Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
New Trophy's
New trophy room comments
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Members
Current visitors
New profile posts
Search profile posts
Classifieds
Trophy Room
New items
New comments
Latest content
Latest updates
Latest reviews
Author list
Series list
Search showcase
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles and first posts only
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Forums
Tennessee Hunting Forums
Deer Hunting Forum
Top 5 Bucks Killed at Presidents Island
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="BSK" data-source="post: 5929909" data-attributes="member: 17"><p>Antler restrictions are completely counter productive. What you end up doing is high grading out the best younger bucks. This means the only bucks that make it to maturity are ones with smaller antlers.</p><p></p><p></p><p>The absolutely best way to save bucks under 3 1/2 is to set an age-limit of 3 1/2. Hunters will say it's too hard to learn to judge age. That's simply not true. Hunters can be taught to do it fairly easily and fairly accurately. Look at the number of hunters on here who will all agree on a buck's age when looking at a trail-camera picture.</p><p></p><p>The easiest way to protect bucks into the older age-classes - short of an age restriction - is simply to limit the total number of bucks being killed. If you "run the numbers" (set up a hypothetical deer population and then test different harvest strategies, watching the buck population and age-structure over time), a harvest strategy of simply killing less bucks than in the past improves the buck age-structure. It's not as effective or as fast as an age restriction, but it works.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BSK, post: 5929909, member: 17"] Antler restrictions are completely counter productive. What you end up doing is high grading out the best younger bucks. This means the only bucks that make it to maturity are ones with smaller antlers. The absolutely best way to save bucks under 3 1/2 is to set an age-limit of 3 1/2. Hunters will say it's too hard to learn to judge age. That's simply not true. Hunters can be taught to do it fairly easily and fairly accurately. Look at the number of hunters on here who will all agree on a buck's age when looking at a trail-camera picture. The easiest way to protect bucks into the older age-classes - short of an age restriction - is simply to limit the total number of bucks being killed. If you "run the numbers" (set up a hypothetical deer population and then test different harvest strategies, watching the buck population and age-structure over time), a harvest strategy of simply killing less bucks than in the past improves the buck age-structure. It's not as effective or as fast as an age restriction, but it works. [/QUOTE]
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Tennessee Hunting Forums
Deer Hunting Forum
Top 5 Bucks Killed at Presidents Island
Top