Florida Trophy Deer
Study
by
bp-Outdoors.com Staff
The analyzed data is presented in charts and tables to show which
weeks of the hunting season tend to produce trophy bucks. Also,
the numbers of registered trophy bucks per county are presented in
tables to show which counties tend to produce the greatest numbers of
trophy bucks in recent years.
(Click on the chart to see details.)
The above chart was create from 5 years worth of
data contained in the
the Florida Buck Registry. The chart shows the number of trophy
class
deer taken in a given week of the year.
Five years worth of data was used to create the
chart in order to help
identify a trend in the data. The general idea for creating
this chart is to show which week of the year has the greatest
probability
to produce a trophy deer. The weeks with the greatest number of
harvests
appear to coincide loosely with season openings, the rut and holidays.
This seems to partly suggest that the numbers of
trophy deer harvested
are proportional to the number of hunters in the woods - the begining
of
each season is when the largest number of hunters are out.
Trophy Buck Registry - The Florida
Buck Registry was established in 1982 to provide hunters with a record
of the number and quality of white-tailed deer taken in Florida.
The minimum antler score necessary to qualify is 100 Boone and Crockett
inches for typical antlers and 125 for non-typical antlers.
The following table contains a list of the top trophy producing
counties
over the last 5 years. The data also comes form the Florida Buck
Registry. These numbers do not include Bucks taken on WMA
land.
See below for WMA numbers.
Florida's Big
Buck Counties
| County Ranking |
Trophy Bucks |
| 1. Bay County |
38 |
| 2. Alachua County |
37 |
| 3. Madison County |
37 |
| 4. JeffersonCounty |
33 |
| 5. Pasco County |
33 |
| 6. Osceola
County |
31 |
| 7. Calhoun
County |
30 |
| 8. Jackson
County |
29 |
| 9. Gadsden
County |
28 |
| 10. Marion
County |
27 |
| 11. LeonCounty |
24 |
| 12. Sumter
County |
22 |
| 13. Hamilton
County |
21 |
| 14. Polk County |
18 |
| 15. Walton
County |
17 |
| 16. Columbia
County |
16 |
| 17. Putnam
County |
16 |
| 18. Wakulla
County |
16 |
| 19. Brevard
County |
15 |
| 20. Citrus
County |
14 |
| 21. Orange
County |
13 |
| 22. Taylor
County |
13 |
| 23. Hernando
County |
12 |
| 24. Okeechobee
Cnty |
11 |
| 25. Highlands
County |
10 |
| 26. Levy County |
10 |
| 27. Okaloosa
County |
10 |
Trophy WMA Lands
| WMA Ranking |
Trophy Bucks |
| 1. Eglin AFB |
11 |
| 2. Half Moon |
9 |
| 3. Richloam |
9 |
| 4. Nassua |
7 |
| 5. Citrus |
6 |
| 6. Green Swamp |
6 |
| 7. Bull Creek |
5 |
| 8. Camp Blanding |
5 |
| 9. Ft. McCoy |
5 |
About the study:
This study included 825 trophy bucks taken in the last 5 years. (1996
to 2000). The highest scoring buck taken in the last 5 years was a 25
point buck
scoring 206 (scored in velvet) taken in Green Swamp West WMA on
9-25-1999.
The second highest scoring buck was a 16 point
buck scoring 179 taken
in Alachua County on 11-11-2000.
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