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<blockquote data-quote="megalomaniac" data-source="post: 5551194" data-attributes="member: 2805"><p>Interesting! So the best managed properties have already killed off the bottom end of the gene pool at 3.5, thereby allowing none of them to reach maturity?</p><p></p><p>Is there a benefit to that approach (other than someone mistaking an average 2.5yo as a bottom end of the gene pool 3.5yo---- to me it's easier to misjudge a 2.5 as a 3.5yo than it is to misjudge a 3.5yo as a 4.5yo) rather than my approach (allow ALL bucks to reach 4.5 and express 95% of antler potential, and only then pick the bottom 20% or so and designate as culls to not count as their 1 buck of choice)</p><p></p><p>Should I be selecting the worst 3.5yos and put them on the kill list even though they give 25lbs less sausage than the worst 4.5yos?</p><p></p><p>I cannot tell you how many 3.5yos I've identified over the years that I've said, 'he's gonna be a cull NEXT year'... they are easy to identify. Yet I tell my hunters that if they kill them before 4.5, it counts as their 'buck of choice' and they are done hunting for the season.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="megalomaniac, post: 5551194, member: 2805"] Interesting! So the best managed properties have already killed off the bottom end of the gene pool at 3.5, thereby allowing none of them to reach maturity? Is there a benefit to that approach (other than someone mistaking an average 2.5yo as a bottom end of the gene pool 3.5yo---- to me it's easier to misjudge a 2.5 as a 3.5yo than it is to misjudge a 3.5yo as a 4.5yo) rather than my approach (allow ALL bucks to reach 4.5 and express 95% of antler potential, and only then pick the bottom 20% or so and designate as culls to not count as their 1 buck of choice) Should I be selecting the worst 3.5yos and put them on the kill list even though they give 25lbs less sausage than the worst 4.5yos? I cannot tell you how many 3.5yos I've identified over the years that I've said, 'he's gonna be a cull NEXT year'... they are easy to identify. Yet I tell my hunters that if they kill them before 4.5, it counts as their 'buck of choice' and they are done hunting for the season. [/QUOTE]
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