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Old 01-11-2008 | 10:16 AM
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Default RE: Managing Herds......
ORIGINAL: atlasman

ORIGINAL: Germ

If the habitat can support 500,000 deer than one is not more healthier than the other.

Exactly................yet that is all I ever hear guys telling me......."shoot more does and let the bucks walk"

Why do guys cry when a BB or spikegets shot but don't care when their mom gets killed??.......the young buck is only one.........the doe could possibly bring 6more bucks into your area in the next 4 years.

Can't have bucks without does to give birth to them.

Unless your population is so out of whack that the land is at abreaking point (VERY rare) I see no need to target does specifically and see it as counter productive for hunting management.

When the ratio is out of whack, bucks overly exert themselves trying to breed all the does out there. In doing so, they weaken themselves more than nature accounted for, and thus take longer to recover thru the winter, and less energy goes into antler & body growth. Also, an unbalanced herd(one made nearly entirely of young bucks) brings more young bucks into the breeding arena and causes the above mentioned stress issues. Their energy isn’t going into growing and developing, its going to breeding and recovering.

Any thoughts to this explaination that I've posted?

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