Originally Posted by
lukec19834
HI, my name is Luke and I'am try to figure out our hunting situation. We have about 9 land owners consisting of 1700 acres, approximately 12 hunters during the bow season and 5 of them are QDM. but we are starting to see a large doe population and the ruts have been real lazy non aggressive over the past couple years. obviously we need to shoot does but my question is once we get the does down will we be over hunting the neighborhood ? and we alway seem to see and get pics of the 2 1/2 , 3 1/2 deer no mature bucks
that kind of acreage could sustain over 30 hunters (1 hunter per 50acres), you are seeing deer overpopulation imo. like a pond that is never fished the bass will all be young and small. I would get some more responsible hunters who can follow a good deer management system