Originally Posted By: Hogwild
And, I gotta add......doe harvest seems to favor trying to see who can kill the biggest does. That leaves the young ones. A yearling doe with no matriarch is NOT a good mother and her fawn survival rate will not equal what an older aged does would.


Gotta add to that also is the fact that over the course of her life a young doe will eat more food (resources) than an old doe and produce more offspring, which in turn consume resources, than an old doe. We were taught that if your goal is population reduction, which ours was for years, it is much better to shoot a young doe than an old doe.

Lord, please help us get our nation straightened out.