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This is in strict heard management where it is more about available food/nutrition for other deer/bucks. This recommendation is for 3,000+ acres.

They refer to this as standing crop management but you left out a very important caveat that even they admit, some bucks are late bloomers and this only works if your shooters are 5.5+ and every gun on your place can accurately age a deer on the hoof. It’s the absolute finishing touch on top of an otherwise perfect management scenario, where age structure and ratio are perfect and the only limiting factor is biomass, and in reality it’s to shave off a little of the protein bill for places that charge by the inch.

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Posted by Outdoorreb

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Posted on 6/9/21 at 12:43 pm to TheDrunkenTigah

I think they are using it on over populated areas too. The areas that have good buck:doe ratios, but the heard is just too large. I can see the late bloomer argument, but what are the chances of a late bloomer reaching 150”. I could be wrong, but it has to be slim to none. I expect there to be a 1-2 oop’s.

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Posted by Volt

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Posted on 6/9/21 at 4:58 pm to TheDrunkenTigah

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every gun on your place can accurately age a deer on the hoof

Anyone that says they can do this is wrong. Even the professionals can't do this accurately.

Read an article about a QDMA researcher that had put his hands on around 1500 bucks I believe and he said he was wrong more times than not. Most of these deer he had seen in person and/or pictures of multiple times. He would guess the age and when the buck was either darted or harvested, he would age their teeth. He said he was +/- two years in his guess many times over.

People that say they can do this are idiots. That's why I would never be part of a "club" that says you have to age the deer correctly.

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