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<blockquote data-quote="TheLBLman" data-source="post: 5656140" data-attributes="member: 1409"><p>However, much of the increase in hunters (and their "pressure"), particularly of the past 5 years, is coming from 25 to 45-yr-old men & women who had never before been hunting. This sub-set of hunters has been drawn into hunting more for the purpose of procuring free-range organic food, than for the purpose of "selecting" for better antlers.</p><p></p><p>Therefore they are more likely to simply kill the first legal deer they can, most often a yearling deer, regardless of sex. <u>Their style of hunting results in less antler high grading than the typical hunting of most other deer hunters today</u>.</p><p></p><p>So while us old "sport" hunters are dying out, these new younger "meat" hunters are somewhat replacing us. Another big difference in their style is they will mainly hunt where it's most convenient, most often from their back porches, and/or within a short distance of their homes.</p><p></p><p>And unfortunately to the greedy "middle men" pushing expensive deer hunting leases, these new hunters aren't willing to pay for a lease, as they have plenty of cheap, convenient opportunities to kill the deer they want for food. They are simply not looking for a trophy buck, or even a buck at all.</p><p></p><p>My prediction remains for lease prices nationwide to trend lower, mainly as the older more "avid" deer hunters die out, and are then only partially replaced, but replaced with hunters more interested in the organic meat than the hunting.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Actually, <u>in most areas of Tennessee</u>, most mature bucks should be only mainframe 8-pointers. But, in the absence of high-grading, there should be a fair representation of mainframe 9-plus-point bucks.</p><p></p><p>As to the majority of those few mature bucks which do have more than 10 points, most points beyond 10 will tend to be "non-typical" or "sticker" type points, often which don't evolve until a particular buck is fully mature. Even then, many fully mature bucks will never grow a non-typical "point" and remain only mainframe 8-pointers.</p><p></p><p>The one buck I personally considered my overall best TN "trophy" buck was believed to be 6 1/2 years old. Depending on how one defines "points", he had up to 21 points, but 13 were at least an inch in length. I called him a 13-pointer, but everyone would look and say,<em> "He's got a lot more points than that!" </em> (Several of his points were over 1/2" but less than 1".)</p><p></p><p>But he was actually only a mainframe 9-pointer (4 x 5), just had grown many non-typical tines in his last year or two of life. I suspect he had been a "clean" mainframe 9-pointer when he was 3 1/2, and was just lucky to have survived to maturity.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheLBLman, post: 5656140, member: 1409"] However, much of the increase in hunters (and their "pressure"), particularly of the past 5 years, is coming from 25 to 45-yr-old men & women who had never before been hunting. This sub-set of hunters has been drawn into hunting more for the purpose of procuring free-range organic food, than for the purpose of "selecting" for better antlers. Therefore they are more likely to simply kill the first legal deer they can, most often a yearling deer, regardless of sex. [U]Their style of hunting results in less antler high grading than the typical hunting of most other deer hunters today[/U]. So while us old "sport" hunters are dying out, these new younger "meat" hunters are somewhat replacing us. Another big difference in their style is they will mainly hunt where it's most convenient, most often from their back porches, and/or within a short distance of their homes. And unfortunately to the greedy "middle men" pushing expensive deer hunting leases, these new hunters aren't willing to pay for a lease, as they have plenty of cheap, convenient opportunities to kill the deer they want for food. They are simply not looking for a trophy buck, or even a buck at all. My prediction remains for lease prices nationwide to trend lower, mainly as the older more "avid" deer hunters die out, and are then only partially replaced, but replaced with hunters more interested in the organic meat than the hunting. Actually, [U]in most areas of Tennessee[/U], most mature bucks should be only mainframe 8-pointers. But, in the absence of high-grading, there should be a fair representation of mainframe 9-plus-point bucks. As to the majority of those few mature bucks which do have more than 10 points, most points beyond 10 will tend to be "non-typical" or "sticker" type points, often which don't evolve until a particular buck is fully mature. Even then, many fully mature bucks will never grow a non-typical "point" and remain only mainframe 8-pointers. The one buck I personally considered my overall best TN "trophy" buck was believed to be 6 1/2 years old. Depending on how one defines "points", he had up to 21 points, but 13 were at least an inch in length. I called him a 13-pointer, but everyone would look and say,[I] "He's got a lot more points than that!" [/I] (Several of his points were over 1/2" but less than 1".) But he was actually only a mainframe 9-pointer (4 x 5), just had grown many non-typical tines in his last year or two of life. I suspect he had been a "clean" mainframe 9-pointer when he was 3 1/2, and was just lucky to have survived to maturity. [/QUOTE]
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