I follow what your saying and agree on the nutrition aspect of the area they are in. I've always said that's a huge contributing factor as to why states that have the vast soybean fields grow the biggest bucks.

Let me run this by you......

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Basically what I’m getting at is that Miss St did their study where they took deer from the poor part of Mississippi and turned them loose on some good habitat in the Delta part of Mississippi and those deer changed in two generations to become the same quality as the Delta deer…….Basically what that is telling us is that its not really genetics….its nutrition……and if you change the nutritional plane then the deer will change with it…..Those does that were topping out at 115 lbs will have granddaughters that start topping out at 125 lbs and great granddaughters that go 135 lbs and so on…..I suppose theoretically that weight keeps climbing until you max out the body frame for our latitude……I’m guessing even down here in Alabama we have the potential for 150 lb does given enough nutrition over generations…..

If the above is true, shouldn't the choice of doe to be shot be the old doe? If the does develop into better quality does over time, shooting the older doe would be shooting the less "evolved" (yes I went there grin ) doe and leaving the younger, genetically superior doe?

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