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ORIGINAL: bowtruck

it may be you not topic:)

Please provide a translation in the form of a complete sentence. Have you ever tried the preview feature?

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As far as crop damage goes . farmers are going to blast them no matter what age they are.

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most farmers dont do that

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While that is true , the more 1.5 bucks that are saved, the more 2.5 bucks will be killed for crop damage. It is simply a matter of statistics and the law of averages.

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ORIGINAL: bluebird2

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ORIGINAL: pats102862

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ORIGINAL: bluebird2

there is no denying the fact that the more buck that are carried over the more will be lost to non-hunting mortality.

I think I see the point you are trying to make. You let a buck go to next year. There are more mature bucks who think they have the right to breed. The more maturebucks out looking for x amount ofdoes the better chance of them getting spladdered on the highway.

You got that right. Then add the number that are poached, those that are killed due to crop damage and other forms of non-hunting mortality and you end up with a lot less legal buck to be harvested.

Even though some deer of all age classes are subject to non-hunting mortality the buck mortality studies prove once a buck makes it through their first hunting season their non-season mortality is greatly reduced.

The bucks that are being killed by non-hunting mortality are those younger bucks out there before their first hunting season with antlers on their head. If they make it through that hunting season their likelihood of making it the next hunting season is pretty good.

To see the study go to this link.

http://www.pgc.state.pa.us/pgc/lib/pgc/reports/2006_wildlife/21009-05.pdf

R.S. Bodenhorn

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If they make it through that hunting season their likelihood of making it the next hunting season is pretty good.

With 18% non-hunting mortality , the vast majority of 1.5 bucks saved by ARs will survive. but that does not negate the fact that 18% won' survive and that 18% is what reduces the sustainable buck harvest,

BTW, statewide breeding rates declined despite of Ars and HR and you haven't provided a single fact to refute that.

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BTW, statewide breeding rates declined despite of Ars and HR and you haven't provided a single fact to refute that.

You sound like Morrie on Goodfellas.

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You sound like you don't have a clue about deer management.

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Remember what Tommy (Joe Pesci) said to Morrie right after he slid the ice pick into his brainstem?

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Watch the scene for the answer..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elrIcMX3yNI