Most of us interested in this thread knows that, but a lot of surrounding warriors don’t.

So many? Why would you assume we kill “so many”?

Reduced does = less bucks. Period.

Reduced does will only make buck antlers bigger if those bucks are suffering from malnutrition due to an overpopulated herd.

If your herd is not overpopulated, I would want as many bucks born on the property as possible and let as many grow to maturity as possible.

A lot of people who think they have too many does compared to bucks are basing that only on food plot and feeder observations. Bucks, especially mature bucks, don't use food plots and feeders in the same way. That's like going to a shopping mall or Taylor Swift concert to determine if humans have a balanced male/female ratio. Your does are in food plots at 4:45 PM. The larger bucks are in swamps, deep ridges and hollows, and wherever you are not.

Sometimes when I'm doing something I thought was a good idea, it turns out to be a major hassle. Further thought while in the midst of it always lands upon whatever it was having been a stupid idea to begin with. The trouble with trophy management is it's a stupid idea people just won't give up on.

It’s not stupid where it works.

It’s stupid to keep trying it where it’s impossible.

Irrespective of population, this isn’t true most of the time at the individual property level. Yearling buck dispersal studies would say that I’m exporting early born buck fawns from soybean fed healthy does on my property and importing poorer buck fawns from pine needle fed skinny does from the industrial timber company lease 8 miles away. I wish it was as you state believe me.

Yep. Unless you’re controlling tens of thousands of acres, the bucks born on you are not the standing crop of bucks you're hunting each year.

The same number that have balls.

Winner ^^^. This guy took the LSAT

Unless they are buck fawns. Then they need to have horns soon.

They really need antlers. 🤦🏼‍♂️😝

Matt you know I’m from down here in the Deep South. They are horns to us rednecks.

Still no.

Shush. You can’t even spell turkeys right.

This is like telling a guy that his wife is fat. He knows it, just doesn’t want to admit it out loud.