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I never siad I wasn't seeing deer. I said for those who are not, they "may" have a legit bitch. As for this VOID, someof the so called top biologists said it did happen. They said all the young deer will disperse. The young males further than the females. How long a void, none of them specified! All I know about the deer I hunt is what they eat, their bedding area's and the best spot to place my stand to kill them. That's all I need to know. I just quoted what these men said that study deer for a living. The variables that play into deer collisions. What I should have also said, should they all count towards the number of deer we harvest? And for qaulity deer management as to when it started. Why does it need to be A STATE program to be reconized? I scanned a section from the book History of the Whitetail Deer, by: Leonard LaRue III.
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CAN QDM WORK DOWN ON THE FARM?
Text and Photos by Leonard LaRue III
Fall 1969 was a pivotal time in my career as an outdoor writer. I traveled north to Quebec's Anticosti Island and south to Texas' famous brush country to hunt whitetails. Although the Anticosti hunt was excellent, it was the Texas trip that truly had a lasting impact on me.
Anticosti offered a beautiful setting and an abundant deer herd. Unfortunately, my expectations about the bucks' antlers exceeded reality. Few hunters who travel to this fabled island are selective about antler size. In addition, the island has an extended season and a liberal two-deer either sex limit, which means the typical hunter harvests two bucks. Consequently, Anticosti is not a haven for trophy whitetails. Though the hunting can be excellent no reputable outfitter will promise that you'll get the chance to hunt a mature racked buck.
Texas, on the other hand, was unlike anything I had seen before. The geography was much different from the heavily forested, picturesque Anticosti, but it was just as beautiful in its own way.
What especially struck me about Texas was the emphasis placed on deer management. I was fortunate to photograph and hunt on two of the state's better ranches, and the size of the whitetails was incredible. The philosophy on both ranches was to produce the highest quality deer herd possible, both in numbers and antler quality.
The Dean of Whitetails
While in Texas, I had the pleasure of spending time with Al Brothers, who many consider the father of quality deer management. During our time together, Brothers explained the benefits of quality habitat, a quality deer herd, and quality antlers. Needless to say, I received quite an education. On the plane trip home, my mind raced with all I had seen and heard.
After returning to New York, Brothers called me to ask what I thought of everything I had seen in Texas. It wasn't the last time I heard from him.
Home and Reality
After spending most of my life in western New York State, the Texas approach to deer management was quite an eye-opener. Although I had dreamed for years of a time when quality-racked bucks would be common in my home region, such thoughts seemed a bit far-fetched. The predominant hunting philosophy in the Northeast has always been to shoot any legal buck. Consequently, eighty to ninety percent of the bucks harvested during New York's annual deer season are just one and a half years old.