ghemry,
Like I posted originally, I give you the benefit of the doubt and still do.
ORIGINAL: BigJ12
ORIGINAL: ghemry
QDM as YOU understand it today would have been viewed as TDM back when I first started bow hunting. Yet you are telling me to read up on QDM? I know what it is and I know today most of the QDM lingo is a smoke screen to hide the true agenda, antlers and growing bigger bucks.
Well, dahhhhhh
Anytime you let younger deer go the direct result is bigger deer. Yes I practice QDM to see bigger deer. I spent a lot of $ for habit on my land, not just for big deer, but the herd in general. I also spent a lot of time with the ag guys planting a healthy food plots, and not just ones to grow big antlers.
In northen MI were I hunt they have killed almost all the deer, but what has happen the habit can support the deer herd now. Guess what we are seeing bigger bucks and does. I shot nothing but does for about 4 years on my land. I shot about 6 a year, WHY for the health of the herd.
Yes, I loved to hunt now and see big deer, it is one of the benefits of QDM, along with many other things. I still have neighbors who do not buy into, one of them they shot 5 1 1/2 bucks last year. Which mean I will try and shoot 4 doe's.
I think Penn has an antler restriction in place, can anybody from Penn chime in and tell us how it is going?
ghemry,
Like I posted originally, I give you the benefit of the doubt and still do.
Thank you QDM Guru
This is how I view QDM today.
QDM is put in place for two reason health of the herd(habitat) and antler growth.
If we have healthy herd and bigger bucks I think more people would hunt. My dad is great example, could careless about shooting a big deer, he just likes to see them. Which is why we put QDM in place.