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<blockquote data-quote="TheLBLman" data-source="post: 5540998" data-attributes="member: 1409"><p>Having been in a very large TN hunting club now for decades, yes, it's about the same 20% of the hunters who have killed 80% of the fully mature bucks taken.</p><p></p><p>But I believe this is not just, nor even mainly, because of their stand locations.</p><p></p><p>One of the main reasons may be because those most consistently successful mature buck hunters were voluntarily willing to give a pass to those really "nice" 3 1/2-yr-old bucks most hunters just didn't have the will to give a pass.</p><p></p><p>Very often, a fully mature buck will follow the trail of a younger (sometimes also mature) buck. But that older buck may be a couple hundred yards behind, several minutes behind, and by shooting the buck ahead of him, the hunter never knows there was an older one coming along shortly.</p><p></p><p>Even when "following" (an older buck following a younger) is not the case, once a particular hunter kills any or "a" buck, that hunter often backs off on, or simply quits hunting for that year.</p><p></p><p>There is also the issue of those individuals who pass up the most bucks are in the best position to see those same bucks in the subsequent year(s), a year later when that super-nice 3 1/2 is now a top-end 4 1/2 (or older) buck.</p><p></p><p>To more degree than many seem to think,</p><p>we create our own realities.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheLBLman, post: 5540998, member: 1409"] Having been in a very large TN hunting club now for decades, yes, it's about the same 20% of the hunters who have killed 80% of the fully mature bucks taken. But I believe this is not just, nor even mainly, because of their stand locations. One of the main reasons may be because those most consistently successful mature buck hunters were voluntarily willing to give a pass to those really "nice" 3 1/2-yr-old bucks most hunters just didn't have the will to give a pass. Very often, a fully mature buck will follow the trail of a younger (sometimes also mature) buck. But that older buck may be a couple hundred yards behind, several minutes behind, and by shooting the buck ahead of him, the hunter never knows there was an older one coming along shortly. Even when "following" (an older buck following a younger) is not the case, once a particular hunter kills any or "a" buck, that hunter often backs off on, or simply quits hunting for that year. There is also the issue of those individuals who pass up the most bucks are in the best position to see those same bucks in the subsequent year(s), a year later when that super-nice 3 1/2 is now a top-end 4 1/2 (or older) buck. To more degree than many seem to think, we create our own realities. [/QUOTE]
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