Brain is mush

[BSK]

That graph is quite revealing. Bucks show a maximum variance of about 20, while does show a variance of around 65. And bucks vary only gradually on a curve whereas the doe population shows a couple significant jumps. The most striking to me is the fawn variance. With fawns jumping so significantly after a hurricane mess it's easy to imagine the second timber cut was not nearly as large or extensive as the first.

Absolutely correct. First cut was about 30 acres. Second cut 20. Hurricane damage and third cut was 110 acres.

Regardless, the graph really accentuates the increased fawning cover that new growth provides. Not sure how big that property is but those numbers seem fairly significant. The largest farm I hunt is less than 300 acres and even on there it's hard to imagine 25 different identifiable bucks living there, and it's in ag country. On the hardwood properties the numbers are much lower.

That's my personal property - 500 acres. The numbers can get so high because we're concentrating all of the deer during the fall from thousands of acres of surrounding ag land that is wiped clean of cover after harvest.

 

[BSK]

This is what I'm talking about with trying to keep track of so many 8-pointers. The picture below shows two 8-pointers that are nearly identical. Both have almost identical G2s and G3s. They even curve inwards the exact same way and have the same height comparison between the G2 and G3 tines. Both have beams that sweep around and the tips are about the same distance apart. But it is the slight difference in browtine shape that distinguishes them. One has straight up matching brows while the other has slightly offset brows with his right brow having that little outward crook in it. Keeping track of these tiny differences can be a nightamre.

Oh, and I was wrong. It wasn't 48 different 8-pointers. I looked it up and one property I did a camera census for had 57 different 8-pointers I had to keep track of!