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<blockquote data-quote="Ski" data-source="post: 5550362" data-attributes="member: 20583"><p>Let's say you own some acreage that you manage for enhanced habitat with the purpose of increasing your odds at killing a big buck. That's a pretty common scenario. No fences. You manage timber, fields, browse areas, water sources, and run a food plot schedule. That's time, effort, and money you're pouring into the place for one purpose, to hopefully kill big bucks. </p><p></p><p>When does begin to crowd out the bucks to the point that you begin seeing fewer & fewer, and the ones you see are younger & younger, then how do you get the property back on track? You kill does. By killing does you are freeing up space & food, and relieving social pressure. Kill enough does and big mature bucks feel attracted to your property again. Is that not a means of managing? </p><p></p><p>Now just like the does let's say you have one 5yr old 250lb slob with 115" rack hanging around all the time devouring everything in sight and chasing away any competition. He's not likely to get a bigger rack by letting him stay to 6yrs or 7yrs old. But for that entire time he'll be preventing you from having a big rack buck to hunt. Would you not want to get rid of him? And if you do, are you killing him because he gets you excited or are you doing it because he's wasting your time & money and you want to see other, better bucks on your property again?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ski, post: 5550362, member: 20583"] Let's say you own some acreage that you manage for enhanced habitat with the purpose of increasing your odds at killing a big buck. That's a pretty common scenario. No fences. You manage timber, fields, browse areas, water sources, and run a food plot schedule. That's time, effort, and money you're pouring into the place for one purpose, to hopefully kill big bucks. When does begin to crowd out the bucks to the point that you begin seeing fewer & fewer, and the ones you see are younger & younger, then how do you get the property back on track? You kill does. By killing does you are freeing up space & food, and relieving social pressure. Kill enough does and big mature bucks feel attracted to your property again. Is that not a means of managing? Now just like the does let's say you have one 5yr old 250lb slob with 115" rack hanging around all the time devouring everything in sight and chasing away any competition. He's not likely to get a bigger rack by letting him stay to 6yrs or 7yrs old. But for that entire time he'll be preventing you from having a big rack buck to hunt. Would you not want to get rid of him? And if you do, are you killing him because he gets you excited or are you doing it because he's wasting your time & money and you want to see other, better bucks on your property again? [/QUOTE]
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