Aldeer.com Forums Alabama Deer Talk Serious Deer Talk Forum The Perception of Scale

Another way you could look at this is like playing chess……..The landscape is a sequence of squares and we need more squares on the board to start playing the game with a different strategy from what we’ve been doing over the last couple decades.

What we’ve had happening is that each and every square has been getting “prescribed” a “management plan” for what they need to shoot or at least that’s the way most hunters perceive it. What we need though, is for more squares to adopt the management philosophy of “not managing”…….NOT thinning does……NOT shooting culls, etc…….The do nothing approach to herd management……Now, that’s not to say that you shouldn’t have any fun or never shoot a deer…..but rather to recognize that every 500 acre square on the board doesn’t need to have the herd “managed” and at least for now there are plenty of other 10, 40, 80, 100 acre properties with corn piles doing their part……And…… it is highly likely to be in your favor from a strategic standpoint as well as best for the population overall…..to be one of the folks who adopts that strategy. A stockpile of unpressured does can be a mighty strong hand to play when the rut hits……