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<blockquote data-quote="TheLBLman" data-source="post: 5042875" data-attributes="member: 1409"><p>The answer to your question largely depends on how <u>you</u> define a "trophy" buck.</p><p></p><p>For many, many years, kinda as "an aside", I've been very fortunate to be a hunter/manager of some large properties, and had the flexibility of time/job to hunt both those intensely managed "private" and numerous "public" lands.</p><p></p><p>I can tell you, I have a better chance at a top-end mature buck on public lands in TN & KY than I do on some very intensely managed private lands in TN. That's why I hunt both, near equally splitting my hunting time.</p><p></p><p>Believe it or not, some of the best opportunities in TN for a top-end mature buck may actually be on public WMA's that do absolutely nothing in terms of "managing" for top-end mature bucks. This is because so much of TN's private lands (and public WMA's) "better" deer management tends to produce more antler high-grading of younger bucks, than no "trophy" management at all.</p><p></p><p>Before I get too old to physically do it, I'm seriously thinking about spending much of my next couple years deer hunting the Cherokee National Forest. Sure, I probably have better odds on many other WMA's for a higher-scoring mature buck, but, maybe, maybe not. Although the deer density there is very low, so is the number of hunters, and there appears to be much less antler high-grading of any bucks there.</p><p></p><p>It's all about the totality of the experience, and "urban" shooting called "hunting" is not for me. I have similar sentiments regarding hunting many farmland areas, even though most farmland areas do offer greater odds than most largely forested and/or wilderness areas.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheLBLman, post: 5042875, member: 1409"] The answer to your question largely depends on how [U]you[/U] define a "trophy" buck. For many, many years, kinda as "an aside", I've been very fortunate to be a hunter/manager of some large properties, and had the flexibility of time/job to hunt both those intensely managed "private" and numerous "public" lands. I can tell you, I have a better chance at a top-end mature buck on public lands in TN & KY than I do on some very intensely managed private lands in TN. That's why I hunt both, near equally splitting my hunting time. Believe it or not, some of the best opportunities in TN for a top-end mature buck may actually be on public WMA's that do absolutely nothing in terms of "managing" for top-end mature bucks. This is because so much of TN's private lands (and public WMA's) "better" deer management tends to produce more antler high-grading of younger bucks, than no "trophy" management at all. Before I get too old to physically do it, I'm seriously thinking about spending much of my next couple years deer hunting the Cherokee National Forest. Sure, I probably have better odds on many other WMA's for a higher-scoring mature buck, but, maybe, maybe not. Although the deer density there is very low, so is the number of hunters, and there appears to be much less antler high-grading of any bucks there. It's all about the totality of the experience, and "urban" shooting called "hunting" is not for me. I have similar sentiments regarding hunting many farmland areas, even though most farmland areas do offer greater odds than most largely forested and/or wilderness areas. [/QUOTE]
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