Y�all kill me how you always want to try and scare everyone by making it about less bucks. In the scenario you/we are talking about here shooter, we are comparing two ways to compensate for the loss of deer (buck or doe) due to predation�..You can either take out yotes so that fawns survive at a higher rate or you can leave more does in the population so that more total fawns are produced. Either way is increasing the net gain of fawns. Its just the approach you use to get there that�s different. One way is associated with a lot of time, money, and effort required on the part of the landowner/hunter while the other just requires you not shoot as many does. Not shooting as many does is also a lot more feasible and realistic goal for most people on a long term basis. Predator trapping is not something that many people with continue to do for more than just a couple years. For example, people throw the idea of trapping hogs around on here as if its not that big a deal. However, let someone drag 150-250 lb hogs out of knee deep mud and hog chit for a couple summers while they fight the heat, snakes, and bugs�..and they begin to not like the idea of long term hog trapping anymore. Predator tapping will no be much different for most folks.
