I’ll save em for the rest of ya! I’ll take care of the forkies and dinks. It’s my specialty!
Its all about perspective!
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Rack Daniels
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Just the way I’m gathering this…
You’re coming from Texas to buy 7200 acres in historic Missouri River Breaks country, with a staunch no-access mindset, so you can keep game animals happy on your piece of private in hopes of playing biologist and breeding better bucks on your own section…. Sweet. Sounds about par for new Montana landowners….
You’re coming from Texas to buy 7200 acres in historic Missouri River Breaks country, with a staunch no-access mindset, so you can keep game animals happy on your piece of private in hopes of playing biologist and breeding better bucks on your own section…. Sweet. Sounds about par for new Montana landowners….
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I believe that we can approach our life's decisions from two basically different stances. I will describe them metaphorically as being either up-right or upside-down.
Let me offer some different examples. My mother's side of my family were dairy farmers. My father's side were residential builders. I learned both occupation's, have been both.
When circumstances required trimming down the herd, we kept the best, sold the lesser cattle.
When winter came in my Native New England construction layoffs were often unavoidable. So, who did a contractor keep? The "thrive not survive answer" was always to keep the best workers with the most experience, who could be the core of the spring crew.
This ego habit which has persisted for so many thousands of years with hunters to methodically seek out and kill the best specimens prior to winter, is from a logic healthy herd standpoint, simply ridiculous.
Native People did not do that, why eat tougher meat anyway?
Predators did not take out the best. Actually, most often the predator prey relationship was such a close match that game animals in their prime had a significant edge, so the dumb young, the sick and the old were culled out making the herd more vital.
Enter modern hunting tools from crossbows to guns and what has happened is that we are culling out the best to hang racks and horns on the wall after reading "monster bucks and bulls mags."
What comes next from field bio studies, is a proven fact that these great specimens are very often a sub-gene pool of genetic excellence that has been honed by natural selection.
Way too many hunters have been destroying the best for way too long.
Let me offer some different examples. My mother's side of my family were dairy farmers. My father's side were residential builders. I learned both occupation's, have been both.
When circumstances required trimming down the herd, we kept the best, sold the lesser cattle.
When winter came in my Native New England construction layoffs were often unavoidable. So, who did a contractor keep? The "thrive not survive answer" was always to keep the best workers with the most experience, who could be the core of the spring crew.
This ego habit which has persisted for so many thousands of years with hunters to methodically seek out and kill the best specimens prior to winter, is from a logic healthy herd standpoint, simply ridiculous.
Native People did not do that, why eat tougher meat anyway?
Predators did not take out the best. Actually, most often the predator prey relationship was such a close match that game animals in their prime had a significant edge, so the dumb young, the sick and the old were culled out making the herd more vital.
Enter modern hunting tools from crossbows to guns and what has happened is that we are culling out the best to hang racks and horns on the wall after reading "monster bucks and bulls mags."
What comes next from field bio studies, is a proven fact that these great specimens are very often a sub-gene pool of genetic excellence that has been honed by natural selection.
Way too many hunters have been destroying the best for way too long.
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