Holy crap!!! What happened to my thread!

Ok, Ijust "skimmed" through them all. Let me get one thing straight. When I'm talking about "managing herds" I could care less about the size of the bucks. In fact I would rather there NOT be an abundance of bigger bucks running around. I don't want to skew that number at all. I like to hunt an area that mother nature decided how big that buck got, not me.

I was just questioning why I felt the need to try and kill extra deer each and every year when I don't think (just my opinion) it hasmade an ounce of difference in the herd I hunt.

As an example, I've been walking through the Forest Preserves here in Illinois (no hunting allowed) for years and have made notice of the deer populations, no I didn't count them but anyone with half a brain can see a field full of deer and if that field has gotten more populated or less over the years....I've seen absolutely no discernibledifference in the numbers in 20 years....and nobody has hunted these deer and no agency and stepped in to control them (as far as I know..and I've inquired multiple times over the years) so I can only deduct that they have been on their own with only natural selection (whatever that may be) to control the numbers...


So what's my shooting 3-5 extra does a year in my smaller tract of land actually accomplishing? Besides me having fun doing it.

This is why I started this thread, great info here folks, keep it coming.