Originally Posted by HappyHunter
The reality is most people don’t have enough property to manage the deer population. You can only influence if they want to be on your property or not. 2000 is not nearly enough property to manage the deer population. Unless of course you are high fence.

Quit worrying about what everyone else is doing and do what you can. If they want to shoot every doe and it is legal then ok. If a farmer has a depredation permit to help off his losses then good for him.


Where I live and hunt most of the time is 80 acres surrounded by 1 major farming operation which used to be a club and a lot of smaller tracts like mine. Almost exactly what CNC is talking about. We also have a local farmer who is wearing them out in the off season with his permits. And we still have more deer than I've seen in the 32 years I've lived here. Things are waaayyyy better than they've ever been where I'm at.