Originally Posted By: bigt
I am no biologist but just from the numbers you gave I would say Dallas county was basically unchanged if you were to chart it out on an SPC chart but something was possibly causing a negative trend in Winston county. At which time I would use my resources to further investigate Winston county's deer herd and it's health instead of not knowing there may be a problem there until it was too late and would then have to take drastic measures to reverse..... with the data and a little more investigation I may find nothing or I may find I need to adjust something to stabilize or increase the deer population.


You realized that the deer herd Statewide was growing or stable until the highbrow QDMA management strategies were the management advantage, oops didn't mean to imply anything, management style became vogue. Now to listen to the noise no deer are being seen, renegades are slaughtering everything that is brown and now we need to change to the next highbrow management strategy du jour to correct the management plan that was instituted to solve the too many does and not enough giant magnormous elk antler pig bucks. So what will be next to solve the next problem that was created by the same government group that created the previous problem?? The circular stupidity of government feeds itself.

"After all, it is not the killing that brings satisfaction; it is the contest of skill and cunning. The true hunter counts his achievement in proportion to the effort involved and the fairness of the sport." Dr. Saxton Pope