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<blockquote data-quote="Ski" data-source="post: 5506129" data-attributes="member: 20583"><p>I agree with all of that. Indeed I <em>sometimes</em> am even involved in it. I'd say guilty of it but I don't feel guilty because I didn't do anything wrong. This year I shot a questionably aged buck for no other reason than he was jerk to all the other deer. Last season I shot a 3yr old because I hadn't had any luck and it was late in the season, so I shot the first rack buck that tickled my fancy. He was by no means "gifted". He only had 7pts and a very small rack for his age & body size. </p><p></p><p>I also agree that all we're doing is speculative. It's all we have so it's what we do. That said, I speculate from the perspective of a trophy hunter. Although I do fancy myself as a novice habitat tinkerer, I'm mostly driven by hanging giant antlers on my wall. And I travel to do it. That traveling isn't just by chance, though. I'm specifically looking at a map of the USA overlaid with trophy kill reports, picking out patterns and/or areas that I feel will give me an edge. One thing that is immediately obvious is the concentration of trophy bucks killed within 100mi of major river systems. Next is not immediately obvious but becomes so when you begin seeing gaps, areas where trophy kills fade or are void but otherwise the area <em>should be</em> a good producer on paper. When you look at the hunting regs for those states the one thing they have in common is firearms during rut. TN is one of them. While mostly anecdotal it is evident enough for me to use hunting regs in determining whether I hunt a state or not. If I didn't live in TN, I wouldn't make an effort to hunt here.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ski, post: 5506129, member: 20583"] I agree with all of that. Indeed I [I]sometimes[/I] am even involved in it. I'd say guilty of it but I don't feel guilty because I didn't do anything wrong. This year I shot a questionably aged buck for no other reason than he was jerk to all the other deer. Last season I shot a 3yr old because I hadn't had any luck and it was late in the season, so I shot the first rack buck that tickled my fancy. He was by no means "gifted". He only had 7pts and a very small rack for his age & body size. I also agree that all we're doing is speculative. It's all we have so it's what we do. That said, I speculate from the perspective of a trophy hunter. Although I do fancy myself as a novice habitat tinkerer, I'm mostly driven by hanging giant antlers on my wall. And I travel to do it. That traveling isn't just by chance, though. I'm specifically looking at a map of the USA overlaid with trophy kill reports, picking out patterns and/or areas that I feel will give me an edge. One thing that is immediately obvious is the concentration of trophy bucks killed within 100mi of major river systems. Next is not immediately obvious but becomes so when you begin seeing gaps, areas where trophy kills fade or are void but otherwise the area [I]should be[/I] a good producer on paper. When you look at the hunting regs for those states the one thing they have in common is firearms during rut. TN is one of them. While mostly anecdotal it is evident enough for me to use hunting regs in determining whether I hunt a state or not. If I didn't live in TN, I wouldn't make an effort to hunt here. [/QUOTE]
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