re: This is why we don't shoot nice deer

Sometimes its worth the money just to hunt with guys who have a shred of trigger disipline. Leave those to the kids and ladies and everybody profits.

When management is brought up its shut down immediately. They say if we let too many deer go we'll get hit by blue tongue again. It's a bunch of ignorant old schoolers from SELA.

Never going to happen

shite yeah! If I see that behind the house you gonna hear KABOOOOOMMMM!

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What I'm saying is that most of the deer's genes come from the doe, but people completely neglect that when talking about managing deer. That line of genetics isn't all piled up on the ground right there. They're still in the woods.

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So how would you go about managing a healthy herd for bigger deer? I see more justification in this post..

ETA: it's definitely where you are and what you have, but I assume this isn't a swamp buck

Gotta let em grow

^^^ photoshopped

It's all relative.

You've got big deer dying of old age probably. I get what you're saying and I'm not trying to argue against you. Doesn't sound like the rest of your crew has the same interest as you do though, so you may have to relocate if it matters that much to you. It's gotta be pretty rough hunting with a group who does not think the same as you, regardless of who thinks what.

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Doesn't sound like the rest of your crew has the same interest as you do though, so you may have to relocate if it matters that much to you. It's gotta be pretty rough hunting with a group who does not think the same as you, regardless of who thinks what.

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This is the bottom line, everybody has to have the same goals, for some people it is how many deer can I shot in a year, others is trophy deer only. It is much easier finding a place with people that have same goals as you than to try and change the way people think.

I understand your frustration, as it appears the place you hunt has tons of potential to produce some monsters.

Same way the place I was on was. But it was worse before they upped the MS minimum antler size. That made a difference but still everything killed for the most part was barely legal.