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There’s actually a really good case someone could make here for why we should continue a restocking program of does around the state in low density areas or even moderately populated areas….…Its really no different than nature throwing off “mutations” to see if something is a better fit moving forward………We could pull does from within the state if that made it better for folks…..….You have the question here of……”Are November rutting deer a better fit for this area or that area?”………Take Bankhead for example……there were stockings of several strains of deer in that one spot yet today we predominately only see the rutting activity from the Nov deer in that area……That means those other doe lines died out for some reason……Maybe it was just chance…..……or maybe the northern does had a much higher initial fawn survival rates…..maybe the vegetation earlier in the summer is much better suited for fawn than late summer…... Same thing in the northwest corner of the state……I you look you see a release of Nov rutters and late Jan rutters released in the same spot……Yet today if I’m not mistaken that’s where you see 257 having the November rut……That means those Jan ones died out and the Wisconsin releases were the doe lines that established…..Maybe it was just chance or maybe natural selection chose for the Nov rut…..