What Treemy dog said and I also wonder how much the Chuckie Check/Game Check participation has increased over the past 4 years too? I'm betting its up 30-50% from where it was originally. Both could be driving factors in the percentage increases. Or it could also be caused by having a bunch of people like us. When we first got our property and established the co-op with our neighbors, it had been dog hunted for the past 25 yrs. We didnt shoot anything but older age class bucks and injured or cull deer for the first 6 years and never killed a single doe off of it. Population now is probably 5X what it was when we first got it. We started back killing does on our co-op 3 yrs ago, because we needed to, in order to keep the herd and ratio in check with where we wanted it. We were a zero for reported doe kills for the first 6 yrs and now are averaging about 30-35 per year that are all being reported. You get a bunch of big managed clubs or private lands in this same situation in a given county and it'll skew the statistics quickly.

Last edited by abolt300; 12/27/24 12:36 PM.