Spikes in population?
Contributors to this thread:West Virginia
From: sundaynwv
27-Nov-17
According to Bowhunter survey, forty percent of bucks spotted in woods were spikes.
From: WV Mountaineer
28-Nov-17
Spike antlers are not a genetic trait. They are a result of lower nutrition. Killing less deer will not help that.
From: sundaynwv
30-Nov-17
Or the result of late born fawns the previous year. Or the result of being 1.5 years old. Or the result of not having older age class deer and spikes making up the majority. And yes, I hear we are mainly killing 2.5 and older. Then I see check station, aging like this and wonder.
From: gobbler
30-Nov-17
Or the result of Deer especially does at or above the carrying capacity of the habitat especially when the harvest of bucks have outnumbered the harvest of does for several years not even taking into account the number of button BUCKS or shed BUCKS that are counted as an antlerless Deer.
Killing less bucks and more does will 100% help that. It is a scientific FACT that no wildlife biologist will disagree with.
From: Babysaph
01-Dec-17
Well then why don't we do it?
From: gobbler
01-Dec-17
Good question!
