NJ's Whitetails DNA

[Mink 680]

Wondering if there has ever been any studies done on the DNA of NJ's whitetail ? Big difference in deer from say Cape May and Sussex County .

[Gobblengrunt 4,254]

I would bet all NJ deer are the same DNA stuctured.  I think the difference between regions of NJ is the amount of nutrients in the soil, age structure, and genes

[Mink 680]

Not sure about that, didn't we receive deer from other States when our own population was very low?

[Bonefreak 4,049]

Deer were brought in from Michigan and Pennsylvania when #s were very low. 
 

There was a small herd of NJ original deer in the pine lands....but the herd we have today has Michigan n Pennsy backgrounds 

I bet Monmouth got some Michigan deer history the way they grow some heavy bone!!

[robnj 966]

I must be hunting the Florida key deer strain by me. LOL

[_X7 2,240]

There is a lifetime of knowledge in this book by Leonard Lee Rue III. Very little has changed except for the methods to the madness and gizmos and gadgets.

[FLDBRED-BDC 797]

8 minutes ago, _X7 said:

There is a lifetime of knowledge in this book by Leonard Lee Rue III. Very little has changed except for the methods to the madness and gizmos and gadgets.

You beat me to it by minutes ! lol Mr. Rue did a lot of his research right here in NJ .

[Buck154 13,263]

8 hours ago, Mink said:

Wondering if there has ever been any studies done on the DNA of NJ's whitetail ? Big difference in deer from say Cape May and Sussex County .

The only difference is one makes Deer PorkRoll and the other Deer Taylor ham 

Edited November 30, 2020 by Buck154

[Bowhunter458 134]

26 minutes ago, FLDBRED-BDC said:

You beat me to it by minutes ! lol Mr. Rue did a lot of his research right here in NJ .

He has lived in Blairstown much of his life, photographs deer right in his backyard. He has published 31 books!! 

[Dominant buck 599]

10 hours ago, Bonefreak said:

Deer were brought in from Michigan and Pennsylvania when #s were very low. 
 

There was a small herd of NJ original deer in the pine lands....but the herd we have today has Michigan n Pennsy backgrounds 

I bet Monmouth got some Michigan deer history the way they grow some heavy bone!!

I recall a article years ago about Worthington State park ( parts of Delaware water gap)   . It was named after Mr. Worthington,  some tycoon millionaire back in the day, he own ALOT of that property in the northwest corner of our state and was a big deer hunter for him and his business partners, clients etc.  He imported deer from Michigan, west Virginia and let them lose on his property,  maybe this is why there are some big boys running around up there?

I personally took a big 6pt , dressed out 170 lbs up high in the gap.  There is a guy on this site or the other nj hunter site that has pictures of some slammer way up high off the Applicaian trail in walapack area.

I have a couple on my remote cameras that are truly huge up high up  in the gap/stokes area.  All they needed was some time to age

I tried to download article about Charles worthington,  file is to big.  Great read .  He imported deer from Virginia and Wisconsin.  Had a hunting lodge up by Mt tammery.   Try looking him up, its a great read

Edited December 1, 2020 by Dominant buck

[Jerzguy2 199]

Leonard Lee Rue did much of his research and was close friends with Joe Taylor in Blairstown.

[vdep217 4,683]

I'll see if I can find.  I have a letter to the mayor of Lakehurst from the head of fish n game at the time about transplanting deer the jogistics and prosess.

[FLDBRED-BDC 797]

With just one paragraph in his book he changed the way I look at  the forrest . He mentioned in the chapter on habitat and preferred deer food that the loss of the American Chestnut has had a profound impact on deer that can't be rectified. I read this in the late 70's and have been involved with the restoration ever since . The forrest that we hunt and spend so much time in don't resemble what they should look like .

Edited December 1, 2020 by FLDBRED-BDC

[Dominant buck 599]

I love post like this, pretty cool

[Pathman 1,055]

6 hours ago, _X7 said:

There is a lifetime of knowledge in this book by Leonard Lee Rue III. Very little has changed except for the methods to the madness and gizmos and gadgets.

Still have my autographed copy somewhere.