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'Nets Are for Fishing.' Here's Why Many Hunters Don't Want to Have Their Trophy Animals Officially Scored
2026-09-21 16:00
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JEFF JOHNSTON ADMITS he’s a walking paradox. A lifelong whitetail hunter who manages his farm in eastern Oklahoma for record-class bucks, Johnston has written widely about his obsession with outsize deer. He’s even developed an algorithm-based antler-scoring system, called Trophy Scan, that can estimate a score based on a good-quality photograph of a deer’s rack.