These same dynamics are playing out all over the state and it’s not just Nov doe lines and Jan doe lines bumping up against each other…..You have areas where early Jan bubbles push against a late Jan line and some where they mix………….or you have a Nov lineage against a mid Dec……and so forth…..We have a state full of a hodge podge of doe lineage “bubbles” pushing back and forth against each other in a fluid movement …..and its why we have so many screwy properties where they interact. It also adds to the stress that our bucks go through in many areas.
It's just a matter of how things have shaken out since restocking and what doe lineages got sorted out within each bubble. After restocking we let the herd expand across many areas then we drew it back down with the doe slaying era…. In doing so we drew most doe herds down inside their own individual bubbles defined by roads and habitat breaks and they each just reproduced and restocked from within each bubble for quite a while. After the mid to late 90’s we likely didn’t experience any more expansion of herds for a couple of decades and we still arent in many places…….so there hasn’t been any real “push” occurring between bubbles anywhere……What little push does occur gets knocked off by road mortality and everything maintains the status quo for the most part….especially if we’re talking about an interstate where it would take some serious “push” to overcome road mortality and jump that boundary ……Its really only where folks have stopped shooting does or areas with big plantations where there’s any potential to shake things up.
The bubble that the Yuchee SOA is in seems to be an interesting one where a few different lineages exist within the same bubble due to several different expanding lines meeting in that spot years ago. There’s other areas that were fairly uniformly stocked with does from the same stocking source and show more uniformity within bubbles……It’s definitely a hodge podge of different bubbles but there’s a method to the madness……Things like having big quail plantations at the center of a bubble pumping out does in a hard push outward, produces uniformity of those lines within the bubble……not allowing any encroachment from surrounding ones. This is the exact opposite of the Bankhead situation where you have a low density interior that’s likely pushing zero expansion and another reason the setup doesnt look good. These things all exist in a evolving manner to some degree.
Last edited by CNC; 08/23/23 11:47 PM.
