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<blockquote data-quote="BSK" data-source="post: 5158461" data-attributes="member: 17"><p>"When" to shoot does depends heavily on what you are trying o accomplish and <u>why</u> you are shooting does. To balance the sex ratio? Reduce/control population? For meat?</p><p></p><p>Every property is a unique situation. On my place, we have the unique situation of just coming off a decade of <u>protecting</u> does. A neighboring Federal Wildlife Refuge was decimating our local doe population with their Earn-A-Buck program, hence we shot no does for many years. However, the ending of that program, and almost no deer killed in the area in 2019 (massive forest damage prevented much hunting in the area that year), has produced a sudden surge in doe numbers. So now we will be taking a few does, but only for meat. We are nowhere near over-populated, and our sex ratio heavily favors bucks. Because we are still somewhat protecting does, I looked for the period where we have the maximum number of does using the property, which would suggest we have the highest number of "non-resident" does at that time. If we can kill a few does that have the best odds of being non-resident, we can have our meat and not affect the resident population. Interestingly, our doe populations peak each year in December, which is post-rut. I have no idea why this occurs, but it does, so we'll be taking advantage of this by killing a few does in December.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BSK, post: 5158461, member: 17"] "When" to shoot does depends heavily on what you are trying o accomplish and [U]why[/U] you are shooting does. To balance the sex ratio? Reduce/control population? For meat? Every property is a unique situation. On my place, we have the unique situation of just coming off a decade of [U]protecting[/U] does. A neighboring Federal Wildlife Refuge was decimating our local doe population with their Earn-A-Buck program, hence we shot no does for many years. However, the ending of that program, and almost no deer killed in the area in 2019 (massive forest damage prevented much hunting in the area that year), has produced a sudden surge in doe numbers. So now we will be taking a few does, but only for meat. We are nowhere near over-populated, and our sex ratio heavily favors bucks. Because we are still somewhat protecting does, I looked for the period where we have the maximum number of does using the property, which would suggest we have the highest number of "non-resident" does at that time. If we can kill a few does that have the best odds of being non-resident, we can have our meat and not affect the resident population. Interestingly, our doe populations peak each year in December, which is post-rut. I have no idea why this occurs, but it does, so we'll be taking advantage of this by killing a few does in December. [/QUOTE]
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