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We'd have so damned many they would eat us out of house and home.
Gary.....we have the liberal limits we have....because we HAVE TO. We HAVE to kill deer, here....or they'd overrun us.
If we had Iowa's population.....we'd have bigger deer. It stands to reason that 500,000 deer can grow bigger than 1,000,000 if they're competing for the exact same food sources.
But look at FL. What's their deer population? Are you saying if FL implemented Iowa regs they'd have deer as big as Iowa?
NO
I am saying FL would have more bigger deer for Florida
Most state like MI, NY, PA, NC and most southern states don't know what thier Top end potential is for whitetail bucks. Mainly because they kill them all, there deer are over populated and not getting proper n
utrition either.
Kroll wrote a great article on herd size. All deer all have fat, even ones that are not getting as much food as others. The fat content is the same. But the deer with less food source have smaller bones and organs. His point was we can not judge deer health by the fat content. They will rob other systems to store fat. Like Greg said Kroll is the guy, Ozunga is not to shaby either
Iowa has GREAT I mean GREAT doe management. If NC followed Iowa's plan you would not be over run with deer
You would have had to follow it since the 70's. States with smaller deer have more to do with deer mangement than location IMO.
NC would have more top end NC bucks if manage properly. Jeff it's not fault of you or NC hunters.
I would say 120'' buck in NC is same age as 160'' buck in Iowa on Average. I would put them in the same class. Top end bucks for their states.
I look at 120'' buck from NC no different than a 160'' buck from Iowa
I look at 130'' buck form NY no differnet than a 160'' buck from Iowa
The Hunter is the same class to me, they put the Top End bucks down in there location.
Your problem Jeff isyou don't know what that is, but if you keep up what you are doing, you will