Not the same thread, I was thinking about
@T.eddie passing up a doe in his current thread. I don’t know which one you’re referring to so I’ll have a hunt around for it.
I just did some red deer control last month, to give you an idea of ratios, I shot ~50 hinds, one spiker, one male fawn and one stag. The strict focus on females is the only way we’ll remove the dramatic multiplyer effect we’ve seen in the last few years.
We’ll keep going like this and come next Roar, it will be interesting to see what the competition is like; in recent years its been poor because of the excessive number of females. Gonna be a lot harder to get a shag next year.
I guess what I’m wondering is if the same perspective on muntjac numbers is shared across the board - from the video and lots of other sources it seems muntjac numbers have become a real problem. But I guess like here with the reds and fallow plague, that’s in the eye of the beholder.