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<blockquote data-quote="BSK" data-source="post: 5588868" data-attributes="member: 17"><p>I have to admit, I <strong>used to see</strong> older bucks spending time feeding in plots. Now I don't. perhaps Ski is correct that an increased number or size of doe/fawn groups are dominating the larger plots, hence older bucks just "drift through" instead of spending time feeding. Plus, we vastly increased the size of our plots, from most 1/4 to 1/3-acre plots to acre-plus plots.</p><p></p><p>And that's the difficulty in figuring out deer behavior, patterns and population structure over time. Change the habitat and the deer change their behavior. Sometimes I have to draw a vertical line through my graphs to depict when any major change occurred. I already draw a line at the point we switched from Traditional Management (shoot any buck) to QDM, and then another line at the point we started to alter the habitat. Guess I'll need a 4th line for when we made massive changes to the habitat instead of small, incremental changes.</p><p></p><p>Actually, I already have a 4th line, depicting when we started placing <strong>serious</strong> hunting pressure on the property. And since we still do, I call that the "beginning of the modern era," because that's the point at which it became difficult to kill bucks after the 1st week of MZ season (excessive pressure).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BSK, post: 5588868, member: 17"] I have to admit, I [B]used to see[/B] older bucks spending time feeding in plots. Now I don't. perhaps Ski is correct that an increased number or size of doe/fawn groups are dominating the larger plots, hence older bucks just "drift through" instead of spending time feeding. Plus, we vastly increased the size of our plots, from most 1/4 to 1/3-acre plots to acre-plus plots. And that's the difficulty in figuring out deer behavior, patterns and population structure over time. Change the habitat and the deer change their behavior. Sometimes I have to draw a vertical line through my graphs to depict when any major change occurred. I already draw a line at the point we switched from Traditional Management (shoot any buck) to QDM, and then another line at the point we started to alter the habitat. Guess I'll need a 4th line for when we made massive changes to the habitat instead of small, incremental changes. Actually, I already have a 4th line, depicting when we started placing [B]serious[/B] hunting pressure on the property. And since we still do, I call that the "beginning of the modern era," because that's the point at which it became difficult to kill bucks after the 1st week of MZ season (excessive pressure). [/QUOTE]
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