What occured to me was that harvesting the mature doe with a button at it's side will most likely ensure he stays around right??.............But if you reduce the number of mature does too much your land will not be very attractive to those wandering bucks looking for a place to set up shop.

This article brings up more then one catch 22.


How about when we hear so much about genetics in the "herd". This article shows those genetics will be spread up to 36 miles away............and it's thought that the primary goal of the does pushing the bucks away is to AVOID in breeding. None of that goes along with current views on letting those big bucks breed with as many does as possible to pass on his genes..........then harvest him when he has planted enough seeds.

I have heard so many times that in order to see bigger and better bucks it's simple.........all you do is not shoot the young ones.

Guess not.




Wow.