Originally Posted By: teamduckdown
Originally Posted By: AU_trout_bum
I may be missing something, but what is the likelihood that a young buck actually remains on your land? Aren't they pushed out to find their own home territories? So by letting them walk, you are helping your neighbors. Of course this depends on the size of your land.

For the record, I don't shoot young bucks, just trying to understand the thought process.


This is the most ignorant reasoning I've ever heard.

If you shoot the deer, he has zero % chance of staying on your property. Who's to say this young buck hasnt already made his migration and has set up his home range on your property?

Just think of it like this. If you and your neighbors all take the "I'm going to shoot every spike I see because he is just going to move onto my neighor's property anyway.", approach,you are then all killing off the young bucks, and here by deminishing your future stock.


Calm down Francis, I don't do it, just mentioning something I read. I think we are thinking the same way, there is no way to know whether the young buck is a resident or a soon-to-be explorer, so all the more reason to let them walk.

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