boilermaker...being a PA hunter also for 15 some years, i think that Gary Alt must have drank some of this Kool Aid

Magic...QDM = Quality Deer Management

The key to this string is the following, which another individual brought up...it is the hope that we harvest bucks at the "end of the line" and they have bred for a number of years...however, you all know as well as i do, that even the spikers, nub bucks, and the like get in on a bit of the breeding too.

One thing I have often wondered, is the effects of in-breeding within deer populations, especially in subarban settings, how does that affect the genetics of herds? you always seem to see a monster non-typical taken in a housing development, is this the result of the deer getting old and gnarly, or being on the shallow end of the gene pool?