What I’m basing my theory on is that the last time we saw harvest trend lines increase for several years and then decline due to a change in the “rules of the game”…..aka the doe slaughter…….it did not result in more deer at the end of that time period…..we had less……My theory is that if we see the same trend line occur due to people killing more deer because of corn……then the end result will be the same…..less deer……Killing more deer is killing more deer regardless of if it happens from corn or a 2 doe rule……..If we had more deer then the harvest trend line would grow upward and then remain there on a new line that just did little up/downs annually…..We are trending downward though and have been for some time……The recent spike in harvest is from corn increasing opportunities and not from population growth.


Folks that know don't shoot old does........ wink