I don’t think very many hunters have much perspective on why they shoot them or don’t…….They’re just taking a WAG and/or repeating something they heard from the QDMA……

If I’m hunting a small property I’d be much more apt to using does as bait and leaving them alone……You’re not trying to “manage” the deer herd with your 100 acres nor can you….. …….The purpose of stockpiling does in that situation and using them as bait is so that hopefully all the other people around you are blasting their does and then you get to cherry pick some of the best bucks in the area from all the properties around you that come in to set up shop where the higher concentration of does exist that you keep on your property year after year. Bucks that have been around for a while know where the green field is at that has 25 does on it year in and year out versus the ones that only have 5……They go back to those high concentration spots that are known hot spots where they found does in the past

Last edited by CNC; 12/09/24 04:26 PM.
Folks that know don't shoot old does........ wink