Champlain Islander wrote:
In my opinion you want the dominant bucks to do all the breeding.
Then why are you for a system of management that says its fine to shoot the mature bucks you want to do all the breeding but protects the young bucks that you dont' want to breed. Dead animals don't breed!
Don't forget an 18 month old buck passes on the same genes at 18 months as he does at 5 1/2 years. It's a fallacy to say that young bucks don't pass on good genes. over 60 years of an expanding healthy whitetail heard attest to it.
I'm for QDM aspects relating to nutrition, I'm agains QDM for the purpose of managing for more mature bucks. Let's call it what it is and thats trophy management.