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Think I’m gonna drive the 5 hours home tonight just to hunt on Sunday.

Smart? Probably not

Worth it? Maybe

 

Can you explain why you think this is?

 

What produces more? A hooker gettin blown full by 10 dudes or 1 dude fillin 10 Hookers?

 

You can't just throw a blanket statement out that you should shoot more does than bucks or visa versa.... You need 2-3 does per buck for a healthy population (and deer should be harvested more or less accordingly based on that once that ratio is achieved) a buck will most likely only bread with 2 does in a season so many more than that leads to unbread does just eating food that would go towards deer that are helping the heard otherwise. On the other hand, obviously if you have less does than you wont have optimal breading situations and your herd won't grow. Its just like pruning a plant, the more you cut the better your fruit will be because the available nutrients are divided by a lower number of producers, however your overall yield will be lower.

Shooting a nice mature bucks with proper herd management should mean that there are at least 3 years worth of those genes to carry on, and with 2 does bread per year averaging 2 yearlong you should have a minimum of 12 offspring to carry on.

Culling bad genes young obviously helps bad genes stay out of the heard, although you most likely wont be able to tell a cull until its at least 2 1/2 so there is a good chance there will be atleast 4 deer with those genes running around best case scenario.


TLDR: Management cannot fit in a box and each situation needs to be assessed individually.

 

And once again I’ll say, I honestly don’t give a single care.


Really as long as the lions have something to eat, I’m happy,

 

Is you last name lion or do you have pet lions?

 

Neither

 

Those close lines don’t mean it flat

 

My boys won’t play in the sunlight..

 

Chillin in a tree.

 

Good luck

 

not to mention predators and winter kills...

 

MY buddy got this Saturday in sw PA on a drive put on by myself and another guy. 533 lbs estimated live weight

 

Anywhere near Altoona / Johnstown ?

 

about an hour or more s of Johnstown close the PA/WV line near gibbon glade

 

My 2016 cat. Currently #2 in the B&C All-Time Awards.

 

wow thats a monster!Congrats!!

also another monster!Congrats!!

 

This year's archery bull, not a monster but has some cool character. Hunting solo, but was only about 1.5 miles away from the nearest open road and took 5 trips because of the terrain.

 

ok I want to know what is a monster to you

that looks like one hell of a bull to me