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<blockquote data-quote="megalomaniac" data-source="post: 5495435" data-attributes="member: 2805"><p>To be fair to TWRA, the antler restrictions were set up to protect far more younger age class deer than prevent harvest of older age class deer with few points. TWRA recognizes that only a tiny subset of hunters are capable of aging a deer on the hoof, while at least 99% of TN hunters can count points to 8 or less vs 9 or more.</p><p></p><p>Is it an ideal rule? Absolutely not. And the managers of PI hunt would say so. But if they allowed 8pts or better ( or any antlered buck) you would see half the bucks killed being 2.5 or younger. Sure, it's mind-blowing someone would spend 12 years of applying to shoot a dink, but yes, that what you get with a draw open to the public. The current regs protect 80% of the 2.5yos (unfortunately while preventing the harvest of over 50% of the fully mature bucks)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="megalomaniac, post: 5495435, member: 2805"] To be fair to TWRA, the antler restrictions were set up to protect far more younger age class deer than prevent harvest of older age class deer with few points. TWRA recognizes that only a tiny subset of hunters are capable of aging a deer on the hoof, while at least 99% of TN hunters can count points to 8 or less vs 9 or more. Is it an ideal rule? Absolutely not. And the managers of PI hunt would say so. But if they allowed 8pts or better ( or any antlered buck) you would see half the bucks killed being 2.5 or younger. Sure, it's mind-blowing someone would spend 12 years of applying to shoot a dink, but yes, that what you get with a draw open to the public. The current regs protect 80% of the 2.5yos (unfortunately while preventing the harvest of over 50% of the fully mature bucks) [/QUOTE]
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