doe management

[Whackumstackum]

Is deer management, if you aren’t doing it you need to rethink your management plan. I took a a break from killing does trying to get my son on a few but last week they caught hell. When it stops getting me worked up I swear I will quit hunting but the does do it more than the bucks now as I know what we can grow with a little trigger restraint.34EF8162-1990-408E-978D-739C1F3C01CF.jpg

[b35w]

Speaking of management, what do you think an optimal deer number/acre should be?


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[Shallow Minded]

Is that your son taking a leak in the yard in front of the truck? LOL

[justhuntin]

Is that your son taking a leak in the yard in front of the truck? LOL

Shakin a bush. Lol.

[Tater]

Shakin a bush. Lol.

I would hope not

[justhuntin]

I would hope not

Movie quote from Cool Hand Luke.

[Whackumstackum]

Is that your son taking a leak in the yard in front of the truck? LOL

Sure as shit is. I damn sure didn’t notice that!

[Timsmith]

We all collective can shoot the hell out of the does, but everyone has a mindset that does attract bucks. We wait till the last weeks, but then the does are scarce or feeding at night. If you get a one to one ratio, your season is only two weeks long. The biggest buck will breed and leave. It’s definitely a risk to shoot your does when your neighbors don’t. It has to be at least a 5 mile radius of management. My 2 cents.

[Drylok]

Damn y’all don’t miss much! HA!

[Smilee]

It varies based on area for sure. Given the human population increase and baiting being legal, hunters are too efficient at killing deer. Population is declining around me. I elected not to shoot does this year, I saw the decline starting last year.

Local processor had 47 deer taken in New Years Eve. That’s unheard of around us. Traditionally most folks stopped hunting by Thanksgiving.

[quack head 11]

It varies based on area for sure. Given the human population increase and baiting being legal, hunters are too efficient at killing deer. Population is declining around me.

Corn piles in the upstate is/was THE worst thing that has happened to deer hunting in my lifetime. I think it has been worse for hunting than even the coyotes.

It has completely changed their travel and feeding patterns and IMO has put a huge dent in the population. People that couldn't kill a deer on woodmanship and hunting ability are now whacking and stacking.

[TheVisorGuy]

Corn piles in the upstate is/was THE worst thing that has happened to deer hunting in my lifetime. I think it has been worse for hunting than even the coyotes.

It has completely changed their travel and feeding patterns and IMO has put a huge dent in the population. People that couldn't kill a deer on woodmanship and hunting ability are now whacking and stacking.

Bull-hockey

[Duck cutter]

Bull-hockey

Quackhead ain’t wrong

Corn can be a useful tool but too many people using it as a crutch

[JimmyD714]

Corn piles in the upstate is/was THE worst thing that has happened to deer hunting in my lifetime. I think it has been worse for hunting than even the coyotes.

It has completely changed their travel and feeding patterns and IMO has put a huge dent in the population. People that couldn't kill a deer on woodmanship and hunting ability are now whacking and stacking.

Quackhead ain’t wrong

Corn can be a useful tool but too many people using it as a crutch

One of the principles of the North American Model of Conservation is that game species only be pursued by fair chase methods. Meaning - you have to learn how to hunt. Pouring a pile of corn is not hunting.

We don't have near the population density of deer in the upstate to support such a ridiculous method of "hunting". Especially with a 3 month rifle season.

[nitro5x6's]

Hahahahaha!!!

Alpha male in training.

[Whackumstackum]

Our deer density in Orangeburg county is probably one of the highest in the state. That being said we (neighbors included) kill 5 to 1 doe to bucks I’d say as a group on all but one property. The buck hunting is phenomenal and we don’t have to depredation hunt nearly as much as the crop damage is way less in the spring. It’s just great hunting, I sit way more than the average hunter and I went 2 times all year where I didn’t see a racked buck.

[b35w]

Our deer density in Orangeburg county is probably one of the highest in the state. That being said we (neighbors included) kill 5 to 1 doe to bucks I’d say as a group on all but one property. The buck hunting is phenomenal and we don’t have to depredation hunt nearly as much as the crop damage is way less in the spring. It’s just great hunting, I sit way more than the average hunter and I went 2 times all year where I didn’t see a racked buck.

Let me get in lol


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[thunderchicken]

Jimmy, do you hunt over bean fields, cut corn fields, winter wheat fields? Are they "ethical"?

[JimmyD714]

Food plots and cut ag fields are not the same as pouring piles of corn and again these are strawman arguments. Next it'll be, "do you use anything other than throwing a spear? How's that ethical?"

[w33kender]

Food plots and cut ag fields are not the same as pouring piles of corn and again these are strawman arguments. Next it'll be, "do you use anything other than throwing a spear? How's that ethical?"

The question of food plots, spears, open sites... proves a point, Jimmy. Fair Chase is a sliding scale based on a hunter's ability x his desire for an ethical, clean kill.