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QDMA COOPERATIVES

The forming of a QDMA cooperative is made up of a group of landowners, farmers, hunters and members of the community are willing to
work together to improve the quality of the deer herd, lessen crop damage, ornamental landscape damage while improving the overall
hunting experiences. For an excellent publication that provides a step-by-step approach to forming cooperatives QDMA's booklet Developing
Successful QDM Cooperative, go to www.QDMA.com. Many articles have been written in Quality Whitetails of cooperatives that are
successful. If you would like to organize a QDMA Cooperative, contact E.W. Grimes, Director of the Maryland State Chapter QDMA.

1. The Forestland Group QDMA Co-op
Organized 2008

2. The Bachman Valley QDMA Co-op
Organized 2008

4. The Chester River QDMA Co-op
Organized 2008

QDMA CO-OP PHOTOS AND NEWS!

11/29/08
Bachman Valley Co-op:
Opening day of gun season results from Bachman Valley Co-op; at least four known young bucks were passed with five known doe
harvested. Results from other Co-ops will be posted as received.

11/29/08
Chester River Co-op: (Comments by Temple)
Congrats to Ron Coleman (below) for harvesting this 140 inch nine point on opening morning shotgun. Ron is one of the founders
of CMF Hunting Club and has been a great asset to our success. It has been a tough six years following these QDMA rules to get
where we are now, but now we are seeing tremedous bucks and plenty of them all thanks to the club members for harvesting tons
of does and passing young bucks. We have been watching this deer on our cameras for a month. He left us for a while and we
picked up pictures of him again the last four days before opening morning. We use these cuddeback cameras to educate our
hunters and to give them the green light on certain bucks. This makes it very easy for our club to not make mistakes on smaller
bucks that need one more year to reach maturity. We had four Shooters on this farm and three that are right on the edge. Thanks
to cuddeback cameras less mistakes are being made. They have truly made our club a complete success!

12/03/08: Congrats to Larry Gerhring and Will Agee (below) for the Greats bucks taken this year within the coop! Job well done!!!!
Now go harvest some more does for Quality Deer Management!

12/10/08: Congrats to Jeff Clark Sr. (below) for harvesting this 4 1/2 year old buck (below). It has not been scored yet. chesck out the
11 inch brow tine. Jeff's sons both have passed on this buck many times this year. I guess they were trying to help the old man out!

12/13/08: Congrats to Tammie Ford (below) for a job well done on this 4 1/2 year old eight point. Keep up the good work, and lets
start concentrating on harvesting as many mature does as possible now.

12/13/08: This is a buck shot last
week next to one of our farms.
Seven points and it is supposed to
score around 140.

Brian Sears took this 4 1/2 year old buck that three
coop members in the area had on camera. Thanks to
good comunication it made it possible that Brian had
the opportunity to harvest this trophy. This 8 point
scored right at 130.

UPDATE: Jeff Clark Buck Scored 135
6/8 gross. I found this bucks sheds on
my farm from last year and we scored
them. This particular buck grew 28
inches in one year! Now that is good
information to know!

Here is some more taken with
bow from our coop members.

Eric Ford did a great job
harvesting this 140 inch 10 pointer
with his bow during the rut. And
as soon as Eric took this buck he
was right back checking in does at
the cool box the next
day. Great job Eric!

3. The Potomac Fish & Game
QDMA Co-op - Organized 2008

These are some of the QDM
Co-ops across Maryland!

If you want your Co-op to be listed
here, contact us!

Green Scored 145 with a Broken G3 - Harvested 11-24-08 - Written by Dale Burley of Burley Outdoors.
Thanksgiving is my favorite time of the year. It's a time we all get together to enjoy family, friends, and hunting. My brother, Blaine,
and I were blessed to grow up in South Georgia on a 2000 acre farm. Our family farm is located in Irwin County and consists of
primarily agriculture, pasture and timberland. We started practicing trophy management back when we were young boys. We
decided at a young age that if we did not let our little bucks walk, we would not have any trophies. We have been practicing QDMA
for over 25 years and let hundreds of young bucks walk. Our motto has always been "Let the young bucks go so they can grow."

I am very proud to harvest such a trophy in Georgia, and especially on property that I manage. I credit my family and friends for the
hard work and effort that it takes to allow a buck of this caliber to grow old enough to reach maturity.
<<click here to read full story>>

"GEORGIA QDM CO-OP"

FIRST NEWSLETTER FROM CHESTER RIVER QDMA CO-OP - 12/29/08
Coop members and CMF Hunt Club members,
This is a great article that supports everything that QDMA is trying to get across for doe harvest and button
buck dispersal. Please send this to all of your hunting members and anyone else that you know to help
support our cause and improve all of our hunting properties. This is the article that started it all for us at
CMF Hunting and it greatly improved our success. CMF has followed this for 6 seasons and the proof
that this works is out of seventeen bucks harvested in the coop so far, 13 have either been on CMF
property or adjacent to CMF property. This program works unbelievablly!!!!!

Article One - Article Two

On an other note, We caught some kids on one of the coop properties poaching this week. Unfortunatly
we could not prove they were poaching due to one truck getting away. This vehicle was a red or black
Toyota truck jacked up with bigger mud tires. So keep a look out for this truck. We had the state police,
Sheriff department, and Department of Natural Resources on the scene. We were able to get them on
trespassing, crop damage, Towing charges, and the sheriff dept. got them on loud exhaust. The fines
were over $2000. Hopefully this will detour this from happening again.
Thanks, Temple

January 2009
Kevin Cavanaugh from "Bitmore Hunting
Club" harvested these two heavy horned
bucks this season in our coop. One was
6 1/2 year old management buck and the
other was a 5 1/2 year old scoring 146 2/8.
Congrats to Kevin!

Keys to a successful QDM Co-op:
Communication - Compromise - Rules & Consequences - Patience
You have to provide Herd Management, Habitat Management, Hunter Management & Herd Monitoring!
Let bucks gain some age, increase available nutrition, shoot the right number of does and you are in business!

Congratulations to Mr. Pete Pappas, the father of the Vice
President of the Chester River Co-op/Branch. He entered his
144-1/8 inch QDM Buck in the Maryland Big Buck Contest at
the Hunting Expo 2009 and received honors. Also pictured
with Mr. Pappas is his lovely wife.

143-3/8" - 2009
Another beautiful buck taken on the
Chester River QDMA Cooperative.
Congratulations Tony!

145" - 2009
Justin harvested this beautiful 8 point on
the Chester River Co-op. Congrats Justin.

October 22, 2009
Buddy Klepper harvested this 5-1/2 year
old buck on the Chester River QDMA
Cooperative. Congratulations Buddy!

Congrats to Jeff Clark with his giant 8
point he took with the help of some
CMF's Monster Maker.

Congrats to Jason for this 151 2/8 inch buck that he harvested this week. Jason has pictures and sheds from this 3 1/2 year old. We removed
the jaw bone and aged this buck. He is only 3 1/2 and from the sheds he found this buck grossed around 117 inches last year. WOW this
buck grew 31 inches in one year!!! Attached are pictures of the jaw bone next to a jaw age comparision. Also attached is pictures of the
shed from last year inside the rack. Jason has pictures of this buck last year with a big scar on his back from someone shooting him with a
arrow last year. He found this same scar on him when he harvested him. If we could all just learn to pass bucks and ask ourself this
question , "WHAT WOULD HE BE IF I PASSED HIM AND HE GREW 31 INCHES NEXT YEAR!!!!!!!
Thanks, Temple

Morgan rhodes with her 130 inch buck she
harvested with her bow at 13 years old

Congrats Buddy Klepper on your
141" ten pointer taken with hIs
Primos Truth II bow.

Congrats to Ron Coleman on his 135
2/8 buck taken with his bow during
the rut. Ron took two does and
passed fourteen bucks before
harvesting this buck at 2:00 in the
afternoon.

Congrats to Phil English on this 131
3/8 buck taken with his bow. Phil was
going to pass on this buck but this
buck came through with an arrow in
his back. Phil did what every
responsible hunter would do and
harvested him and he will still get him
mounted!! Great job Phil!

Congrats to John Elmes on his first buck ever with
a bow!!!!! Great job John!

Congrats to Jeff Wolfe for harvesting this 4.5 year old
non- typical buck scoring 142 7/8.

Congrats to Matt Cherico with his 4.5 year old buck!

11-14-2009 MALI VUJANIC
CHESTER RIVER QDMA CO-OP PROPERTY.
CONGRATS!

Congrats to Brian Tawney with this 150 inch buck he took with his bow on opening day of shotgun season.
Brian has been a member of CMF hunting club for 6 years and put in a tremendous amount of effort with our
program and here is the payout. Thanks to Brian and our other club members for putting forth the effort of
taking out mature does and orphaning fawns early season so we could get to this level.
Temple

Mr. Pappas harvested this beautiful buck on the Chester River QDMA Co-op! Congrats!

130 inch buck harvested by John Miller, a
member of Mark Meyers hunt club, part of
Chester River QDMA Co-op.

This beautiful buck was harvested 11/28/09 by
Steve Myers on his Dorchester County QDM
property.

Congrats to Scott Ford for harvesting this
137 2/8 inch eight point.

Congrats to Carl , Carl is a member of Reed
Creek farms hunting club. Jeff Beale has been
managing this property and has been a
trememdous help in making Chester River coop
a success!

Congrats To Jimmy Kimbles for harvesting this 171 4/8 inch Monster! Jimmy is leading the way for the big
buck contest now and we are all scratching our heads trying to figure out how to beat him. What a
trememdous buck.