No preference points needed. It was in a general area that I've hiked, scouted, and hunted for 15 years. I've killed numerous good (150ish") typical bucks in there but he's the best typical by a good margin. I was lucky enough to get a 7x8 non-typical with eye guards that grossed 197" many moons ago. I'll see if I can find a picture of him somewhere and post. I was really young when I got the non-typical and didn't appreciate it near enough......I thought wow that was easy I'll just kill monsters every year......HAHAHA......It took 17 years to kill another "monster"