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coolspringoutfitters
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I must be an idiot, but how does cutting tags help grow a herd? I mean, I understand that you need to have enough bucks to breed the does, but I am trying to understand all of the posts that say we should close units... WHY? We need to be worrying growing does (girl deer) NOT a ton of bucks... Lots of does (girl deer) = a healthy herd... Until we figure out why we are losing so many does (girl deer) there will be a problem. We all need to rally together and get something done about the number of does (girl deer)... They are the ones that have the fawns, not bucks ! ! !
I'm going to say this slowly so that everyone can understand:
Increase the number of does (girl deer), the deer numbers will go up. As the deer numbers increase so will the amount of bucks example: If you have 9000 deer and the buck to doe (girl deer) ratio is 15-100, there would be 1350 bucks, if the number of deer increases to 18000, there would be 2700 bucks. That would DOUBLE the amount of huntable bucks therefore increasing tags... Remember, bucks don't have fawns, they are there to reproduce. We don't need to shut down units, there may be some cases where tags need to be reduced to get the buck numbers up a bit, but the whole reason we went to the smaller units was to control the number of hunters on each herd. Now, they can just reduce the tag numbers and not shorten the days of the hunt. Understand that we need to INCREASE THE DOE (girl deer) herd before we do anything else...
OK, lets hear all the bashing... Or even better, lets hear you all agree with me, cause I'm right
CSO
It's all about the good times...
I'm going to say this slowly so that everyone can understand:
Increase the number of does (girl deer), the deer numbers will go up. As the deer numbers increase so will the amount of bucks example: If you have 9000 deer and the buck to doe (girl deer) ratio is 15-100, there would be 1350 bucks, if the number of deer increases to 18000, there would be 2700 bucks. That would DOUBLE the amount of huntable bucks therefore increasing tags... Remember, bucks don't have fawns, they are there to reproduce. We don't need to shut down units, there may be some cases where tags need to be reduced to get the buck numbers up a bit, but the whole reason we went to the smaller units was to control the number of hunters on each herd. Now, they can just reduce the tag numbers and not shorten the days of the hunt. Understand that we need to INCREASE THE DOE (girl deer) herd before we do anything else...
OK, lets hear all the bashing... Or even better, lets hear you all agree with me, cause I'm right
CSO
It's all about the good times...