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Over the years I have seen B&C make some odd decisions the way they keep records. I suppose that as the saying goes you can please some of the people some of the time but not all the people all the time.
In many cases B&C just does things that are in very poor judgement and without what seems like a lot of thought. I could list several things to point out my issues. For a couple examples Pick-ups are allowed entry, yet it's a hunting organization. At the same time they don't allow game from controlled areas, like a reservation when the game is shot out of state legal seasons. A brown bear on the coast of Alaska walking down the shore crossing into Canda becomes a Grizzly bear. There are no brown bears in Canada. Hmmmm Where are most of the record book grizzlies from? You guessed it Bella Coola on the coast of BC near Alaska. Shooting contained game from a tree as in lions and bears quite allright, but shooting a deer on 15,000 acres in Texas not okay.
However this new situation blows me away. A fella shot a whitetail deer in Il. this past November. He shot it with a muzzle loader, completely legal, everything legit. This Whitetail would be #2 nontypical all time. Scoring over 280 B&C points. B&C will not accept it into the book..........Why?
Because they don't accept any deer in Velvet. This deer has some raggedy velvet remaining and it's not allowed into the book. It's without question one of the most massive racks I've ever seen on a Whitetail. Maybe the most massive non-typical deer I've ever seen.
I don't know about the rest of you folks but this whole Gross score, Net score........ well Everyone I know hunts trophies for Mass not perfect balance. I don't think I've ever met a guy in my life that would pass on this deer because it was not perfectly balanced. Or see it with another deer and choose the smaller one to fill his tag. Nets are for fishing, not for scoring trophies! To prevent this massive animal from entry is simply poor judgement and reduces the credibility of B&C even further in my opinion.
In many cases B&C just does things that are in very poor judgement and without what seems like a lot of thought. I could list several things to point out my issues. For a couple examples Pick-ups are allowed entry, yet it's a hunting organization. At the same time they don't allow game from controlled areas, like a reservation when the game is shot out of state legal seasons. A brown bear on the coast of Alaska walking down the shore crossing into Canda becomes a Grizzly bear. There are no brown bears in Canada. Hmmmm Where are most of the record book grizzlies from? You guessed it Bella Coola on the coast of BC near Alaska. Shooting contained game from a tree as in lions and bears quite allright, but shooting a deer on 15,000 acres in Texas not okay.
However this new situation blows me away. A fella shot a whitetail deer in Il. this past November. He shot it with a muzzle loader, completely legal, everything legit. This Whitetail would be #2 nontypical all time. Scoring over 280 B&C points. B&C will not accept it into the book..........Why?
Because they don't accept any deer in Velvet. This deer has some raggedy velvet remaining and it's not allowed into the book. It's without question one of the most massive racks I've ever seen on a Whitetail. Maybe the most massive non-typical deer I've ever seen.
I don't know about the rest of you folks but this whole Gross score, Net score........ well Everyone I know hunts trophies for Mass not perfect balance. I don't think I've ever met a guy in my life that would pass on this deer because it was not perfectly balanced. Or see it with another deer and choose the smaller one to fill his tag. Nets are for fishing, not for scoring trophies! To prevent this massive animal from entry is simply poor judgement and reduces the credibility of B&C even further in my opinion.
