Doubled 150,

I think your doing the right thing. Alot of ranches and outfitters do the same thing. They let clients or themselves trophy hunt deer and at the end of the year or at the end of the hunt for clients let them take cull buck or bucks with bad genes out of the heard. It allows you to get some meat in the freezer and there is no doubt that you are giving yourself a better chance of having better deer around if you are doing this year after year. Bucks can travel 20 miles away during the rut, but will they if they don't have to NO! If there are does around they will not leave and if there are less bucks to bread them they expecially will not leave. Most of thetrophies in our area that we have taken, we have watched them for a couple of years, that means that they are breeding does in the area for a couple of years and spreading there genes.Depending on the ratio of bucks to does in your area those big guys that you are letting walk can spread there genes in a hury. So there is no doubt that you can change the heard in your area.

We have done this in our area and in 5 years we have seen a dramatic change.....but our nieghboring farms and the hunters on them are also doing the same thing. We've never seen so many trophies before. Sudies only do so much in this gene talk, it all depends on what kind of area you are doing the study in, is it a controlled area, free ranging conrolled area, are the nieghboring farms or leases doing the same thing, how big ofan area is the study being done in. So I wouldn't refer to studies that have been done on this subject. If you area is a controlled area and everyone that is hunting on it is doing the same thing, it can only help grow bigger deer plain and simple.