Are you suggesting that harvesting young bucks is effective at reducing the deer population? BTW - I took a lot of young bucks when I started out hunting in my 30s. That was all I could get consistently.
No I am not suggesting to take the young bucks but it is very difficult to see the buttons.
This year we (15 guys and tags) took 10. Of the 10 there was one 10 point, one 6 point, one button buck, 3 mature does and 4 yearling does. We did let two nice bucks pass later in the week. One 4-6 point and one really big one hard to guess at his rack. This group of ten will make nice eating this winter. Our record with our group of 15 has been 12 deer. All tags are bought and paid for before the hunt about $65 each.
These 10 were harvested in about 10,000 acre area around our farm. We have summer animals but when it gets cool they heard up and head to the valleys. So mild this year they were all spread out in the 10,000 acres still from the rut.
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