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<blockquote data-quote="Mike Belt" data-source="post: 4458079" data-attributes="member: 69"><p>Grnwing... Curious... have you ever been on the buck hunt there? The year I went the rut should have "supposedly" been over. Not so. They were chasing does left and right and fresh car hood sized scrapes were everywhere. There were 4 of us that went together. All of us saw several 150+" bucks but none had 9 points. Those that did didn't offer shots. As far as I can tell the only management tool that got them that size was restricting hunters to archery, having only 1 hunt for the year, and enacting the 9 point rule. If you had of been there and had 8 pointers walking around under your stand that had tremendous mass and would have scored in the 150-160's and were obviously 5.5+ years old or older you'd probably back off somewhat on your opinion about the 9 point rule. In my opinion a size limit would accomplish about the same thing and to me it's easier at a glance to field judge inches than it is to determine if a buck running through undergrowth at a distance has 9 points or more. This was the pre-flood era and as I understand it the deer have yet to rebound to those numbers. Regardless of that, the 9 point rule was in effect even then.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mike Belt, post: 4458079, member: 69"] Grnwing... Curious... have you ever been on the buck hunt there? The year I went the rut should have "supposedly" been over. Not so. They were chasing does left and right and fresh car hood sized scrapes were everywhere. There were 4 of us that went together. All of us saw several 150+" bucks but none had 9 points. Those that did didn't offer shots. As far as I can tell the only management tool that got them that size was restricting hunters to archery, having only 1 hunt for the year, and enacting the 9 point rule. If you had of been there and had 8 pointers walking around under your stand that had tremendous mass and would have scored in the 150-160's and were obviously 5.5+ years old or older you'd probably back off somewhat on your opinion about the 9 point rule. In my opinion a size limit would accomplish about the same thing and to me it's easier at a glance to field judge inches than it is to determine if a buck running through undergrowth at a distance has 9 points or more. This was the pre-flood era and as I understand it the deer have yet to rebound to those numbers. Regardless of that, the 9 point rule was in effect even then. [/QUOTE]
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