QDM in October

Justin with his early season Michigan doe.

As October has come to an end and the Whitetail rut is just beginning across the Midwest, the DreamPoint crew has wrapped up most of our doe harvests for the year. Through QDM on our farms we try to take our does early, before any breeding occurs. It’s our belief that killing a doe after the rut may result in also killing a future wall hanger buck down the road. Some farms require multiple doe kills and some farms don’t require any at all. Of course this changes from year to year depending on multiple factors. Here are a few pics and some short stories about some of the does we’ve taken this year.

Justin Olk was able to get the Whitetail season off to a quick start arrowing this mature doe during Michigan’s early Antlerless season in September. During this season anyone with a valid permit is allowed to harvest a doe with a firearm, however Justin decided to grab the bow, throw on some blaze orange and get it done the hard way! A perfectly placed 35 yard shot left only a short 60 yard blood trail.

JD's Illinois Doe

After taking inventory of the deer herd on their new farm in Illinois, Justin and JD decided a few does needed to be removed. On their first trip hunting the farm this year, JD was able to place his arrow exactly where he wanted it on this doe that had come in to investigate a Buck Fever Synthetics mock scrape just 12 yards away. The big mature doe didn’t make it 30 yards before expiring.

Swanny's Michigan Doe

Back home in Michigan Andy was able to pull the trigger on this big doe on the same farm that Justin killed is early season doe on. Right at dusk, with only minutes of camera light available, this doe walked 12 yards in front of the stand. Another perfectly placed Easton tipped with the devastating Reign Broadhead kept this doe from even making it out of the small 1 acre food plot.

Nate's Michigan Doe

As Nate Pike climbed into the stand on October 29th he had yet to see a shooter buck from the stand. With a different game plan in mind for this hunt, Nate prepared himself to take the first mature doe that walked within range.

Not long after being in the stand this doe walked by at 22 yards. After a perfect shot, Nate watched the doe fall and expire in the adjacent wheat field.

The screen shots from below were taken from the video of Brian and Brent Weber’s early season success. On Michigan’s archery opener Brent was able to harvest his first doe of the year. A few days later Brian was able to double. After killing the first doe with his whisper quiet Strother SX-1, the remaining does didn’t move a muscle, so Brian racked another arrow and scored on another.

Now it’s time to get on the big boys… stay tuned!!