reach 100 feet tall". Most bucks will never ever reach 130 inches. Even if you put them up in a pen and fed them the best of feed, played "Baby Einstein" cd's for them, gave them daily back rubs and let them have their choice of the prettiest does, most just will not grow 130 inch antlers. 130 inch antlers are something special regardless of the fact that there are more of them now than ever before. The still represent only a very small % of all bucks. It just irritates me when hunters constantly want to diminish the significance of a trophy merely because a bigger deer has been killed somewhere. </p><p></p><p> And I also still say that most properties can't achieve 130" bucks with regularity no matter what. I'd say the average property owned by hunters is way less than 100 acres. You can't control anything on land that small. I've shot 1/2 buck per year since 2002 and I've yet to get a picture of any buck over about 100 inches. It's not as simple as passing young deer a few years and watching them grow. I'm just thrilled that I've finally gotten multiple 3 years olds each fall.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hunter 257W, post: 3938357, member: 12277"] Everybody seems to think that deer are like trees, "just let 'em grow and they'll all eventually reach 100 feet tall". Most bucks will never ever reach 130 inches. Even if you put them up in a pen and fed them the best of feed, played "Baby Einstein" cd's for them, gave them daily back rubs and let them have their choice of the prettiest does, most just will not grow 130 inch antlers. 130 inch antlers are something special regardless of the fact that there are more of them now than ever before. The still represent only a very small % of all bucks. It just irritates me when hunters constantly want to diminish the significance of a trophy merely because a bigger deer has been killed somewhere. And I also still say that most properties can't achieve 130" bucks with regularity no matter what. I'd say the average property owned by hunters is way less than 100 acres. You can't control anything on land that small. I've shot 1/2 buck per year since 2002 and I've yet to get a picture of any buck over about 100 inches. It's not as simple as passing young deer a few years and watching them grow. I'm just thrilled that I've finally gotten multiple 3 years olds each fall. [/QUOTE]
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