Or you could cut down on members and pay more per member. The largest problem is everyone wants to keep doing what they want to do and make everyone else comply.if you need 5 deer to feed your family for a year shoot em. If you need 10 member to pay for your lease get them. But don't complain your not seeing any deer..and your solution be state who you've already said can't manage deer should make everyone else do what you want to do to manage deer.
I want to cut my members, but that still doesn't solve the problem. My lease for example, just to use round numbers is 1/3rd pine thickets, which are unhuntable. It's 1/3rd pines that need to be cut/thinned, with nothing growing under them, so its useless to hunt, no reason for a deer to be there, except to travel to a better place. The other 1/3rd is huntable, and thats where the food plots are, and guess what? All the huting pressure. So I basically have half a square mile of huntable property, and the density in Shelby Co is 30 to 60 deer per sq mile. If half are doe's and half are bucks, that means I have about 7.5 to 15 doe's that the guys can hunt and shoot. If we shoot 5, that leaves us 3 basically to repopulate on the low side and 10 on the high. Half the fawns will be bucks.
You don't have to be a math whiz to figure out that is not a recipe for increasing your deer herd when you have a daily doe limit and 3 buck per season limit. It won't work. So say my lease is 12000. 10 guys are paying 1200 just for the lease. That doesn't cover seed and fertilizer. So I am gonna ask for 1400 a year and tell them, hey you can't kill a doe????
Who will sign up and write me a check? I will put you on the list for the 2022-23 season.
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