Let 'em go and let 'em grow!!!!!!!!!!!
08-19-2007, 03:08 PM
#23
Site Buck Guru
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Racine, Wisconsin
Posts: 5,922
RE: Let 'em go and let 'em grow!!!!!!!!!!!
ORIGINAL: wolfen68
With the season quickly approaching it is now the appropriate time to spread the message once again...it's time to come out of the cave, step into the light, mature as hunters, do the right thing, and let 'em go and let 'em grow.
With the season quickly approaching it is now the appropriate time to spread the message once again...it's time to come out of the cave, step into the light, mature as hunters, do the right thing, and let 'em go and let 'em grow.
08-19-2007, 03:10 PM
#24
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Michigan/Ohio
Posts: 11,682
RE: Let 'em go and let 'em grow!!!!!!!!!!!
ORIGINAL: Charlie P
it just happens to be a very small ladle.
thought things in the pot were getting a little stale so I brought my ladle.
08-19-2007, 03:20 PM
#26
Fork Horn
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Illinois
Posts: 251
RE: Let 'em go and let 'em grow!!!!!!!!!!!
WhenI first started bowhunting,I shot anything that moved to gain confidence.Five yearsago, I bought my own 135 acres in IL. I shot one doeafter 3 years, just to see if I could still do it. I wanted quality, not quanity. I planted several food plots. I let deer go everytime I hunted. I did a lot of filming. Last year I arrowed two bucks both over 200 lbs. dressed. First one was 18" inside spread8 pointer. The second one was 11 pointer with 23-1/4" inside spread with a 7" drop tine. Both made P&Y.I think you can shoot whatever makes you happy and is legal.I will continueto practice QDM. I want the big ones or nothing at all.
08-19-2007, 03:21 PM
#27
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Lake County, Il
Posts: 2,205
RE: Let 'em go and let 'em grow!!!!!!!!!!!
Personally I'm going to try to hold out for at least a six point. There's so many deer there it's sick. Does are going to be all fair game. QDM should be changed to QAM (quality antler management)
08-19-2007, 03:22 PM
#28
Site Buck Guru
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Racine, Wisconsin
Posts: 5,922
RE: Let 'em go and let 'em grow!!!!!!!!!!!
ORIGINAL: Bowhunter2001
WhenI first started bowhunting,I shot anything that moved to gain confidence.Five yearsago, I bought my own 135 acres in IL. I shot one doeafter 3 years, just to see if I could still do it. I wanted quality, not quanity. I planted several food plots. I let deer go everytime I hunted. I did a lot of filming. Last year I arrowed two bucks both over 200 lbs. dressed. First one was 18" inside spread8 pointer. The second one was 11 pointer with 23-1/4" inside spread with a 7" drop tine. Both made P&Y.I think you can shoot whatever makes you happy and is legal.I will continueto practice QDM. I want the big ones or nothing at all.
WhenI first started bowhunting,I shot anything that moved to gain confidence.Five yearsago, I bought my own 135 acres in IL. I shot one doeafter 3 years, just to see if I could still do it. I wanted quality, not quanity. I planted several food plots. I let deer go everytime I hunted. I did a lot of filming. Last year I arrowed two bucks both over 200 lbs. dressed. First one was 18" inside spread8 pointer. The second one was 11 pointer with 23-1/4" inside spread with a 7" drop tine. Both made P&Y.I think you can shoot whatever makes you happy and is legal.I will continueto practice QDM. I want the big ones or nothing at all.
Good job.
08-19-2007, 03:43 PM
#29
Join Date: May 2006
Location:
Posts: 104
RE: Let 'em go and let 'em grow!!!!!!!!!!!
QDM is a whole program of harvest goals, not just letting young bucks walkandonly shooting old bucks. Yes that is part of it, but you also need to harvest a decent number of does every year to balance your buck to doe ratio. If you do this i guarantee you will se a more action packed, fast paced, and more defined rut. If you have to many does the bucks dont have to fight and cruise to find does. The whole herd benifits from qdm, while antlersize may be the most talked about by product of qdm, it is not the only one.
If you hunt for meat, why not take a few doe, instead of a small buck? You will still get you meat, and you will also help your deer herd. QDM is a pratice that consists of many different things to achive overall deer herd health.
If you hunt for meat, why not take a few doe, instead of a small buck? You will still get you meat, and you will also help your deer herd. QDM is a pratice that consists of many different things to achive overall deer herd health.
08-19-2007, 03:47 PM
#30
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Posts: 1,238
RE: Let 'em go and let 'em grow!!!!!!!!!!!
Ah, from the feel good generation I take it. If it feels good it must be ok. What makes you happy is not what is best for the deer that you hunt that makes you happy in the first place. It's a vicious circle. The real reason most guys can't let 'em go and let 'em grow is because they look like that guy in your pic under your name
with a very warm sensation flowing down their inner thigh and a nice warm loaf in their camo tighty whities when daddy rabbit approaches. It's too much to bear.
with a very warm sensation flowing down their inner thigh and a nice warm loaf in their camo tighty whities when daddy rabbit approaches. It's too much to bear.