Originally Posted by Backwards cowboy
Originally Posted by burbank
Originally Posted by Pwyse
Originally Posted by burbank
So how many properties do you manage that have required killing more bucks than does to correct the balance?

Yes, it’s absolutely about killing does as well as managing habitat.


There’s a difference between an educated decision to kill a certain number of does and “blasting the bleep out of does”

So what is lost when you kill a doe that needs to be killed?


Uh, I don’t know, maybe deer? For every doe you kill, you kill every fawn she will ever have. Some of those fawns are bucks.

I guess I’m just saying it’s a fine balance in my mind. And typically, unless you have 1000s of acres or a high fence it will never be close to an exact science.




And every fawn she would have had that would be a doe, you kill every deer they would have had. Killing one doe, potentially kills between 16-64 deer off your place over 5 years!


With this logic, you’re also killing the even higher numbers of potential offspring of the buck you shoot that would’ve mated with multiple does per season. No matter what you kill, you are preventing that animal from procreating.

Nobody is saying wipe out stupid numbers of does on every property, and if they are, they shouldn’t be giving advice to anybody.