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<blockquote data-quote="BSK" data-source="post: 5633372" data-attributes="member: 17"><p>Not me!</p><p></p><p></p><p>I'm extremely lucky in that my personal property has all sorts of unique circumstances that help to concentrate bucks during the hunting season. In addition, these bucks have spent their entire summer living and eating in nearby highly productive agricultural bottomlands full of thousands of acres of soybeans and corn. In addition, my place is very difficult to hunt because of steep terrain and lots of thick undergrowth (created intentionally), which tends to protect bucks from harvest. All these bottomland bucks come back to my place hunting season after hunting season, and their somewhat protected circumstances have allowed a fairly good buck age structure, especially over the last 20 years.</p><p></p><p>The point of all this is that I recently had a retired TWRA Regional Biologist staying at my hunting cabin, and he happened to notice a list I had printed out of the 101 antlered bucks we've killed in the 36 hunting seasons we've owned the property, ranked by antler score. He was really interested to see that the vast majority of these bucks scored from <strong>80 to 110.</strong> Basically, he was looking at a list of average bucks in TN, especially those in the middle age-classes (2 1/2 and 3 1/2 year-olds). Despite the fact that most years, we've got at least one buck scoring over 140 on the place, and probably 1/3 of years we've got a buck near 150 on the place. Yet, very, very few of those high-scoring bucks are on our harvest list (just four). In fact, all it would take to make the "Top 10" all-time list is to beat the #10 buck, which only scores 120 6/8. So why so few top-end bucks on the list? First, they are <strong>rare.</strong> And second, they are <strong>darn hard to kill, </strong>especially in a limited visibility environment (the average MZ/rifle shot taken to kill on the property has been 35 yards). I believe you are correct in saying few hunters would pass up a 115-130 buck in Tennessee, mainly because those are good bucks for Tennessee!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BSK, post: 5633372, member: 17"] Not me! I'm extremely lucky in that my personal property has all sorts of unique circumstances that help to concentrate bucks during the hunting season. In addition, these bucks have spent their entire summer living and eating in nearby highly productive agricultural bottomlands full of thousands of acres of soybeans and corn. In addition, my place is very difficult to hunt because of steep terrain and lots of thick undergrowth (created intentionally), which tends to protect bucks from harvest. All these bottomland bucks come back to my place hunting season after hunting season, and their somewhat protected circumstances have allowed a fairly good buck age structure, especially over the last 20 years. The point of all this is that I recently had a retired TWRA Regional Biologist staying at my hunting cabin, and he happened to notice a list I had printed out of the 101 antlered bucks we've killed in the 36 hunting seasons we've owned the property, ranked by antler score. He was really interested to see that the vast majority of these bucks scored from [B]80 to 110.[/B] Basically, he was looking at a list of average bucks in TN, especially those in the middle age-classes (2 1/2 and 3 1/2 year-olds). Despite the fact that most years, we've got at least one buck scoring over 140 on the place, and probably 1/3 of years we've got a buck near 150 on the place. Yet, very, very few of those high-scoring bucks are on our harvest list (just four). In fact, all it would take to make the "Top 10" all-time list is to beat the #10 buck, which only scores 120 6/8. So why so few top-end bucks on the list? First, they are [B]rare.[/B] And second, they are [B]darn hard to kill, [/B]especially in a limited visibility environment (the average MZ/rifle shot taken to kill on the property has been 35 yards). I believe you are correct in saying few hunters would pass up a 115-130 buck in Tennessee, mainly because those are good bucks for Tennessee! [/QUOTE]
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