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Oh but I would!!!

I tell you what some of this QDMA ideology is kinda like when its applied to most real world situations in Alabama……..Its like if I went down here to Hurtsboro and leased a few hundred acres where I shot me about 5 or 6 does and a couple of good bucks and then preached about how I’ve seen “balancing the herd” work like a charm!......The reality would be that all I did was go into a good area, shoot some deer, and call it “managing”…..What was done didn’t really have anything to do with what was seen but we like to convince ourselves otherwise…… What was seen had far more to do with what’s happening on the thousands of acres around that smaller parcel.

There’s a lot of folks out there that are just shooting deer and calling it successful management when the reality of what is being seen is hinging far more on what’s occurring around them…..My advice is take into consideration what everyone else is doing and let that be just as important as what you yourself are…….. Just about any place where I have a few hundred acres or less, I’m stacking the does in there and cherry picking bucks off of them while letting cars, coyotes, and other hunters “manage” the herd. That doesn’t mean I’d never shoot one for meat or just for someone to have fun….but I’m not going in and shooting does for the sake of management. You’ll never manage the deer herd that exists on a much bigger scale around you through a few hundred acre property…..you’ll only stand to decrease the quality of the hunting on that particular parcel.

That’s just my skrategy though…..YMMV