Originally posted by jbwhttail:
Ahh, but..... people "cherry pick" the QDMA message. Kill all the antlerless you can.... blame it if you like but explain the basket rack bucks being killed? Yep they are 2 1/2 year old for the most part, but yet to "mature".
Who measures the available habitat to deer density? It is ....Deer........BANG!!! Can't let it walk the neighbor will kill it.
Come on......... Let's put the responsibility where it needs to be.......... The person pulling the trigger!
Best post in the thread.....
A qoute from harvest report.....
The age and sex structure of the 2013 deer harvest was 37% adult males (antlered bucks), 37% adult females, 11% male fawns (button bucks), and 15% female fawns (Table 5). The proportion of reported antlered deer in the harvest is the second lowest in Indiana’s history. About 39% of the antlered bucks and 35% of the adult does harvested during 2013 were yearlings (1.5 years old) (Figure 9). The percentage of harvested yearling bucks decreased by 2 percentage points in 2013 from 2012.
