Originally Posted by
J Pike
glew no offense but Charlie A is not a biologist but just a photographer of fenced in deer. And after he tried to peddle his bogus moon theory about the timing of the rut I dont believe anything he writes or claims. I will be more than happy to read any article or study you provide by a biologist or expert on Whitetails etc. but not anything written by a guy that his only studies of the whitetail deer has taken place in his couple acre fenced in pen located in NY. Pike
Touche, esp. concerning the moon theory. I still think there's some merit in what he's saying. Let's face it, when it comes to reasearch, the only way to do it is captivity; otherwise, there's no way to isolate variables. In his defense, he did seek out several other opinions when writing the article.
I still think this was productive all in all. I should have not restricted the conversation to breeding stress. I think more would have been accomplished if stress in general was the main premise of the conversation.