. How many properties that you hunt can grow these type of deer? Again, I don't mean one deer every 10 years, I mean a couple ever year. Even with good hunter management, most deer in this state won't ever be "huge".
A 150 class buck in Alabama should be rare. You guys have been asking a lot of questions. Let me ask one. What makes a buck with big horns a coveted prize? Can monster buck horns be ground into a powder that cures diseases? Nope. Can they be transformed into a miracle fuel that will power your car or heat your house for a year? Nope. They are coveted because they are rare. An animal with the genetic potential to grow really big horns is sort of rare to start with. Then a deer with those genetics that lives long enough to fulfill his potential has probably done so by being a pretty reclusive and savvy animal that is rarely seen by human eyes in daylight. Add those things together and it means killing an animal like that in the wild is something to be proud of.
Now you throw up a fence. Truck you in some genetic freak brood bucks or some does artificially inseminated by some prize brood buck. There goes the genetic rarity. Use the fence to keep buck numbers concentrated far higher than they would be in any free range situation. Shelter your herd behind a fence for 5 years waiting for your prize bio-engineered animals to reach their optimal potential. There goes the need for any of them to be reclusive or cautious in order to reach maturity. And?
Congratulations!!!! You have now officially stripped away everything that made that animal a coveted and difficult prize to kill. You have a large pen full of huge bucks that are neither rare, smart or conditioned by normal circumstances into patterns of reclusive behavior.
Paying to shoot a huge buck at one of these places is, to me, like buying some ex jocks Super Bowl ring off E-bay. Yeah, it's pretty but buying it doesn't mean that "you" won a Super Bowl.
