mike,
Myth 2: QDM Requires Killing Numerous Does
Many QDM pioneers have been quoted as saying, �Shoot every doe you can, and then shoot three more.� Such statements were generally true when spoken, but times and situations change, and as managers we need to adapt to current conditions.
Why do people feel like they need the QDMA to tell them what the right thing to do is?
I knew their teaching was screwed up when they were telling everybody to �Shoot every doe you can, and then shoot three more� at the same time the state was having to restock deer on 44,000 acres in the area where I had hunted all my life after it was leased from US Steel for a public hunting area. They hadn't hunted there. I had.
Now they want to try to change what they taught people to do? How do you know that what they are teaching you now will still be called the "right" way to do it within the next few years?
If they don't know what your current conditions are, how can they teach you the "right" way to mange your property?
They can't without doing it in very general terms that are as flexible as your "current conditions" are.
