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Old 12-01-2015, 03:13 AM
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alleyyooper
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As a Owner of a UP deer camp I have some not so nice comments about Michigan's DNR and the lies they seem to keep spreading.
I also felt 4 to 6 deer per square mile was about average in the 1990's and up to about 2005.
Figure less deer per square mile means less bucks so that translates into less buck rubs just on that fact. Never mind there sign posting their range, most of the rubs are just a matter of an instinct I feel.

Magazine says!!! How in the world would they know even the DNR has no clue either and have a caned response when asked about the population.

Just look at the wolf comments the DNR makes.
I understand it takes 20 deer a year to feed one wolf. The DNR says there are 600 some odd wolves on the U.P. They've been saying that for five years. I believe the actual number is closer to double that. Lets say, for the sake of argument and simplicity, there are a thousand wolves. That's 20,000 deer a year out of the gene pool.

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