A good example to use here would be Goatkiller’s situation he described. He hasnt been shooting hardly any deer since he took over and has gone from seeing 5 or 6 deer to 10-12….to 20+…..which shows that his property has the resources to support more deer than what it was running with before…..At some point though he’s gonna hit a plateau with these sightings ……..because when the doe groups begin to max out the resources then competition will kick in and that inner growth he’s experiencing will shift to expansion.

Now at this point if Goatkiller decided to go in a start whacking “X” number of does annually……he’s basically just whacking the expansion were talking about by preventing the competition from occurring. You COULD do that or you could just allow the expansion to help prop up doe populations in the bigger area around you…..which long term would be better for Goatkiller IMO rather than doe whacking…..as those expansion does hopefully help to produce more bucks out around him in the future.

“Herd management” occurs on a bigger scale than our individual properties and we are all in a cooperative together already whether we formally acknowledge it or not


Last edited by CNC; 08/16/23 10:28 PM.
Folks that know don't shoot old does........ wink