just had to add this, don' t forget, when i said 100 acres wasn' t big enough to help, that was if a large enough adjacent area wasn' t being hunted. also, how can you argue with the math for the ratio? also, this just in from keith mccaffery, biologist from the wisconsin dnr, " It is virtually impossible to have a prehunt adult sex ratio greater
than 2:1, even under heavy buck exploitation, so long as you have decent
recruitment of young deer (one fawn/doe or better). High buck mortality
(>75%) and low recruitment (<25% yearling does) would indicate a sex ratio
greater than 3:1. " what i am getting at is this, if so many well respected biologists that i have been in contact with, who do this for a living, say that the ratio can' t be as bad as you described,brian, than how do you explain their numbers and results? what do they have to gain by lying?