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Natural Non- Hrvest mortality rates?
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<blockquote data-quote="BHC" data-source="post: 3635555" data-attributes="member: 10391"><p>My issue with it, is that if natural mortality rates are so low of deer 2.5-5.5. It would seem easy to achieve very very good age structure. And super high numbers of mature bucks. For instance on our property 3300 acres we have totaled 105 bucks and 99 bucks in the last two surveys. This past one had 32% two yr olds, 8% three yr olds, and 4% four plus yr olds. We kill very few 2.5 yr olds on our property, I'd say maybe one on our best yr and 4 on our worst. So if we were to have 32+ bucks entering the three yr old age class every yr, and we only kill say 12 and the 4 of our 8 4+ yr olds..We'de then have twenty 32 bucks the next season four plus yrs old. And a new batch of roughly 30 three yr olds coming up.. So in two seasons we jumped to 60 3+ yr old bucks when we only had 99 bucks to begin with total.., to me it just doesn't add up...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BHC, post: 3635555, member: 10391"] My issue with it, is that if natural mortality rates are so low of deer 2.5-5.5. It would seem easy to achieve very very good age structure. And super high numbers of mature bucks. For instance on our property 3300 acres we have totaled 105 bucks and 99 bucks in the last two surveys. This past one had 32% two yr olds, 8% three yr olds, and 4% four plus yr olds. We kill very few 2.5 yr olds on our property, I'd say maybe one on our best yr and 4 on our worst. So if we were to have 32+ bucks entering the three yr old age class every yr, and we only kill say 12 and the 4 of our 8 4+ yr olds..We'de then have twenty 32 bucks the next season four plus yrs old. And a new batch of roughly 30 three yr olds coming up.. So in two seasons we jumped to 60 3+ yr old bucks when we only had 99 bucks to begin with total.., to me it just doesn't add up... [/QUOTE]
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