Maybe we should issue more tags since killing all the bucks doesn't matter. Hell, it was right there in front of us the w
As far as building a herd goes, unless those bucks had uteruses, the cold hard truth is its one deer.
A doe is possibly 3 deer, PER YEAR, for years.
Not hard to figure out where the emphasis needs to be.
Further, I keep saying it, I keep waiting to see where I'm wrong
Utah cut 135,000 tags. (Roughly 40%) Three decades later, our deer herd is roughly the same size. So how, exactly did tag cuts grow the herd? Yes, fewer buck were killed, so according to the tag cutters, that should have meant an explosion in deer population. It didn't.
And as I said to Muley.
I live by Antelope Island.
2bucks killed per year. No sxs, off trail hiking isn't allowed. One of, if not the hight mature buck to doe ratio in the state. No cats. No bears.
If very restrictive hunting= herd explosions, AI would be overrun with deer. It's not, nor has it ever been, even prior to sfw "saving the island".