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This year I did stalking only on my own hunting territory. We dont have many roe deers yet so I want to save territorial bucks and shoot only yearlings. Of course I only saw good old bucks and does in range. Here is one of the does. Yes it is a doe even though it has small antlers.

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If the objective is to have more Roe deers, that would be the wrong strategy. Generally the territorial bucks will not tolerate the younger bucks and runn them off your hunting area.

All roe deer are teritorial during the summer period from May to late august beginning of september, the older animals have bigger territories, the younger have smaller territories where they do not tolerate other roe deer.

I hunt a lot in both Denmark and Poland where there are quite oppsite strategies for managing the Roe deer population, in Denmark there is absolutely no rules and on avrage we shoot 1 roe deer / 10 Ha of land per year. in Poland where we have veeeeeery strict control of the age classes of the Bucks we shoot app 1 Roe deer / 100 Ha.

If the objective is to have more deer it is a better strategy to shoot the older bucks and have a relatively young population with smaller teritories. During the autum hunt, newer shoot females, just shoot one of the usual two kids.
If the roe does not have two kids on average, that could be an indicator on overpopulation. A similar indicator is the weight in December,it should be at least 13 kilos "on the hook"

Go hard on the foxes and other "predators", they are expensive during the first weeks of may. look at the vegetation in the hard months, april, beginning of may. If you start to see that the buds on most small trees are eaten, you should increase the number shoot.

Judging the number of deer in an area is simply impossible based on observations, Roe deer is invisible for long periods of the year. In the summer they sometimes do not move more than 20 meters per day. they eat, sleep, eat some more in virtually the same spot.

I live in the middle of the forest, observe the roe deer every day. I eat them with great pleasure and the summer hunt from mid May to mid july, in a period otherwise poor in hunting, keeps me alive till the autom hunt for Red Deer starts in September.

Peter

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