Rifle season 2008 is history
#151
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Apr 2008
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RE: Rifle season 2008 is history
Three spikes that aren't legal are the equivalent of 3 fawns that are so small they aren't worth skinning.. One may die from non-hunting mortality,one may not be AR legall as a 2.5 buck and one may be a legal 2.5 buck. So what?
#152
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RE: Rifle season 2008 is history
Funny how you only quoted one line from the post. You have no answer to the rest of the post because it was accurate and you can't dispute it. No scientific evidence exists that herd health or breeding rates have changed either way since AR/HR.
No need for further sidestepping. The question has been blatantly answered. Thank you.
#153
RE: Rifle season 2008 is history
ORIGINAL: FiveMiler
Fact of the matter is, you can't/won't accept the statistics and data provided by the PGC that BB2 presented. They are right there in front of your nose, but you are to busy judging herd health by the biggerantlersthat you think you see! That is the answer right there. Plain and simple.
Funny how you only quoted one line from the post. You have no answer to the rest of the post because it was accurate and you can't dispute it. No scientific evidence exists that herd health or breeding rates have changed either way since AR/HR.
The claim that breding rates are declining is silly enough, but the claim that herd health is declining is simply a bold face lie. No scientific or anecdotal evidence of that exists whatsoever.
It aint so just because you and BB2 want it to be
#155
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RE: Rifle season 2008 is history
ORIGINAL: livbucks
So some are now proposing that a closer b/d ratio and less DPSM is a health risk for deer?
So some are now proposing that a closer b/d ratio and less DPSM is a health risk for deer?
The stats show that breeding rates and herd health have declined. That means, that does are not being bred in a shorter time frame as was anticipated, and doe health is falling along with embryo numbers. Is it due to closer B/D ratio or less DPSM? Is it?
#156
RE: Rifle season 2008 is history
ORIGINAL: FiveMiler
Interesting way of presenting your thoughts. I'm not sure you understand, so I guess I will try to put it in simpler terms.....
The stats show that breeding rates and herd health have declined. That means, that does are not being bred in a shorter time frame as was anticipated, and doe health is falling along with embryo numbers. Is it due to closer B/D ratio or less DPSM? Is it?
ORIGINAL: livbucks
So some are now proposing that a closer b/d ratio and less DPSM is a health risk for deer?
So some are now proposing that a closer b/d ratio and less DPSM is a health risk for deer?
The stats show that breeding rates and herd health have declined. That means, that does are not being bred in a shorter time frame as was anticipated, and doe health is falling along with embryo numbers. Is it due to closer B/D ratio or less DPSM? Is it?
Please show us where any wildlife professional concluded that doe health is "falling" or that the minor fluctuation in embryos per fawn is anything more than simply small annual variations.
#158
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RE: Rifle season 2008 is history
BTB, Pgc should have had SOME of theproof to support the plan by now and all the wild claims they made at the initiation of this program.
Its QUITE clear they DO NOT have the proof of improving reproduction as shouldve been the case after several years of the "plan" and many areas seeing very extreme reductions. Seeing at that is the case, Id hardly say the end we are experiencing justified the extreme "means".
The pgc annual report clearly shows that every single measure of deer reproductive data has DROPPED. Nearly steadily (not normal fluctuation) from the initial years of the program til now. That IS rediculous. Certainly not what one would expect. I expected very insignificant gains myself. We did not even accomplish that! A year here or there could be attributed to lack of mast, overly dry summer/fall, tough winter.... The data doesnt show that to be the case. Conditions through the years in question were far from severe and anyway, the period of time was several years not just one or two.
The embryos per doe dropped. The timing of the breeding window was unchanged. And the percentage of adult doe actually bred DECLINED.
I dont care the reason, and the point isnt to show that the "plan" actually "caused" the declines. But whatit does showit thatthere is NOTHING that supports continuing with the antideer agenda when there is no supporting data (science) that was supposed to support it. Such extreme measure imho are in no way justified and its time for change.
Its QUITE clear they DO NOT have the proof of improving reproduction as shouldve been the case after several years of the "plan" and many areas seeing very extreme reductions. Seeing at that is the case, Id hardly say the end we are experiencing justified the extreme "means".
The pgc annual report clearly shows that every single measure of deer reproductive data has DROPPED. Nearly steadily (not normal fluctuation) from the initial years of the program til now. That IS rediculous. Certainly not what one would expect. I expected very insignificant gains myself. We did not even accomplish that! A year here or there could be attributed to lack of mast, overly dry summer/fall, tough winter.... The data doesnt show that to be the case. Conditions through the years in question were far from severe and anyway, the period of time was several years not just one or two.
The embryos per doe dropped. The timing of the breeding window was unchanged. And the percentage of adult doe actually bred DECLINED.
I dont care the reason, and the point isnt to show that the "plan" actually "caused" the declines. But whatit does showit thatthere is NOTHING that supports continuing with the antideer agenda when there is no supporting data (science) that was supposed to support it. Such extreme measure imho are in no way justified and its time for change.
#160
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Apr 2008
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RE: Rifle season 2008 is history
ORIGINAL: livbucks
So some are now proposing that a closer b/d ratio and less DPSM is a health risk for deer?
So some are now proposing that a closer b/d ratio and less DPSM is a health risk for deer?