![]() ![]() One gun season our group shot a few bucks opening day. For the area for 3.5 YO's.Įasy winters and plenty of quality food was the key to why these super young does had, and raised these fawns. They met the average for body and antler sizes. Buck fawns from them were usually spikes their first antler carrying year. The fawns they raised were smaller than others because they were so much younger. Where 60% of the years doe fawns were being breed and successfully raised their fawns to next deer season. Most are way bigger than both of their folks. Watch the big time college senior football players walk out onto the field with their parents. ![]() Yeah I've mentioned something like this before. I noticed that if you introduced high quality nutrition and quality habitat (especially thermal cover) to a deer herd and kept populations at reasonable levels you could take a herd stunted by environmental conditions such as severe winters & poor thermal cover and you could see a dramatic improvement in both rack and body size in 4-6 generations. Especially in the early 1980's and I also noticed something the individual researchers didn't seem to pick up on. I have put in a tremendous amount of time studying genetics. I'm not sure how much truth there is to what he said but it wouldn't surprise me in the least. I mentioned this years ago to a guy I know that owns Mikes Magic deer lures and he told me the reason I can't find them anymore is because the high fenced trophy buck industry bought out the rights to these articles to hide them from the public because they wanted people to believe you had to pay to hunt genetically controlled environments to have a good chance at a truly huge buck. If I had known all these studies would disappear I would have copied and saved them, but I just assumed they would always be around. In the wild spikes are usually caused by various things, with late birth and poor nutrition being the number one causes. However, it is true that a significantly higher percentage of bucks that were fork horns or better became as big & often bigger racked bucks than the spike yearlings, but this was in controlled environments. These bucks many times sired yearlings which also became trophy bucks. There used to be numerous examples of bucks growing to 140"+ (including over 200") that were spikes as yearlings. ![]() It's been a long time since I looked at anything to do with the the Kerr WMA study, but I do remember the scientists/biologists that conducted it later admitted that the study was flawed and therefore did not constitute a true "scientific study". ![]()
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