RE: QDMA What don't you like
I guess everyone missed what I said before, so I'll say it again.
Hunters don't practice QDM. We are the tools by which biologists practice it.
It is foolish and egomaniacal to think that we as individuals can have a profound effect on deers' populations. That is why state mandated programs are necessar, and groups like QDMA are formed. So that we can pool our resoursce and work together. The antler management is the payoff for the work. Plus hunters are only one tool that is used. There are timber companies, field burnoffs, cooperative farming efforts, browse analysis, soil fertility studies, and on and on. All of these things are part of QDM.
We as hunters only see a very small part of this picture and only look at how it affects us. There is nothing wrong with that, but be aware that while shooting does is doing your part, there is much more to it than that.
Bwanajim, I thought you lived in NC???