here's a question
Hi everyone,
I shot a button buck a couple weeks ago. I'm happy about it, but I thought of an interesting question. Without getting into a discussion on whether shooting a button buck is desirable, sporting, ethical, moral, challenging, etc.....
Studies have shown that the greatest dispersal (and mortality) rate for whitetails is among yearling bucks. This is because the does actually drive them out of the area when they reach breeding age.....nature's little way of preventing inbreeding. So when you climb down and see that the doe you just shot is actually a buck and you feel that twinge of regretthat you just took another buck out of your area that you might have encountered in a couple years (don't get me wrong....still happy to get a deer with a bow)....what are the chances that that buck would have ever set foot on your hunting area sporting headgear in a couple years?