Originally Posted by Pwyse

So biologists in other states that believe a 1:1 ratio is better than 2:1 or 4:1 or whatever. Why do they say the same thing? Is it also to generate tax money for the state they are in? Or is it a different reason?


I haven't seen him say a close ratio isn't great. It's just you get there in 1 of 2 ways.
Option 1: kill does until you only have as many left as you do bucks for your objective ratio.
Option 2: quit killing deer (especially bucks) until you have a bunch of bucks living to close gap on ratio.


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