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<blockquote data-quote="Ski" data-source="post: 5213783" data-attributes="member: 20583"><p>My property is about 100 acres, surrounded three sides by a 10,000 acre state forest. It's steep terrain where three major hollows come to a head. The ridge hub knob is almost the center of my property. If not for the timber I'd most certainly manage the habitat more intensely, but as of now the timber is worth more to me than the deer hunting. The hunting is pretty awesome as is, but I do sometimes contemplate what could be. </p><p></p><p>Even still I'm not sure how much I could control. Certain bucks stay on the property pretty much year round, and a bout twice as many show up in the fall. Winter is when I have the most. Seems every buck in the county stays on my place in the winter. I assume they tolerate the crowd because of the green food that is so scarce everywhere else, because as soon as spring green hits they leave. The only bucks that remain are the residents. I see some great bucks I'd love to keep & hunt but they won't stay no matter what I do or don't do. I'm not sure how the deer decide who stays & who goes, but they do, and I don't get a say in the matter. Not sure if it's family, dominance, or something else. But it's always the same deer who stay & same deer who leave. Ones that die get replaced. But the numbers & age structures are amazingly pretty dang consistent year to year. I suppose I could hold <em>more</em> deer if I added more cover & more food, but it wouldn't change the fact that I cannot dictate "which" deer that would be. The deer themselves seem to decide that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ski, post: 5213783, member: 20583"] My property is about 100 acres, surrounded three sides by a 10,000 acre state forest. It's steep terrain where three major hollows come to a head. The ridge hub knob is almost the center of my property. If not for the timber I'd most certainly manage the habitat more intensely, but as of now the timber is worth more to me than the deer hunting. The hunting is pretty awesome as is, but I do sometimes contemplate what could be. Even still I'm not sure how much I could control. Certain bucks stay on the property pretty much year round, and a bout twice as many show up in the fall. Winter is when I have the most. Seems every buck in the county stays on my place in the winter. I assume they tolerate the crowd because of the green food that is so scarce everywhere else, because as soon as spring green hits they leave. The only bucks that remain are the residents. I see some great bucks I'd love to keep & hunt but they won't stay no matter what I do or don't do. I'm not sure how the deer decide who stays & who goes, but they do, and I don't get a say in the matter. Not sure if it's family, dominance, or something else. But it's always the same deer who stay & same deer who leave. Ones that die get replaced. But the numbers & age structures are amazingly pretty dang consistent year to year. I suppose I could hold [I]more[/I] deer if I added more cover & more food, but it wouldn't change the fact that I cannot dictate "which" deer that would be. The deer themselves seem to decide that. [/QUOTE]
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