Originally Posted By: longbow76
Originally Posted By: aldoghunter

If these deer come from Alabama that are being released, that should show anybody that this project will not work.If they could not grow TROPHY antlers in the wild but they can in a fence,why do they think they can be turned loose and now they are going to improve the deer herd!?!? I ain't the smartest fellow around,but it don't take a genetic's phd to see this.I'm just a dumb ole doghunter.


Because they are not the same bloodlines. The breeder buck was the child of an Alabama doe that was inseminated with semen from a huge buck from somewhere else. In other words, his daddy wasn't from Alabama, but his mama was. You can import semen, just not live animals.


so was the "daddy" "huge" just b/c he came from a state with a different name or was he huge because the land he came from had very fertile soil and row crops (mid west), was he huge b/c he was bottle fed, fed protein pellets every day and pampered like a pet bull or was he "huge" b/c of his genetics, or was he "huge b/c of all of the above?

Have you considered that you could probably take 100 bucks fawns from Alabama and release them in the midwest and they would score 10-20" more than if they had stayed in Al.? Nutrition (soil) and age is the missing link, not genetics. What research has big buck project done to prove that the genetics aren't here for "trophy bucks" in Alabama?