ORIGINAL: sproulman
bluebird,so in your info, do you feel problem is we are shooting the older doe and thats why we dont have many fawns .
what is your opinion on this and try to be real simple for me, i have hard time understanding this info,just make it SIMPLE,to point listing WHY.
THANKS
The simple answer is yes, we shot too many adult doe. But in 2G the answer is even more straight forward, they simply shot too many deer,period.
Maybe this will be a little easier to understand. With a deer density of 8-10 in 2G , the over wintering deer PSM ,the sustainable harvest is less than 3 DPSM. That means the PGC expects those deer to only produce 3 fawns that live to the fall hunting season. So ,if you owned 320 acres of woods you should expect to see only 1 or 2 fawns/year. then when you have so few doe producing fawns the effects of predation by yotes and bears is much greater that if there were a lot of does producing fawns.