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<blockquote data-quote="BSK" data-source="post: 5846470" data-attributes="member: 17"><p>Bell-curve distribution. Get enough mature bucks (and the mountains have a high percentage of them), and you're going to find one or two at the top end (far right on the bell curve). But there are far more in the middle of the bell curve, which in the mountains isn't very high-scoring. Hunters see the few far-right-of-the-curve mature bucks and think the area is highly productive. What they don't notice is all the 80-100 class mature bucks, and there's a snot-load of those.</p><p></p><p>A prime real-world example. Over the last 20 years, I've gotten trail-camera pictures of three different 3 1/2 year-old bucks on my property that scored in the 150s. Hunters hear that and think, 150-class bucks at 3 1/2? Wow your property is productive! Not really. Over those 20 years I've photographed 111 different 3 1/2 year-old bucks and their average score is only 105. The vast majority fall in the 80-120 range, but yes, a few - a very few - have been monsters. And an equal number have been tiny for their age. The bell-curve distribution.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BSK, post: 5846470, member: 17"] Bell-curve distribution. Get enough mature bucks (and the mountains have a high percentage of them), and you're going to find one or two at the top end (far right on the bell curve). But there are far more in the middle of the bell curve, which in the mountains isn't very high-scoring. Hunters see the few far-right-of-the-curve mature bucks and think the area is highly productive. What they don't notice is all the 80-100 class mature bucks, and there's a snot-load of those. A prime real-world example. Over the last 20 years, I've gotten trail-camera pictures of three different 3 1/2 year-old bucks on my property that scored in the 150s. Hunters hear that and think, 150-class bucks at 3 1/2? Wow your property is productive! Not really. Over those 20 years I've photographed 111 different 3 1/2 year-old bucks and their average score is only 105. The vast majority fall in the 80-120 range, but yes, a few - a very few - have been monsters. And an equal number have been tiny for their age. The bell-curve distribution. [/QUOTE]
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