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<blockquote data-quote="Hunter 257W" data-source="post: 4197913" data-attributes="member: 12277"><p>You can always start with the accepted numbers for deer/sq mile for your area and calculate the population that way. Of course that is assuming the land is "average", since deer densities are going to vary a lot over the areas that the "deer density" maps show to be constant. Since you say your place is 99% mature timber that would mean deer numbers would be a lot lower than the same area if it were a thicket with lots of browse and cover. Of course the fact that it's not been hunter for 5 years would increase the deer numbers over an identical large timber area just next door that had been hunted hard.</p><p></p><p> Another factor that I think gets confused is the number of deer living on(spending most of their time on) a piece of property vs. the number of deer likely to cross that same property at least once in say a week's time. The later is what us hunters really want to know for hunting purposes as far as knowing how many deer we are likely to have a shot at. But when calculating how many deer you can actually kill, you need to really be working with the one's that spend most of their time on your land, otherwise you and 4 other neighbors are counting the same deer in your census and that could lead to killing way too many - if all your neighbors hunt. So much depends on what the neighbors do!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hunter 257W, post: 4197913, member: 12277"] You can always start with the accepted numbers for deer/sq mile for your area and calculate the population that way. Of course that is assuming the land is "average", since deer densities are going to vary a lot over the areas that the "deer density" maps show to be constant. Since you say your place is 99% mature timber that would mean deer numbers would be a lot lower than the same area if it were a thicket with lots of browse and cover. Of course the fact that it's not been hunter for 5 years would increase the deer numbers over an identical large timber area just next door that had been hunted hard. Another factor that I think gets confused is the number of deer living on(spending most of their time on) a piece of property vs. the number of deer likely to cross that same property at least once in say a week's time. The later is what us hunters really want to know for hunting purposes as far as knowing how many deer we are likely to have a shot at. But when calculating how many deer you can actually kill, you need to really be working with the one's that spend most of their time on your land, otherwise you and 4 other neighbors are counting the same deer in your census and that could lead to killing way too many - if all your neighbors hunt. So much depends on what the neighbors do! [/QUOTE]
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