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Re: Even the QDMA is realizing.......
[Re: droptines]
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01/25/14 06:43 PM
01/25/14 06:43 PM
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I guess it all depends on what your goals are. If you simply want to see a lot of deer and don't really care about the quality, then your opinion of deer hunting in the future may be that the overall experience is worse than what it is now. If you are more interested in increasing your chances of killing a mature deer, the idea of keeping populations of deer within the carrying capacity of the habitat they live on should excite you and be a priority on the property that you hunt. The funny thing here is that we killed more mature bucks every year on our land until the biologists came in with the yall got shoot x amount of does every year. Our buck harvest declined every year afterwards until we convinced our landowner that it was not in his best interest to keep having us follow the biologist advice to the letter. Just curious, what method did the biologist use to determine the number of does that needed to be killed on your property? That was my question too as I noticed the quality of hunting was going in the wrong direction. So I made sure to meet him on the property for his annual visit. After riding around the club for awhile without ever getting out of the truck he pointed out the excellent habitat we had and a few other things. Then we went to each lunch and he recommended shooting another twenty does that year. After voicing my concerns I asked him how he came up with that number and his reply was that was the average for the area and properties with the same habitat. Just for informational purposes my family has hunted this land for 45 years now.
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