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More mature bucks (3.5+) killed in US in 2014-15 than yearlings (1.5)!
Posted on 1/13/16 at 2:25 pm
Posted on 1/13/16 at 2:25 pm
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Progress!!
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The Quality Deer Management Association has just released their annual Whitetail Report and this 2016 edition is headlined by a pretty huge announcement. For the first time in recorded deer management history, more mature bucks (3.5 years old+) were killed than 1.5 year olds!
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U.S. whitetail hunters are taking more mature bucks than 1½-year-old or “yearling” bucks for the first time in modern history, according to data compiled by the Quality Deer Management Association (QDMA) for its 2016 Whitetail Report, now available online.
In the 2014-15 hunting season, the most recent season with complete deer harvest data available from every whitetail state, the percentage of yearling bucks in the national buck harvest dropped to a new record low of 33 percent, falling below the harvest rate for 3½-year-old and older bucks – 34 percent – for the first time since whitetail populations were restored in the mid-1900s.
Progress!!
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Posted on 1/13/16 at 2:26 pm to mylsuhat
Surprisingly:
Now, this is only the information that was reported. But I'd still say we're on the right track
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Of the 26 whitetail states that collect age data on older bucks, the top state in harvest of mature bucks for the 2014-15 season was Mississippi, where 74 percent of bucks killed were 3½ years old or older. Rounding out the Top-5 were Arkansas and Louisiana at 67 percent, Texas at 62 percent, and Oklahoma at 60 percent.
Now, this is only the information that was reported. But I'd still say we're on the right track
Posted on 1/13/16 at 2:31 pm to mylsuhat
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More mature bucks (3.5+) killed in US in 2014-15 than yearlings (1.5)!
I don't believe that at all.
Posted on 1/13/16 at 2:45 pm to mylsuhat
The catch is the unreported deer.
Posted on 1/13/16 at 3:27 pm to mylsuhat
QDMA drumming up some business.
Posted on 1/13/16 at 3:58 pm to mylsuhat
This would be cool. However, they have no clue what is actually killed in LA.
Posted on 1/13/16 at 5:32 pm to mylsuhat
Definitely progress!
However, the people/leases that report to QDMA are the people/leases that are trying to grow larger deer. As stated previously, the unreported deer are the problem.
However, it is progress (and surprising) that this is the first time the mature deer have outnumbered the 1.5 year olds
However, the people/leases that report to QDMA are the people/leases that are trying to grow larger deer. As stated previously, the unreported deer are the problem.
However, it is progress (and surprising) that this is the first time the mature deer have outnumbered the 1.5 year olds
Posted on 1/13/16 at 7:27 pm to mylsuhat
If the rest of the country pulls their data like Arkansas then the results are extremely flawed.
Arkansas gets their data from 2 places. Deer clubs that are part of DMAP (which obviously are going to be more management minded than other clubs), and The sweet 16 WMAs (these are WMAs that have strict antler restrictions meant to protect bucks less than 3.5 years old.) additionally Arkansas has a 3 point rule so spikes and fork horns, which make up a large percentage of 1.5 year old bucks, aren't being checked when they are killed.
Arkansas gets their data from 2 places. Deer clubs that are part of DMAP (which obviously are going to be more management minded than other clubs), and The sweet 16 WMAs (these are WMAs that have strict antler restrictions meant to protect bucks less than 3.5 years old.) additionally Arkansas has a 3 point rule so spikes and fork horns, which make up a large percentage of 1.5 year old bucks, aren't being checked when they are killed.
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