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<blockquote data-quote="megalomaniac" data-source="post: 5657130" data-attributes="member: 2805"><p>Interesting, I always thought the more mature bucks you had in the herd, the more they suppress the younger bucks, preventing them from participating in the rut, so the young bucks just eat all rut long and don't have to recover as much weight loss in between breeding season... the net result being HIGHER antler scores.</p><p></p><p>But these bucks with subpar antlers just keep being subpar year after year as they age to maturity. No giant jump from 100in 3.5yo to a 140in 4.5yo on my places.</p><p></p><p>Why did you say it's 'undesirable' to remove mature bucks? My personal philosophy is to let every buck hit 4.5, then they are all fair game. We are never able to kill all the mature bucks annually, but we remove 60% or so of them each year.</p><p></p><p>But we do seem to be slowly recruiting more mature bucks each year over time. Low harvest numbers overall by us and the neighbors. But its frustrating that fewer and fewer of the 3.5yos are top end of the gene pool, and almost none of those are being recruited to 4.5.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="megalomaniac, post: 5657130, member: 2805"] Interesting, I always thought the more mature bucks you had in the herd, the more they suppress the younger bucks, preventing them from participating in the rut, so the young bucks just eat all rut long and don't have to recover as much weight loss in between breeding season... the net result being HIGHER antler scores. But these bucks with subpar antlers just keep being subpar year after year as they age to maturity. No giant jump from 100in 3.5yo to a 140in 4.5yo on my places. Why did you say it's 'undesirable' to remove mature bucks? My personal philosophy is to let every buck hit 4.5, then they are all fair game. We are never able to kill all the mature bucks annually, but we remove 60% or so of them each year. But we do seem to be slowly recruiting more mature bucks each year over time. Low harvest numbers overall by us and the neighbors. But its frustrating that fewer and fewer of the 3.5yos are top end of the gene pool, and almost none of those are being recruited to 4.5. [/QUOTE]
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