QDM POLL FOR PA

[bullmoose38]

Hello everyone,
Are you familiar with qdm y or n?
Do you support QDM?
Your age

I am just running a poll to see how accurate my thoughts are.
I feel 35 years and younger tend to favor it
35-50 year olds are spilt
50-above are against
thanks for doing this

[cardeer]

Im for a deer ratio of 1 to 1 Not one buck. to one doe though in a sguare mile. More like 15 nuck to 15 doe in a square mile. And then give them a food feast of crops. You dont have to kill all the does to get a 1 on 1 ratio.Just bring up the buck herd to meet the doe pops. then keep them at a level that is comfortable.

[dvdegeorge]

Yes I favor QDM age 40

[MikeE51848]

Do you mean QDM, as presently practiced in PA? Hell no! Age 50+.

[germain]

Cardeer said it right.Let's look at a ranch in Texas practicing QDM.They strive for a ratio of 1-1 but have say 50 doe to 50 buck on a 600 acre private ranch.Where as the idea of QDM on public ground in PA has say 10 deer on an entire gamelands and in most cases that's more then normal.QDM does not work on public ground.If the private land isn't fenced in it better have at least 1,000 posted acres.I'm starting to see more and more fences going up in PA for canned hunts.
Congrats PGC.

[bullmoose38]

In Texas people dont shoot BUTTON BUCKS thats why QDM works. You can see more deer because there are more buck alive which means you can have more doe.

I agree with you cardeer. But thats what Pa people dont get. They need to shoot that button buck. You leave him go thats 1 less doe that needs to be shot. I wish PA would make it you kill a button buck thats your buck. I know what people would say though. They will be left lay to decay. They are right but thats where we need to look at how greedy hunters are and not how the PGC manages the game. Turn in the outlaws!

[germain]

I hate to say it bull but I don't see PA hunters changing.If there was one deer left in this state there would be 250,000 hunters trying to kill it.

[BTBowhunter]

Favor it

Age 48

But I recognize that not all aspects of QDM are feasible in all parts of PA.

We can expect QDM to work 100% in all areas but we can make every area way better than it has been.

[rybohunter]

I am for sustaining a healthy herd of deer on the land it can support. If there are places in PA that can't support the deer, improve the habitat, don't eradicate the deer.


I am 30.

[Buckshot]

No body in there right mind would be for a 1 to 1 B/D ration. When the B/D ration reaches 1/1.2 ish the bucks start getting overly aggression and will fight to the death for breeding rights.

I dont think that true QDM is going to be possible on such a large scale as PA, however this doent mean that steps cant be taken to improve the overall health of the herd ands its habitat.

QDM, bring it on.