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If you shot a P&Y qualifier this fall would you enter it?
08-28-2007, 05:51 PM
#111
Join Date: Mar 2004
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Posts: 13,082
RE: If you shot a P&Y qualifier this fall would you enter it?
Just for my own clarification, because after reading so many pages, my wee little brain is a bit confused....
You do NOT have to join the P & Y club to enter an animal, correct? Just pay the $25 administration fee, right? That's the way I understand it, and "joining the P & Y club" seems to be tossed around as synonomous......
You do NOT have to join the P & Y club to enter an animal, correct? Just pay the $25 administration fee, right? That's the way I understand it, and "joining the P & Y club" seems to be tossed around as synonomous......
08-28-2007, 05:58 PM
#112
Bartender
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 6,634
RE: If you shot a P&Y qualifier this fall would you enter it?
08-28-2007, 06:00 PM
#113
Bartender
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 6,634
RE: If you shot a P&Y qualifier this fall would you enter it?
To be a member you have to have harvested one big game animal with a bow & arrow.
https://www.pope-young.org/membership.asp
https://www.pope-young.org/membership.asp
08-28-2007, 07:25 PM
#114
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Wisconsin and Canada
Posts: 2,415
RE: If you shot a P&Y qualifier this fall would you enter it?
ORIGINAL: Rob/PA Bowyer
The data is incomplete because hunters refuse to participate. It's skewed to areas that "participate".
The data is incomplete because hunters refuse to participate. It's skewed to areas that "participate".
It's also skewed because they use a net score.....a net score gives no true picture of how big a buck really was. A 190 class buck could net in the 160's and a 180 class in the 170's....skewed.....I'll take the 190 and keep it to myself.
08-28-2007, 07:53 PM
#115
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Oct 1998
Location: Hughesville, PA USA
Posts: 18,322
RE: If you shot a P&Y qualifier this fall would you enter it?
ORIGINAL: _Dan
It's also skewed because they use a net score.....a net score gives no true picture of how big a buck really was. A 190 class buck could net in the 160's and a 180 class in the 170's....skewed.....I'll take the 190 and keep it to myself.
ORIGINAL: Rob/PA Bowyer
The data is incomplete because hunters refuse to participate. It's skewed to areas that "participate".
The data is incomplete because hunters refuse to participate. It's skewed to areas that "participate".
It's also skewed because they use a net score.....a net score gives no true picture of how big a buck really was. A 190 class buck could net in the 160's and a 180 class in the 170's....skewed.....I'll take the 190 and keep it to myself.
08-28-2007, 10:46 PM
#117
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Martinsburg, WV
Posts: 3,215
RE: If you shot a P&Y qualifier this fall would you enter it?
I personally wouldnt (didnt) and wont. Its not worth the $25 to see my name in a book. Since I feel it doesnt really respect the animal any, and its mostly to bolster a hunter's ego (obviously not saying that for everyone), its just not worth the time to me. I also wouldnt want to have an " * " beside it because my bow is 70% letoff.
08-28-2007, 11:57 PM
#118
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Wisconsin and Canada
Posts: 2,415
RE: If you shot a P&Y qualifier this fall would you enter it?
ORIGINAL: Rob/PA Bowyer
At least the buck is registered in the data and goes down as is (net) keeping the gross to yourself does nothing for data recording. imo
ORIGINAL: _Dan
It's also skewed because they use a net score.....a net score gives no true picture of how big a buck really was. A 190 class buck could net in the 160's and a 180 class in the 170's....skewed.....I'll take the 190 and keep it to myself.
ORIGINAL: Rob/PA Bowyer
The data is incomplete because hunters refuse to participate. It's skewed to areas that "participate".
The data is incomplete because hunters refuse to participate. It's skewed to areas that "participate".
It's also skewed because they use a net score.....a net score gives no true picture of how big a buck really was. A 190 class buck could net in the 160's and a 180 class in the 170's....skewed.....I'll take the 190 and keep it to myself.
You used the term "skewed" and imo using a net score is skewed. Maybe my view is different because I hunt an area that a bucks rack is far from perfect.....i.e. many stickers and "deductions".....to me that is taking away from a bucks true rack makeup and is giving a "skewed" score and is inaccurate.
I refuse to see the point in trying to base the score of a buck on a perfect rack......its lame and does the animal injustice.....imo.
08-29-2007, 12:06 AM
#119
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 3,102
RE: If you shot a P&Y qualifier this fall would you enter it?
I personally would not enter it.Likely if I shot a P&Y qualifier it would just make it because of liklihood of killing a buck of that magnitude in my area is extremely remote.The honoring of the animal is personal and unquestioned as far as I am concerned so I wouldn't need to see it's score in the book for that purpose.
Selfishly if I were doing it on a consistent basis I wouldn't want the notoriety or attention of the rest of the hunting community.I am willing to bet that many of us here have people following our whereabouts as it is now without making that situation worse.
Selfishly if I were doing it on a consistent basis I wouldn't want the notoriety or attention of the rest of the hunting community.I am willing to bet that many of us here have people following our whereabouts as it is now without making that situation worse.
