People that think they know how to manage a deer herd and the only part they hear is shoot all the does is what is bad. Right when they opened up the doe season club next to us killed 250 does in one season. Took 20 years to recover. It is still not back to what it was.
I’ll contend you will do more damage to the overall herd health by having too many versus a so-called not enough does. Stressed out bucks without a diversified age class within the bucks is not good. Those clubs I mention prove it.
I’m not discounting small parcels of land acting like large parcels and it’s why QDMA advocated and promoted landowners working together in cooperatives to achieve like goals. Why that’s never spoken about is because folks need a whipping post to take it out on. That’s being truthful
It’s funny thing. I’ve seen guys jumping up and down about doe harvest and saying it hurt the herd and then watching same landowner having abundance of does coming off their property onto to yours. That’s why hunter sighting are ranked pretty low in actual management decisions. Also why I mentioned that large club that does actual gridded camera surveys not some random crap of camera’s interspersed. They’ve done this for 20 plus years, same grid pattern and timing and their data does not line up with hunter sightings. Somewhat kinda similar but still way different and leads to a different outcome
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