Here’s what I think changed and it is partly due to acorns……Imagine we’re looking down on the landscape like it’s a big chess board……All of the hunters are each sitting inside of a bunch of various sized “squares” that we’re looking down on……Lots and lots of chess board squares…. from 1 acre to 100 acres to 1000 acres…….This season there are a lot fewer of those smaller squares that are productive……The reason is a result of hunters having shot the chit out them over the last few years and there being less deer now in many areas…. combined with a bumper acorn crop that’s concentrating the remaining herd onto fewer squares where they’ve been moving less….
The reason its important to understand this is so when the opposite happens next year and the deer get more spread out again and get the chit shot out of them again…….you begin to understand how “doe management” really works for a lot of folks…..Its a little different than how the QDMA textbook describes it………and why the skrategy of holding onto a few might not be a bad idea for some folks…….
