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<blockquote data-quote="BSK" data-source="post: 5634875" data-attributes="member: 17"><p>One big mistake many hunters make is looking at the best bucks ever produced in an area and then thinking, "That is what this area grows." No, you have to look at the <strong>average</strong> buck of each age-class in the area to see what the area grows. Some very remote but terrible soil locations have grown the rare whopper mature buck. But that doesn't mean that's what can be expected from mature bucks in the area. That whopper buck was a genetic anomaly and would have been much bigger had he grown up in a better soil quality region. The eastern mountains have produced a couple of monsters, yet the eastern mountains are very poor soil and the <strong>average</strong> mature buck in the area probably doesn't score 115.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Individual genetics is the number #1 factor. As I've said many times, given a large enough sample from one property, I will find that the largest yearling buck will outscore the smallest mature buck. Even when all the deer are living on the same soil in the same habitat, the range of scores for each age-class all overlap each other. The difference is individual buck genetic potential and his genetic adaptations to the local environment (how well he performs in THAT environment).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BSK, post: 5634875, member: 17"] One big mistake many hunters make is looking at the best bucks ever produced in an area and then thinking, "That is what this area grows." No, you have to look at the [B]average[/B] buck of each age-class in the area to see what the area grows. Some very remote but terrible soil locations have grown the rare whopper mature buck. But that doesn't mean that's what can be expected from mature bucks in the area. That whopper buck was a genetic anomaly and would have been much bigger had he grown up in a better soil quality region. The eastern mountains have produced a couple of monsters, yet the eastern mountains are very poor soil and the [B]average[/B] mature buck in the area probably doesn't score 115. Individual genetics is the number #1 factor. As I've said many times, given a large enough sample from one property, I will find that the largest yearling buck will outscore the smallest mature buck. Even when all the deer are living on the same soil in the same habitat, the range of scores for each age-class all overlap each other. The difference is individual buck genetic potential and his genetic adaptations to the local environment (how well he performs in THAT environment). [/QUOTE]
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