Originally Posted by cartervj
Originally Posted by Backwards cowboy
The amount of bucks dying to rut or fighting is so small that it's not worth even considering, if we're gonna get that stupid with it, how many does are killed by cars compared to bucks. This crap is so silly every year. If you want more better deer quit shooting as many, if you don't give a crap shootem all. It's really scary to think some of yall are walking around with loaded guns!


What bothers me is this all or none mentality since Covid.

If you wanna manage your place like that knock yourself out. But at the same time don’t knock someone for wanting to better their deer herd.
Just because you want to keep it simple doesn’t mean the answer is simple.

You’re applying the same mentality you’re arguing against.




I really don't think i am. My personal opinion is the season is too long and too many deer are getting killed, that's MY opinion. I also know that no one cares about my opinion. The state is not gonna change anything based on my opinion. I also understand the state could care less about managing the deer herd. So getting up every day a complaint about what they should do is a complete waste of time. So that leaves us with what we can REALISTICALLY do. That answer is simple also.....the best we can with what we got! With that in mind the original question of this thread was managing buck to doe ratio. If you are managing, one would think you care bout the deer herd. Imo the best way to do that to meet what the question asked, is stop shooting so many bucks. No you can be an imbecile and ask what's too many. But too many is obviously less than however many your shooting to get you to ask this question if you shot 40 bucks last year 40 is too many, if you shot one last year one is too many. And again, if you want to shoot every freaking deer you ever see, I really don't care. But that is irrelevant to THIS thread.