Beautiful deer!!!

In the lower MI. farmland area I came from, or for that matter, the entire southern 1/2 of the lower peninsula, the avg. yearling is a 7 point-a little basket rack.

I've seen many basket racked 6-8 points in the northern portion of PA, which isn't even that great for habitat.

But in norther MI where I live, the avg. 1.5 year old has 3 points, although they outweigh there southern cousins, and are 4" taller on avg. With 5 acres of quality food plots, and quality mineral stations(less than 50% salt), my property had a 5, 6 or 7, and 7 point yearlings on it this last year. It takes unbelievably bad genes, or poor birth timing, to make a yearling have less than 4 or 5 points, if great habitat and minerals are readily available. If the food and minerals are acattered, and in areas that allow for secluded, undisturbed, daytime feeding, than yearling spikes and 3 points should be virtually non-existant.

Jeff...U.P. of Michigan