ORIGINAL: NY Hunter
So let's see...just thinking out loud.
I have the state control my county with AR.
I have my neighbors control the adjacent property with QDM.
I plant food plots on my 250 acres and pass small bucks for 3-4 years.
Then I start collecting a box or wall full of 135 class bucks.
Boy,that will impress the boys at the check station the next 10 years.
You're still the same caliber hunter you were when you started,you just made the average available deer bigger. The woods are no longer natural,you have created a deer farm.
At least you could sell a hunt or make a video if you wanted to...
I come from the old school of hunting that you take what's available in the area or region where you can hunt. If you take a 135 class deer every year in an area where there's only one every 5 square miles ...now you're a special hunter.
Exactly! And a one to one ratio makes it much easier to tag a buck and not just because there are more but because they become more competitive and careless. Some hunting. From what I cab see the nation has done a very good job of QDM over the past 75 yrs.
Here is another reason I am for leaving things go naturaly. Sorry to bring this up, NY hunter.
New Case of Wasting Disease in N.Y. Deer
And for the guy asking questions not one of them had to do with history. Maybe I should come up with my own list. QM is not a new concept and has been used in many area's from people to plants through out time. Atomic energy is QM. Chemicals are QM. Atibiotics are QM. The woman who just died was a product of QM. None of which I want to resemble hunting.
And as far as saying these things always lead to arguments in order to be little people who dare argue the point. I'm not iimpressed by that or your atempt to size people up.