Originally Posted by CNC
So in the spirit of this being a group idea……

Back when we were still talking about doe management I had broken out the crayons and made a little sketch…..I was thinking about a scenario where you had a couple thousand acres being intensely managed for high outputs of high end groceries and cover…..What would be the most ideal way we could all manage the doe population on a landscape scale as a group??.....Because even if we go conservative and only consider doe dispersal coming from 2 miles away and less……that’s over 16,000 acres of potential immigrant producing land that surrounds our 2,000 acres……How this plays out and the pressure our 2,000 acres is subjected to is highly dependent on other factors surrounding us……..

You remember that scene from the movie with Russell Crowe where he plays John Nash the math professor…….and they’re in the bar trying to pick up girl’s and he suddenly comes to the realization that “John Smith needs revision!!.....The best outcome for the individual occurs when the individual does what it best for the individual and the group”……or something of that nature……That’s the situation we have here with doe management……If we could set up the most ideal scenario for everyone in the area it would be for the high-end food properties to shoot a few young does while the other low end properties surrounding them shoot a bunch……This would do two things……1) It would reduce potential immigrant pressure for the high end property……and 2) It would help insure the high end property is only exporting young dispersing does (emigrants)………

That ^^^^^ would be how we as a group produce the highest potential buck offspring for everyone in the area to potentially benefit from……All of the high end properties on the landscape with great food need to retain the same old doe lineages over time……They need to retain a fairly constant number of does that's in line with however many the property can support without exploiting and diminishing resources over time and they need to keep recycling from the same doe lines……If we could accomplish that as a group then over time all of the high end properties would be kicking out high potential bucks to the whole landscape…..I suspect that this is actually what is happening in areas where folks claim to have “good genetics”…..Probably a lot of it is just occurring out of chance without folks knowingly doing it….. but I suspect you probably have some pockets where the same old doe lineages are recycling generationally on the same good nutrition and that's allowing higher end bucks to get kicked out to the landscape around them

Ok you are right. I’m in. Let’s do it