Originally Posted By: Hogwild
Bucktrot,

I believe that you are a responsible, and well-meaning person.

But, your statement:

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I gave up on you a long time ago, 49er. You're a consumer of wildlife and can't figure out these two words.... Limited Resource. You're the reason why we have game laws.


Is WAAYYYY off base!!!!!

The 'Limited Resource' that YOU are talking about is trophy bucks.....not deer.

The concept of QDM REDUCES the deer herd, i.e. 'consumes' it, so that the animals left become 'larger'. The more you kill, the more limited the resources.

You, along with many other well-meaning people, are spending way too much time worrying about the BUCK segment only of the population. And I honestly don't even think you realize it!!!



you nailed it, however the debate many have is carrying capacity and what that exactly entails , that too is a variable

hunters seem to think as everything being finite, it's not, nature is very fluid

Years of a plentiful deer food sources, the year following will produce more deer then predators the following year, nature cycles.

In WI the Grouse cycle on a 8 yr population boom, birds tend to be in the 8 year range, not sure about deer but I'd guess very similar cycles for whatever reason.

Waterloo's deer population is on the lower side of things right now, EHD breakouts have come more frequent of recent plus fetal census combined with poor crop production over the last few years has knocked them back.

No sweat though, deer rebound rather quickly and that process also for some reason produces bigger bucks, another bonus. Healthy deer and bigger bucks.

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