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<blockquote data-quote="megalomaniac" data-source="post: 4545927" data-attributes="member: 2805"><p>17 buttons killed seems quite excessive from a group of who should be experienced/ avid hunters. I'd recommend an education seminar for members that should be mandatory following the mandatory 'scoring deer on the hoof' seminar.</p><p></p><p>Quit shooting fawns, quit shooting single 'does', and quit shooting 'does' in the first 30 minutes and last 30 minutes of daylight. That's where the majority of 'oops' happen.</p><p></p><p>The club I was on this past weekend is really making a turnaround. 1000 acres, 3 memberships. They were following DMAP recommendations and killing 30 does a year off it. After a couple years, they were wondering why their number of bucks was declining. They have plenty of food/ browse and overall population appears to be well under carrying capacity. I convinced them to limit doe harvest last year and limit to just juvies. IIRC, they killed 4 does last year. Saturday evening I had 7 unique buttons in a plot at once! The've only killed 1 spike so far this year (a 6 y/o), and overall fawn recruitment seems to be well above 80%. In a few more years, they will reap the rewards and be able to start killing a reasonable number of does annually (prob 8-10). It'll still take a couple years to recruit more young bucks into older age classes, but they are headed in the right direction.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="megalomaniac, post: 4545927, member: 2805"] 17 buttons killed seems quite excessive from a group of who should be experienced/ avid hunters. I'd recommend an education seminar for members that should be mandatory following the mandatory 'scoring deer on the hoof' seminar. Quit shooting fawns, quit shooting single 'does', and quit shooting 'does' in the first 30 minutes and last 30 minutes of daylight. That's where the majority of 'oops' happen. The club I was on this past weekend is really making a turnaround. 1000 acres, 3 memberships. They were following DMAP recommendations and killing 30 does a year off it. After a couple years, they were wondering why their number of bucks was declining. They have plenty of food/ browse and overall population appears to be well under carrying capacity. I convinced them to limit doe harvest last year and limit to just juvies. IIRC, they killed 4 does last year. Saturday evening I had 7 unique buttons in a plot at once! The've only killed 1 spike so far this year (a 6 y/o), and overall fawn recruitment seems to be well above 80%. In a few more years, they will reap the rewards and be able to start killing a reasonable number of does annually (prob 8-10). It'll still take a couple years to recruit more young bucks into older age classes, but they are headed in the right direction. [/QUOTE]
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