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Old 01-12-2006 | 05:54 PM
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Default Food for thought

Just thought I would share this piece of logic. This is for those of you that take your herd mangement and hunting seriously, so you "If it's brown , it's down" guys can just quit reading now. Next season, when you're picking out which doe you are going to harvest remember these words. Many studies have shown that a buck will make his core home area in the same spot that he spent his first full year of life and as we all know, a doe will chase off her male offspring before she births her next fawn. So with this in mind, it would be very logical to harvest the does that have button bucks for fawns. By doing this, the doe would not be there to chase the button buck off of this core area(also your favorite hunting spot) and he will continue to use this area for the rest of his life. With todays gadgets(TRAIL CAMERAS!!)it is very easy to figure out which does have what fawns in your area. In my area, I know which does use what spots and by having their family portraits I know which to harvest and which to leave. Hopefully by putting this knowledge to work, your hunting areas will improve over the next couple of years.
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