ORIGINAL: BigJ71
ORIGINAL: Lanse couche couche
Sounds like Granny is more interested in deer hunting than Quality Deer Farming.
Yep, sounds like Granny's got her priorities straight.
Pretty presumptuous of folks to "impose" their will on others when it's not their land to do so, or their deer for that matter! Maybe Granny will wise up and see the road that this is heading down and "give"
the land to the sister! That would be a hoot!
Incredible.....absolutely incredible, people's frame of mind these days, and for what???? So you can beat your chest and say "look at my big buck"?[:'(]
I've got an idea...why don't you go out and FINDthe mature deer that are already in the woods? Kill one that Mother Nature grew instead of one you did.
Rant over....[:@]
Rant On.... [&:]
I don't understand how you can call Quality Deer Managment "Farming" or that you are growing deer in a way other than the way Mother Nature would have.
Traditional deer hunting by traditional hunters has completely screwed up deer populations in most states dramatically where there are as many as 10 does per buck and the average age of the does is 4 years old and the average age of those few bucks is around 2 years old.
One of the main purposes of QDM is to actually attempt to get deer populations back in balance the way "Mother Nature" had it before traditional deer hunters screwed it up by shooting only bucks and not shooting any does. I guarantee that 200 years ago a wolf pack or mountain lion didn't try to figure out the rack size of a deer before it tried to catch and eat it. They sure didn't care whether it had horns or not. As a result the deer population was relatively balanced with about as many does as there were bucks with an age structure that was pretty similar as well.
I really struggle folks who say "I don't care about horns, I'm a meat hunter" and then proceed to pass up shooting a doe to shoot a 2 year old buck. I wouldn't have a problem if someone said they were a meat hunter and shot the first deer that they saw whether it was a buck or a doe, but in my experience they seem to have a dramatic preference to young bucks.
Oh well, I doubt anyone's mind is going to be changed on the subject.
Rant over...[:@]
As far as this subject, I pretty much agree with most of you. It's Granny's land and she can call the shots. You might try to talk with her about QDM and eventually she might change her mind, but for some people it is like beating your head against a brick wall.
My 2 cents.