SCDNR Deer Survey-# of Bucks

[SCLAND&TIMBER]

QDMA has never recommended killing all the does. You kill ENOUGH does to get to a 1:1 or 2:1 ratio. That's how god intended it to be and we've completely fucked it up. You get the ratio close to equal, regardless of the total number of deer, and you will see more bucks, and you'll see them doing the things that they're supposed to do. You know why.......it's because that when the ratio is close, they have to compete for does. That's why you don't see deer fighting, rubbing, scraping, etc very much in SC.

Regulated buck killing is meant to try to get the ratio in check, and in turn, grow bigger deer by allowing them to get older. Once the ratio gets there, you try to keep it there. Anyone that says they don't won't to kill bigger deer is FOS.

The problem with following QDM standards is who is to say when you get the ratio right? Hunter, biologist, who?

It's all well and good to get the ratio more closer but the problem is that you can carry it to far and then what do you end up with?

No bucks because what are left have moved off your club in search of does. Yet QDMA keeps preaching the killing of does. After a while you do more harm than good if you aren't careful.

Just food for thought...