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<blockquote data-quote="tellico4x4" data-source="post: 5708496" data-attributes="member: 2474"><p>The numbers, herd management & plots are as fun to me as hunting is anymore. It's really just another facet of the hunt and keeps me involved pretty much year round.</p><p>The past few years I've started really using our hunter observation log as much or more than pics to determine ratio and how many does we need to kill. With 40 food plots, pics on them are always more skewed to does. 1.5:1 is our goal and when we start to nudge close to 2:1, we increase the numbers killed. </p><p>I think knowing your property (and adjacent) is important as well. This will be my 22 year with 3500 acres, so pretty familiar with it & what neighbors are doing. 10+ years ago we initiated a rule that if you killed a buck, then you had to kill a doe as well. By taking the same number of does & bucks each year usually keeps a pretty good balance. However, the past few years we've been slowly going up a tick or two each year. Our numbers are now at 1.9:1, so in addition to killing as many does as we do bucks, we're going to kill another 15 does.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tellico4x4, post: 5708496, member: 2474"] The numbers, herd management & plots are as fun to me as hunting is anymore. It's really just another facet of the hunt and keeps me involved pretty much year round. The past few years I've started really using our hunter observation log as much or more than pics to determine ratio and how many does we need to kill. With 40 food plots, pics on them are always more skewed to does. 1.5:1 is our goal and when we start to nudge close to 2:1, we increase the numbers killed. I think knowing your property (and adjacent) is important as well. This will be my 22 year with 3500 acres, so pretty familiar with it & what neighbors are doing. 10+ years ago we initiated a rule that if you killed a buck, then you had to kill a doe as well. By taking the same number of does & bucks each year usually keeps a pretty good balance. However, the past few years we've been slowly going up a tick or two each year. Our numbers are now at 1.9:1, so in addition to killing as many does as we do bucks, we're going to kill another 15 does. [/QUOTE]
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