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Re: Even the QDMA is realizing.......
[Re: mike35549]
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01/25/14 06:54 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. It is amazing how hard it is for people to understand that if you kill more does than are being recruited into the herd each year that in three or four years the number of mature bucks being killed has no choice but to decline. It truely is....I totally understand the idea of keeping the population at whatever the habitat can hold, but I think what is missing is the fact that each property is different. Yet more than not there is just a blanket recomendation for a doe harvest based on some average for the region.
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