Aldeer.com Forums Alabama Deer Talk Serious Deer Talk Forum Cull no Cull, not this again, shut the freak up

I’m just speaking about the overall idea really of how a deer herd responds to having some balance. How having decent buck to doe ratios helps take some stress off the younger deer and prevents all the bucks from having to go through the rigors associated with a rut that’s really drawn out. Also how they were just trying to show how the deer herd responds to being in balance with the habitat….things like having twins, heavier body weights, etc…..The one area where I think they failed in this regard…. and maybe this is just my personal opinion about things…..but its how they didn’t explain that your herd doesn’t have to throw off twins for every doe or meet a certain body weight criteria. If I want to have a higher deer population and body weights are lower as a result then that’s fine too up to a point. They should have taught it as a gauge of determining which direction you’re headed and how to tweak things when needed so that you never reach critical levels in either direction…..To me it all came out as something that was black and white and like there’s a certain utopian place to manage that we should all seek to reach. There’s not. There’s a lot of clubs and properties out there that had the potential of actually holding more deer that whacked a bunch of does just because they perceived doe management as a part of every situation. Hell, at this point we could make a real good argument that there are very few situations where anyone HAS to shoot does period. You just need to have an understanding of the whole picture and not look to a one size fits all approach. I think they meant to help with that understanding but instead everyone perceived needing to do it one certain way.