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<blockquote data-quote="BSK" data-source="post: 5846860" data-attributes="member: 17"><p>Another example of bell-curve distribution - the famous King Ranch in TX. Everyone has seen hunting shows filmed there, with some truly top-end mature bucks killed. But here's an interesting fact: the average 4 1/2 year-old buck on my property over the last 20 years only grosses 120. But guess what, so does the average mature buck on the King Ranch! In fact, age-class by age-class, the average gross score on my place is nearly identical to the data from the King Ranch. So how do they kill so many monster bucks on the King Ranch if the average 4 1/2 only grosses 120? The shear number of mature bucks to work with and the bell-curve distribution. Hunters on the King Ranch kill only one buck per 1,200 acres (and that includes smaller "management bucks"). When you have a population of deer living on hundreds of thousand of acres, and you're only killing one buck per 1,200 acres, you're just taking the very top-end (far right of the bell curve).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BSK, post: 5846860, member: 17"] Another example of bell-curve distribution - the famous King Ranch in TX. Everyone has seen hunting shows filmed there, with some truly top-end mature bucks killed. But here's an interesting fact: the average 4 1/2 year-old buck on my property over the last 20 years only grosses 120. But guess what, so does the average mature buck on the King Ranch! In fact, age-class by age-class, the average gross score on my place is nearly identical to the data from the King Ranch. So how do they kill so many monster bucks on the King Ranch if the average 4 1/2 only grosses 120? The shear number of mature bucks to work with and the bell-curve distribution. Hunters on the King Ranch kill only one buck per 1,200 acres (and that includes smaller "management bucks"). When you have a population of deer living on hundreds of thousand of acres, and you're only killing one buck per 1,200 acres, you're just taking the very top-end (far right of the bell curve). [/QUOTE]
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